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On evictions was allowed to expire. the president is under pressure from some democrats to address the issue, possibly extend it. jeremy diamond and lauren fox join me now. let's begin with you, lauren, on infrastructure. we have final language for the bill. that makes this more real than just sort of a pending theater ic t hechlt oretical agreement. when, crucially, in the senate, will they get the 10 republicans they need? >> reporter: the senate keeping us on the edge of our seat over the weekend waiting for that legislative text. finally sunday night late it came. one of the markers of thi...

Resolutions, we're not going away. the american people aren't going away. this is what it is all about. >> we're going to be talk bing in in days and weeks to come, that's for sure. congressman, david, thank you both. very much appreciate it. i want to turn to the senate's rare saturday session, majority leader chuck schumer knowing time is of the essence as they await the massive infrastructure bill being put together by a bipartisan group of senators. >> i understand that writing the text of a bill of this size is a difficult project. i have been part of much such efforts in the past, but ...

If your policy qualifies. any minute now, a hurdle for the bipartisan senate deal for massive investments in infrastructure around the country, the senate is expected to hold another vote on the trillion-dollar plan, but it is still a long way to go in this divided congress. lauren fox is on capitol hill for us. what is going to happen later this hour and where is this headed? >> reporter: in a couple of minutes we expect a rare view of the senate working on a friday where we expect that they're going to take a procedural vote to begin the amendment process on that bipartisan infrastructure ...

Covid relief money but how this ultimately plays out is still uncertain, because they do have to go through that amendment process and then at that point, democratic leader chuck schumer would move to shut down debate, which requires 60 votes to overcome any filibuster attempt and then try to get it out of the senate and then the question will be, will the house approve it? still an open question as liberals say that it does not go far enough, and then you worry about the bicric only plan and s a headache for democratic leaders at a later date. they're still trying to sort the details there. b...

They have to go through the amendment process and then get 60 votes and out of the senate. so there are still some hurdles to go through. some optimism they'll get there but they have to get through both chambers of congress and that would happen until sometime this fall. >> okay. we'll watch that closely. there is a big meeting today. chuck schumer, nancy pelosi meeting with the president on voting rights. what do we know about that? >> reporter: there is an effort among democrats to try to unify behind one bill to overhaul voting laws. there was the effort trying to sweeping the measure for ...