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Impeachment trial of donald j. Trump. A new brief says the former president holds unmistakable responsibility for the capitol riot, and that it was obvious and foreseeable that his remarks on january 6th would lead to that riot and disaster. The president s new legal team faces a noon deadline to file a response. These are two developing story lines in the biden reset. Today he will form a new White House Task force to reunite children separated from their parents during the Trump Administration...

joining us here in the united states and all around the world . im rosemary church just ahead on cnn newsroom. were learning more about some of the victims of a mass shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party in alabama details along with the message from police as they search for a suspect. congress is returning from a two week break with a high stakes debt ceiling standoff looming in d. c will president biden budges republicans ready a spending cut bill with strings attached, plus chaos i...

sidner in new york. this is cnn this morning. kaitlan collins is anchoring live in warsaw, poland. she has some new reporting. lets cabibegin with you, what you hearing? >> obviously, we are learning details about the details, what happened behind this visit. how the white house is planning this. it was obviously kept secret until president biden was on the ground. he was actually on the ground for some time before we had the white house confirm that he was there, but were learning tha...

Its Defense Spending because its looking at north korea, chinese aggression and also looking ahead possibly to another Trump Administration where its not so sure the us welcome to the rescue. And its making these investments to be able to stand on its own there clearly also emphasizing here, theyre unity, right . But there is something obviously hanging over this. And we understood from mj lese reporting that it might not come off, which is the us still deal. However, it did come up, obviously t...

That an overwhelming majority of americans want congress to act and provide common sense gun control. so why isnt that happening? given its what the american public want. as you say there is a significant national majority in support of most of the key measures. that people talk about in terms of restricting access to guns, universal background checks universal red flag laws, a ban on assault weapons ban on high capacity magazines. there is majority support for those ideas, not only among democr...

Started to wane over the course of the war. the broader point, though, is on a bipartisan basis, when you look at the members of congress that matter, that make decisions, that hold chairmanships, to a person, regardless of party, they are supportive of the u.s. support for ukraine. they are supportive of the scale of assistance, jaoftentimes, th are driving the administration to move faster on the scale of what theyre willing to consider and send. and i think that the presidents visit, as much ...

Majority-rule institution, and they were very clear about this. they wanted debate to be extensive. they wanted the minority, you know, numerical minority in any given debate to have their say, but they also wanted, you know, when that debate became o obstructionist they wanted the majority to be able to move it to a vote and hold the vote on a majority basis. there was no filibuster. the senate operated on a majority basis through the 18th century, through the 19th century and through most of t...

Rolling back all sorts of civil rights and civil liberties that we thought were established as common national rights. and theyre doing that on a majority basis. the supreme court is giving them the leeway to do that certainly on voting rights so far and potentially on abortion next summer in that decision and on other rights. and then the one tool democrats have to protect these rights whether its codifying roe or cod foying national voting rights is their ability to pass legislation through th...

The senate has, in fact, not operated this way through most of the history. give us the facts. did the framers really intend to have the filibuster that manchin is defending? >> absolutely not, and they were clear about this. when the senate was created the framers created it as a majority-rule institution, and they were very clear about this. they wanted debate to be extensive. they wanted the minority, you know, numerical minority in any given debate to have their say, but they also wanted, yo...

You say today reveals that the trifecta of red state legislatures, the right leaning supreme court and the senate filibuster making it impossible for democrats to govern even when they win elections. meaning this isnt a runoff, and what does that mean? one off. i said runoff. >> not a one-off, right. as i said before, if you look at whats happening across the board is youre seeing red states on a majority vote party line basis, their legislatures rolling back all sorts of civil rights and civil ...