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>> senator chuck schumer said the senate will take up voting rights next week but without support from senators sinema and joe manchin to change senate rules, that measure is most likely to fail. daniela diaz is with us from capitol hill. run us through what we're expecting here. >> reporter: originally the senate was supposed to take up the voting rights legislation this week. instead of having their scheduled recess next week, they're going to come back on tuesday and they're planning to take up that voting rights legislation and possibly have a vote by wednesday. that is the current schedul...

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Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argued is vital for protecting democracy was blocked Wednesday by a Republican filibuster, a setback for President Joe Biden and his party after a raw, emotional debate. Democrats were poised to immediately pivot to voting on a Senate rules change as a way to overcome the filibuster and approve the bill with a simple majority.

Took vote for a rules change in the senate so that they could try to pass voting rights with a simple majority with the 61 votes rather than the 60 needed. that would require all democratic senators to get behind those. right now, senator joe manchin do not support that carve out to pass legislation that would require some sort of bipartisan support. they are very strong on their opinion. continuing to be optimistic that they could change their mind and negotiate especially behind closed doors to see if they could change the rules behind

Families are feeling on prescription drugs, child care and other costs. >> can i just ask you though, senator, on voting rights, look, you have 50 votes for that legislation. senator manchin was one of the co-authors and kind of the -- kind of the revisd version of that. you do not have 50 votes for even a carve out or a change in the filibuster as senator manchin said before you went before time. it would have to be bipartisan for a rules change. how do you square that in the next three or four weeks? >> well, i'm not sure that senator manchin said that he would only support a change if it wa...