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Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important...

Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new ...

Fox news alert. Right now two very different president s going to two very different border towns. The president ial election is exactly 250 days away from now. And the illegal entries at the border and dangers that come with that are now voters top issues. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Just a few minutes ago, President Biden boarded Air Force One, thats marine one there but he boarded Air Force One on his way to brownsville, texas. Former President Donald Trump will depa...

>> i do want to especially thank president trump. i dont think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. >> given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. its built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trumps own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. ...

alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. >> i do especially think president trump. i dont think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was th...

conference at the capitol. >> i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. >> i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then votin...

a strong denial from the white house. they call russias latest claims ridiculous. this after the kremlin suggested the u.s. directed ukraine to carry out that alleged drone attack. brand-new jobs numbers just in to cnn. what they say about the state of the u.s. economy now just after the federal reserve announced another interest rate hike. the third this year. captured after a nearly eight-hour search in atlanta. police arrested a man accused of opening fire inside a medical cente...

welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin the programme with a birds—eye view of security issues, both here in the us and around the world, and its been a busy week. the presidents of russia and china put up a united front against the west. questions swirled over the origins of covid. the pentgaon says the us took "proportionate" action when carrying out air strikes on thursday against iran backed forces in syria. thats after a us contractor was ...

folded carefully, maybe put it in a little archival paper or parchment if you dont have that. put it away someday, you might depending on how saucy you are feeling, you might want to note in archival ink in the margin of tomorrows paper -- note, anniversary of richard nixons resignation as president. people will get a kick out of that some years down the road. the reason you might buy tomorrows paper is if the world doesnt collapse into ash by then, your grandkids some day will look at...

finland, the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, bipartisan, it includes incentivizing red flag laws, closes the boyfriend loophole and funds crisis intervention programs including mental health courts. and tomorrow president biden is expected to sign the bipartisan chips and science act boosting u.s. semi-conductor production and the making of cars, household appliances and computers. also this week he is expected to sign a bipartisan bill enhancing health ca...