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Restrictions, and will urge senators to pats the for the people act or at least show progress on a federal voting law before their summer recess. without any movement on the filibuster, we all know by now the for the people act is all but doomed. however, "the washington post" editorial board makes the case that democrats in congress have not yet run out of options. they write this. quote, their initial attempt at passing voting legislation, the for the people act, was a sprawling bill that contained such varied provisions as an ambitious public campaign financing scheme and judicial ethics re...

We'll see you tomorrow, i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. wolf blitzer picks up our coverage right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm fredricka whitfield joined by wolf blitzer. breaking news, house speaker nancy pelosi announced members of the house select committee to investigate the deadly capitol insurrection. it includes republican congresswoman liz cheney. cnn has learned that kevin mccarthy is threatening to strip republican members of their committee memberships if they join pelosi's committee to investigate the insurrection. and we're also following br...

Voting provisions that come to the court by way of these two provisions. one that outlaws ballot harvesting, the collection of ballots by third parties, and one that basically requires electioneers to throw out ballots cast out of precinct. the second and most important part of the case is it gives the court an opportunity to clarify the text for section two of the voting rights act. what section two does is bans discrimination on the basis of race in voting. and as you know, how they decide this text is written can strengthen or weaken section two of the voting rights act. as you may recall, ...

Happy that at least joe is pulling in the same direction with us was very quickly rejected by the republican leader and by other republicans who manchin would like to see brought along on this conversation. here's what minority leader mitch mcconnell had to say about manchin's counteroffer to the democrats earlier today. >> it still turns the federal election commission from a judge to a prosecutor by taking away the 3-3 ballots and making it 3-2 democratic and in what in what is dubious reconstitutionality redistricting legislatures and hand it over to computers. equally unacceptable, totally...

Abrams' endorsement make a difference in all of this? >> on infrastructure yes. on voting rights, probably no. the infrastructure negotiations, and some of the group briefed senior white house aides about it. it was our understanding that those white house aides were going to brief the president possibly as early as today. his resumption of involvement in those talks could be very telling and every republican that gets added, democrats are wear they their goals might get smaller and whether or not as subsequent reconciliation of the democrat-only effort it pass the priorities that get left out...