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Another issue, voting rights. you're the only democrat in the senate who has not supported s-1, the so-called for the people act, which would be a major voting reform bill. you say it's too brood and too partisan. instead, you support basically a renewal of the 1965 voting rights act which says that the feds get free clearance on any voting right changes in individual states. you would like it to apply to all 50 of states, not just the states in the south that had a history of segregation. couple of questions. one, is chuck schumer making a mistake in pushing this big bill, the for the people ...

Happen. voting is the bed rock of our democracy. and open, fair, secured voting. we used to go around the world and show and explain and observe of voting procedures in a democracy and now if we can't practice what we preach and we're going to basically do an overhaul, an 800 page overhaul of the voting rights or what we call for the people act, i think there's a lot of great thing i agree in that piece of legislation but there's an awful lot of things that basically don't pertain directly to voting. so the voting rights act -- chris: let me just -- >> sure. chris: just to put a button on this...

Energy granholm reiterated this morning that house democrats are going to start their markup of the bill with or without republicans and if there is no compromise on infrastructure, and i think it's fair to say maybe not enough, but that joe biden has made some big concessions both on spending and different tax plan, if it were to go in the senate as a straight party line vote, through budget reconciliation, will you support that kind of bill? in other words, i guess what i'm asking is, is a straight party line infrastructure bill better than no bill at all? >> i think i still have all the con...

>> this much is already clear, we're on the right track. our plan is working. we're not going to let up now. chris: president biden continuing to push for his jobs bill including a huge infrastructure plan but making little progress in talks with senate republicans. and it's time now for our sunday group. former rnc communications director, doug heye, susan page of usa today, and fox news contributor, marie harf. so susan, let me start with you. you've been around washington a while as i have. what's your sense of where we're headed with infrastructure, a bipartisan compromise, straight party ...

Negotiations are making a point, not making a deal. and making a point first and foremost to your last guest, joe manchin, i think that democrats especially the white house trying to make the point that they have tried in good faith to reach a bipartisan deal. i thought it was interesting that senator manchin in your question, response to your question did not rule out voting for a bill along a pure party line vote, a reconciliation bill when it comes to this infrastructure. i think that was a significant suggestion. democrats are now moving ahead on the things they need to do to pass this bil...