good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington where the senate will hold a critical test today for one of president's top priorities. a procedural vote on whether to even permit debate on a voting rights bill facing a brick wall of solid republican opposition, but the vote will show where democratic senator joe manchin and some of his colleagues stand after saying he is still undecided even after meeting one-on-one with the president. >> we will see. >> with the final, it's going to be the vote on the -- >> no, no, no, no. i have to make sure that we'll move to a better compromise, okay? >> another moderate democratic senator arizona's kristen sinema is apparently slamming the door on progressive hopes for changing the filibuster to get liberal priorities through congress with the any legislation passed by a

minority. >> what do you say to democrats opposed to your filibuster thinking they can still change your mind? >> and primary voters are heading to the polls across the five boroughs in new york city, navigating the new voting system. a mix of absentee ballots and rounds of rank choice eliminations and vote redistributions could either result in doubt for weeks. let's begin with nbc capitol hill correspondent garrett haake who you just saw in action ahead of today's vote. you caught up with senator manchin and senator sinema. senator manchin in the last hour. >> senator manchin told me he is still undecided on how he will vote on this procedural vote and to be clear, this is not a final vote on the s-1 bill which he does not support and it's not to get to his compromised list of priorities. it's merely a vote to start

debate and on that vote he says he is still undecided. democrats very much understand that this vote will fail and they would like to fail 5050 and not 49 to 51 and be the opposition about it that is bipartisan. the leaders on the floor gave you a pretty good indication of how locked in both parties are on this. senator schumer raising the stakes for why this bill is so important and mitch mcconnell making it clear that republicans will not budge on this issue. take a listen. >> because of one man's lie, republicans are now doing the dastardly act of taking away voting for millions of americans. millions of americans, making it much harder for them to vote and many, many, many will not. >> it's always been a plan to re-write the ground rules of american politics and by the way, no matter what far left activists are telling our

colleagues, this most sensitive subject may not be the best place to trash the senate's rule to the route something through. >> andrea, you heard mitch mcconnell allude to it there and kyrsten sinema, and try to pressure some of these more moderate democratic senators to change their opinion on the filibuster, to get rid of the legislative fill buster and reduce it to 55 or just now to a 50 vote pure majority threshold. sinema dug on this and said she will not do so. manchin said he will not do so and there are half a dozen others and senate democrats who are uncomfortable with that and the only other backup plan is what manchin told me is go fishing for republican votes on a potentially much, much narrower set of election reforms if indeed, there are any that could pass muster with republicans who really don't think that the federal government should be engaged in. >> so is part of the thinking

that if joe mafrn ipo sees that the republicans are completely dug in, that he will become so frustrated with their lack of bipartisanship that he might join with the rest of the democratic party and certainly do what the president wants and come up with as he did a compromise that might then put the progressives in the democratic party on the spot with something that he would support? >> i think the hope among progressives and activist wing of the democratic party is that manchin will see this and come around to changing his position on the filibuster. a more likely possibility than that is that he will see republicans unwilling to move on this debate and try to find a bipartisan approach because that is his approach for basically everything, although on this issue this is such a different issue than infrastructure or police reform or immigration on which the two parties as jon cornyn said has never failed to fail. this is two sides that

fundamentally see a differentest is issues here. >> one quick question, our reporting the nbc team on the hill says there are others besides manchin and sinema against changing the rules. are they hard and stone about changing the fill buster? >> no, we've seen comments on the floor and tentative comments about the filibuster and cleanup after the fact and it is clear that other democrats who are uncomfortable with this and kind of will see where they land if more and more of the president's priorities keep crashing up against the gop opposition. >> fascinating day up there. thanks so much, garrett, for starting us off and for chasing everybody down as you do, and joining me now on the surge and new restrictive voting laws across the country is arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, a strong critic of the republican-led election law restrictions and she's a democratic candidate for governor.

