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You need a breath mint. xfinity. its a way better way to watch. wrong, three republicans said they would vote in support of the commission. other than that, you have heard of month snr. >> there could potentially be more. rob portman of ohio told me yesterday he would probably vote toed aadvance this as well. he was actually not one of the seven republican senators who voted to convict donald trump back in the second impeachment trial for inciting the january insurrection. he said he would move ...

That bill has not come to a vote in the senate where it would be forced to clear a 60 vote procedural threshold. joining us now is congressman colin allred of texas. he worked as a voting rights attorney before entering congress. colin allred, you are still working as a voting rights attorney in effect, im sure, educating your fellow members is part of your daily rounds these days. whats the latest from the texas legislation as its developing tonight? >> thank you, lawrence, for covering this. i...

Drive-through voting, banning 24-hour voting and limiting the number of polling locations in the states largest counties where the largest number of democratic voters are. federal legislation passed this year by the house of representatives would prevent most, if not all of the republican voter restrictions being imposed by state legislatures. that bill has not come to a vote in the senate where it would be forced to clear a 60-vote procedural threshold. joining us now is democratic congressman ...

Not want to know what went on for the first time in the history of our country, an insurrection thats never, ever happened before, and now being afraid to find out what really happened and how we can prevent it from happening again. >> understandably, much is being made of joe manchin saying, "im not ready to destroy our government" in answer to a question about changing the senate 60-vote threshold. theres a lot of outrage out there tonight that joe manchin thinks a senate rule change would des...

Work with republicans, they cant even get bipartisan support on a commission to investigate the insurrection on the capitol that put all of their safety and some of their lives in danger. the only prominent supporter of bipartisanship in the vote is senator joe manchin of west virginia. our team caught up with him earlier. he sounded very disillusioned about mitch mcconnell in particular. take a listen to what he said. >> mitch mcconnell makes it extremely difficult. and theres no excuse. its pu...

Decide to participate or not, eamon. >> leanne, you know capitol hill better than i do. really quickly, should we be reading into the 11 members of the senate who did not vote today, were not present? >> one of those senators, senator pat toomey of pennsylvania wasnt there, and he put out a statement saying he would have voted for the commission. so thats one more republican senator, seven. the rest of those we should not read into that. they left town. they didnt expect to be in town today. the...

>> senator amy klobuchar, on a very busy day and what will be a long night. thank you for making a bit of time. the only reason were here wondering if the united states congress will investigate what happened at the capitol is because democrats like joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, chiefly joe manchin they want to keep this 60-vote threshold for the sake of bipartisanship. but could that change if this vote fails? thats next. but could that chan vote fails thats next. great job! [moo] youre welcom...

Precautions. >> reporter: precautions to have a safe kickoff to summer. so this isnt the only big holiday weekend. in fact, the biden administration is looking forward to july 4th. thats when he hopes that at least 70% of the country will have had at least one covid vaccine shot. and as you mentioned earlier, already ten states have reached that 70% threshold. now were finding out additional states have reached that 65% threshold. that means that almost half the country is on track to make that ...

>> the filibuster is stifling bipartisanship because of this arbitrary threshold. this is how the senate used to work that it takes 60 votes. that is something only developed in recent decades. for more than 200 years the senate was a majority ruled body. things like medicare and social security did not have to clear a super majority requirement and were fought tooth and nail until they were able to secure a majority. there is a memo famous to people like me, lbjs top aide congratulating him say...

Truth come out. and thats exactly what it is, not wanting to let the truth come out. they dont want to let the truth come out in this because they know its damaging to them. thats why republicans are going to filibuster the commission. i suppose thats to be expected from the gop right now. but in all honesty what about the democrats? what about the democrats? what about the party thats supposed to be operating in reality? senators joe manchin and keirsten cinema are watching whats happening real...