quietly talking to democrats and republicans on the hill for the last month or so about this. he said he's not being quiet anymore, but the question is what has come out of those talks? what has he learned as a result of those conversations? because from what we are hearing on capitol hill, from our correspondents and others, is that there is no movement either on the democratic side or on the republican side on these things. >> we should note, bakari, there are 50 votes, democratic votes, for this -- both pieces of election reform legislation. but there are not 50 votes, plus kamala harris, the tiebreaker, the vice president, to change the senate rules to get rid of the filibuster which requires 60 votes. manchin and sinema and maybe mike kelley and chris coons have said they have a lot of concerns about this. do you think today's speech would have any impact on them? >> i mean, that is the