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Glasgow, scotland next week for a major climate summit. this is part of the urgent case hes been making behind the scenes already as we heard this morning from congressman ro khanna, a key progressive lawmaker. listen to him talk about how the president is making the case behind the scenes. >> the president looked us in the eye and said, i need this before i go represent the united states in glasgow. american prestige is on the line. many members understand that. were working hard to get a deal....

But democrats have not reached a deal yet. and one of the major climate change components, the clean electricity performance program, is not likely to make it to the final package. give me your sense of the optics of what that will be, because in june at the g7, bidens big message was, way, america is back. >> indeed, and his message on climate change since he got into office has been america is back. he took the united states back into the paris climate accord on his first day in office, someth...

Ongoing that. >> the texas legislature has signed off on new congressional districts that "the texas tribune" has described as protecting gop power and reducing influence of voters of color. is this, sir, a prime example of the need for a federal voting rights bill, especially one that would crack down on gerrymandering? >> absolutely. even "the dallas morning news" editorial board, which leans right, recently put out an editorial saying we need federal voting protections because of what happene...

Think we really should talk more about how important some provisions are that are going to be in this. when we get that final deal, and we can sell that to the american people, it will be not only popular but extremely good for our economy. it will help us recover, beat this virus and put us on a path to lead the world into the next couple of decades. >> thats something thats going to be incumbent on the president and you as lawmakers to get out in the communities and tell your constituents, thi...

Armorer, the police say, before it was handed to them. the second one, look, when several members of a camera crew write in, not just verbally, not just walk off the set, but write in letters of resignation mere hours before this happened, expressing safety concerns as well as financial concerns about the way the project was being handled, thats a red flag of massive proportions. the fact of the matter that this rehearsal went ahead as it did, the fact that the production went ahead as it did, r...

Has any respect, really, for equality. we saw it from some of the emails that came out from coach gruden, some of the conversations that were being had behind closed doors that were i think eye-opening for a lot of people but for some of us, we thought, well, yeah, theyre just putting it in writing. for me, as much as football has done for me, as much it was a part of my shaping and forming as a person, the nfl as an institution is something im frustrated with and needs to have some reforms. >> ...

Detailing on this program how a number of first responders are being let go right about now because they have not complied with local and state mandates regarding getting the shots. heres the president. watch this. >> should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines and, if not, should they be stay at home or let go? >> yes and yes. the idea is that, look, the two things that concern me, one are those who just try to make this a political issue freedom. i have the freedom...

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This goes going forward, but, chuck, to give you a better standard for our audience right now youre basically playing with these four puzzle pieces that theyre trying to fit together from government funding to the debt limit to the first infrastructure plan that is bipartisan, the second one thats not going to be $3.5 trillion nancy pelosi acknowledges but how much less will it be? the desire had been for this to all get done dh week, clearly thats not going to happen, joe biden himself yesterda...

People getting wrapped around the axel in federal jurisdiction issues. while theyre figuring that out in consultation with the prosecutors, they need to make sure theyre reporting to state and local law enforcement on a parallel track. so thats one of the key take-aways that comes out of the report. >> thank you. senator grassley. >> please give me a men before the clock starts to ask unanimous consent to include in the record letters that i have sent over the last few years that show the nonres...