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Those electoral votes. that falls short of what democrats actually want here. one other point, ana, i would say here is that whats interesting are the comments that have not come from sinema or manchin about joe bidens speech. sinema has not commented about joe bidens speech. i asked her office about it and they said she has no comment about it. she still maintains the 60-vote threshold on the filibuster. i asked manchin about his views on it. all he would say was good speech, good speech, good ...

Infecting our country. eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. >> the house has already passed the voting bills. it is now up to the senate. tonight democratic leader chuck schumer said while he had hoped to hold a vote by monday with hawaii senator brene shotz now positive for covid and an expected winter storm all voefts will be postponed until tuesday. the president is providing ...

Get the outcomes they want and to discredit those they do not. it is time for the united states senate to do its job. >> louisiana senator republican john kennedy feels this latest push is way to change the focus from covid-19 and border crisis. listen. >> the biden administrations effort to get rid of the threshold in the united states is not about a senate that doesnt work. it is about a woke agenda that doesnt sell. getting rid of the 60 vote threshold in the senate in my judgment would be li...

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Implication for the former president. the supreme court rejected trumps effort to block administrations records from being sent to the january 6th committee. well have much more on that coming up. we begin tonight with the united states senate, one step closer to putting themselves on the historical record on voting rights. versus embracing the current phone in version of the filibuster. any minute now the senate is expected to begin a series of votes on voter protection legislation. which is ex...

Bolton says the state played no role in the consolidation proposal. >> we had no influence from anybody. >> reporter: before a supreme court ruling gutted the voting rights act in 2013, closing polling places in georgia would have required federal approval to ensure it would not hurt minority voters. now, the five-person lincoln county board of elections can make the decision with a simple majority vote. >> the petition we are submitting meets the 20% threshold. >> reporter: but due to reverend ...

Filibuster at the end of the day, were basically a minority party. so i think a lot more work needs to go into the messaging and stop the hammering about, well, we didnt get everything that was promised in the campaign passed, but instead focus on the bigger picture. >> im going to loop back with you on part of that bigger picture. but before i do, susan, there seem to be genuine surprise that sinema and manchin are proving as intractable as they are, that they didnt move with pressure from thei...

Require just a 50 votes on a bill to fund the government last year. they went nuclear and decided just 50 votes for a random vote that didnt go anywhere about vaccine rekwierms. we go the phrase, go nuclear because its going to be the end of the world, mutually assured destruction. turnz out they go nuclear all the time and decide a 50-vote majority is enough, that we cant have a 60-vote threshold for a particular type of legislation or amendment or vote. they do that all the time, even when the...

Foremost, i want to come back to the speak about that this lady has been identified, this woman has been identified, this woman has been identified in the way through which we have discovered through our agency work. this is relatively new, this is very much thanks to the work doing within our systems over recent years to spot the level of foreign interference that can come into our country, and a portly —— and portly look at interference. we are also looking at potential changes to our laws...

[ cheers ] >> reporter: in the name of god, go. those words are extremely important in this country. it a reputation of a quote used in 1940 when chamberlain was prime minister, the words that forced him out of office of the policy of no longer worked. were looking at a prime minister thats run out of excuses. the latest defense is that the prime minister, who sets the rules, who tells the police in this country to enforce the rules is claiming he somehow didnt know the rules. and yes, we have n...