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In the senate. they believe it could open a door to something they simply dont want. but just a few moments ago, wolf, when the president returned here to the white house, we asked him again about his views on the filibuster. he did not answer our questions, wolf. >> thank you very much. lets go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles joining us from capitol hill right now. i want to get some more, you know, ryan on the texas democratic delegation that led to block voting restrictions in ...

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Georgia, in arizona. those are republican-led state legislatures trying to pass stricter voting laws. so any sort of efforts by democrats to pass voting reforms are going to be blocked by republicans. its no surprise there. >> i agree, alex, that it is no surprise. specifically mitch mcconnell coming out and shutting down the compromise. no surprise there. where does all of that leave democrats especially when they have someone in the white house touting bipartisanship? >> it leaves democrats re...

Here is how eager republicans were to shoot down joe manchins proposal. i havent looked at it in detail yet. but i support the for the people act. if joe is proposing a subset of those proposals to come before the senate i assume ill be supportive of those. what youre seeing are republicans are not going to come to the table on any voting reforms. they are not going to work with us on anything that makes it easier for people to vote. why? because they have decided they cant win elections if ever...

Part of his presidency. at the same time, that we passed juneteenth, there is the most pernicious effort you and i have seen in our lifetime to go after voting rights of the same population. what do you think of the manchin compromise? does it have a shot? >> i think what is instructive here is how eager republicans were to shoot down joe manchins proposal. i havent looked at it in detail yet. but i support the for the people act. if joe is proposing a subset of those proposals to come before th...

Any voting reforms. i think when were coming to the conclusion, i hope, as a body that there is no path to 60 votes on any reforms to our very broken democratic system and, you know, thats a conversation we have to have internally in the senate. >> there are three or four, joe manchin gets most of the attention. senator sinema of arizona gets the next amount. but there are a couple others too. are they going to have this conversation, all getting together and say lets forget our agenda because w...

Version. all republicans, i think, will oppose that as well. >> reporter: mcconnells opposition is significant because in order to get anything through the senate it requires ten republican votes. if mcconnell says republicans are not going to support it they likely will not. that means forward for this bill to get through democrats would need to break up the filibuster for it and thats something that manchin has said he cannot do. while manchin believes that he can come around to supporting som...

Republicans, i think, will oppose that as well if that were to be surfaced on the floor. >> reporter: now, mcconnells opposition is significant because in order to get anything through the senate it requires ten republican votes and if mcconnell says republicans arent going to support it they likely will not. so that means in order for this bill to get through democrats would need to break up the filibuster for it and thats something that manchin has said he cannot do. so while manchin believes ...

40 democrats for all important areas to climate change to the most important, voting reforms. but when you put a heavy burden on it and if we have a majority leader who is willing to play some hard ball, and of course mitch mcconnell has given us the template for how to play outrageous out ball you can make their lives miserable and you can focus public attention on these issues, including guns as well, and background checks. there is a pretty good chance that were going to get a lot of things t...

As anything else because when it comes to this bipartisan argument, i got to tell you, i dont buy it. >> what exactly did you mean by that? are you saying joe manchins opposition is because he wants to keep political donations flowing? >> well, you know, i think that, i think that when we talk about opposition to hr1 to be just about voting rights, were not telling the whole story. hr1 has sweeping voting reforms. we have the influence of big money that impacts not just one party, but both parti...