madam secretary, very good to see you. thanks so much for joining us. there's been movement in your state on this, as you know, better than anyone with attempts to purge who state republicans are calling infrequent mail voters. how much worse are you seeing it in arizona as dozens of other states are following your lead, your state's lead, i should say. >> restrictive voter laws are not new in arizona, but what we're seeing that's new this year is that everything is tied to the 2020 election, and the big lie from the 2020 election and this audit, this so-called audit and it's being led by people who are mad about the election result and they don't like who showed up to vote and they want to make it harder for those folks to vote in the future. >> what is striking to me is these changes in the election law are not just making it harder for people to vote, restricting access. they're a nullification by changing the way votes are

counted and who gets to count the votes if they don't like the results eliminating many of the local officials. >> right. we are definitely seeing an overreach, removing power from election officials, changing, you know, who is responsible for seating electors and we saw a bill proposed here that would allow the legislature to overturn the electors and the sponsor of that bill is running for secretary of state as is the author of other restrictive things that have been passed into law. this is really concerning trend that we're seeing across the country of folks who don't like the outcome and so they're trying to put their thumb on the scale of the process. >> what is the outcome of this so-called audit and some people were correctly calling it a fraudit. is that going to continue this week and does that then get taken seriously by the republicans in charge? >> well, we have heard that it

is supposed to be wrapping up this week and they plan to issue a report several weeks down the road, but what we have been focused on throughout this process is the lack of procedures and consistency with the way everything is being carried out. the lack of security, the lack of transparency, all things that you would see in a valid post-election oddity and this is the furthest that you can get from an oddity and we have no confidence that the result will be a valid result or an accurate reflection of the will of the voters in the last election and the results were. so we're definitely concerned about what they're going come out with, and what the republican leadership will do with that result which we know is not going to be a valid result. >> arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, thank you so much. let's turn back to the action on

capitol hill to bring in representative murphy. what is your response to this op ed in "the washington post" from your colleague kyrsten sinema. >> i respectfully disagree with the conclusion she comes to. we no longer have two parties that are both committed to democracy and extending the vote. in fact, we have one party that spent much of the beginning of this year actively trying to install someone as president who didn't win the electoral college vote or the popular vote and so when that breakdown occurs it's the responsibility of the majority party to make sure that our democracy is protected, and so i understand it's important for people in my business to be consistent and maintain their positions, but you also have to recognize you when the facts around you have changed and

we'll continue to have a really robust debate about the future of senate rules. i may go down to the senate floor the next 24, 48 hours and have my say on the question, but it's really important that we don't give the minority party in the senate veto power over reforms to our democracy that will save our democracy. >> a couple of things here. are you in favor of a one-time exemption for issues such as voting rights and that would be a talking filibuster? where do you come down? >> i guess i'm inflexible as to the path forward. i'm someone who would argue for broader reform. i think our founding fathers are rolling over in their grave watching us, you know, add a super majority to a system that was already intentionally designed to make it hard to enact policy change, but if my colleagues, you know, want to ingauge in more incremental

reform, like carving up dmitri see reforms or forcing those who want to filibuster and actually stand on their feet to do it, it's important to remember that republicans have had no compunction about changing the rules. the minute they ran into resistance with the supreme court nominees of donald trump they changed the rules, and so it appears that the republican party has no interest in tradition or consistency. it's only a small number of democrats that hold to that tradition. i'm open to a bunch of different paths forward. >> do you worry about what can happen two years from now given that you have a 50/50 senate and there are a lot of vulnerable democratic seats? what happens if you're in the minority? >> well, but that's democracy. this idea that, you know, we should set up our rules to prevent the voters from making decisions about the policy direction of this country is

