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Take the pieces and bring the most popular pieces to the floor separately. voting rights is the vote of the moment but this is another decision. do the democrats break up what they say is a critical big plan into small pieces? >> a lot of the frontliners who are concerned about losing their seats next fall they are talking about cutting their losses and just moving on. theres a fear if democrats keep sort of having these big votes and generating all these headlines only to fail, its only going h...

Monday? >> i am saying it is not over. and we dont give up. we dont give up and we will not give up. >> we will not give up. that was the vice president with our colleague craig melvin vowing to keep pushing for federal voting rights legislation. thats despite a lack of support for changing the filibuster which is the only way to pass federal voting rights legislation. earlier today one of the main holdouts, senator kyrsten sinema took to the senate floor and reiterated her volt for the 60-vote ...

Play button for that right now and let you hear it. she didnt. not one true word about the 60-vote rule. so here is something untrue that senator sinema said about her own history with the 60-vote threshold. >> there is no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. there is no need for me to restate its role protecting our country from wild reversals in federal policy. >> my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. her...

By democrats. this time on the filibuster to pass voting rights. >> i hope we can get this done. the honest god to answer is i dont know if we can get this done. >> joe manchin and kyrsten sinema support voting rights legislation but wont change the filibuster in order to pass the measures. >> and while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the under lying disease of division infecting our country. >> democrat reuben ripped his arizona colleague. >> w...

We have very, very strong evidence that the first group of mothers whose children suffered from retinoblastoma did sue boeing and did settle and as part of that settlement were no longer allowed to talk to the media or get involved. if you have a child with cancer, its very expensive. i know one mother in particular i talked to recently who their family is medically bankrupt now caring for their daughter. so i can understand if i was one of those mothers why they might have went with that agreem...

He pretty much said there will be no further lockdown in the foreseeable future and no further restrictions to deal with the situation as it is at the moment. its a sort of hold your nerve, steady as she goes press conference urging people to get the booster fault of the prime minister said there were 9 million eligible people who still havent had their booster and he set out why there was a clear correlation between the boosterjob and ending up in hospital. to boosterjob and ending up in hosita...

To meet with senate democrats to try to rally the troops, but just moments before that senator sinema gave a speech on the senate floor saying that she has no desire to get rid of that 60-vote threshold for any legislation, including voting rights legislation. she says that it will be bad for the senate. lets listen. >> when one party need only negotiate with itself, policy will inextricably be pushed from the middle towards the extremes and i understand there are some on both sides of the aisle...

Freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. the two bills have a majority support to pass. they have the support of all 50 democrats. and the john lewis bill has the support of one republican. but they have no path around the 60 vote threshold which is guaranteed on the back end to end debate. republicans will block it, and for all the pressure, for all the pressure that activists have put on senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have been rock solid in support of th...

Lets dig deeper and bring in nbcs blayne alexander back from maternity leave, latosha brown joins us co-founder of black voters matter and john bresnahan, co-founder of punchbowl news. john, i want to play for you what joe manchin said yesterday about dropping the 60-vote threshold known as the nuclear option. watch this. >> will you insist on keeping the 60-vote threshold on anything, senator? is that important? >> well, thats, you know -- it is what we have. thats what weve always had for year...

They changed the rules for issues they care about like the supreme court. how dare a political party go the other way? >> right. thats exactly right, and thats part of the argument democrats are making to senators manchin and sinema. and you hit the nail on the head and im so happy you brought this up, chuck, because of course republicans want to keep in a 60-vote threshold for legislation. republicans usually dont have big legislative plans like democrats do. historically they want to roll back...