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It's a 50/50 tie, they have to depend on vice president harris to break a tie. so, to do this, when every single republican opposes them, they have to get all 50 of their members together to vote and then have vice president harris break the tie. right now we know that senators joe manchin and kirsten sinema oppose getting rid of the legislative filibuster. we think that there are others who are very nervous about that because they know they are going to be in the minority some day and the filibuster will come in handy to stop republican measures. so schumer has a very, very hard time getting ...

People act. we could talk six ways to sunday about manchin's motivations here, but let's talk about, if you're a democrat, how do you even go about dealing with this now? what does this now mean for the democratic agenda at large? >> reporter: geoff, it's an excellent question and it's obviously a question that senate majority leader chuck schumer is having to grapple with. but the reality is this was always going to be an uphill battle for leader schumer to get any of these democratic priorities passed. while joe manchin has made a lot of news in the past couple days, he just reiterated his p...

>> and it's attempting to get some kind of framework conceded to an advance by mitch mcconnell. >> she wants senator schumer, the minority leader has asked specifically for four witnesses, four top white house officials in the john bolton, the acting chief of staff and michael duffy, the omb official who wrote that to email asking the pentagon to keep it hush hush. so schumer has asked for these witnesses and also some documents. mcconnell is resisting. and pelosi wants to give schumer a little bit of umph. and on something that democrats feel will be fair and she doesn't want to release these...

He was one of two democrats to vote against moving forward on the impeachment inquiry. he has made clear he planned to vote against both counts on impeachment on the floor of the house and privately all weekend he's been on the phone talking to fellow new jersey democrats about his decision to switch parties. the president urging him to switch parties and we expect him to do and as you mentioned, the six staffers resigning really leaving be a hole in this office, this freshman's office. these staffers put out a letter saying that sadly, congressman van drew's decision to join the ranks of the ...

Who rescinded daca and started this whole mess to begin with. that was the deal that he promised graham and durbin when they talked on the phone last week and that was the deal also that was on track when he inv e invited schumer to the white house just on friday and what happened in all three of those situations, ana? the great dealmaker became the person who blew up the deal. so schumer's absolutely right. how can you negotiate with someone who's like jell-o. with someone who says one thing to their face and then get back to the white house and say there's tho way you can make this deal with...