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Debate bills, for example, but he hasnt embraced actually passing these bills with a simple majority vote. so theres been an asymmetry in tactics. whereas republicans at the state level have passed all of these anti-democracy measures through simple majority, party line votes. but joe manchin is saying you need a bipartisan supermajority in the senate to protect voting rights or to pass nearly any other piece of legislation. that created the odd situation where republicans can basically do anyth...

Jinping. we saw putin travel to beijing this week to stand next to xi jinping. i dont think he wants to do anything to sort of change that dynamic that hes got going. but that doesnt leave a lot of time. thats still going to be a number of days, about a week and a half way where we could see some sort of action. whether hes going to follow through on it, nobody really knows. the american intelligence agencies seem very, very certain that he is at least poised to do it, that its a genuine option ...

Buffalo is getting a new mayor tomorrow, maybe. buffalo has a four term incumbent democratic mayor, a guy named by aaron brown, that fascinatingly he was beaten back in june in the democratic primary beaten by a candidate named india walton, now miss walton be beating the incumbent mayor in the primary gives her the incredible advantage of her being on the ballot instead of him. but he decided that he wanted to run for reelection anyway, so now that incumbent mayor is running a write in candidac...

Something to hide. steve: sure. you know, dr. baden, perhaps nobody knows more about what happened, aside from him, than his parents. because he was staying at their house for awhile. and they didnt talk to the police until, i dont think, friday. ultimately, if he is charged, is there a possibility they would be accessories or some other peril for the family? >> well, probably not legally but thats -- we have had this problem before. and on fox also where a child does a bad thing and the family,...

Could see dozens of people scrambling into the dugouts and the exits to get out of there. nervous fans later given the all-clear to safely leave after initially being told to stay put. the game was suspended until sunday afternoon. a cnn politics reporter and editor at large. chris, you were there. how did this all play out in the stadium? >> reporter: yeah, odd situation. it was the middle of the sixth inning, and there were some loud bangs. i was sitting off the third baseline and there were s...

And as a result, the british government is really trying to get shots into peoples arms as quickly as possible. they are speeding up as well the time period between the first shot and the second shot. just 2 1/2 weeks ago or so, they opened up vaccines to everyone 30-plus. now more than half of all people in this country in their 30s have already got their first shot of the vaccine. so that is undoubtedly a success. but now really comes the big test for the vaccination campaign because you have ...

>> it seems like they will be doing it, and they need to. you know, one of the issues, particularly when it relates to activities and behavior and actions that occur within the line of duty, it gets very murky, it was very disappointing to see the redacted and edited footage they provided from his brody cam, when i saw that, i was concerned we were going to see another sort of hide the ball so to speak if you will, around what police were doing with the situation, but the fact that they have now...

Of that was hearing from the police chief saying, he was planning today to fire this police officer, had the officer not tendered his own recognition, and he would be facing criminal charges. and civil rights violations as well. what do you want to say about this? >> what we heard from the police department is a different tool than were used toe hearing the police appear to be aggressive in terms of how theyre dealing with this, i want to make something clear. one of the reasons theyre being so ...

Many years, theyre under american control, so the chances they would get stolen, i think are very low. but here were in the odd situation, brooke, ive never seen this before. where you had turkish forces and an allied force shooting in the direction of, if not directly at american forces, while were keeping our nuclear arsenal on their territory, to protect turkey. >> thats stunning. >> it really is stunning. it raises the question, especially since it was just a month ago, that presidenter doe ...

Moving toward the border. now, it is at this state, something of a race between the regime forces and the kurdish backed troops on the ground for capture of key strategic locations. the big question in all of this, though, given that russia is the chief negotiator between these different parties is exactly how is it going to try to mediate this situation. experts are saying that russia will not allow those two armies, the syrian regimes army and the forces that turkey is backing on the ground. a...