chuck schumer is pressing forward with voting rights legislation. meanwhile, senator joe manchin has opposed changes to the filibuster and announced his opposition to the build back better plan last month. he s apparently willing to return to negotiations but it s still not clear what he will support. with me now is jennifer palmieri who served as the white house communications director during the obama administration. jen, it s great to see you. happy new year. thanks for being here. thanks for having me, welker. you have build back better, you have voting rights. a lot of people are scratching their heads and saying, look, if the president couldn t get joe manchin on board in 2021, why will 2022 be any different? i think if you i would say to the biden white house right now, step back and look at what this congress got done in the past year and what does that tell you about what it s capable of doing in 2022. so it passed the american rescue
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politically and militarily. but u.s. officials also did note today that what was notable about what zelenskyy said is also what he didn t say today. he didn t make that call for a no-fly zone. some of those things he couldn t get and didn t ask again to be part of the nato alliance. it was notable when our reporter in brussels reports that president biden talking to nato countries referenced president trump saying, you guys need to bump up your defense spending but i m not going to say it in a mean way like trump did. is president biden going to have a little more success corralling these nato leaders over the next day or two? i think we ve seen the president is very focused on trying not to get ahead of nato leaders, not ahead of eu leaders and that so far, he has been pretty successful keeping the coalition together. this trip is key to making sure they stay united as democratic countries trying to really contain russia and make sure that things don t escalate. of course, notably