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Would say, let's try to break this thing apart, take it in smaller bites, but the reality is, in the world of the filibuster, we get one bite at passing a lot of this through. and we cannot fail the american people. >> reporter: and democrats just are finishing up their caucus lunch, and before that lunch, i'm told schumer, the majority leader, had a conversation for about an hour with some of his moderate lawmakers, trying to get everyone on the same page ahead of that lunch. it just really goes to show that he knows, and the house speaker knows, what they're up against, whether they can find...

Have flu-like symptoms. he said it feels like a sinus infection but he is thankful that he has been vaccinated because, quote, without vaccination i'm certain that i would not feel as well as i do now. >> graham was in the senate with a mask on before his positive result came back. west virginia senator joe manchin entertained a small group of senators on his boat over the weekend and graham was in attendance. >> we were outside, okay? we were all -- everybody has been vaccinated. so, you know, i talked to him today and he is fine, he feels good. >> democratic senators have been informed that ...

Rights and stand with the nation, here to rally the nation, and we want to wake up the senate so they can hear us and understand why we need a national standard when it comes to voting in america. >> so it is an up hill battle in washington to pass federal voting rights legislation. how do democrats your group talked to here explained to you what the hurdles are, whether or not they have reason to be optimistic? >> well, politics is hard in general, doesn't matter whether you talk about voting rights or scheduling the caucus lunch. if the goal of republicans is to object and object and object,...

Here right now. surreal peek tbeing the words o republican senator. everyone knows it's coming. there's no equivocation about whether the house is going to impeach the president based on what i'm hearing from senate republicans and democrats. but they don't know what it's going to look like. they have no sense of what a senate trial would be. how long it would last. who might testify, if anyone would testify at all. that doesn't mean they're not preparing. senate republicans in a closed door lunch meeting with white house counsel pat cipollone. two of his top deputies. the white house making c...

Is an odd disconnect. one hand, everybody is rightfully concern about how this is done but he's on to something, bigger picture. >> this is a very important point. somebody lean ed over to me in our caucus lunch and said nobody cares what happens in nor northern syria. >> it's shameful that that's true. >> and they said that's why we need a better class of elected leaders in washington, in the white house and in the senate because it matters to national security interests of the united states what happens here. and the metapoint that he has, which is we shouldn't have made so many mistakes in ...