Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news and the politics

lead at any moment. We expect President Joe Biden to begin making his biggest push yet.

For election reform, he'll take the stage in Atlanta, Georgia and a congressional district.

They used to belong to the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis who died in 2020.

The president will be joined today by a group of elected officials advocating for what they

call the right to vote. We know that changes to the Senate's filibuster rules will be a

major focus of today's speech because no Republicans support the bills by its pushing. So he needs to

eliminate the Republicans' ability to filibuster the bills in order to get them passed as of now.

Not every Democrat is on board with that change to the filibuster rules. Not at the speech,

arguably the biggest election reform activist in the Democratic Party. George is the gubernatorial

candidate, Stacey Abrams. Stacey Abrams, who cited a scheduling conflict. There is, however,

a coalition of high-profile progressive activists who say they will not be there because they're sick

of White House photo ops. They want action on the issue they say. Let's get right to CNN's

Jeff Zellini who's traveling with President Biden at Atlanta. Jeff, we're expecting some pretty

strong words from Biden aimed directly at Senate Democrats.

Jake, that's right. And President Biden will be delivering these remarks just in a short period

of time behind me here, between Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. The presidents of

the college were just speaking moments ago and they said this is sacred ground, talking about the

deep history here, of course, with Dr. Martin Luther King, who studied on these very grounds. And

President Biden is going to really talk about that history. He was meeting with the King family

earlier. He stopped by Ebenezer Baptist Church as well. So the White House picked this location

indeed for a reason. Yes, some local groups criticize this as a photo op, but it is a serious

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