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Set to start less than an hour from now. a recent poll shows voting reform has strong majority support across the country, but lawmakers in washington are struck at a crossroads. the president saying he's unsure he can get it done. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the chamber will start debating the bills tomorrow, but right now he doesn't have the votes, with senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema not willing to change the rules to get it done. house majority whip jim clyburn saying all democrats need to get on board. >> people tell me they are for this legislation, but they are aga...

-- that's the point not communicated to the american people. we say we want a free market society and businesses to be able to do what they. and set prices the way they want. some businesses are taking advantage of this moment to raise prices and recoup losses during the peak of the pandemic. do we want that free market that allows benefits to raise prices? then that's leading to inflation. that's not necessarily inside the president's control. because if he tries to control businesses and pricing, that will bring another wave of criticism from a different direction. >> go on. >> i was saying ...

Emotion. president obama then pushed for a range of gun safety measures, some could not get majority support in congress at the time like banning assault weapons out right or banning large ammunition magazines, which are generally associated with going on offense, not self-defense. there was a narrow bid to enhance background checks you may remember it. it got a majority 54 senators but blocked with a filibuster showing the combined power of the gun lobby and republicans use of the senate's antiqued rules. the road is bleak still. that reality hasn't stopped all the reformers who have been usi...

Coming back and the ukrainians are reporting about 4500 casualties amongst the russians, i think this is just going to grow. >> what do you think the president makes of the impact it's having on his own people at this point? >> putin? >> yes. >> i'm not sure he is aware. he seems to be isolated but let's assume he is, i think he looks at this and thanks it's mostly the young that are out there and as long as he has the majority support of the population and i think he does if you look at the polling numbers before the war, it's hard to tell now he probably still does have the quiet majority ou...

Discussion? >> that's when he started using the phrase, the two words as we called back in 2014. and there is, to remember, there is a history of some ukrainians fighting on the nazi side. because they were occupied by the soviet union. let's remember, they consider themselves a colony. a very small group. one should not exaggerate it. pulling on the string, that threat of history, to say that what you had was a neo-nazi usurpation of power. that's what he said in his rambling speech from two days ago, when he went on for an hour to explain and justify. and he is appealing to russians. he's tr...