From Washington: Democrats Filibuster Fight Fails

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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President Biden made a couple of trips to the Capitol this week, but left no closer to passing voting and election reform bills that he says are critical to defending democratic values. With Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema's (D-AZ) refusal to back down on filibuster changes and the president’s continuous fight for the issue, what is the top priority for Democrats in Congress? FOX News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram shares what he thinks is next on their agenda. What happened in Geneva this week and was anything accomplished at the Russian border? FOX News Radio International Reporter, Simon Owen joins Jared to tackle this question and to discuss the potential dead-end that is the American and Russian negotiations taking place in Peace Capital Geneva. Simon shares that at the core the Ukraine and Russia conflict is the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, specifically Ukraine publicly expressing their interests in joining the NATO. Leaving the world waiting on needles and pins to see if President Putin will go forth with the Russian government’s plans to invade Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.9	Saturday, January 15, 2022.
0:21.9	I'm Jared Halper, another legislative letdown for President Biden.
0:27.0	This is the third time since the fall that he has come to Capitol Hill and not immediately gotten the legislative result that he sought.
0:36.0	And there's no sign yet of a diplomatic off-ramp with Russia.
0:39.7	The Russians have used the phrase dead end to describe some of these talks.
0:44.7	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. President Biden made a couple of trips to the Capitol this week but left no
1:05.0	closer to passing voting and election reform bills he says are critical to defending
1:09.8	Democratic values and preventing what he describes as election subversion from states
1:14.7	changing the way ballots are cast and counted. I hope we can get this done. The
1:19.6	honest to God answer is I don't know whether we can get this done.
1:22.8	Getting it done requires a few things.
1:24.8	First, a vote to end debate on the legislation that under current Senate rules takes 60 votes,
1:30.8	so at least 10 Republicans joining all 50 Democrats.
1:34.3	Republicans will not go along with that, arguing the bills represent a federal takeover of
1:39.1	state-run elections and a partisan power grab by Democrats.
1:43.0	Of course, the Democrats in the Senate could get rid of that 60-vote threshold.
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