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Polo, thank you. lets go now to natasha in los angeles. cases there also rising pretty fast. what are people saying about the current situation? whats being done to slow the spread? >> reporter: amara, l.a. county, the most populous county in the u.s. has seen case rates the daily confirmed cases pretty much triple in the past week. lets look at the numbers. on tuesday l.a. county public health reported more than 1100 confirmed covid cases. by saturday, yesterday, it was more than 3700 confirmed...

Open process of electing our officials and believing and making sure it is secure. we should be working on that together. next of all you can make the senate work better the rules weve changed over the years 232 years theres been rule changes. theres never been a change with the filibuster the rights of the minority. and i make no commitment or promises on that i am working on trying to make the senate work better, bringing bills to the floor, amending them, having debates, understanding, being ...

Nothing. she remains completely, utterly, stubbornly unwilling to make even a onetime exception to the senate filibuster rule to preserve the absolute core of american freedom. voting rights. heres sinemas defense. offered through a spokesperson. she quote, continues to support the senate 60 vote threshold to protect the country from radical reversals in policy. senator sinema as those who want we can the filibuster if it would be good for our country to do so only to see the legislation rescind...

From a deal that had fundamentally put a lid on irans nuclear program, they have raced that program forward. molly: why isnt iran feeling any leverage here? where are our european partners on this? >> well, what a charade. and sullivan is the one who helped do this deal under the obama administration, so he wont give it up. but europe is really fed up with iran. there is very little chance of any kind of deal coming out of this. and the scary fact here is iran is just enriching more and more ura...

You know, its a much more closed environment. and so he was asking me just to bring in, come in and talk with the members about the changes that theyve, that are happening over the years and how these potential changes that theyd like to do might impact the current senate. >> given that evolution that you were describing, and the way the actual sort of pattern and practice of the senate has changed over time so that theres this 60-vote threshold, this unspoken 60-vote threshold for almost everyt...

Practice of the senate has changed over time so that theres this 60-vote threshold, this unspoken 60-vote threshold for almost everything now, do you think that democratic senators are on the right track? procedurally, not as a matter of sort of political opinion, but procedurally, do you think theyre on the right track to think it may be possible to change the rules in a sort of one-off way? to make a change around this voting rights question that wont necessarily have a cascading effect or the...

Nowhere saying that she potters a 60-vote threshold. and so she is also a huge problem in this. even though weve seen other senators who are skeptical about this come out this week and say they do support a rule change, including senator warner, senator hickenlooper, senator hassen of new hampshire, who could face a tough re-election next year, but they still have a very long way to go. so democrats are having a very bad end of the year, with bbb shelved, not able to do voting rights before the ...

Kyrsten sinema, who put out a statement two days ago, saying she still wants that 60-vote threshold in the senate. so that makes it impossible to pass voting rights. however -- yeah, go for it. theyre still talking, though. and im told that senator tim kaine of one of the members who was negotiating this in their closed-door lunch yesterday, for the first time, gave a presentation on how they would change the senate rules, which would implement a talking filibuster. and after a very long process...

So there is a plan d for this bill? will it have to be pulled out add dealt with in the future. if were looking at a 60-foot threshold, we based the bipartisan bill in 2013. but unfortunately, poisoning of

Joe manchin has said that he will not, under any circumstances, underrule the parliamentarians ruling. schumer could, i guess, fire the parliamentarian. he hasnt shown the appetite to do that either. you mentioned, is there an opportunity to do immigration reform outside of the build back better act? of course, that would be subject to the senates 60-vote threshold, unless the senate blows up the senate rules and nukes the filibuster, gets rid of the filibuster, which is also not happening, at t...