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Top of the hour, im alisyn camerota. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. The Vice President and democrats have a message for the gop, the fight is not over. Senate republicans blocked a vote, even a debate, on a sweeping election reforms bill. And progressives are calling out what they say is President Bidens lack of intervention. And some say that if he does not take a stronger hand on Voting Rights, they could block his infrastructure plan. Manu raju joins us. Reporter we know that there...

Doing as Voter Fraud Misinformation Spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Any moment were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in Violent Crime across the United States homicide rates are up. This year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. And 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decade...

Doing as Voter Fraud Misinformation Spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Any moment were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in Violent Crime across the United States homicide rates are up. This year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. And 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decade...

Doing as Voter Fraud Misinformation Spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Any moment were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in Violent Crime across the United States homicide rates are up. This year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. And 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decade...

Top of the hour, im alisyn camerota. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. The Vice President and democrats have a message for the gop, the fight is not over. Senate republicans blocked a vote, even a debate, on a sweeping election reforms bill. And progressives are calling out what they say is President Bidens lack of intervention. And some say that if he does not take a stronger hand on Voting Rights, they could block his infrastructure plan. Manu raju joins us. Reporter we know that there...

Filibuster. the debt exploded partly because of the trillions congress approved in covid bills last year. elizabeth warren says democrats need more tax revenue to cover the cost of their social spending bill. >> so, yeah, we have a debt problem but we have a debt problem partly because the very richest people just arent paying. >> expect the house to vote on the bill tonight. that addresses the debt limit until after the midterms. >> bret? >> bret: ed white house is voting to hold former white h...

Eliminated -- this is what the gop playbook is and its not just happening in tennessee, its happening in gop-led legislatures across the country, because they look at redistricting as an opportunity to silence black and brown voters. they look at redistricting as an opportunity to give themselves a leg up, to make sure that they have whatever representation they want and removing that power from the voters. essentially removing the basic power of individual voters. and thats whats harmful here a...

Democrats lost control of the house. she is watching like joe biden that race with great seriousness. and it is no favor to terry mcauliffe, if the democratically controlled congress cannot get at least the infrastructure through by then. >> i mean, it looks like a toss-up right now. 49-49, the latest numbers im looking at. hey, jake, senator manchin talked with a group of people last night, including journalists, about just how difficult it is to get things done right now because of the polariz...

Hes running for another term. he doesnt need trump to win re-election. but yet there he is, on his knees last weekend, bowing to donald trump. steve scalise who i served with in congress cannot acknowledge the truth that the election wasnt stolen. none of this is a surprise. it is donald trumps party, and it always has been. >> chuck grassley thinks chuck grassley needs donald trump, though. he almost said as much standing right in front of the president at his rally in iowa where he said, 91% o...

Individuals who needed it. and actually went several hours out of our way. currently in doha. we visited the air base earlier which is one of the largest staging operations for this mass evacuation. again, to be able to report what is going on so that congress cannot only exhibit oversight but share and understand what resources need to be provided to those who are on the ground right now so they can continue to save lives in this chaotic moment. >> bret: it sounds from your leadership that othe...