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Screen, he has made a number of concessions to this bill, why he would support it, calling for election day to be a federal holiday, and as well as issuing provisions around voting i.d. and either this or the john lewis act, he wants either package to move forward, because it will go on a bipartisan basis, so democrats are not doing this alone. but the political reality here still stands. there aren't ten republican senators that can break that filibuster and we heard in your conversation, just last hour, with senator ben cardin you who the political reality plays out to move forward. >> democ...

Election day a federal holiday, but provisions about voting i.d., was quickly embraced by stacey abrams who is the democrats' leading voice on these issues. just as quickly knocked down by republicans. take a listen. >> i am endorsing the fact that we now have a list of priorities and that joe manchin is at the table and he is part of the conversation. it's an important step forward as we try to protect the freedom to vote and protect access to the vote that all 50 democratic senators are part of the conversation. >> i think every one of us looks for opportunities to work with senator manchin....

On january 6th and why don't we want to fix it. >> one of the key things he's proposed to change the sweeping election overhaul bill is to require voting id in states across the country. that's something a lot of democrats don't agree with. they did have a caucus meeting just moments ago. they talked about this issue, trying to find a compromise. the democratic goal is to get all 50 of their members to agree on thing, to make the argument that it's republicans blocking the plan going forward. as i said, it doesn't have the 60 votes to advance. it ultimately will be taken to the voters to decid...

Something out on voting i.d. >> voter fraud, didn't find any actual fraud -- >> well, we let the commission -- the commission was having a tremendous problem legally getting papers from various states. like california. they were absolutely hardlining. they didn't want to give this commission -- it was just a quick commission. headed up by vice president pence, to look at voter fraud. the problem the commission had is we had to have a vast amount of lawyers which i didn't want to bother with because california and other states were giving up no information whatsoever. and the reason they weren'...

In voting i.d. -- a repeal of the voter i.d. act, things like that. shouldn't it be easy? it sounds like it should be. >> it should be because absolutely republicans time and time again are unable to accomplish their extremely conservative policy goals through congress or through the executive branch, so they're seeking to do it through the courts. again, overturning roe versus wade is they can pass those bans in congress so will try to do it in the courts. president trump and republicans in congress failed to overturn the aca in congress and so they'll try to do it in the courts. this is the ...