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Our colleagues at the other side of pennsylvania avenue in the white house unit, mike memoli around carol lee among them, led the reporting that the white house is aware of the handwringing around biden's candidacy and they're sort of leveraging soft power, keeping their friends close but enemies or potential rivals closer, a sort of frenemies relationship there in the lead-up to the unofficial start of the 2024 cycle. but, look, the fact that you have someone like dean phillips saying that he thinks that someone younger should come up, this is sort of the parlor game in washington right now. ...

Out front winning issue broadly for democrats going into the midterms, and i sort of have been arguing i think that's problematic. if you look at the new "usa today" polling out shows that over 80% of americans are actually worried about democracy. senator warnock is right that democracy's in peril, and americans overwhelmingly feel worried about democracy. so i think there is now some political traction there broadly. but also when you talk about sort of base mobilization, and looks, we've talked about this before. you know, those young people that democrats need to turn out who turned out in...

Voting rights, especially if the effort is going to fail. i think you've heard some of that hesitance from people like jon tester, who says he's not crazy about a carveout for voting rights. you've married mark kelly, democrat of arizona, who's in one of the marquise senate races have said something similar, some sort of pause about blowing up the filibuster. they are the public face, but there are some people behind them. but the overwhelming majority of senate democrats, overwhelming, want to change the rules to want to either blow up the filibuster, change that 60-vote threshold, or blow up...

I know it's complicated because the rules are arcane. explain it as best wuk. >> what schumer was talking about the way it used to be in the 1970s before the rules were changed. you actually had to hold the floor and talk. then the rules were changed and a minority could simply vote no without taking the floor. i talked to senator joe manchin, and he says he supports a talking filibuster. he is open to that as well as other rules changes such as requiring three-fifths of those voting to break a filibuster rather than 60 votes flat. katy, the reality is the puzzle with joe manchin is he's suppo...

Manchin to sign on. now, they reworked it and now you will see a unified senate democratic caucus that is kind of what schumer is trying to do here. all 50 senate democrats are supportive of voting rights reform. >> so white house officials as we talked about earlier in the show are eager to move. it's time to go and move forward infrastructure and social spending packages. time to get the reconciliation package wrapped up. walk us through it. what the steps they are taking to get a deal done quickly. is there a hurry timeline possible? >> you know there are negotiations are ongoing, pelosi on...