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And republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. that is the only way to i could overtate the voter accept appreciation from one state georgia to arizona to texas and all across the country in so many different ways. fundmental to our democracy is the right to vote. self government. that the american people get to decide and work for a democracy that reflects the voices of all americans, not just a certain segment, not just conservatives, not just republicans, not ...

Lets try to get -- lets get this done. we realize this is not easy. i think we bring every idea on the table into the negotiations to see how we can achieve this and get it across the threshold. >> and marking his first memorial day as commander in chief, president biden spoke a short time ago at an event in delaware on honoring fallen soldiers as well as his late son beau who died six years ago today. helping us break down the headlines, msnbcs monica alves at the capitol. monica, the preside...

Threshold. a real reality, emily, for the democrats. >> that always becomes the argument and its real. but getting rid of the filibuster would -- there would be incentive to bring moderate democrats to the table and bring moderate republicans to the table because they might actually see pieces of their agenda get into the eventual legislation, so it actually does bring them there. the way that the lack of the january 6th commission going through i actually heavily plays into this is because -- a...

Likeliest option on the table is because of that procedural vote that was blocked by senate republicans at the end of the week to move forward, that bipartisan independent commission that did not reach enough republican senators to support democrats with this commission in order to break through a senate filibuster. only six republican senators joined with democrats when they needed at least ten to hit that 60-vote threshold. and now that they are moving into this potential select committee that...

Agenda in terms of voting rights, gun control, other issues. and so i think theyre waiting to see if they can reach a infrastructure deal. if they cant, theyll pass that to reconciliation. it give morse energy to people on the left to say this is not democratic. >> emily, let me read for you from "the washington post" talking about the filibuster and saying listen, its not essentially that easy. and even if the democrats were to get rid of the filibuster, they would still need to have a majority...

9/style commission. >> 10 republican votes were needed. only 6 voted for it. 11 senators didnt show up for the vote. cnns daniella diaz joined us. what happened? >> reporter: boris, christi, there will be no commission to investigate the capital 6 attack after all. what happened was that there were not enough votes to break the filibuster, the 60 vote threshold to advance the legislation through the senate. in the end it was 54-65 with only six senators voting in favor of it. the six senators th...

Disproportionate power given, well, states, gerrymandering, the jim crow filibuster, gerrymandering in state houses, state houses that are increasingly -- state republican parties that are increasingly going to interfere in elections, all sort of working together to make it harder and harder for the majority in this country to govern, for its represents to do the things that the people elect them to do. theres only a couple of opportunities to break this log jam before it really strangles our de...

U.s. systems. the good here is that we caught this really quickly. the last blast of emails came on tuesday. microsoft caught it. a couple of other cybersecurity firms caught it. the white house is saying this is a good news story, they caught this quickly. some are saying, yes, this is sophisticated but didnt rise to the level of solarwinds. maybe it was intentionally designed to go below that threshold. at the same time, we are seeing russia be very aggressive just a few weeks before. biden si...

Toomey, the republican of pennsylvania, indicated through a spokesperson he would have voted yes had he been present but he had a family commitment and couldnt participate. that would have been the seventh vote. again not hitting the ten-vote threshold. senate majority leader schumer not having those ten republicans to support this, he has not shied away. he has been vocal in disappointment with his republican colleagues. here is some of what he said yesterday. >> we know whats going on here. se...

Support they were going to initially have with leadership to push forward initially. looking what happened yesterday with this procedural motion being blocked, it didnt hit that ten republican threshold in order to break the filibuster. there were, however, six republican senators that did break party lines in support of this motion. and i want to let you see which six republicans those were. senators lisa murkowski, ben sasse, mitt romney and susan collins. and senator pat toomey indicated thro...