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And youre looking live at the senate judiciary committee. thats jeff sessions of alabama, who is holding court right now. they are holding a hearing on a bill that could overhaul parts of the criminal justice system in this country. its aimed at mandatory minimum laws, in reducing federal prison time for low-level drug offenders. it would also create new mandatory penalties for certain terrorism and domestic violence crimes. whats unusual about the bill is bipartisan support in a congress that r...

About this as an attack on womens health care or another war on women. this is how theyre rolling it out today. theyre saying theyre making it clear they arent taking away any dollars. no funding levels are going to change for womens health. they want to redirect the dollars that have been going to planned parenthood to other options, like community centers and hospitals. >> i want to make clear that there will be no reduction in overall federal funding available to support womens health. >> rep...

The bad weather across the country i is having a big impact on work in the nations capital. a key senate vote was delayed until today after 17 lawmakers had travel problems yesterday. that vote scheduled for 10:30 a.m. eastern time, an hour from now. a vote tally shows it will be close. 55 democrats and four republicans back that. thats one vote shy of 60 votes needed for a filibuster. jim is in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you could say this polar vortex has fr...

The senate, john cornen went over to reid and said lets have a timeout. 17 senators couldnt make it to washington yesterday because of weather and travel delays. heres what the senator had to say. >> this is a serious issue. if this was anything other than a political exercise, we would have rescheduled the vote. >> the majority leader. >> i ask the vote be scheduled for tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. >> is there objection? >> without objection. >> reporter: so already a partisan fight in the nations capi...

Heard congressman barton, somebody you have known and served with for years when you heard what he said yesterday. >> obviously, it caught me by surprise. at the same time, really, our focus at that point was on the ceo that we had in front of us who had been responsible for the activities on a rig that killed 11 americans. so, i got to say my focus was more on the business at hand. >> do you think congressman barton should resign? >> no, no. you know, any one of us are capable of making a state...

Kentucky advocating breaking up those banks today on the floor of the senate. officially no republicans, however, have put on the white hats but there are murmurs not only from senator bunting on the floor but senator shelby, john cornen and others that look at this as a critical issue. senator brown admits that right now he lacks votes to advance the crucial amendment but says they are getting closer. where will your politician be on breaking up the banks? check it out. then senator lincolns de...

After learning of the allegation, chairman chuck grassley took immediate action to ensure both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh have the opportunity to be heard in public or private. republicans extended a hand in good faith. if we dont hear from both sides on monday, lets vote. john cornen and lindsey graham said yesterday fords testimony was the only reason for holding mondays hearing. >> but this is primarily to hear her. so if shes not planning on attending, then i dont know what the point going...

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We woke up this morning rk had six senators that were dwoing to vote no. the question was rk how many would vote to send them to the floor. at 10:30 this morning, i asked john cornen if they thought they had the votes. they realized this was an intractable math problem and needed to go back to the drawing board. thats where we are now. >> all right, it appears to be at the white house or being set up there. i swrus want our viewers to listen to the quick interaction you had with sean spicer, who...