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Youre _ little sceptical on. i do not know youre going to getjoe mansion, the senator— youre going to getjoe mansion, the senator from west virginia, or kiersten— senator from west virginia, or kiersten cinema, the senator from arizona. _ kiersten cinema, the senator from arizona. to— kiersten cinema, the senator from arizona, to go along with this process— arizona, to go along with this process we have discussed that would allow the _ process we have discussed that would allow the 50 pl...

Republicans in the country love. universal pre-k, making college more affordable, community college more affordable. these are things that the american people really like. they can make a choice whether they support a final budget reconciliation process or not but the president has been pretty clear in introducing these plans and believes they should work in tandem and believes democrats and republicans should find areas where they agree and work together on those deponents. >> reconciliation re...

Signatures. state officials confirms the move after validating most of the signatures. the recall petition over the democrats handling of the pandemic received well above the 1.5 million threshold. the vote must be held within 90 days. britney spears breaks her silence about the conservatorship controlling her life. the pop icon making the plea saying, quote: i want this conservatorship to end. i truly believe that this conservatorship is abusive. the 39-year-old wants to marry her boyfriend and...

Population there, as well as across the country, to get vaccinated. president biden seeming to understand that the country is not going to reach the 70% threshold that he wanted to reach by the fourth of july. 6 that 70% of american adults would have received at least one shot, by the independence day of this country. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter, and the tiktok. at jake tapper. you can tweet the show @the lead cnn. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer and the situat...

Speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. >> this morning with great solemnity and sadness im announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nations history. ive said it now three times. it is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. >> speaker pel...

It. its down to the rule, and we know there are at least two democrats standing in the way of changing the senate rule and reducing that 60-vote threshold down to a majority vote threshold. if that doesnt happen, does that mean the democrats will then just, okay, give up, the words didnt mean anything, we try, they wouldnt change the rule? >> no, failure is not an option here. were going to have to keep pressing and maybe, just maybe we can move more of my colleagues on the question of filibuste...

Mcconnell voting to reauthorize the voting rights act for 25 years. and then the republican appointees on the united states supreme court got to it and struck down the key provisions of the voting rights act, which mitch mcconnell had supported. senator kirsten sinema, whos in her first term as a sinema demonstrated in an op-ed in "the washington post" about the 60-vote threshold that she knows close to nothing about the senate rule and how its been use andabused. if the staff wrote it they shou...

Power shifts even though she couldnt get examples of that happening. obamacare passed with 51 votes. republicans tried to appeal it and failed. her piece said medicaid could be changed drastically by republicans if we got rid of the 06-vote threshold that protects medicare and medicaid so well. she has no idea that theres nothing stopping republicans from repealing the existence of medicaid and medicare and they can do that with 51 votes in a reconciliation bill any time they wanted to come up w...

Democrats would adopt the manchin compromise version of the bill, and still joe manchin could not get a single republican to go along with that, and so the republicans won today by preventing the bill from reaching the necessary 60-vote threshold to proceed. senator manchin released this statement today saying, quote, unfortunately my republican colleagues refuse to allow debate on this legislation despite the reasonable changes made to focus the bill on the core issues facing our democracy. as ...

Not just on capitol hill, but across the country -- and a step forward to honor all of those who came before us, people of all races and ages, who sacrificed indict to protect this sacred right. well have more to say on this next week. but let me be clear. this fight is far from over -- far from over. ive been engaged in this work my whole career, and we are going to be ramping up our efforts to overcome again -- for old the people, for our very democracy. >> joining us now is jeff merkley of or...