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Leaving the party and registering as an independent. >> a growing number of arizonans and people like me dont feel like we fit neatly into a partys box. what is important about this decision and this move is to show up to work as an independent and not be stuck into one partys demands of following without thinking. >> the announcement came as a surprise but the move did not. she is quiet quitting the democratic party for years opposing key agenda items. but senate majority leader schumer assured...

United states senate, and has worked closely with one of now three independents and the u.s. senate, bernie sanders of vermont. senator alexei, walsh joins me. congratulations, first and foremost, to you on your win. senator, alexei will grooves senator schumers a -- to allow her to keep her committee assignments, in a pretty good bonds, and support her declaration to not be an independent? >> i do support senator schumers approach. bottom line here is that arizona picks their senators, and sena...

Currently. senator kyrsten sinema making it official, leaving the democratic party. and registering as an independent just, days after the partys big win in the state of georgia. i want to bring in nbcs -- from capitol hill. standing by with more news. julie is good to talk to. you walk us through this if you can. and how is this announcement landing? especially of course with the democrats on the hill? >> look, democrats need to be a little bit careful on how they react to this. and they largel...

Symbolic change. >> it is indeed. how is the white house responding to this? >> well she did give the white house a heads up as well as schumers office. according to sources were talking to, this is what the white house said in a statement, though. we understand that her decision to register as an independent in arizona does not change the new democratic majority control of the senate and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work successfully with her. we should note that thro...

Infrastructure, prescription drugs and gun reform, all key parts of president biden answer agenda. she says shes asked senate majority leader chuck schumer to keep her committee assignments. and schumer agreed, calling her a good and effective senator. that move will allow democrats to keep the majority on committees, exercise subpoena power, and push through bidens judicial nominees. today the white house insisting that not much has changed. >> she has vote with the 93% of time, because she has...

Klobuchar laid out how she thinks that it will affect movement in the senate. take a listen. >> i dont think that it will greatly change the way the senate is working right now and in any way take away from the victory that democrats have. if she were to say, no, im going over republican, im not voting with them anymore, that is a whole different thing. that is nowhere near where she said. and she has tended not to go to the caucus meeting, something that she said so im not telling something out...

Re-election in 2024. lauren fox joins me now. lauren, we know that the white house had a heads-up, and we know that senate leader schumer had a heads-up as well, but how will this impact the democratic majority in the senate? >> reporter: well, her colleagues always knew, right, that she was independent, that they could not always rely on her to line in -- line up in lock step with them when it came to key votes like doing likes like getting rid of the fili filibuster. that was one of the contro...

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