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Julie, majority leader chuck schumer wanted a vote on build back better by christmas. that didn't happen. where do democrats and congress go from here? >> yeah. well, joe, after the initial shock and perhaps rage at senator manchin's sort of wore off in congress, majority leader schumer sat on a call tuesday night with all democrats in the senate that they will, in fact, vote on some sort of build back better agenda in the new year. he floated the idea of a rules change vote to pass voting rights legislation on a simple majority. something i should add that currently doesn't have the support o...

Manu raju has the latest. >> reporter: democrats had a private conference call tuesday night trying to figure out if they can get this back on track, after joe manchin derailed it effectively on sunday. now, it's unclear if they can do just that, because there is absolutely no consensus on how to move ahead. particularly because manchin reiterated his concerns to his colleagues i'm told. he said he had concerns about inflation, geopolitical concerns. he said this bill does not show the true nature of its cost. he said it would add to the debt. democrats pushed back. there was some belief that ...

>> 90% of the bill agreed to and written. we just have some of the last decisions to be made. >> reporter: those final decisions, by far, the thorniest. as democrats map out scaling back or eliminating entirely critinal components to secure manchin's support for medicare and medicaid expansion to paid leave, sources say, as they scramble to finalize now ways to pay for a now substantially scaled back proposal. >> ready to pay for 3.5. so we certainly can pay for half of that. >> reporter: after onjections from kyrsten sinema, the other key centrist holdout to raising corporate and individual t...

House passed a sweeping bill named after george floyd. they had been trying to reach agreement for months, but yesterday after scott rejected yesterday's scaled back proposal, booker said they were still too far from a deal to continue. he spoke about this in this last hour. >> at the end of the day, senator scott and i had a gulf between us that we could not close. we weren't there. it's clear we weren't there. a lot of the stories show we had a gulf between us. we need to find another way. >> even without action from congress, some local police departments have been taking this into their ow...