really dangerous. we win some elections as democrats and progressives and we lose some elections and ultimately, it should be up to the voters to decide and remember, in order to get a radical policy change the voters have to get a switch and control of the senate and the house and it's not that easy for voters in a non-parliamentary system to get things changed. i don't know why we add the super majority to an already convoluted system, but i understand the risk. i just think when you live in a democracy you have to trust voters. >> have you figured out where joe manchin is coming down on this? >> you know, i -- i don't speak for my other colleagues. i'll let them speak for themselves. i credit my colleague from arizona for putting pen to paper. i think it is important for the country to hear her perspective and i think this will allow us

to have a more open debate about the future of our rules and the future of american democracy. >> what about joe manchin, though? what do you think will happen? >> that's my point. i can't speak for my colleagues. again, i hope that some of my colleagues are open to retaining the filibuster, but actually requiring that people who want to stop a bill like the for the people act stand up on their feet for the filibuster. i did that five years ago when i didn't like the way that a budget bill was proceeding right after the orlando nightclub shooting. i stood on my feet for 15 hours and spoke as long as it took until mitch mcconnell agreed to put up votes on background checks. i think that's what should have to happen on the for the people act. if people in the republican party don't want us to have a vote on that piece of legislation not withstanding the

fact that the majority of americans want it, then they should have to stand on their feet and actually do a filibuster. i would be willing to support that kind of filibuster. >> i also want to the get your reaction to the unanimous -- opening up money for student athletes. do you think that this will lead to student athletes being able to get some compensation and you hear where schools are making millions and millions and billions of dollars and they got no financial aid. >> this is a $14 billion industry, the college sports industry and it is fundamentally unjust the fact that all of that money goes to mega-rich adults. the college presidents, the coaches and the ceos of the apparel companies and independent of that money goes to the kids who by the way, the basketball and football programs are majority african-american.

this allows students to be compensated and the supreme court case is a watershed because for the first time the supreme court has basically said schools and ncaa schools you cannot collude and you cannot get together and decide that you are collectively going to deny comp sagsz to student athletes. i think this is the beginning of the end of this current model in which adults get rich off of the unpaid labor of college athletes. i hope it is, at least. >> senator chris murphy, thank you so much. thanks for being with us today. >> thanks. >> you bet. election day, voters in new york city casting their ballots in the primary way for mayor in a way they've never done before. steve kornacki is at the big board, khakis and all to break it all down. moving the goalpost. the white house covid task force is giving an update moments from now as the administration is

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you, i suspect. how do you game this? >> extremely complicated, andrea, and in a place, new york city where the counting of votes has already been known to take some time. this can stretch things even more. it's an interesting experiment because this moefld rank choice voting and you're starting to see a push for it in other places around the country and it's a test in new york city and 9 million people to see how this works. this is the final poll, the most recent poll from marist, wnbc. you see the top candidates. if the result ended up looking like you see in the poll they simply would have taken the top two candidates and they would have gone and had a runoff election a few weeks later. everybody would vote in the runoff and the winner there would be the next mayor. that's not the system now. the system now basically is this. consider this the ballot, and there are a dozen candidates here in the democratic primary and as you said, when you go to

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gets eliminated. so now you would be voting for morales and your vote would count for morales in the next round and they will run all of those candidates and whoever comes in last place, the same thing would happen. the votes would be allocated and this will go on until two candidates are remaining and someone will emerge with more than 50% and become the next mayor of new york city. it's an extremely complicated process, but the idea here is the voters only have to go to the polls once. in the old system you'd vote once, they'd have a runoff in a few weeks. here, you mark off your top five choices. they work through them in rounds and eventually they will produce the winner of the democratic primary and by the way, that process should take probably until, like, the second week of july at the earliest to actually tell you who won that democratic primary and an overwhelmingly democratic new york whoever that person is becomes the favorite to become next mayor.

