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Wonderful to have you back. welcome back. >> hey, john. hey, kaitlan. good to be here. >> hi. >> so besides you being back, look, the president laid a lot on the line yesterday. my question is what is different this morning? >> i dont think there is really anything different this morning, frankly. i mean, the facts of the situation are pretty much the same. democrats are talking to each other. theyre trying to convince the holdouts on filibuster reform to come over, but were focusing a lot on se...

Something that wasnt a work event because, frankly, i dont think -- i cant imagine why on earth it would have gone ahead or why it would have been allowed to go ahead. >> reporter: now, the prime minister will be back in parliament today for the regularly scheduled pmqs. last week we saw him really a man in distress at moments flinching, looking down in shame as he apologized to the house of commons. what will he look like today? and im going to leave you with the key thing here. 54, 54 mps, 54 ...

Do, theyre going to debate the voting rights bill and theyre going to try to cut off debate. and that requires 60 votes as of now. they will not get 60 votes, obviously, because all 50 democrats are on board. but you need 60. no republicans are on board, so that fails. then schumer moves to change the senate rules for what he calls a talking filibuster on this issue which would basically allow -- force the leadership to get 60 votes to cut off debate proactively, but would move to a 50-vote thre...

Conversation can really speak to what went on. so, we obviously would like him to come in. but his decision not to is not surprising. because i assume that he reached the compulsion that if he came and told the truth it would put him at odds with the former president. and he just doesnt have the courage to do that. >> i want you to respond to the iqs a shun that is leveled by jordan and others that this is a violation of legislative norms by asking for voluntary cooperation from fellow members o...

Changes and repeatedly claiming the filibuster has been a part of the senate since it began 232 years ago. >> will you insist on keeping the 60-vote threshold, is that important? >> well, thats -- thats, you know, what we have. thats what weve always had for 232 years. thats what basically makes us a little bit different than any place else in the floor. >> the nuclear option is off the table for you? >> i dont see any other way around it. >> so here are the facts. this is the thing. hes flat-ou...

Institution of the united state senate stand? >> keep in mind that so-called voting rights bill is so blatantly unexcused unconstitutional it will never pass the threshold in the senat for in order for that legislation to become law, democrats now led by biden who said he would never do it just like he said the vaccine will protect you from getting covid in just like he said a lot of other things that he reneged on that would be the filibuster, getting rid of the filibuster end completely up in ...

Back in the 1990s, and they argued just because she didnt see johnny doesnt mean he wasnt there. >> is it not possible she just missed seeing johnny in the confusion on the platform, that he was there and she just didnt notice it. >> absolutely impossible. she saw all of the attackers. she knew what johnny looked like, and johnny was not among them. >> it would now be up to the judge to decide a case that brought up pretty cal questions about police conduct in a different era. i asked bill bratt...

Full caucus. clearly the conversation is there, but its not clear theres an appetite to actually do it. it leaves them in limbo, wanting to do something on voting rights but unable to do it. >> do you see democrats going for full throttle for example the john lewis voting rights act, or treating the like build back better where they need to narrow it down a little bit? >> we already saw them do that. that was a larger package ochbt table, more expansive in the scope. manchin said he couldnt get ...

Because it was. i spoke for tens of millions of americans who had seen this slow motion train wreck on election day to that certification day. i dont like to brake decorum. im not a screamer. i have a high threshold to screaming. from that podium, he screamed back, shut up. how do we address that? we have to recognize. we have 800 people charged with crimes that day, insurrectionists, rioters, the ones that inspired it, enable it and continue to walk the halls of congress and mar-a-lago thats ho...

Its the first country in western europe to pass that threshold. the uk is only the seventh country to exceed 150,000 reported deaths — after the us, brazil, india, russia, mexico and peru. a rather depressing milestone. we are not comparing like with like because different countries have different population sizes. to look at the implications of that figure, catherine burns reports. how do you begin to imagine 150,000 people? its almost the entire population of oxford, a city, like others, whe...