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the original deal was blocked by the supreme court — the government says this new one addresses concerns about its legality and makes clear in uk law that rwanda is a safe country. rishi sunak says its the toughest immigration law ever. but some conservative mps believe it doesnt goes far enough. others say it ignores international law. the stakes are very high for the prime minister, whos spent the day trying to convince mps to back his plan. our political editor chris mason has bee...

Infrastructure bill. and the hang up here, the reason theyre not going forward with the original plan for today is that a small handful of moderates, you heard pelosi talking about it there, wanted a cbo score, which takes days, perhaps even weeks to get back. thats not coming today. and they said they would not vote until that got back to them. progressives said, fine, wait on that and lets vote on both of them together. but instead, house leadership pushing forward, wolf, and now we will see i...

In this bill have given almost no markers here. they have also given no sense of urgency, manchin talk being a pause, suggesting this whole thing could just wait. if that continues to be the way he handles himself today with the president and afterwards, im not sure how this gets done by thursday. i think were just talking about a very long timeline here to get a vote on either of these priorities. >> garrett, speaker pelosi is not going to let this bill fail. it gets pulled if she doesnt have t...

If we shut the government down in the middle of a pandemic, its shame on all of us. it would be irresponsible and it cannot happen. we have to vote on figuring out how were going to keep the government operating and republicans will go not my problem. it is their problem. its every one of our problems and we all better blankedy blank come together and figure it out. we have people on both sides that are giving these deadlines. we do need both bills. we have to get both bills. the bipartisanship ...

Say? it is not going to be pretty. theres the will rogers. people with weak strom ands should not watch laws or sausage being made but nobody can afford to have either bill fail. nobody can. both of these bills have got to get passed. they both must be passed. i think in the end everybodys having long, thoughtful discussions and when we realize that what will happen -- by the way, republicans need to worry about this, too. if we lose the opportunity to fission our roads and bridges, it will be a...

Where people stand. the house bill and senate bill are so widely different and so far apart. theres pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily from the house judiciary committee and put it to the floor and vote. everybodys got to know its d.o.a. in the senate. >> its a challenge to leadership. here were talking about mitch mcconnell in specific and what hes willing to do. if he brings it and loses it and you see theres about four republicans not voting for t...

Stand. the house bill and the senate bill are wildly different. so far apart. you know theres pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily by congressman goodlatte, put to it the floor, put to it a vote. everybody has to know its doa in the senate. >> right, this is a challenge to leadership. here were talking about mitch mcconnell in specific. and what hes willing to do. because if he brings it and he loses, you know, you see there are about four republicans ...

Reality is they need 50 votes to be able to move forward on that. the reality also is they dont have 50 votes at least as of this morning to move forward on that procedural vote. as long as they dont have the votes they cant move on to the actual debate on the bill. look, john, you know this process and this place quite well. what theyre doing behind the scenes now is really kind of twisting arms pushing members saying you will be able to offer whatever amendment you want. make the bill look how...

Just to get a vote on an amendment but because of this process, it allows anybody to offer an amendment to this bill so what does that mean. a number of republican senators would have had to take a lot of very, very tough votes, very politically poisonous votes, things that could hurt them in their own campaigns so there was a lot of skepticism from the senators they talked to that mcconnell would be really willing to go through a entire process knowing that the bill would go down, knowing that ...

Welcome back, youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. just went public just a few hours ago. the senate republican plan to replace obamacare appears to be dead on arrival, but we still have time yet. these four republican senators say they will vote against the plan drafted behind closed doors by their leadership. republicans can only afford to lose two votes, and so with four holdouts, that is obviously two more than they can lose. here is kentucky senator and republican rand paul on why he says...