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right now, president biden vowing to respond after three u.s. troops were killed by a drone in the middle east. plus a bipartisan deal in congress could lead to the first major immigration overhaul in decades. and what might be the broadest campaign promise weve heard in a while, donald trump claims that he will deliver nothing short of world peace. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im kasie hunt. it is monday, january 29. 5:00 a.m. here in wash...

Tonight straight from the source, Breaking News as republican hardliner matt gaetz has made good on his threat to oust House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy from his job, filing the papers tonight to at least try to for the first time in more than a century. Plus new reporting tonight, why a seething donald trump chose to show up in court today to face the judge who found him libel for fraud and the Attorney General who brought that case against him, raging at both of them on day one of his trial. And a ...

It. >> theyve created an environment of danger, anything can happen. >> yeah. this morning, senate democrats begin the formal floor process of trying to pass voting rights legislation. a centerpiece of president bidens agenda. unless there was some secret development in the last few minutes, this is not going to pass. this is not going to pass. but they are going through the motions. first, in a few hours, debate begins on legislation that combines two bills already passed by the house. the jo...

Half an hour ago. lawmakers disagreeing on where the money for fighting covid would come from. and so house speaker pelosi now saying that because of, quote, republican insistence and the resistance by a number of her fellow democrats, they will remove covid funding and accommodate revised version of this bill. i want to bring in congressman david cicilline, member of the house foreign affairs committee. the committee was working on this as early as this morning. it seemed like it was going to g...

But theyre working on a bipartisanship infrastructure deal. they voted early this week to move ahead with the infrastructure bill. they still have not finished drafting the bill. they are still working on drafting a $1.2 trillion proposal implementing joe bidens effort to move on the countrys infrastructure. interesting what happened last week was mitch mcconnell. senate republican leader came out supporting it. open so supporting the bill on final passage. >> our country would benefit a lot fro...

>> yesterday i joined a number of my republican and democratic colleagues and voted to begin floor consideration of bipartisan compromise legislation for our nations infrastructure. its guaranteed to be the kind of legislation that no member on either side of the aisle will think is perfect, but its an important basic duty of government. im glad to see these discussions making progress. i was happy to vote to begin moving the senate toward what ought to be a robust bipartisan floor process for l...

Clearest way to help people with concerns? >> it explains why its in their best interests and the best interests of their colleagues will go a long way. senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell gave an endorse m of the bipartisan infrastructure bill yesterday in a speech on the senate floor. >> yesterday i joined a number of my republican and democratic colleagues and voted to begin floor consideration of bipartisan compromise legislation for our nations infrastructure. guaranteed to b of legis...

Scale. meanwhile, new concern about the economy. "the wall street journal" notes even though the gross domestic grew at 6.5% annual rate in the second quarter of the year, the delta variant has many wondering if growth will continue. were also keeping an eye on the progress of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the senate expects to hold its vote for the measure tomorrow morning and today, republican leader mitch mcconnell who voted last night to move toward debate actually praised the bill...

Fujifilm value from innovation its being called the bipartisan breakthrough. 17 republicans crossing the aisle to allow debate to begin on that trillion dollar infrastructure bill. but will this rare display of bipartisanship work? the top republican in the senate praised the bill, but ripped the bigger $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that progressives want to tie it to. >> i was happy to vote to begin moving the senate toward what ought to be a robust bipartisan floor process for legislatio...

Monica, thank you. sahil, i want to play the sound that we got from chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell on the floor of the senate. they seem to have set the tone at least where the senate is these days. take a listen. >> i want to commend the group of senators that worked with president biden to reach a deal. the agreement will ultimately dedicate over a trillion dollars to strengthening virtually every major category of our countrys physical infrastructure. >> guaranteed to be the kind of legisl...