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Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down...

Republicans change their tone about the attempted coup. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. >> theres no involvement, but this is purely political -- >> all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. >> can we move forward without president trump? the answer is no. >> and donald trumps lies that fueled new voting restrictions in 19 states, something the former president called for on the ellipse one year ago. >> im calling on congress and the...

Camera i got it wrong and it is time to move on. >> secretary benson, let me ask you about election reform efforts in congress. there are republicans open to overhauling the electoral count act of 1887, which is kind of written sloppily and is the law that trump and his allies were trying to use to convince pence he could overturn the election. i know that is not what democrats want. they want sweeping election reforms. but shouldnt democrats at least try to get this part fixed and work with rep...

From georgia said the following. he said the risk is that we lose our democracy as we know it. put that in the context of the fact that joe biden won and warnock won his runoff election to get his senate seat in georgia. >> bill, the democrats have been propelling a big lie about election laws around this country. states like georgia or texas or other states have adopted new election reforms. those reforms almost uniformly make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. in many wales they make it ea...

Enemies, foreign, and, yes, domestic! [ applause ] senate majority leader chuck schumer is openly acknowledging his party does face an uphill fight to pass though election reforms saying senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema still oppose changing the filibuster rules. >> as we speak there are meetings going on with these senators and ive been meeting constantly. so far theyre not -- they have not come onboard, and i dont want to delude listeners. this is an uphill fight because manchin and s...

Now in the coming day, the u.s. president will meet with senate democrats to discuss changing the rules to pass legislation on voting rights. joe biden is getting support from former president barack obama, who is calling on the senate to do the right thing. right now democrats dont have enough votes to pass election reforms without changing the filibuster rules. senate majority leader, chuck schumer is outlining the steps of that process and the goal is to get the senate to skip the 60-vote thr...