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Sometime in the spring and plan to wrap up the investigation by the midterm elections. >> getting a sunday morning interview with the speaker of the house, go, julie. thank you. turning now to more on the voting rights battle and the biden agenda want to bring in geoff bennett. it is great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> you, as well. of course. >> we love having you. let's talk about this. julie laid it out. the president's speech. we know what the president is going to lay out hire. talking about a rules change, get behind the rules change formally and talk about how it seemed as ...

There are two senators that don't support a filibuster carve out. otherwise, changing senate rules instead of 60 votes, it would require simple majority or 51 votes to advance the legislation. these two senators that don't support this, kristen cinema and joe manchin. president biden seemed to acknowledge after meeting with the senate thursday that he knows it is an up hill climb, he knows it will be difficult to convince two senators to change their mind about the filibuster carve out. without their support, it appears even though they're going to take up the legislation tuesday, boris, chris...

Freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. the two bills have a majority support to pass. they have the support of all 50 democrats. and the john lewis bill has the support of one republican. but they have no path around the 60 vote threshold which is guaranteed on the back end to end debate. republicans will block it, and for all the pressure, for all the pressure that activists have put on senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have been rock solid in support of the filibuster. they're refusing to bung budge on it. chuck schumer still plans to call a vote on some...

Chuck schumer before yesterday said all options were on the table including a rules change. but in this letter to his colleagues for the first time, he clearly laid out the case of why a rule change is necessary for a voting right, and so he seems determined to do that. he promised a debate on the senate floor and talks about changing rules if they continue to block issues on voting rights. you asked the right question. how is he going to get all 50 senators on board for changing the rules. still unclear. the two senators, sinema and manchin have been clear in where they stand, that they're un...

You know, we don't want the president to come here unless he has a clear plan to getting voting legislation passed, and it doesn't appear that that is what the president is going to present today. he's here to lay out a vision, but not a plan. and these voting rights groups want to see a plan that can bring immediate action. >> sahil, let me go to you. one of the things mike talked about was this idea that maybe in the eyes of some, more public pressure on people like senator joe manchin could make a difference, but senator schumer is not waiting for that, he's saying as early as tomorrow, we'...