leader chuckie schumer trying to turn this country into a banana republic, those are his words, as he barrels her head on his doomed effort to carve out an elimination to try to pass the democrats election takeover bill. in other words, their election fraud bill. here to explain come out on chad pergram. he offers the hitchhikers guide to all things swamp, sewer, all things, in other words, d.c. sir, how are you? good evening, sean. we just had a vote on the floor, a procedural vote to end the filibuster on the voting rights bill. you need 60 votes they are. they did not get 60 votes. so what chuck schumer is teeing up in the next hour or so is what we call a nuclear option. this is an effort to change the filibuster provisions and what chuck schumer is going to propose on the senate floor in just a few minutes is a one-time exception to the senate filibuster, exclusively for this bill. essentially what he is going to propose is that senators can talk twice as long, elongating
against this especially with omicron and omicron getting around all the vaccines makes no sense at all. rick, thank you for standing up and keep it up. all right joe biden s speech wasn t the only disaster for democrats today. a bigger one is happening right now and capitol hill. the democrats are now plowing full steam ahead on nuking the filibuster as her own election takeover bill. fox news congressional correspondent chad is can you give us the latest. chad. democrats tried to block filibuster provisions to pass a voting bill tonight. democrats need all 50 democrats on their side. the democrat joe opposes changing the filibuster change just for both voting rights. you get a break the rules to change the rules. you make up new rules as we go along, but let this change happen in this way. some democrats are upset at those who invoke martin luther king, yet oppose voting rights in the filibuster
john: after a horrible week the president could not even get relief from his friends in the media. howard is coming up on that. democrats remain determines to jam through his agenda. chad, next week chuck schumer will play the role and try to role the boulder up the hill yet again. i like the reference, good afternoon. stymied by members of his own party, build back better last month, voting rights this month. democrats will try again next week to change filibuster provisions just for voting rights. g.o.p. will filibuster the democrats bill. if the senate republicans choose obstruction over protecting the sacred right to vote as we expect them to, the senate will consider and vote on changing the senate rules as has been done many times before to
it s time to resist. it s timeas to stand up and figt against this , especiallyll with omicron and omicron getting around all the vaccines it makes no sense at all. rick, thank you for standing up and keep it up.jo alle right. my speech wasn t the only disaster for democratsts o. ht they a bigger one is playing out right nowar on capitol hill. democrats are out plowing full steam ahead on nuking the filibuster to pass their own election over bill. fox news , congressional correspondenton chad pergram is going to give us the latest chad. good evening. are democrats voting now to alter senate filibuster provisions to pass the voting rights bill tonight ? democrats need all 50 democrats on their side to alter the filibuster. but democrat joe manchin opposes changing the filibuster custom just for votingh rights > we re going to break the rules to change the rules to make up new ruleses as wee go along. let this change happen in this way and the senate will be a body without rules. some
the debt ceiling needs to be addressed. the only issue is who does it. has the banking industry called you? i m sure we have heard from everybody and i m sure the democrats have as well. there was a trial balloon that democrats could try to change filibuster provisions but they need the vote of all 50 democrats. that s not happening. senator joe manchin put the kibosh on that. if the sides were to agree to a specific dollar figure versus a suspension, that could buy time. the treasury could make payments and get them to february or march. a procedural vote to overcome a filibuster has been postponed. democrats are now discussing what comes next. neil? neil: chad, thanks very much. if all of this has a little feeling of deja vu, you re right. it s happened 78 or 79 times