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Rights legislation. the president hounding moderate democrats to alter the fbi just to pass those bills. >> i support changing the senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed, to prevent a minority of will senate blocking action on voting rights. >> the president pointed to the capitol riot as justification for approving. >> attempt at a coup. the with the right may have been the most offensive of all. >> talked about domestic enemies? rhetoric unbecoming of a president of the united sta...

Better than anyone as former majority leader, harry reid was one of the most important voices to call for an end to the senate filibuster. which is getting a lot of attention these days. >> he saw what was happening to the senate. >> right. >> and there was a group of people on the hard right who gained ascendancy on the other side of the aisle, and they decided to tie it in a knot. and he said that shouldnt happen. and they did by blocking, you know, all kinds of legislation that had always bee...

Power through your day, medicine. new from vicks. another day, another attempt by the trump white house to block efforts by the house select committee on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. well, it seems that theyre trying to run that play again because now a trump spokesman is suing the committee in hopes of blocking access to financial records. cnns paula reid live in washington with all the details. paula. >> reporter: good morning, john. well, this lawsuit is really unique in the way it is t...

Im going to turn it over to governor polis now. thank you. >> thank you, sheriff pelly. just moments ago we did afternoon aerial reconnaissance mission thanks to the natural. we were able to to it in the brief bip before the snow and how grateful we had the snow has started. some areas we were locking at the neighborhood level devastation. the sheriff indicated that pause of the nature of the fire spread by gusts of up to 105 miles per hour, it would spread otherary house, very unusual burn patt...

Store shelves and sing into our mind to wait at chilis because no one wants to go to work but its a very hard thing to hide. the things that we see every day and the lawlessness in our streets, the shortages and the fact that weve been doing this pandemic for two years and almost nothing is changed, we are going back to masking on lock down in some places or talk of locking things down or infringing even further and everything has been an epic disaster. have you ever asked a biden voter what the...

Doing while the kids were at home. im going to take over this because its a visual entertainment vehicle. this is what they were doing while the kids were home zoom learning. tom bevan, there was a piece in "the new york times" says that american children are in crisis and that lit you up as too little too late. >> yeah, its tempting to give credit to folks who were all in favor of locking kids out of schools last year and suddenly coming around 18 months later. we knew from the very beginning t...

Do you have a reaction to that? obviously we know vaccinated people are going to do better, that the vaccines do work. but do you have any reaction to the blocking of that mandate? >> well, i do, and the ama has made a public statement over my name about that. first off, we appreciate the supreme court allowing -- supporting the cms requiring health care workers to get vaccinated. i want my health care workers, i want people to know that im vaccinated and im working alongside folks who have done...

Secretary, i think youre muted. i got to get you unmuted. >> there you go. my apologies. i was saying that it is clear that greg abbott and texas republicans believe that they have an opportunity in the valley of texas, which is heavily latino, heavily mexican american, and especially after what happened in november 2020 where trump overperformed in several counties in south texas. this also is nothing new, right? 20 years ago, when george w. bush ran for re-election as governor in texas, he got...

Said the government will help. surely, the government wont let this happen. this is the government. this is the republican-led state government of georgia moving radically to rescind voting right s rights. we dont have federal laws because of sinema and cinema working with republican senators to make sure nothing gets in the way in whatever the republican-led states want to do. today was just -- scre scenes f country trying to save itself. we will get to it tonight. its farce at a lot of levels ...

Million americans selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees falls in the latter category. companies like united airlines, nike and tyson foods are keeping mandates in place. while the largest private employers walmart and amazon do not require vaccinations for their workers. in another move, the supreme court did uphold vaccine mandates for health care facilities getting federal aid. with justices kavanaugh and roberts joining the liberal minority 37 joining us...