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they want to make their loss of life matter. >> so he gave his perspective, and then we also are hearing today a new and horrifying perspective from inside robb elementary. >> 4th grade teacher reyes was feet away when the shooter killed all eleven students in the classroom. he played dead for 77 minutes, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. at one point he heard a student in the connecting classroom call out for police to help them, but police were treated and he's outraged by the lack of action by police, he says it's unforgivable. >> bullets everywhere, and then i just remember ...

You. >> cnn senior correspondent, congressional correspondent, manu raju joins us. where are these talks now? >> reporter: they're still going on. it's uncertain whether or not they can get a deal. there are key issues they have to resolve, and also key questions, namely whether or not there will be enough support in order to overcome a republican led filibuster, 60 votes in the u.s. senate to get there. before that they need to have a deal, and the deal they're discussing, is a narrow one, not going as far as a lot of democrats would like, not going to outallaw any sort of high powered semiau...

That president biden is trying to get passed. what they're not in line about is how to do that. under the senate process, it would require 60 votes to overcome a republican led filibuster, they don't have any republicans who will support overcoming a dfilibuster on one of the bills. that's why they're negotiating a rules change to advance the bill by just 51 votes. joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, the two moderate senators have for months, noted their opposition to changing the rules. you need 2/3 majority to change the roles of the senate, that builds bipartisan consensus. changing the rules on p...

They have to go through the amendment process and then get 60 votes and out of the senate. so there are still some hurdles to go through. some optimism they'll get there but they have to get through both chambers of congress and that would happen until sometime this fall. >> okay. we'll watch that closely. there is a big meeting today. chuck schumer, nancy pelosi meeting with the president on voting rights. what do we know about that? >> reporter: there is an effort among democrats to try to unify behind one bill to overhaul voting laws. there was the effort trying to sweeping the measure for ...

What they agreed to is delay action on the china bill until the first week in june. the week of june 8th. they'll come back on june 8th and vote on those. they'll deal with that bill then. but within the next hour, the senate will vote to see whether they would open debate on that bill that would investigate, create this commission to investigate the january 6th attack. now to move forward on that january 6th bill, it would require 06 60 votes to do. that what we know from the reporting is there are not 60 votes to move ahead. 10 republicans have to break ranks and join 50 democrat to break a ...