delivering marks slamming. yesterday specifically to change senate rules. as we reported start of the hour, president biden will head to capitol hill tomorrow to discuss potential changes trying to find a bath forward. i'm joined now by a senate democrat who will be in that meeting tomorrow and somebody who has been trying to change filibuster i'd argue for years. i want to say senator jeff merkley democrat from oregon pretty much since the day you got here? >> that's right, chuck. just from the moment i arrived and saw the senate deteriorated as i was here as a younger individual before i returned home to oregon. it has only gotten worse since. >> before we get to the present challenge here. explain why -- i'll be honest, not a mystery where joe manchin was on this issue and where at the start of the senate where somewhere between 4 and 6