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Reporter tsai hookup. or are those ten votes there? >> no joshua. there is one republican vote to pass the john lewis voting rights act and thats the summer kasky of alaska theyre unlikely to before anything like that legislation thats written primarily in the park because it will be predominantly republican led states that would have the voting rights violations in the past and that kind of gets the same box when they gutted a portion of it so as long as the outlook remains the bill -- >> senat...

Holding out theep a bipartisan solution with be reached. is there anyone else echoing that hope or he is the only one saying this? >> murkowski is. shes calling on the republican colleagues to go along with that. but the interesting thing about this, joshua, is that the john lewis has the bipartisan tag on it. its barely bipartisan. this is only one republican legislator onboard. but thats part of the way to understand joe manchin. he wants to be able to go home and say he is working with republ...

Though hes on felony probation and not supposed to have guns and found radical ideology paraphernalia. prosecutors may seek federal charges in this case, brianna. >> thank you so much for that. jurorty of u.s. senators voted for it but there will be no bipartisan commission to look into the january 6th capitol attack. heading into memorial day weekend, republicans killed a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th attack on our capitol. it was a gut punch to our democracy. it died ...

Hunt. senate republicans blocked an i am impartial commission. six republicans voted in favor of establishing the commission. bill cassidy and collins and murkowski and romney and sasse. five of those voted to convict president trump for his role of inciting the mob. some questions may remain unknown. including what took the national guard hours to respond to the attack and what president trump was doing during the siege and what level of coordination extremist groups had with lawmakers in plann...

>> this has to get done. i am sick of playing the game of whack-a-mole with gop members in the congress. every time we address a concern, another one pops up. >> republican congress member liz cheney praised the commission tweeting this. thank you cassidy and collins and murkowski and portman and sasse and romney. several secretaries who ran the department of homeland security released a statement on the failed vote. the senates decision to not seek the truth about what happened in the insurrect...

Youve got to be engaged in almost hip to donald trump. and at least that is the theory. and that is why the liz cheney primary next year and murkowski and other a few other races in the house are so fascinating, phil. because theyre going to tell us, could you confront donald trump or break from him and still survive a primary and if you can, that might tell us the former presidents influence on the gop. right now it is all theoretical, because i would lose my primary. but next year were going t...

Favor of getting to the bottom of it. senator pat toomeys office says he would have voted in favor but he missed the vote because of a family commitment. some leaders and many candidates of the gop have become whiney, fake, false outrage pushing constant victims. it is really amazing to watch how weak they are. thats from adam kinzinger. liz cheney said thanks to senators cassidy, collins, murkowski, portman, sasse and romney for voting for truth and defense of our constitution. because there wa...

Capitol police officer eugene good win who january 6th, steered rioters away from an open door on the chamber, and goodman showed murkowski his phone and said, youre trending. and she said, im worried. we are all are. worrys not enough. something has to change. sahil kapur joins me now, you were there last night or covering it closely, and can you just walk us through how it went down? because when i took the anchor chair last night, it was a few hours away, and i woke up this morning to find, t...

Personal favor to him to do so, it doesnt stand a chance. ron janis, youll remember him as the senator who said hed be far more afraid if they had been black lives matter protesters rather than the trump fans who stormed the capitol, killed multiple people and tried to hang the vice president. he is engaging in stall tactics in the senate right now, approaching midnight, delaying votes on a number of matters -- china, a china bill and endless frontiers bill and even getting to the january commis...

Jonathan, the question for you is, how do republicans listen to that and justify their "no" vote? >> they havent justified it very effectively, brian. that much is clear. they have to this day wedded themselves to former president trump, and the big lie that he was of course, he claims, elected in last november and that the election was stolen from him. none of that is true. of course it was that former president and his words that incited the violence on capitol hill on january 6th. there are a...