Page 33 - Test Vote News Today

Fineman and perry, the senior reporter. im fascinated. usualfully politics were told dont mention the presidents name. >> hes violated another one of your rules. dont punch down. >> hes president. >> she is a senator. not, a freshman senator. so i think it is personal and i think the president is irritated that he will have to use a lot of political capital and he doesnt have that much to squeeze this through. the beginning of determining how much he will have to pay will be tomorrow when they h...

Congressional sanctions. if this test vote passes a full vote is expected to follow in about 20 minutes. keeping a close eye there. well keep you posted here throughout the hour. the knives are out in the nfl scandal known as deflate deflategate. today tom bradys agent accused the nfl and indianapolis colts of possibly conducting a sting operation against his client calling it a "tear bell disappointment." and he noted that the nfl is one of the firms clients. brady will speak tonight at a for...

Theres so much to talk about when it comes to work. >> frances rivera keep it here on "the rundown." in our next hour ill speak to an attorney that specializes in reproductive law. the iran nuclear bill a fake police group busted and the uk votes. lets zoom through some of todays top stories. the senate is expected to hold a test vote on a bill that would give congress the chance to review any nuclear deal with iran the bipartisan legislation would block president obama from waiving congressiona...

Patriot act to address those concerns. i voted for alternative that would have reformed the patriot act and the fisa laws. that reform failed, and we extended the patriot act another year. we are coming up to the expiration date. we do need to address what were going to do next. i believe we can balance the privacy concerns that we have and still provide for the protection of this country for our national security. theres a bill in the house that is very similar to the one i voted for last year....

About the notion that this program is endless. has no end date. thats different than a criminal or individual terrorist investigation when youre looking at a person or a group or gang. this is saying were doing this forever, endlessly. what happens? well, a lot of folks in congress want the house to move forward just next week on a vote on the usa freedom act which would curtail this part of the patriot act. >> that could be the first step that were seeing in moving in that direction. >> ive got...

Important issues of our time. >> and thats the key. they want to have a say on this issue. without a doubt one of the most important of our lifetime. will he be able to coalesce enough support? there are more hawkish members of the gop, and frankly some democrats that dont want to see him go ahead and have that test vote. its likely to happen tomorrow. well watch carefully from here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> something else just happened. the president long wanted to shut down gitmo and has...

House. with iran continuing to create mischief in the middle east will the white house listen to what the senate is talking about? >> reporter: why would they go and do that? do they ever listen to the senate? im kidding. yes they hope to listen if and there are a number of ifs along the way. if the bill that comes out of the senate meets sort of the broad picture, which is to say it doesnt handcuff the white house and prevent them from moving forward with snapback provisions with some oversight...

There are going to be 54 republicans in the next united states senate. how do they divide up, your republican colleagues, the 54? are more of them with senator rubio or more of them with you? >> i dont know. well see in the coming weeks. we havent really had a test vote, if you will, on cuba or the travel policy for a number of years. i think more than half of the senate is in its first six years. so its really unknown at this point. but i would hope that my colleagues would realize its been 50 ...

A test vote to count the chickens. if they do this, can you imagine what parties will think and then forces a shut down? >> drama is going to happen and we want him to update us in terms we can understand because its confusing but thing are falling apart there. the government is going to shut down and hes going to stay tuned and let us know. we may get word any moment now this bill is debt and a government shut down is potentially upon us. the minute there is news, well bring it to you. nancy pe...

They ended up with 57 yea votes from the democratic party. earlier in the day, there was a test vote occurred only two democratic defections on that test vote. trying to push democrats and telling them that this was the best deal they were going to get. john, you voted against this bill. how are you feeling? >> im disappointed. the house of representatives missed an opportunity to tell people across this country that we stand with them and not with the big banks and wall street and big donors, w...