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Really calls for changing the rules of the u.s. senate. now, so far they're not convinced. but we're going to watch this all take place over the next couple of days. around 10:30 this morning there will be a vote in the house of representatives, they will send over that voting rights legislation to the u.s. senate. now, once it gets over to the senate there will be a vote on both the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. those pieces of legislation have the support of all 50 democrats. but what they don't have is ten republican senators willing to join them. so, at that poi...

Over the last week, members of congress returning to their districts for the july 4th holiday. what will greet them when they come back to washington, d.c.? we saw those two republican pieces of legislation fail on the floor of the house of representatives. as we search for policy answers here, cindy describing an ad hoc solution, as much as it is one, to part of this problem. what is washington trying to do at this point or has it given up until the midterms? let me let alan weigh in here. >> that's fine, yes. >> the fact that congress has been unable to come up with a solution for the roughl...

Doing for a long time. the fact that they can't get the bill out to the deadline they set by themselves definitely shows it's not off to a great start. >> let me ask you, if i can, by switching gears to this bipartisan group, to get some legislation. to ban bump stocks. a month after the shooting in las vegas, congress entered a bill to regulate, not to ban, but to regulate bump stocks. how do you think that we're going to see legislation signed by the president? >> the fact that it's bipartisan is definitely a good sign. but in the wake of the las vegas shooting we saw bipartisan legislation ...

Politics of this? >> i think they really are determined to make this legislation fail. and they don't care. these are not the people they care about, and they don't believe the government should be in the business of doing this, and so it's a totally ideological thing. it's so many governors who are elected in that wave of 2010 as well, it's a test of their tea party principles and people are losing and they're winning. >> january brewer. i mean, to me, she's the fascinating outliar here, because not only did she go for it, she went to war for it. >> right. >> i mean, she like -- she was like ...

>> i think they really are determined to make this legislation fail. and they don't care. these are not the people they care about, and they don't believe the government should be in the business of doing this, and so it's a totally ideological thing. it's so many governors who are elected in that wave of 2010 as well, it's a test of their tea party principles and people are losing and they're winning. >> january brewer. i mean, to me, she's the fascinating outliar here, because not only did she go for it, she went to war for it. >> right. >> i mean, she like -- she was like atilla the hun. we...