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Transcripts for CNN New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez 20220109 11:32:00

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.

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