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Co-founder and msnbc contributor jake sherman and "new york times" bureau chief and msnbc political analyst peter baker. this last week does seem especially painful for president biden. can you put it into context for us? >> yeah, i want to say on the front end here that the president has gotten a bunch of wins. he passed a massive covid relief package and he passed an infrastructure package. both of those kind of on their own are huge victories. so lets start with that. but recently its been a ...

Some districts, like in chicago, you really have parents and teachers at odds with each other about what to do. that is going to create some real challenges for policymakers. >> yeah. you mentioned chicago. quite a different story there where public school officials canceled classes today after the teachers union voted to switch to remote learning. the chicago teachers union action approved by 73% of its members called for a pause on in-person learning and to work remotely until january 18th or ...

Going to try again at a private democratic luncheon. so his clout is on the line, and the democratic agenda, and also, what is to be the first year of a biden agenda is in limbo. and now we go to manu raju, and the stakes are high. >> yes, and before he came to capitol hill, it has officially ended, because kyrsten sinema is putting the nail in the coffin of this effort to try to change the filibuster rules in order to pass the larger rewrite of voting laws which is a central pillar of joe biden...

Threshold in the senate, in my judgment, would be like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy. >> here is where things get technical. prior attempts to debate voting rights about been blocked by the filibuster. to start the debate today, democrats are exercising procedural loophole bringing up legislation about nasa. >> todd: thank you. did you see this, speaker nancy pelosi using mlk day to push for filibuster changes because according to her founding fathers would want to bump bipartisan...

Beijing for the olympics. you have around 4,000 people who have arrived and especially among those who have been training for these games, training for their lives knowing if they test positive for covid and these are extraordinarily sensitive covid tests that china is using that could detect covid even after somebody no longer has symptoms, they could test positive with the covid tests and the daily covid testing theyre using in china. the threshold that will allow someone to be yanked out unti...

Chadha has the story from capitol hill. >> president biden stymied by democrats, this time on the philip to pass voting rights. >> they hope to get this done. i dont know whether we can get this done. >> joe mentioned support the voting rights legislation but wont change the filibuster in order to pass the measure. >> while they continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worse than the underlying disease of deficient infecting our country. >> democrats ripped his a...

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Threshold will guarantee that we lose a critical tool to save democracy from threats in the years to come. >> it is hard to think of a stupid or 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 critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy. it is, in fact. the single most active anti democracy role that exists in government. t active ant democracy role that it senator sinema said a single true thing, i...

Message that the house will send to the senate tomorrow. its called a message in this situation. senator schumer plans to employ a rarely used senate maneuver that will allow debate to begin on that message from the house without having to clear a 60-vote threshold just to permit the debate. it is the same procedure that senator schumer used to speed a debt ceiling increase through the senate in december. now that senator schumer has publicly named the problem that the democrats are facing in th...

Was in office. during that time, republican senate leader, mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans, when nuclear, deciding you would be a majority vote only. doing that to confirm it would only -- be nuclear another, time deciding it would be a majority vote only, it would be 50 votes only, for a lower lever executive branch nominees. then he went nuclear third time, deciding he would change the filibuster rule. it would only have to be a majority full, a 50 vote threshold, for federal distri...