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9,600 right now. adam schiff will join my colleague hallie jackson in the next hour. stay tuned for that. and chuck schumer is invoking the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection as a reason to act right this minute on voting rights. >> the attack on january 6th was not a one-off. it did not materialize out of the blue. on the contrary, january 6th was a symptom of a much broader illness that has now infected the modern republican party, an effort to delegitimize our elections roote...

Your hospital system is facing. >> thank you so much for having me, chuck. first of all, we have just around 30 0 employees out right now due to covid, but also other matters related to the pandemic, schools cancelled because of staffing issues and what have you. and our hospital, not only impacts the 150 or so people with covid in the hospital, but everybody who needs that acute urgent care within our walls. so this assistance from the president, from the white house, from the covid response te...

White house and when it falls to congress to sort out the electoral college. >> two different documents from georgia or arizona say were the electoral votes from the states. congress has to make a decision on which of those two documents is the correct document. on that point the rules that congress has under the statute really do need to be clarified. >> democrats contend the capitol assault underscored their case to bolster voting rights. >> unless we confront the big lie and do our part to fo...

Manchin and sinema will stick to their guns and not break the filibuster? >> we have no reason to believe they wont. i think manchins popularity has gone up every time he said no to left wing democrats he has become more popular in west virginia. in the case of sinema she is in the great tradition of barry goldwater and john mccain. a maverick, her own person. she proved when the agitators followed her into the ladys room she is not easy to shake and i suspect they are where they are. manchin wa...

He had to push through a crowd because what he said last night on sean hannitys program has attracted the interest of journalists on capitol hill. and hawaii senator has tested positive for covid and has isolated so he will not be there today. and john cornyn of texas, making the point, the president went to capitol hill hat in hand and came back only with his hat, nothing else in that hat because he does not have the support likely three votes short in the senate, trying to get s1, the senate v...

The end of last year schumer and others were not willing to do that. they talked about the idea, but whats different this week, whats new tonight is that schumer is pushing a plan this month to gut some of the filibuster rules that give mcconnell his obstruction powers. >> lets be really clear, our democracy is imperilled, and time is running out. >> if republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent action on something as critical as protecting our democracy, then the senate ...

By told you so about joe biden. he has been wrong on foreign policy for 40 years. with the lowest number of illegal crossing at the end of trumps term in the last 40 years. now we have record numbers of crossing because biden changed trumps policy. and afghanistan. the american people suffering, our money is being he voted by s being eroded. inflation is roaring and radical islam is on the rise. schumer, pelosi and harris, the worst coalition in history. jesse: what are their plans? are they goi...

Same poison of donald trumps big lie. senate must advance legislation to protect our democracy and safeguard the right to vote. >> john: does this, james, have anything to do with january 6th or is january 6th just a convenient way for schumer to try to sell this? >> its a pretext, obviously these are -- these changes hes seeking include a lot of provisions that the progressive left has been seeking for a long time. long before last january 6th. and a lot of it again is something people are not ...

Here. a lot of what they can try to do is to make sure that they have their agenda, that they can get their agenda through and that means that they are probably going have to cozy deup to joe manchin. >> cozy up to joe manchin is one way to look at t.appreciate you trying to wrestle through the technical difficulties. this is a letter from chuck schum earning majority leader who says in addition to trying to work through the build back better plan, the biden domestic agenda, that he is prepared,...

There is a lot of issues here that take a constructive smart government action and leveling the economic playing field. i think, you know, to dismiss the governments role here would be wrong. we need to make sure average people have a shot and they havent had a shot in 30 or 40 years. thats what this senate race that im in, this is what im fighting for. and so maybe there is going to be democrats that agree, maybe there is republicans, but i know what we need, ive been studying this china issue ...