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Ar let? >> reporter: president biden pushed congress to pass voting rights legislation even as those efforts currently remain stalled up on capitol hill. republicans have blocked democratic efforts to pass pieces of legislation, but the president said that the battle is not over just yet. >> i've never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to vote. never. as john lewis said, it is the only -- without the right to vote, there is no democracy. but each and every time it gets brought up, the other team blocks the ability to even start to discuss it. >> reporter: even as legislat...

That filibuster rule that requires 60 votes. but currently, there are not enough democrats on board to change that rule, so the white house and democrats up on capitol hill still trying to work towards whether they can make voting rights legislation a reality. kate? >> arlette, thank you. joining me is debbie dingell of michigan. thanks for being here. what do you make of the president, talking about voting rights today, but essentially also at the same time shelving the social spending bill until next year and instead renewing his focus in this area on voting rights. but resistance to changin...

Still in probably the pandemic phase, so the endemic phase. >> reporter: what's so interesting is the cdc is giving out at-home coronavirus test kits to international travelers as they alive in the united states. the cd cdc said they need to get tested after flying to the u.s. miami, minneapolis, dallas-fort worth, chicago, and that could be expanded soon. we'll see as the pandemic continues to unfold, kate. >> pete, thank you very much. joining me for more on this is dr. leana wen and dr. mark garlic, the president and ceo of children's minnesota. thanks wen, we have all of these data points....