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Get 60 votes to pass it. there are these negotiations that are going on between senator manchin, a big critic of changing the senate rules with other people with senator tester, senator cain and senator king as well and other people having separate conversations to try to come up with a way to pass these voting rights through the senate rule process. senator kirsten gillibrand put a hamper on negotiations when her person put out a statement she believes the 60-vote threshold in the senate should...

Biden himself is diagnostic of the filibuster. he does not cling to it particularly. they know its going to be difficult and jake, to joes point if you have a conversation with sinema about the idea of something that is not as clear as getting rid of the filibuster but as one of the other work arounds and you raise the debt limit as a possible example on how to do that, is it something she will be open to do here or sitting down a red line here? >> if you talk about some of the workarounds is th...

Elections on the books. people dont want that. the democrats are gog have a hard time hitting a 60 vote threshold in the senate. the american people are smart. they know what they are paying at the pump and the grocery store. they are saying, no, this is not what we voted for. its whatnot we want. no, we wont support you in this is. >> sandra: final thoughts in only 5 seconds. do you see the social spending plan dead in the new year? >> they will try to revive them. i dont think they will be suc...

Millions of people across this country to vote because its being taken away, being suppressed all over the country. >> what do you mean the dictatorships around the country? >> im not saying dictatorships around the country, dictatorships around the world is what i meant. sorry. but were seeing voter suppression all over the country. >> so given that -- listen, theres a lot happening in 2024, there are a lot of people being put in place. there was an article in "the atlantic" about what could ha...

What happened and who was involved, thank you for spending time with us. dan goldman thank you for all your wisdom and experience, and david sticks around for the hour. on the frontline of trumps quest to overturn the election loss. now saying the ex-president defended their plans for peaceful rally on january 6, their testimony and now plus, pledging allegiance to the big lie is the key threshold, the only one really for republican candidates all across the country, but standing out in a crowde...

>> they dont have other options. joe manchin said hes not changing the senate rules without republican support. hes said that time and time again. kyrsten sinema went as far as to release a statement yesterday to say shes not getting rid of the 60-vote threshold. i dont see the political practical or legislative space for anything to get done on voting rights. on the "build back better" act, i frankly think that were probably -- we might be closer in an absolute sense meaning the parliamentarian...

Tester, kaine, and king. its about are rule change. thats an important distinction. if they can come to an agreement, they have to come together with sinema whos not part of the negotiations who said yesterday she wants to keep that 60-vote threshold, and so without getting that, its hard to sigh how the voting right passes. >> nbcs leigh ann caldwell. i know you have a busy day. ing that you very much. she mentioned senator tester. hell be joining "morning joe." president biden visited hard-h...

Visor to speakers of the house. a big pif shot, but trying to pivot to voting rights, but what is the work around? >> in theory they both do, but they both want rule changes. they changed it when they went to a 50 vote threshold. so he has a long history of o possing the rule changes. kristin sinema opposes the rule changes because she doesnt want to have the republicans change it back in a few years.

But its become much more partisan in recent months, in particular. but this was something that we wondered if, you know, what congress was going to do, particularly because senate minority leader mitch mcconnell really made a stand on this, but they were able to kind of use a legislative gimmick to get around the 60-vote threshold, so only 50 senators plus one needed to pass that. so this is -- this goes forward, and we now kind of have all of the work is pretty much done here on capitol hill, e...

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