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Excuse me, bernie loves hearing. manchin doesn't want hearing in the bill. all that stuff. so some is senate oriented and then we have the family medical leave. we figure if they're putting things in, then we can put things in, even if manchin doesn't like it. so we're getting some bird and privilege. i think most by we're getting privilege scrub. bird is important. you have to take it out. but privilege violation can take you out. so we're, again, getting that as we go along as well. but when we pass a bill, then they will see it in its aggregate and make some -- >> reporter: any concerns any...

Deduction negotiation happening there. jake, to you here, subscribers of punch bowl news midday are getting a lot of interesting information as we come into 3:08 eastern time this afternoon. a ton of dynamics involved as you point out. yet another, call it what it is, self-imposed deadline from nancy pelosi on what she wants to get done. what she hopes will get done that may not come to fruition. >> yeah. i mean, she's blown past every deadline so far. she mentioned one which is i think october 31st. she also had a september deadline and wanted to get the bill passed before joe biden -- she sa...

Of being taken advantage of. that is my only warning. >> charlie, you don't get anything if you're not in power anymore, and things can change from month to month, day to day, and of course year to year. do you disagree with that? >> no, i don't disagree. the only thing i'll say to bakari in response is, look, i think it's tragic that we can't come to an agreement in the congress on the john lewis voting rights act. i mean we've reauthorized that '65 voting rights act several times. i voted for it proudly in 2006 when george bush was president. it's really tragic that that has not been agreed ...

We reauthorized that '65 voting rights act several times. i voted for it in 2006 when george bush was president. it's tragic that has not been agreed to. they should be able to resolve issues like that, and that's really the breakdown in this country right now, that we can't agree on things that we have always been able to agree on. i think the democrats have overreached on the other voting rights bill, hr 1. that's a stretch. it was always a messaging bill. never meant to become law. we should pick our fights better. if i were the democrats, i would push full bore on reauthorizing the voting ...

For the people act was begrudgingly a lot of democrats tell me was a messaging bill, not a big effort to make it bipartisan. there are other voting rights bills in congress that are floating around and people trying to figure out whether or not that could get done. you have senator manchin working on his voting rights bill. democrats haven't given up but they're facing this deep polarization. a couple senators better at not having their names called out on tv because they're more quiet, if those lawmakers don't get it together and say we have to do something for the survival of our country and...