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reform seems to be yielding results on capitol hill. at least on monday the key republicans and negotiator, senator tim scott sounded more hopeful about finding common ground on a major stumbling block. >> there's no reason to not be optimistic, but it will certainly be helpful to see some progress between now and tomorrow and wednesday. we are in the process of allowing our law enforcement groups to engage and to communicate back. we're making progress actually. we're pretty close to having all these things on the same page. >> nbc news capitol hill correspondent leann caldwell caught up with cory booker moments ago. what did he have to tell you? >> i sure did. these negotiations on police reform have been troubling these members of congress and negotiators for quite some time and they're getting to this point in the negotiation where they're trying to figure out these final details. you just heard from senator

scott and he's always been more optimistic throughout this process than senator booker has, but let's listen to how senator booker framed this status of the negotiation and then we'll talk on the other side. >> i have never put official deadlines on this process. too much at stake is in this policing and we are in a crisis for america, crisis for the safety in communities and police officers as well. states like mine i've seen a 90% reduction in police in applications and that hurts the quality of applicants we can get. there are issues and we continue to see videotapes of unarmed african-americans being killed. we are in a crisis and i'm grateful for both sides of the aisle and i'm want putting false deadlines. >> when you get that framework together this week, though? >> i will tell you more as the week goes on. >> so he really laid out the challenges that he cease putting

together this negotiation. they have always said june or bust for a deadline and this is june or bust this week. this is the last week they are in session. i am told that the final sticking points have to do with this criminal liability standard for police officers. more specifically, andrea, how to prosecute the excessive use of force by police officers and it's a very difficult position and decision for both sides on this debate, andrea. >> clearly, it is. leigh ann caldwell, thanks for the update. new video released by the fbi showing the moment rioters broke through the police lines and into the u.s. capitol. we'll take a look at the state of american politics post-january 6th with the former host of "hardball." you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. we can explore uncharted waters,

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a procedural vote today on for the people act, the self-described freedom writers of 2021 are headed south to the nation's capitol on busses to push the passage of the voting rights bill. busloads of people left montgomery, alabama, earlier today traveling from atlanta and greenville, charlotte and greensboro, north carolina, if we are finally arriving in d.c. for a rally on saturday. vaughn hilliard joins us now. they're stopped for a quick break 40 miles from atlanta. what are you hearing from people on the bus? >> this is a caravan that will make it to washington, d.c., with the plan to meet with lawmakers on thursday. i want you to meet some of the people we've met. francine is not a part of any

group and is from south phoenix in pilgrimist baptist church. francine, you got on this bus in phoenix and you're heading to d.c. why? what in your live led you to this moment in your life? >> i believe in voters' rights for all people, not some people. i grew up in texas and louisiana, and saw a lot of injustices done in the '50s and '60s and i marked with cassius clay and i want to go to washington to let people know we need our rights and we need voters to go out and vote and not be afraid. just too many injustices done. >> this week they're debating legislation in capitol hill and there's potential for bipartisanship or so democrats hope in and what is your message when you get to washington, d.c. to your senators and we need that bill to pass. we need it to pass. we want voters' rights for

voters, for workers and for all people, black, white, purple. i have grandchildren. i have children. i want them to be able to vote in the near future and not be afraid of voting and what's going to happen if they don't get the bill passed. we want the bill passed. >> very good to meet you and we'll be on this leg with you all of the way to north carolina and you are headed to d.c. on thursday. best to you on your journey. >> thank you. >> andrea, the bus is about to get going again. >> vaughn hilliard and fran scenes barrow, thanks to you. this marks the 60th anniversary to protest. john lewis was beaten in alabama. he was saying he thought he was going die. joining me now is chris matthews, the creator and writer

of "hardball," and his new book is "this country. my life." it is a wonderful memoir. you lived through the civil rights era as i did. you watched i guess as a high school student, perhaps, all of the events unfolding in the early '60s. extraordinary. >> well, i think for bobby kennedy it became real and he was one of the guys who converted into a civil rights guy when his friend got hit with a metal bar and realized how violent the opposition was to what the people have equal rights on interstate busses. a simple right, you get on a greyhound bus and travel to a bus station to be treated equally. the federal law said you were supposed to be at the time and so the freedom riders went out

