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Changes. now senator manchin released a statement as well, also reiterating where he was there. so democrats really want to try to fix this here and to try to change this to allow them to get voting rights and other major pieces of legislation through but, you know, this is something that is a simple majority threshold to make a rules change. you only have 50 senate democrats and so when two them put their foot down and say no, you know, it doesn't seem like they're going to be budged. even after manchin and sinema met at the white house. democrats have said it's really behind here but it's un...

>> that's where we're headed now, joe. tonight around 6:30 or so, we're expected to see the first of these votes. that's actually to move for closure on the voting rights bills you talked about. that is expected to fail, because of of a lack of republican support. then we're going to see schumer and democrats move onto voting on a targeted rules change that would bring back a talking filibuster for this package of voting right bills specifically. we know, though, that senator kyrsten sinema is not for that. neither is senator joe manchin. we actually expect to hear from him on the floor of the...

Yasmin, majority leader schumer, senate democrats have been facing tremendous pressure by grassroots organizations, particularly with their inability to advance the build back better act and they now turn to voting rights, of course, and on friday, we actually learned that this coming week, they're going to plan to start to take up the freedom to vote act, which of course is designed and coauthored, actually, by senator joe manchin to be a preventive measure to some of these restrictive measures being taken by republican-led legislatures across the country. and so, we could see that process ge...

Do, they're going to debate the voting rights bill and they're going to try to cut off debate. and that requires 60 votes as of now. they will not get 60 votes, obviously, because all 50 democrats are on board. but you need 60. no republicans are on board, so that fails. then schumer moves to change the senate rules for what he calls a talking filibuster on this issue which would basically allow -- force the leadership to get 60 votes to cut off debate proactively, but would move to a 50-vote threshold once the philadelphia buster has ended. that debate -- that measure, that rules change, will...

We did this, as you know the rules very well, as a message from the senate. so we will at least be able to debate the bill. then the vote is, let sondland of a, let's vote. right now, that require 60 votes. as you predicted, if we don't get there, then we will go, i assume, after some debate, to a rules change. >> will the senate be able to go straight to the debate on rules change? after that 60 vote on wednesday? >> i believe we can. and that is our plan. because we have to. we really are left with no choice. this would be the fifth time that they shut us down. if they do as predicted, witho...