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Maggie hassan of new hampshire. they believe if they can get madgein and sinema to flip the other 48 wont stand in the way and that end progressive activists are going out with a seven-figure ad by $1.5 million in arizona putting heavy pressure on kyrsten sinema to flip. they accuse her of supporting a jim crow relic over voting rights, thats how aggressive this has gotten. sinemas office tells nbc news her support for the fill buster is not predicated on one issue, shes trying to prevent wild s...

Of the super majority. youre correct. so, i anticipate well have 50 individuals supporting debating it and 50 opposing it, but it will take 60 to get to the floor. we dont have that. >> and then ive been playing the sound of senator manchin on a phone call in a meeting talking about, you know, hey, hed be fine lowering the threshold for filibuster from 60 to 55. does that have any traction? would that gain any traction if/when the for the people act fails on tuesday? >> to understand the possibi...

He addressed the filibuster. have a listen. >> youre asked by somebody from jacksonville, florida, about the proposal to lower the threshold foreclose youre to 55 votes. you can filibuster with 55 votes. >> thats one of them. im just not open to getting rid of the filibuster. thats all. >> congressman, what do you make of that? >> you know, im an optimist, jonathan. the fact that you have manchin, senator manchin going from, in no matter or formally consider changing the filibuster, ending the f...

Hector mosager. what is the u.s. missing with this cyber war we are involved in? >> its a great question. we dont have enough people to deal with the threat. we dont have enough law enforcement that actually understands cyber. and all the organizations i worked with around the nation and we see the news all the time, still havent reached a certain threshold in their security posture. well see these attacks happen every day. it will be exponential. >> remember we launched space force. do we need ...

Know that this thing is dead on arrival. >> reporter: thats exactly right. chuck schumer promised to bring the for the people act for a vote. thats set to take place on tuesday, but the bill is essentially debt on arrival. there are not enough republican senators on board that would support that to get over the 60-vote threshold. the reason theyre still proceed is a bit of virtue signaling. its for snaps democrats to put their colleagues on the record. they could still squeak out a tactical vict...

Expansive voting bill, an effort lacking the support to pass. manchin has released a memo outlining a potential compromise, the he response from republicans. >> totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose that as well. >> reporter: if democrats want to pass a voting bill they may have to make major changes to senate rules. do away with the filibuster and that 60 vote threshold. chris. chris: rich edson reporting from delaware, rich, thank you. and joining us now from south carolin...

Hector mosager. what is the u.s. missing with this cyber war we are involved in? >> its a great question. we dont have enough people to deal with the threat. we dont have enough law enforcement that actually understands cyber. and all the organizations i worked with around the nation and we see the news all the time, still havent reached a certain threshold in their security posture. well see these attacks happen every day. it will be exponential. >> remember we launched space force. do we need ...

A bipartisan group of senators is working to secure a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan, the sticking point, how to finance it. republicans have pushed spending unused covid relief funds. democrats have generally called for tax increases on wealthier americans and corporations. >> my hope is that he will be willing to work with us on a different kind of package that doesnt have taxes but does deal with these core infrastructure challenges we have in the country. >> reporter: democratic sena...

Has more on the case surge and reaction inside the country. >> reporter: on saturday, brazil became the second country in the world after the united states to cross the threshold of over 500,000 covid-19 deaths. the south american country reported 2,319 new deaths saturday and brings the total number of cases reported by the brazilian health ministry since the beginning of the pandemic to over 17 million cases. as brazil marked these milestones, thousands of protesters come to the streets to dem...

In the streets across the country to protest bolsinaros handling of the pandemic. we have more on that. >> reporter: on saturday brazil became the second country in the world after the united states to cross the grim threshold of 500,000 plus covid deaths. there are over 82,000 new cases and 2301 new deaths. theyre over 17 million cases. as brazil marked these milestones, thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand the impeachment of the president over his handling of the pandemic. maj...