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Only, as you mentioned, one political party standing between this major piece of voting rights and electoral reform legislation becoming law. that the only thing standing between that and bidens desk is senate republicans. and the senate filibuster. as opposed to if they didnt get all 50 members on board, then the story would be democrats cant even agree among themselves to get a piece of legislation. and its much harder to make the case against republican. so the likely scenario on tuesday, if ...

Republicans not believing there was a role, and intervening with the elections. >> and we are getting fresh reaction from lawmakers and thats heres what congressman joe clieburn told ali velshi about the bill. >> i said the morning of the release, and i thought it was a great step in the right direction. i do believe, however, that voting rights like all other constitutional rights will not be subjected filibusters and now this reducing from 50 to 55 that didnt get it from me. what gets it from ...

Maintain the integrity of the ballot and i do believe we can do both. i love this weeks survey question. a little bit nerdish but youre up for it. go to smerconish.com and answer the question. now that joe manchin has put forth a compromise, does it cause him to vote to end or reduce the threshold for the filibuster? that is what i think is really going on on here. new york city voters are ranking their choices for mayor as early voting is under way. how could this first-time use of rank cho...

If you want to filibuster issues of legislation, those are not constitutional issues. filibuster them all you want. coming to my right to vote, as a citizen of the united states, you ought not to be subjected to filibuster of any one person. >> reporter: as he is not tiptoeing around this. theres increased pressure of the filibuster with the threshold needed to pass through the senate. whether to make reforms for vital packages like voting rights through and democrats view and not enough senator...

Anti-semitic or whatever. the goal for us now is to simply try to focus on the people who are violent, and thats what the white house made clear this week with their new strategy against violent extremism. you want to go after the people who are showing signs of violence, and that can be done through the investigations, through family and friends a society that begins to just say this is not tolerable anymore. >> right. its one thing to have violent thoughts. you cross the legal threshold when y...

Against republicans. so the likely scenario on tuesday if they keep joe manchin onboard to at least begin debate this goes down 50-50. and then democrats have a decision to make. theyll all be asked what their position is on the filibuster. everyone is going to have to explain whether they support that 60 threshold. and its going to be a very, very heavy lift i should say to get all 50 democrats especially those two onboard with nuking or significantly weakening the filibuster. and to your early...

Difference across parties is pretty not able to be reconciled at this time. but we still see this push from the white house, especially from vice president kamala harris. who was tasked by president biden to really lead voting rights efforts on behalf of the white house. she traveled to atlanta, yesterday, to speak with voting-rights advocates. and heres some of what she said came out of the meeting with them. and with this vote, almost certainly failing with the for the people act coming up o...

Other options. >> what do other options look like? sahil, i want? point so this is not that president is that demonstrative about things. he doesnt announce that hes doing things. so how do you move past an intransigent republican caucus in the senate? what does moving ahead look? like ate?>> ali, president biden haso options here. at the first is budget reconciliation. that is a process in the senate where you can pass laws that change the way the federal government spends and taxes with a simp...

Time to see how you responded to the survey question at smerconish.com. if the "for the people act" fails in the senate, will joe manchin vote to end or reduce the threshold for the filibuster? heres the final result. im sure senator manchin is watching. 59% say -- lets call it 60/40, 60/40. how many people voted on this? i dont see it. about 14,000. 14,369. 60/40 say no. im not so sure about that. you heard me at the outset of the program, i hope. i think this is all by design. democrats are le...

>> i want to know what you think. go to smerconish.com this hour and answer this weeks survey question. if the for the people act fails in the jat, will joe manchin vote to end or reduce the threshold for the filibuster? here to discuss is steven spalding, senior counsel and public policy head of governor affairs at common cause and he recently served as the senior elections counsel to the house on administration. what do you make of my theory we are watching an exercise intended to soften joe m...