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That joe biden it seems, and chuck schumer, are ready to just come out in the first week, in january in the senate, and say, okay, this is what we have to, do to get voting rights through, and now it's time to have a vote on a senate rules change, which, it's a complicated process, but that only requires a majority vote. right, lawrence, i think that's right. that certainly the way president biden sounded, on friday. i went down to my hometown of south carolina where he gave a speech. at the ceremony a south carolina state university. he's very strong on voting rights, that was a major theme o...

Socialist at -- washington, he's an msnbc political analyst. dj, joe manchin said different responses yesterday, about the 60 vote threshold. he puts in things that aren't true, about the history of a here and there. but he keeps suggesting, that a rule change is possible, depending on which sentence you listen to. >> no that's right. i think it was really significant that on the big no-show, on fox news, where he was concerned, build back better was concerned, he did not say no, to changing the rules on voting rights. a group of senators, who had been skeptical of changing the rules, like fro...

It now open to sounds, like joe changing the manchin, senate rules to is now open to check allow the senate to vote on voting rights are you open to. changing the rules, or the structure of the filibuster to do that? >> well, first of all, voting, just voting is the bedrock of democracy. if you can make the senate work better, the rules are something we changed over the years, there's been rule changes. but there's never been a change with the filibuster, the rights for the minority. i make no commitments or promises on. that i'm working on trying to make the senate work better, bringing bills...

Both the voting rights bill, and the help americans vote act, to the floor of the senate, for a vote, i think manchin is critical, not only on build back better, but in allowing for this rules change. i think that before we settle build back better, we are going to have to fight over voting rights, and i think there's a better than equal chance, that voting rights are going to prevail. >> jeanne, we heard president biden, a couple of months ago, in response to a question about voting rights, say, listen, if i tried to change the rules, he said if i try to change the rules of the senate now to ...

Democratic senators, who have all left washington for the christmas recess, hero, senator should be aware, he, said we will in fact consider the build back better act very early in the new year. so that every member of this body, has the opportunity to make their position known, on the senate floor. not just on television. that could mean, that senator schumer will bring it to the senate floor, and let the amendment process decide the final shape of that bill. which is, the traditional way of handling legislation. while he was that, it senator schumer promised a vote, and voting rights, which ...