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Morning. cnn political commentator. well all be watching 4:00 p.m. when the president gives that speech -- the press conference. thank you so much. >> thanks, joe. something else the president will likely be asked about today just hours from now, democrats forging ahead, opening debate on a voting rights bill. they know its doomed to fail. two democrats who favor the bill on its merits, senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, oppose doing the one thing necessary to passing it, changing the se...

Burden we have to overcome. all these cases, whether you have video or not, are very, very hard. one of the things in the george floyd justice in policing act is changing the standard of proof threshold. that continues to be very important. we also need a national database so we can track officers who have a history of using excessive force. so these things would be very important. i hope the president will put it in there. that would be very much helpful. if i may say so, rev, it would be benef...

Would be necessary on the 60 vote threshold in order to get voting rights through. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have not come around as of yet. what could be said to them? to make them understand what is at stake in georgia and around the country? some >> look, this is the most fundamental right in our country and in our democracy. and senator tester and others have said, the right to vote and the way the senate works, these are not in conflict. and many times over the course of the senates hi...

Vote of the senate instead of having to clear a 60-vote procedural threshold. and this morning senator schumer and nine democratic senators met with senator joe manchin for an hour to urge him to support that rules change. after that meeting, joe manchin appeared to be undecided about supporting a rules change. >> whatd you make. presidents speech last night? >> it was a good speech. he gave a good speech. >> reporter: did it change your opinion at all on the senate rules changes? >> were talkin...

Make this poid more productive, more deliberative. more responsive to americas needs and a place of genuine debate about our countrys pressing issues. and while this weeks hairy discussions about senate rules are a poor substitute for what i believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year. such a discussion is still a working goal. but a discussion of rules falls short of what is required. american politics are cyclical. and the granting of power...

The john lewis voting rights advancement exact and the act and the freedom to vote act. they have no way around the 60-vote threshold. senator chuck schumer, the majority leader, plans to call some form of a vote on a rules change, something to pierce the filibuster, to change the rules to allow these two bills to come up for that majority vote threshold. but its abundantly clear at this point that senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema, although they may support the bills, firmly oppose...

An existential threat. >> the senate prepares to move forward next week on a vote with no republican support and not enough democrats supporting a change to the filibuster. any hope of passing legislation right now is pretty dim. is there a way you think this does not fail, tuesdays vote? >> look, i hope so. i hope that the better angels come to senator sinema and senator manchin. and whoever else is hiding behind them, which there are possibly other senators. but at the end of the day, you know...

You and the president are speaking the same language and sending, signaling the very same thoughts right now. with regard to this. let me ask you about the moderate democratic senator, kyrsten sinema. she says she supports voting rights legislation but she will not budge on her intent to preserve the senate filibuster. she has once again defended her stance. shes take an lot of heat for it. lets take a listen to what she said. >> eliminating the 60-vote threshold on a party line with the thinnes...

Kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. what happens now? >> this has been a dispiriting week for senate democrats who knew late last week that this was probably the result they would be seeing when these votes came up. they decided to press ahead hoping to show party unity on the election reform bills themselves. you did not see that party unity on the defensive, the filibuster i suppose you could say. you saw it from republicans. you had bipartisan support for keeping the filibuster, that 60-vote thre...

Students will be able to get back into the classroom and school will be able to proceed, steph. >> all right. thank you all. you have definitely made us smarter and hopefully a little bit safer today. now lets turn to the presidents big push for voting rights, highlighted by a speech in atlanta this afternoon where he will call for the passages of two bills democrats say are the only path to ensuring free and fair elections. in an excerpt released this morning president biden will say, quote, ...