there to test it to find out if it was equal and they were violently opposed. >> it's amazing that we thought that the civil rights era was history and now we're still seeing the voting rights being rolled back state after state and also, police protection. you were formerly a capitol police officer before you worked for tip o'neal on the hill. the justice department released new video in the case against the man leading the proud boys on january 6th. what was your reaction on the attack of the capitol? >> you worked out there, and i worked out there. i worked on both sides, the political side and the journalist side. i felt violated. it was a cathedral of democracy and that's where lincoln gave his second inaugural about the civil war and how it was penance for slavery and what was done by

this whip was going to be paid for by the sword and blood and he tried to explain to the american people the horror of slavery and this thing we inherited, and it's also where they passed the civil rights bill in 1964, mostly republicans, as you know, did the voting and with the segregated democratic party had 22 segregationists in it, and that was the old segregated and the deal had never struck and the democratic party had to deal with segregations and we've come so far from that, and i think there are a lot of people and i'll be blunt about it who would have it ruled by whites than have it ruled democratic. if you asked them after the truth serum and put them under oath and say would you rather have a country run where whites win all of the elections or most of them or would you like to truly have a democratic country where people regardless of their ethnic background would be allowed to vote and i'm afraid of the answer, and i'm afraid of

what happened in pennsylvania with the assembly out there, and the top political republicans changed the laws in voter i.d. to make sure republicans won elections and they openly admitted it. this is frank rizzo stuff. this is when you run on tribal lines. you run for the white vote. you gave up the black vote and you hoped you can win and unfortunately, that kind of politics, tribal politics is still very much in evidence by state legislatures to basically overrule democracy. >> and a lot of people are still denying what happened on january 6th. what do you make of that? >> thank god the police had cameras. we're seeing them later. i didn't like the original pictures which showed some cops collaborating and later on we began to see the people like that, the african fellow, the police officer who led the mob the wrong way so he could protect the lives of mitt romney, the senator from utah.

there's great courage by these guys. one thing i remember when i was a cop which was so effective and we had the may day rally against the vietnam war. in the base of the capitol we had armed s.w.a.t. teams and people in riot gear, helmets and shields and all of the equipment that would withstand an invasion and they kept them there like reserve like the cavalry on the hill in case they were needed. i don't know why that wasn't done on january 6th. why didn't the leadership and the sergeants at arm, request didn't they put people in the basement armed to the teeth armed with riot gear in case the word they were getting from the social media sources turned out to be true? when those doors were rushed they could have rushed the crew you, and a few heads would have been hurt, but i'm telling you, it would have been better than what happened. a little show of force at the right time could have saved the day. they didn't have them ready and i don't understand why they didn't prepare for it the way they did in the 1970s and i was

physically there watching this the incredible group of riots equipped to police officer and time and they weren't ready. in our final minute i want to ask you about the president's focus about getting a bipartisan infrastructure bill through. is he waiting too long? should he just push ahead through reconciliation and go the democratic route? >> maybe it will be good to test the enemy fire and it becomes clear that joe biden who was a soft guy, a guy that's not some hard-driven, crazy politician who will do anything to get what he wants. he's not like that. he's not ruthless at all and he will display that republicans are not able to play ball on even a smaller, highly, narrowly defined bill that means building roads and tunnels. if they say no to that with the 800 billion or something like that. it's clear they don't want to do anything good.

politics could be about catching the other side when doing something wrong and now it's about making sure the other side doesn't do something good. if the republicans stopped the democrats from doing it, we know what's going on. >> chris matthews, thank you so much. the new book is "this country, my life in politics and history" and it is a great read. >> cast away the unbelievably shocking revelation of where former president trump suggested the government send american citizens at the start of the pandemic. you're not going to believe it. "this is andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. wait, wait, wait this helps the environment. it saves you money. i will take that money. for the environment. so then i said to him, you oughta customize your car insurance with liberty mutual, so you only pay for what you need. hot dog or... chicken?

