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He was in that meeting. and he said, joe manchin said, i'll give you the john lewis voting rights act bill, but can't go all the way to s-1. is there any way for democrats to say, at least we can get john lewis done if we work joe manchin and some of these democratic votes? >> there hasn't been, so far, in part because many of the democrats have recognized that manchin is just not as willing to move as they had hopes. the idea of what is in it right now is one of the reasons why so many republicans aren't backing it. >> i think we lost eugene scott's audio. let's thanks eugene.

Welcome back to "morning joe." it is 46 past the hour. look at that beautiful shot of capitol hill this morning. not so beautiful what's going on inside. house speaker nancy pelosi told her fellow democrats in a recent letter that the john lewis voting rights advancement act, quote, must be passed, but it will not be ready until the fall, and it is not a substitute for hr-1, to which former obama speechwriter jon favreau took exception. in a recent twitter thread he writes, i won't pretend that democrats have a lot of good options here, but pretending that joe manchin didn't write that op-ed a...

Thing, that they made the wrong call in this case. the real issue is whether or not the former president's defamatory comments about e. jean carroll were made in the course of his official duties, within the scope, you would have it, of his employment. a federal judge has already found that trump is not an employee in the typical since, which is a condition that's necessary for doj to intervene here. but even more than that, that these comments went far beyond the scope of his presidential duties. he could have answered a question about whether or not he knew carroll without calling her a liar...

To work with. so certainly you could imagine there would have been the desire for that data to be available. now, steve bannon we know was in talks with wylie in 2013, by 2014 robert mercer was involved backing it. by that point steve bannon is the vice president of cambridge analytica. so certainly, you know, he is a presence within the new entity, the new u.s. entity, cambridge analytica, at the time that wylie is discussing. >> and finally there's a remarkable moment of alexander nix talking about his appearance before the house intelligence committee. and it's the first time we've seen thi...

Trouble with uk regulators. >> i mean i can't speak to the direct line of control when it came to harvesting that facebook data, obviously, but, you know, steve bannon was -- part of the reason steve bannon was interested in cambridge analytica was because of the kinds of models they were testing. the only way to ensure that they were -- they might be effective and to ensure that they were able to test messages, which we know they were doing early on too, things like drain the swamp, the only way to really decide whether or not that messaging could be effective was if they had a large pool of ...