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Point. matt, circle back to what you said about other democrats behind joe manchin. thats a good analogy, that he is a heat shield for some of the people. if schumer does put this on the floor for messaging or for the moral and value-based reasons that cornell lays out, doesnt that put those democrats that are being protected by joe manchin in a tricky position? >> absolutely. i think that was a miscalculation by schumer. you dont put a bill on the floor unless you have votes. you put sinema and...

People act. we could talk six ways to sunday about manchins motivations here, but lets talk about, if youre a democrat, how do you even go about dealing with this now? what does this now mean for the democratic agenda at large? >> reporter: geoff, its an excellent question and its obviously a question that senate majority leader chuck schumer is having to grapple with. but the reality is this was always going to be an uphill battle for leader schumer to get any of these democratic priorities pas...

Communications in this administration and congress. the biden administration have more respect the roles that congress play here. we are far apart from a deal i would say. there is still talks so thats progress. clearly shuck schumer does not have the votes to move it alone. when you dont have the votes you keep talking. we can see it extends well beyond this week until there is some kind of pressure deadline. as long as the biden administration does feel they are working in a real respectful re...

The way but joe manchin is in the way. i dont blame schumer for not wanting to put bills on the floor if he doesnt have manchins support. its embarrassing to get not quite a majority. they dont want to embarrass manchin. they want to make it for the bill that he supports, that a majority would be able to pass it except for the filibuster, that those get put on the floor again and again and again. so thats why -- manchin doesnt agree with the position on infrastructure. manchin is still not quite...

Says he thinks republicans will come around on some of bidens agendaite kwruplz. what do you think, bill, is that a realistic read of the gop? >> i think senator manchin is wishing, and it could be on infrastructure where theres interest where senators are getting a bill to help constituents, and rebuilding highways and bridges and so forth, and voting rights, which people are worried about, and i think rightly, and theres a test for president biden and schumer and can they put together where th...

Enough to know the difference between an up or down vote and a filibuster. and what he is doing is continuing to filibuster the vote and the debate rather than allow schumer to limit debate and set a date and that is what were trying to do. please, mr. manchin, vote to limit debate so we could set a date and have an up or down vote on whether or not we are going to have a continuation of voter rights in this country. >> congressman, i always enjoy having you here on a sunday morning because i ge...

That were so crucial, especially to republicans. and seen as one of the major red lines here. but in these conversations are not going to yield any results, we could see president biden start to talk with other republicans and democrats it and do some of these infrastructure negotiations. notably senator mitt romney, as well as mentioned and tested. so other groups that could be coming to the forefront. but meanwhile democrats are getting increasingly frustrated with alaska results, say they cou...

The allow schumer to limit debate and set a date. and thats what were trying to do. please, mr. manchin, vote to limit debate so we can set a date and have an up or down vote on whether or not we are going to have a continuation of voting rights in this country. >> reporter: so with senator manchin a know on s. 1 in his op-ed, hes defending his position on not changing or eliminating the filibuster, as many senate democrats are feeling more and more frustrated with what they say is antiquated ru...

And serves clear the purpose of the democrat party, even right into the oval office, into the halls of congress with pelosi and schumer. the effort now to pass a federal law that would reach into every nook and cranny of the united states and tie hands of every police department -- isnt this the big point that you raise which is we have death and mayhem going on particularly in our inner cities particularly applies to blacks, and it is as if it is not even taking place we dont know the name was ...

Democrats and some republicans that the kind of bipartisanship that manchin so desires is even possible in this political climate. take a listen to some of the voices that we talked to. >> we take care of home first, and that is how the way that joe wants to take care of the people of west virginia, because he represents us, and then, we go to washington and what can we do for the rest of the country to all come together in a bi-partisan way to work together, and president trump would have done ...