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Schizophrenic. we've been negotiating in good faith for about two months on this competitiveness bill, the competitiveness and innovation bill that's designed to help us compete in china. that's been entirely bipartisan. it sort of stalled right before we left town last week. hopefully, we're going to be able to finalize that. that's a good example of how we can work together. but i was thinking about that bill. if the bill had had joe biden's name on it, we wouldn't even be talking about it, i don't think. that's sort of where we've gotten. this bill bubbled up and started with chuck schumer ...

We got to focus on what the most crucial issue is, which is protecting democracy. >> there's a lot of legislation that has been stalled in the 50/50 senate. you wrote that the fate of the filler buster, whether or not the senate will continue to require 60 bovotes, what are th doing today? are they negotiating in good faith? do you support eliminating the filibuster? >> we've been negotiating in good faith for about two months on this competitiveness bill, the competitiveness and innovation bill that's designed to help us compete in china. that's been entirely bipartisan. it sort of stalled ri...

Time he's been here and thinks it can work in a bipartisan basis. one of very, very few people in the senate who feel that way. but if he digs in and as you well know the senate is a lot of free agents, especially folks like manchin as a former governor, could be hard to move him off that line in time to do anything that biden wants to get done before midterm season. >> what is he thinking is smooth about blocking an investigation into the 1/6 insurrection? he like that is? >> reporter: i asked him exactly this question. what have you seen in the last six months that makes you think this can w...

Bipartisan negotiations going on. i think both sides are ultimately going to have to go back to their constituencies and sell them things that aren't everything they wanted, if indeed they wanted to do this effort at all. that will be a challenging part of it, if and when an agreement is reached on the legislation. >> let's preview the rest of the month, legislatively speaking. >> i think the big action will be in the senate. when they come back, they have to finish the competitiveness bill that is meant to help put the u.s. on firmer footing to compete with china. republicans delayed in such ...

Something's got to change here. sahil kapur is national political reporter for nbc news and be covering these proceedings. he joins me now. you were covering it closely last night. can you just walk us through how this went down? when i took this anchor chair last night, it was maybe just a few hours away and maybe later in the night. i woke up this morning to find, oh, they still haven't done it yet. >> quite a chaotic 24 hours, chris. the senate went late yesterday after attempting to pass a china competitiveness bill and there was one wrench after another that was thrown into it. finally by...