potentially not salvageable. let s listen to what he said about the timeline going forward. build back better before christmas. do you think that what now? that your issues could be resolved before christmas. we haven t even gotten anything back from the attorney. so procedurally, we don t have anything to vote on. so they need to clear the bill with the parliamentarian, they need 50 votes and hold all of the 50 votes through voter amma to amend and tweak and poison the bill and christmas is just ten days a way. it is a long way off. what does this mean for voting rights, john, and is that something that could get done by christmas? yeah, we were talking to senator rafael warknock of georgia, he s pushed on this issue. right now to get this done, they need some kind of rule to get the voting rights bill through
self-imposed deadly at the end of the year. chuck schumer saying he likely will push that vote to 2022, perhaps march of 22. fuelling the pessimism, senator joe manchin still the lone holdout in his party. still a lot of negotiating still to be done. we should note that publicly neither schumer nor speaker pelosi is throwning in the towel but the plan is focusing on the voting rights act and looking at that until the christmas recess. joining us now, saw hill capper and john brenna han. john, the reason for that self-imposed deadline was the generally accepted wisdom that if you push back build back better into the midterm year, it gets a lot harder to get it done. how much harder and what does it mean for the fate of the bill potentially? yeah, you did a good setup. it hasn t been formally dropped yet. let s start there. senator schumer hasn t done
could get it done and that is the message they re putting out right now. john and sawhill, thank you very much. we appreciate it. we want to go very briefly to dawson springs in kentucky. the president has arrived there now. you could see the back of his head there. he has the baseball cap on and he has been going around, there is a lot of folks there who are sifting through what is left of their homes, of their lives. talking to them and making assurances that the federal government is there, that they re going to stay there and they re not going to leave when all of the television cameras are gone. so we re keeping our eye and waiting to hear more from the president there in kentucky. after the break, we re going to go one-on-one with a top public health official, nih director dr. francis collins what you need to know and what we should be doing as we approach the holidays. oh my goodness. wow, look at all those! you get hungry for more and then you re just like, “wow, i m learni