Page 43 - Road Block News Today

At the end of this month on the for the people act. if there is any changes, and my ours are telling me that the votes are not yet. lets see where it goes. >> thank you, lets talk about infrastructure, right? that deal to try to fix up the nations roads, bridges, rails and more are mitting another roadblock. a new plan is trying to jump start things. let me bring in garrett haake. whats the deal with any movement here. this looks like it was going nowhere. maybe it is going somewhere, but

Making bogus charges of fraud in the 2020 election under the banner "stop the steal." now they have a stop the steal offensive, even if most voters once again support the democratic party. since the election, 14 states have passed laws making it harder to vote. some states are rewriting election rules, helping republicans control the elections process. in the hope to stop this hit a major roadblock. joe manchin says he opposes the for the people act. >> i think its the wrong piece of legislation...

Of the voting rights what we call for the people act, theres a lot of great things i agree in that piece of legislation. but theres an awful lot of things that basically dont per tape to voting. its the wrong piece of legislation to unite our country. i think it would divide us further. >> reporter: with this new on said, hes reiterating his continued position of not wanting to change or eliminate the filibuster. thats getting a lot of pushback from a majority of senate democrats. those who want...

>> just for the record. i love jason, i know hes your nemesis, but that said i love having him, but you are irreplaceable, my friend. you go enjoy. well have a date two weeks from today. safe travels. >> thank you so much, my friend. and a very good day to all of you from right here at msnbc world headquarters in new york and its just after noon in the east and 9:00 a.m. in the west. infrastructure week is starting to feel more like groundhog day. negotiations between the white house and repub...

The grand jury anytime soon. but one never know what is they are sitting on and what sort of deals they have cut. >> joyce vance, thank you as always. you will be back as well and so stay close. and coming up, well talk about the military coup, you wont want to miss that conversation. and so infrastructure bill has hit another road block. president biden has rejected the latest counter proposal meaning talks will drag into next week. monica alba is at the white house for us. great to see you...

You can look and its not just democratic governors like my friend phil murphy in new jersey or new york. but you have republican governors like charlie baker in massachusetts or larry hogan in maryland who are also doing the work of gun safety to save lives. the past two elections, to answer your question, have turned on the desire of americans to be safe. 2018 we flipped the house. in 2020 we elected joe biden president and kamala harris vice president. and we flipped the senate. americans over...

Democracy against incursions happening at the state level. two pieces of legislation for the people act, the journalist voting rights act, hr4, if im not mistaken. a proposal to restore the section of the voting rights act that was done. these are all floating around. they hit a roadblock in the senate. personally because all of those would need a clear filibuster, dramatic and among others thinks there is a viable means to create a bipartisan compromise. i want to play for you what he was sayin...

We need these types of investments in infrastructure and we need a january 6th commission. these are not new calls for action. these are not new things and priorities that we know are on voters minds. but what is new, again, is this pressure that were seeing from the white house targeting senators manchin and sinema, to stop being a roadblock here. because we know, we have nonsensical republicans in congress who are voting against these things. voting against things that will benefit americans. ...

Are meeting in oxford today, in a summit to discuss global health security amid the coronavirus pandemic. led by the uks department of health and social care, the summit will also focus on the development of vaccines. joining me now is dr clare wenham, an assistant professor in global health policy at the london school of economics. thank you for coming on the programme. lets start with vaccines, the issue of the global roll—out, where are we with that? we roll-out, where are we with that? we ...

Legislation, and by the way he has his own bill, which is probably unconstitutional, but thats a whole other question. there is room for compromise with mansions bill. and if it is his bill that is facing this republican filibuster, this republican roadblock, maybe then he will really get the message. and biden is barely skillful at giving members of his own party, and the other party, sometime. let them legislate, they are atrophied in legislate, they arent there to legislate. so, he wants to m...