voting rights bills, debate them, vote, let the majority prevail. i'm making it clear to protect our democracy i support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. >> senate leader schumer told reporters this morning that following the president's speech, members of his caucus had lengthy meetings with the two key democratic hold outs. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. those talks did not yield any breakthroughs leading towards careening towards failure on an issue they repeatedly said that failure is not an option. >> we are trying to come to a place. we're not there yet. i wouldn't want anybody to think this was easy. >> if those two senators won't guarantee senators the votes, will you still put that on the floor? >> it is my understanding it will be a vote. senators are elected to vote and