addressing the intense pressure campaign under way to get him to support a rules change in order to pass election reform legislation. chuck schumer saying the chamber will vote on the filibuster rule change by mid-january as a way to pass an election reform bill with a simple 51-vote majority. it s a move manchin and kyrsten sinema have both said they are not on board with. cnn s manu raju is live on capitol hill. you spoke with manchin today. what did he have to say about schumer s plan? he s not for it. the way this will happen, jake, in order to get a large-scale package done to change voting laws, they have to get at least ten republicans to support overcoming a filibuster or change the senate rules. in order to change the senate rules you need two-thirds majority to do that or do it along straight party lines meaning 50/50 senate, one senator defection could be enough to scuttle the effort to change the rules. joe manchin is making it clear,
implication for the former president. the supreme court rejected trump s effort to block administration s records from being sent to the january 6th committee. we ll have much more on that coming up. we begin tonight with the united states senate, one step closer to putting themselves on the historical record on voting rights. versus embracing the current phone in version of the filibuster. any minute now the senate is expected to begin a series of votes on voter protection legislation. which is expected to fail. teeing up majority leader chuck schumer s plan to move forward with a vote on a proposed filibuster rule change. that, too, is likely to fail since conservative democratic senator joe manchin in the tradition of the bonnie to his clyde krysten sinema reiterating his support for the 60 vote threshold with no requirement to do it in person. the united states senate has never in 233 years been able to end debate on legislation with a
that means fewer restraints than democrat. so to gene s point, manchin is indicating that build back better is maybe a march or april issue, and there s some real indications that they can put humpty dumpty back together again, but that leaves room even for a long talking filibuster with mr. smith goes to washington kind of event that would bring a lot of attention to voting rights if they don t do the carveout and do a talking filibuster rule change instead. jonathan alter and eugene robinson, thank you for joining us tonight and happy holidays to both of you. same to you, lawrence. thank you. thank you. coming up, one thing you might have noticed about the articles written about vice president kamala harris these days is they rely on unnamed whisperers instead of observable facts. our next guest took a close look at the vice president s first
go national. go like a pro. br the all night senate talk atha talkathon is going on. republicans have refused to give up a minute of debate time on the current package of nominees. since wednesday afternoon. republicans have taken control of the senate floor to protest the filibuster rule change made by majority leader, harry reid. the majority leader currently has a package of nearly a dozen nominees up for a vote. senate rules allow for up to 30 hours of debate on a single presidential nominee. which means with the current list that the senate could be in session until saturday. and with the nominees for heads of the department of homeland security, the irs, and federal reserve yet to be confirmed,
a federal judge ruled the all night senate talkathon is going on. republicans have refused to give up a minute of debate time on the current package of nominees. since wednesday afternoon. republicans have taken control of the senate floor to protest the filibuster rule change made by majority leader, harry reid. the majority leader currently has a package of nearly a dozen nominees up for a vote. senate rules allow for up to 30 hours of debate on a single presidential nominee. which means with the current list that the senate could be in session until saturday. and with the nominees for heads of the department of homeland security, the irs, and federal reserve yet to be confirmed, harry reid had this to say.