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Enough. >> and so look, they know that at this point, this is a victory for now, because governor abbott says it looked, this particular part of legislation was the legislative priority before the session began and we could be looking at a special session that could begin as early as tomorrow. jim, poppy? >> you have two elements to these voting laws, in some states, one is restricting the voting process, access hours, et cetera, the other is what happens after the voting, and do court ors legis...

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Abolishing or changing the filibuster which will allow democrats to push through more of their initiatives without having to work across the aisle. they would change that 60 vote threshold required to pass bills in the senate. two democrats so far opposed to the idea. senators christensen event and joe manchin. well see where it goes from here. >> benjamin: thank you. >> julia: it is a solemn day of remembrance for americas fallen heroes today. president biden preparing to lay a wreath at arling...

Now. it is logical and if we believe in vaccines and the protective effect, the only people who are at risk in those settings are people who have chosen not to get the vaccine despite having access to the vaccine. the public perceives a very low risk of covid in the community right now and they are correct. 80%-90% have been vaccinated and unvaccinated have immunity. that means 9 out of 10 people on an airplane has immunity. at some point, we need to move on and recognize are not going to eradic...

>> reporter: yeah, and, you know, ive covered this across the country kind of going state by state as these bills have been introduced in more than a dozen states, passed into law. in texas we see some of those same elements. texas already has the most restrictive voting laws in the country and this would have just made it more restrictive by adding new requirements and adding criminal and civil penalties to the voting process here. like, for example, making it a crime for a public official to s...

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May be able to outnumber us on the floor legislatively but he said we are equal in federal court which is probably a foreshadowing of whats to come. >> we will see if the democrats can use the same tactic in a special session. joining us an enterprise reporter for the "washington post" and republican strategist alice stewart. thanks for joining us. we just went through an election cycle where you had a losing candidate president try to pressure both state and courts and state legislators to ov...

Governor greg abbott, who named this as a top legislative priority before the session even began, has said that he will call a special session to bring it back, but i dont want to undermine just how big this was last night. now, look, this bill contains a slew of new restrictions and regulations as well as civil and criminal penalties to the whole voting process, for example, it makes it a crime for a public official to send an absentee mail ballot application. it gets rid of overnight and early...

>> give us a sense of how this compounds the fight over voting rights legislation among lawmakers here in washington who are working in that building behind you. democrats have to figure out what to do about the filibuster so that the 60 vote threshold becomes 51. i have talked to democrats who say if they dont use the fact that they are in the majority to enact voting rights legislation, it will be a failure. >> reporter: thats a conversation you had with one congressman. we will play that in a...

Get as much as he possibly can, if anything, in a bipartisan form. and all of these exercises seem to have the subtext and sometimes the overt text of a lesson to joe manchin about the senate coachure rule and how we cannot continue to live with it. and so he it seems like the president is doing everything in the order that joe manchin wants him to so at some point he could turn to him and say, on voting rights for example, joe, the 60 vote threshold for this means we will never be able to get i...