on msnbc what she feels should be done on voting rights. take a listen. if we want to say that we are a democracy, we have to preserve that essential right to vote. that so many people fought for and died for. the question to me is, are we going to preserve our democracy? are we going to allow people the right to vote? reporter: majority leader schumer has stressed in the beginning of this session in january that they are going to take up a rules change to make this happen on a partisan basis, on a party-line basis here. and senator joe manchin has been involved in countless meetings. they ve brought in rule change experts to make sure they understand the significance of not passing voting rights legislation, because of course they can t get those ten republicans to support this effort. and they need 60 votes to make it happen, without a rules change. meanwhile, republicans are embracing what s called reforming the electoral count act. it s a centuries-old law. it basically only ap