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Are very worried about what that means for our democracy, and there are going to be limited options for how to deal with that and i hope our caucus will come together and do the right thing and protect the right to vote. >> yeah. no shortage of major things in the weeks ahead after a year where you guys did some major things. still big agenda items left. senator, thanks as always, sir, for your time. >> great to be with you. thanks, phil. here now with us to share their reporting and their ins...

The white house wants to keep working with senator manchin. the progressives dont trust him. they want a vote immediately even without manchin a yay. schumer is on board. that would force the democrats up for reelection in purple states who have been hiding behind manchin to get on the record with this bill. the question is: would this test vote be used by progressives as political ammo, in the mid-terms? >> maybe. >> i find this dangerous. democrats need to unite and flip red seats to blue and ...

Is final passage. this was already passed in the senate, so this will be sent to president bidens desk for his signature and potentially signed na law later today. but on the social spending package, that certainly has a longer road ahead. if it passes out of the house, it will be sent to the senate, where they expect major changes to be made, so a long track road for that piece of legislation, even out of the house today. >> sunlen, quickly, given it is complicated how this stuff works, is the ...

Have been stuck in a rut. there are good signs that theyre moving somewhere on those bills. but broadly, the economic rebound, that they were banking on, has cooled off a little bit. inflation remains a problem. the pace of new people getting vaccines has exploded to a crawl. 80% of adults have one shot. all of the things that joe biden talked about in the early months are slowing and definitely need something to talk about. >> certainly the manhood of the pandemic will probably be the deciding ...

And it is what happened with george floyd and what happens with police departments around the country, systemic racism and on and on and on. and that never really came up. i think most of the jurors know the history of the country and the times that were living in. they picked the right jury. they were -- they stuck to the facts. they said as soon as it was over, we got in, we did an initial sort of test vote of what happened, and then we went from there, just going through the testimony and the...

Even as another test vote is set up for today, a major vote on new compromised voting rights that was crafted in part to accommodate senator joe manchins concerns, that vote is not expected to attract the 10 republicans if any republicans in order to pass the senate. and the reality is the white house at this moment has not decided whether they are ready to blow up the filibuster in order to get that done. what they are certainly not willing to do yet is to pressure senator manchin, sinema, the ...

Abandoning hope for a legislative breakthrough but today, when this test vote is happening, the white house is focused on infrastructure. the president is in scranton to deliver a speech there. >> geoff, thank you for having me. this will ultimately come down to whether the 50 democratic members of the senate value the protection of democracy over the strom thurmond filibuster. this is a step towards that ultimate clash. and i think its an easy call. the protection of democracy is far more impor...