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Tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chungs here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, Senior Fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also Senior Adviser in the biden white house. Julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do . Reporter yeah, its rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things arent going well here on capitol hill. But here you have overwhelming support from republ...

With some of them are going to vote no regardless. including ron johnson of wisconsin said he will try to figure out other ways to get to the answers what happened on january 6th but voting no today. despite the late lobbying push, the lobbying of republican leaders having more effect on republicans who want to -- want this issue to essentially go away and will vote this afternoon. well see the time hasnt been set. but we expect that vote to happen today. and it will fail. guys. >> okay manu, th...

Wanted to influence policy in iran had long and expensive stays at trumps international hotel here in washington, d.c. now the sheik wrote letters to both national security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo in july urging both of them to forge ties with those wanting to overthrow the iranian government. now four months later he ended up spending an unusually long stay at the expensive hotel. its estimated he spent 26 nights in a suite on the eighth floor which is estimated t...

>> right. >> republicans only have 51 seats and senator john mccain has been out, obviously battling cancer, so he cannot lose anyone. >> right. >> and that is why hes making this lobbying push right now. he had a bunch of lawmakers, as abby mentioned, to the white house yesterday, particularly joe manchin, joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp, these democrats that are up in trump, states that trump carried last election, and they all voted for neil gorsuch last time. >> exactly. >> so, hes doing a l...

Both are ceos in the healthcare industry. cleveland clinic ceo and lewis kenonez a vietnam veteran and ceo of iq management services which provide healthcare services to the military. the unofficial lobbying push to confirm those already tapped for top administration jobs is well underway. coul coul like jeff sessions for attorney general. as for kelly ann conway so much swirling what will they sho do nor trump administration? she confirmed she will be moving to washington. >> i will stay outsid...

Finishing touches on his cabinet. >> it will be a little warmer there. the latest from the trump transition that is rolling on. >> just a little bit warmer than it is here in dc and new york. mr. trump may be spending the holidays at his mar-a-lago resort in florida, make no mistake this is a working holiday with less than month to go for inauguration day. he has two cabinet level agriculture and veterans secretary of affairs. two new names emerged. both are ceos in the healthcare industry. we h...

Immigration poses threat of another republican rift, several republicans executives and donors who are part of a lobbying blitz coming to capitol hill next week said they are considering withholding or had already decided to withhold future financial support to republican lawmakers they believe are obstructing progress on immigration. this is an attempt to start to move the obstruction. >> one of the things were actually going to see in the coming week, theres going to be another lobbying push i...

Resolution passed. as you heard from hillary clinton, talking about this wildlife event she was at but promised the white house she would make remarks on syria and did so and urged the congress to pass something. >> and her insight into the meeting with the president is this perhaps an outline to what we will hear from them tomorrow, talking about the global response that the actions alleged here violates global order and that there has to be a response led by the united states. that speaks to t...

Coalition that is described as tea party to socialist to anarchist. and much can be said across the country. left wing groups such as pregnant progressive change committee and move.org are organizing groups. heritage action and freedom works. they have all come out against intervention and freedom works said it will score the votes in congress. meanwhile, on the presidents side, syrian american groups hope to get the estimated 300 to 400,000 syrian americans to contact lawmaker and get support f...

Somebody elses school. somebody elses town. it is somebody elses community. until one day, you wake up and it is not. >> newtown families will be in attendance at todays presidential remarks. some will fly back to washington with the air force to begin a week-long lobbying push on capitol hill. just last hour, harry reid took to the senate floor pushing for an open debate and admonishing more than a dozen gop congressmen who are threatening to filibuster. this comes as senators pat toomey and jo...