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Use this new legislative vehicle from the house, in a special way, that will allow the senate to begin the debate on voting rights, without having to reach a 60 vote threshold, just to begin that debate. earlier today, chuck schumer said this, >> were having a lot of serious, long, and intense meetings with senators manchin and sinema. we are trying to come to -- want to dilute anybody intodn thinking this is easy. but, we are trying to come to a place where 50 senators can support the two bills...

Separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee we lose our critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. >> so think about what senator sinema just said there for a minute. shes basically refusing to accept a carveout of the filibuster to pass two voting rights bills because she supposedly worried about safeguarding our democracy. it just really begs the ques...

Filibuster to stand, they made practical changes to get things done. sometimes on small things, but sometimes on really big things. such as, supreme court justices, which mitch mcconnell did. like the bush interim tax cuts. the recent ones for the wealthy, all on 51 vote margins. >> senator klobuchar, you have been telling this history in various ways throughout the debate. particularly, as the debate has become more heated and more focused on this point. i find myself frustrated by the assertio...

Porch what is happening with alva rea from the new statesman, thank you for your time. it was getting reasonably feel proud last night, speculation we might reach 54 letters. —— it was getting reasonably last night. we letters. -- it was getting reasonably last night. we all started the _ reasonably last night. we all started the day _ reasonably last night. we all started the day in _ reasonably last night. we all i started the day in westminster thinking that we could reach the 54 letter t...

Thats the bottom line? they wont get any republicans? >> right, you cant say you support a bill, but wont actually open the door for it to pass. it means you dont actually support the bill. youre just using, you know, word mumbo jumbo to try to confuse voters and supporters. if youre not willing to at least alter one time the filibuster to pass the voting rights acts, it means youre against it. to remind you, with we did alter the filibuster a couple oflimit. so in the minds of senator sinema an...

Threshold. even advancing legislation, joe biden wants to bring two separate bills, one that would bring changes to voting laws in the country, and also the john lewis voting rights act which would overturn the 2016 supreme court ruling which gultted the key aspect of the 2016 act. they can only pass it at the moment if they convince manchin and sinema to change the rules so they can enforce capitol hill to personally -- you heard mitch mcconnell say republicans are fiercely opposed to the rules...

Is that works in the country instead of being reactionary like the house and give time for consideration. thats a 60 vote threshold. democrats want to bury their head in the sand and think that they are not doing an abysmal job on testing and buyers mac. here we are record high hospitalizations and cases in this country. delegates want to put their head in the same and they can fully expect the biggest directly possible in november. >> midterms are difficult. i want to give you the final word he...

Doubts that vaccinations are effective and work. but theres a difference between saying, "i dont want to get vaccinated and i wont get vaccinated" and saying, "i believe that you should inject yourself "with bleach because thats an effective means "of preventing covid." you know, one is harmful. one must mightjust be an opinion that you personally think is extremely irresponsible. but how do you define what breaks this new law? well, firstly, so the codes of practice are there to guide the compa...

Election year get ten republicans to stand with democrats on a fallback if thats whats necessary? >> well, when were talking about this broader legislation to address voting access, thats something that republicans like romney have made pretty clear that they do not want to join forces with democrats to go forward with, so a phone call doesnt appear to have made a difference in any case for the push they are looking at to try and consider tomorrow on the senate floor. that said, there is a lot o...

In announcing her opposition to changing senate rules in any way in order to pass voting rights legislation by a simple majority vote, senator sinema said this. >> eliminating the 60-vote threshold will simply guarantee that we lose a critical tool, that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. >> it is hard to think of a stupider thing that could be said about the 60-vote threshold. that was senator sinema claiming that the 60-vote rule in the senate is, quote, a cr...