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columnist at real clear politics. welcome all. jonathan lemire, the white house making an admission and touting vaccination claims. how is it going to play? >> two things are no doubt, there's disappointment. the president hoped the nation would reach by july 4th. they're saying this is good news. certainly the vaccination efforts since they took office can only be touted as a success story. hard to argue with that. there are, though, despite that triumph elements of concern, especially with the new delta variant, which experts believe will be the dominant strain of coronavirus before long. we have seen it wreak havoc across europe. you and i were on the overseas trip and united kingdom, his first stop raging there. and delayed the uk efforts to

open up again, undo the lockdown. and there are concerns, pockets of unvaccinated people, particularly in poor, rural areas down south who have not gotten one shot of the vaccine and could be very vulnerable to the new variant. of course, there could be further mutations down the road. they're still going to work on efforts, aides are telling us they're not giving up. not like the job is over to vaccinate the country once the july 4 deadline comes and goes, but there are worry some signs on the horizon. >> some signs of young people getting a covid shot, not a top concern for younger americans it seems, adding to the challenge of distrust of the health system among black, latino, native americans. recent poll shows 40% were hesitant after experiencing discrimination by the health system, according to -- >> this is something the white

house was aware of during early days of vaccine rollout. you saw the vice president speak to the issues. what i would expect to happen moving forward is they'll be tapping lawmakers, more allies or advocates to speak on behalf of the white house, connect with vaccine hesitant americans in ways that perhaps biden and dr. fauci have not been able to and speak to their issues and concerns with the hope that that will increase vaccination rates later on in the year, and by maybe labor day you'll see numbers that are much higher than we're looking at right now. >> and amy, talk about the new book by the "the washington post" health team, how trump, the former president and his chaotic response to the pandemic, "the washington post" reporting the former president once suggested sending covid infected americans to guantanamo in cuba.

this is from the forthcoming book. he said don't we have an island we own? he asked those assembled in the situation room in february 2020 before the outbreak would explode, what about guantanamo. we are not going to import a virus. shocking suggestion maybe is kind of on brand for the former president. >> right. you cannot be shocked any more about the conversations that were taking place behind the scenes as this epidemic turns into a pandemic and was officially ravaging the u.s. because we know what he said to us on camera at the, quote, coronavirus briefings where he was trying to calm the nation. he would deny it was in existence or tell people to inject disinfectant, on and on. it is really, andrea, a tragedy we're not going to be able in addition to probing the

insurrection on january 6th to have congress in a bipartisan way come together on a look back at what happened to the pandemic response. in late 2019, something that the government prepared for with models and tests into january and february of 2020. it is something that republicans backed away from, doesn't want to be that they're punishing president trump and his debacle of response to the pandemic, making us the shame of the earth until the vaccine distribution program turned things around here. no. i refused to be surprised about lunatic anecdotes about what went on in the early pandemic in the white house. >> do you think the white house now is going to be blamed for missing the target, did they

overreach, or get the credit they say they deserve for the extraordinary change that did take place after president biden took over? >> there's no question, it stabilized the economy, made millions of people free to have their old life back. july 4th is an arbitrary deadline. i agree that people will still be getting vaccinated and there's a chance to improve things. we don't know when the delta variant will become mathematically problematic, but they can't budge these -- there's a certain group of people that won't take the vaccine. they tried quietly, didn't promote the efforts, these efforts started in the transition, reached out and worked with 275 organizations in something called the covid-19 community korp, vast effort to reach political leaders, some helped out, tommy tuberville and

john kennedy from louisiana doing psas and other things that could have helped on the margins, but president trump didn't step in and in the end i think the white house decided those numbers are not movable. >> eugene scott, jonathan lemire, amy stoddard, have to leave it there. thank you so much for helping us wrap things up. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. listen with tune in premium. follow online at facebook and twitter. chuck todd is next with "mtp daily" here on msnbc. ily" here c rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye!

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