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Govern, for its representatives to do the things that the people elected them to do. theres only a couple of opportunities to break this log jam before it really strangles our democracy to death. and one of those opportunities is to end the filibuster. and yet we unfortunately have a couple of senators who see this tradition thats not even a very long tradition of a 60-vote threshold for normal legislation as being more important or else -- they either dont recognize the threat to our democracy ...

Bring this out for a vote again, but he full well knows there are still not ten republican senators onboard that could break that 60-vote threshold for the filibuster. so, at least having them called out to make that vote yet again, hes calling out the political consequences by which republican senators, many of them felt that they could not move forward to support this legislation because of the potential repercussions as they looked for what the commission could find and how it could impact th...

>> and we do have reporters and analysts following the very latest for you right now from capitol hill to austin. >> we are going to begin with a live look outside capitol hill where senate republicans armed with filibuster power blocked the creation of an independent commission to investigate the deadliest attack on congress in centuries. >> msnbcs amanda golden is there. the question is this commission dead? it took a good year to come up with a 9/11 commission? >> this commission as it stands...

Vote yet again onjanuary 6th commission knowing full well many of his republican colleagues will not change their mind on that. >> reporter: thats exactly it, yasmin, because there were so few republicans that were willing to support democrats with this commission, this proposed motion that could move it forward to establishing the commission, schumer says its within his right that he could bring this out for a vote again but he full well knows there are still not ten republican senators on boar...

Republican votes needed to pass. the justice department has now charged at least 450 people in connection to the attack capitol. and that insurrection left five people dead and 140 police officers wounded. daniella diaz is live on capitol hill with us. tell us more about this committee that the house democrats are now hoping to put together. >> reporter: it seems very apparent that house democrats, all democrats, are just not ready to move past what happened on january 6 just yet. you know, what...

Not rise to the level of solar winds, maybe it was intentionally designed to go just below that threshold. but at the same time, we are seeing russia be very aggressive just a few weeks before, biden sits down with putin and there are some senior democrats today like adam schiff seeing, shank since did not go far enough we need to impose stronger consequences. >> i want to read this statement by mark warner to you, we must make clear to russia that they will face consequences for this malicious ...

Calling it that and that is probably why they are concerned because the more crosses a certain threshold, we are are mixing racing up with inflation. people are going to say, wait, this stuff isnt free. >> would you have stayed home i they wouldve paid you to? >> no, i think the work that i do on this show is too important . >> woke think of the lady ever hear brought up inflation. i dont understand inflation. nobody seems to care. we talked about how bad of this but nobody cares pick up a like ...

The Lakers reached the 85% vaccine threshold this week, opening up film sessions and team meals on their plane.

Saying im not ready to destroy our government. an answer to a question about changing the senate 60 vote threshold. there is a lot of outrage out there tonight that joe manchin thinks the senate rule change will destroy our government. my guess is dramatic and doesnt actually think that. my guess is joe manchin we fell into overly emphatic language and senators in those situations do that, in the hope the language will make you stop asking the question they dont really want to answer, and dont e...

Mccabeg. good to have you on here. california does have a red flag law. i guess i wonder what the threshold is for it. and whether this kind of information seized by customs and border protection in 2016, a memo book said he hates his workplace, he compiled terrorism notes, et cetera. what does the dhs do with information like that? >> well, thats a really good question, jim. its one that im sure dhs and the folks investigating this event are kind of trying to dig through to the bottom of. but i...