Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Thursday night offered critical support for President Joe Biden s domestic agenda after party leaders agreed to change new tax proposals at her request, indicating she would
slowly as senate democrats negotiated aspects of president biden s build back better bill, but with the bbb on the back burner voting rights are at the top of the agenda. daniella diaz joins us live. democrats have set a tight deadline, the senate majority leader chuck schumer, expecting a vote on this in about eight days from now? reporter: yes. i want to clarify, boris, that would be a vote on a rules change in the senate so that democrats could try to pass some sort of voting rights legislation by simple majority. they want a filibuster carve out, which means they wouldn t need 60 votes to pass voting rights legislation, just 51. but there is some road bumps ahead for democrats on this goal of theirs. senator joe manchin and senator krysten sinema do not support the rules change and think the filibuster is crucial to pass bipartisan bills, they believe in bipartisanship. that is a major concern here.
biden and vice president, kamala harris, travel to atlanta georgia, a day after georgia had its big weight of the college football championship. as a big part of their voting rights push. they the quipped of gun monitor king. her wife curtis got came, as well as the children and their families. they visited the ebenezer baptist church working with pastor, and of course, that s the same church were george and senator, who s election a years ago, help spur the states new voting restrictions, has been senior pastor for almost 17 years. the trip in culminated with a speech where biden made his most vocal call yet, for filibuster reform. a move that would to pass the senate by simple majority. some thinly veiled criticism at the democratic senators, who are now standing in the way.
majority. no republicans support the legislation. but the problem here is senator kirstjen cinema and joe manchin do not support a filibuster carveout even though they ve been meeting and having countless meetings with their democratic colleagues behind closed doors. they have not come around to that, laura. that is the biggest problem here. even if they debate it, what happens next if they don t support that filibuster carveout? laura? daniela, just quickly, do we know whether senator manchin or sinema will be at the meeting with the president? reporter: sometimes senators don t show up. i imagine when the president comes to the hill, everyone makes an effort to see him, laura? seems like today is the day to show up. daniela, thank you. we ll be right back.