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Through. but he wants those negotiations to continue. hes also making very clear as he has for months hes not willing to get rid of or make serious changes to the filibuster to reduce that threshold. right now it lee choirs 60 votes to advance legislation. theres a push to change the rules some of a simple majority. 51 senators can move forward on legislation and break a filibuster. hes not ready to go there. but i tried to push him yesterday to say he would, quote, never, ever reduce that 60-vo...

Right now. if anyone understands the process, its president joe biden. weve got to work together. you know, you can only do so much by yourself. and thats what -- were not designed to work that way. the house is. the senate was never designed that way. were going to make the senate work the way it was intended to work. im totally committed to that. >> so you can say youll never produce a 60-vote threshold. >> were going make it work. >> youre not taking reducing the 60-vote threshold off the tab...

They need the feds help and asking for their help and now there is a need, as you say, to fight back on these very sophisticated drug cartels. do you think youll get that kind of help at the border to fight them off? >> i think texans and other border states are doing everything they can with the restrictions they have jurisdictionally. were spending billions of dollars in texas just to come alongside of border patrol agents and ice agents but deferring to a defunct set of federal law enforcemen...

Off the table. he just says i want to make the senate work for the people the way it should. manu gave him multiple chances to take it off the table. he made a point not to. how do you read that? >> he didnt. though, on capitol hill several times he said i dont want to get rid of the filibuster, basically stop asking me that question. but pointing to several times saying this 60-vote threshold, thats something youre never going to support changing? youre right, he would not commit to that, which...

Buy meat for your barbecue, jbs, customers notice and, therefore, the company is more likely to pay. >> jim, thank you for that. the clock is ticking, ongoing -- on these ongoing negotiations between a group of republican senators and the white house as theyre trying to hammer out a deal to address the crumbling infrastructure. despite a growing chorus of democrats urging the party to cross the senate -- to toss the senate filibuster and pass an infrastructure bill without gop support, senator...

Country. >> last week mitch mcconnell blocked a commission bill and you say that he wants -- >> im not saying that ones dead either. i was very disappointed. i think it was wrong what he did. he knows how i feel about that. and they looked it purely at political. i did not. i looked at it as our country coming back back together. it was totally bipartisan. nancy pelosi was gracious in what she offered. chuck schumer said, okay, ill do the same. they were able to come to a disagreement. they were...

Along the simple majority vote. he will not take that off the table completely. but he made very clear he wants democrats to continue these negotiations with republicans. >> ive always been to the point we have to work together. you can only do so much by yourself. were not designed to work that way. the house is. the house is designed. they strictly, strictly for what they do. the senate was designed for, okay, i see that. we can maneuver that and make it better. >> and youve been very clear ab...

What is our response to their attacks. for twenty years they have measured our level of tolerance, the so called threshold. they pretty much know when we respond and when we dont respond. so far we havent drawn the redline. its high time that we do as long as we do it with the understanding of how the adversary thinks. how much is too much. in order to do that we have to have a very nuance understanding of who we are dealing with. when i say who were dealing with, not just putin but the entire r...

To investigate the insurrection can get 54 yes votes and just 35 no votes and still fail. yet even in the face of that, senator manchin stood firm. 60 votes in other words, ten republican votes to even reach the floor. it would take 51 votes to change the rules. this evening, under intense pressure to bend, he spoke with cnns manu raju. >> can you just say, just take it off the table and say youll never reduce a 60-vote threshold on the filibuster? >> let me tell you one thing, were going to mak...

Our health systems as a measure of protecting our economies and protecting our people. how often have we heard african leaders such as yourself say we need to fix our health systems? back in 2001, african leaders signed the abuja declaration to say were going to spend 15% of our annual budget on health. to date, only a few countries have achieved that. youre absolutely right. we look at that and the african union is actually working hard on that issue. as you will recall, president kagame, the p...