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Abuse, social media companies say it doesnt reach the threshold, and, you know, that is wrong, if we are reporting abuse it means it has reached a threshold, so social media companies have a responsibility. but i think as citizens, as global citizens we have a responsibility, if you know somebody who is being abusive to somebody online, then you need to call them out for it, or you need to stop talking to them. there needs to be consequences, you cant just accept somebody is abusing somebody els...

While i continue to support these bills, he will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. the debate over the senates 60-throat threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. there is no need for me to restate my long-standing support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. >> that was the conservative freshman democratic senator from arizona cry-talking an hour before the president of the united states came to rally senate de...

Coronavirus guidelines. she thought it might undermine faith or trust in the law or be committed by people fully aware that they were committing offense. >> and more broadly, how is this playing out for prime minister johnson politically? >> well, it has been said many times that the prime minister has a number of political lives. i like to think of him as a political vampire. hes defied convention and expectations before. i think this could be sounding the death nell of his premiership. in the ...

Send to the senate, tomorrow. its called a message, in this situation. senator schumer plans to employ a rarely used senate maneuver, that will allow debate to begin on that message from the house, without having to clear a 60 vote threshold, just a permit the debate. it is the same procedure that senator schumer used to speed a debt ceiling increase through the senate, in december. now that, senator schumer has publicly named the problem that the democrats are facing in the senate, when he has ...

Manchin has said this consistently for the last for our five months, he will not change the senate rules with just democratic votes. thats called the so-called nuclear option. he wants any rule change to have republican support. now, of course the catch, katy, is that no republicans support changing the rules. so thats the box hes put himself in, in that he is not going to consider any changes to the rules without republican support. to take it a step further, he is not for weakening the 60-vote...

Role in the state consolidation proposal. >> we had no influence from anybody. >> reporter: before a supreme court ruling gutted the voting rights act in 2013, closing polling places in georgia would have required federal approval to ensure it would not hurt minority voters. now, the five-person lincoln county board of elections can make the decision with a simple majority vote. >> the petition we are submitting meets the 20% threshold. >> reporter: but due to reverend freemans efforts, the vote...

And believes you can have legislation where someone whos a likely audience, maybe a group of people whove been deliberately targeted with information thats likely to cause serious psychological harm or physical harm to that audience. that is where the threshold will come in. now, what youve got to do, though, is you cant pass this legislation and just let the companies interpret it and get on with it. the job of a regulator in a system like this is to set out in codes of practice, "these are min...

Undercut by the short sighted at to a filibuster that we all know why the filibuster has been used historically. >> u.s. seen senators change their mind about the senate rule on the 60 vote threshold. certainly over the last several years and at a very high rated speed over the last year. youve seen joe biden change his mind after his 36 years in the senate to say no this rule has to be changed, and it has to be changed at minimum for voting rights and other senators saying it just should be eli...

Tennis shoes tomorrow to play? the fact that the court is sitting on a weekend and the tight timeframe of when submissions are due means the court understands it needs to make a decision quickly. it is likely there is probably only an hour or so left of argument and then the judges will go away, they indicated at the start of the hearing that either today or first thing tomorrow. so it depends on how long it takes them to make a decision but they are fully aware that it needs to be made quickly....

Elections fall flat. >> getting rid of the 60 vote threshold would be like giving whisk can i and car keys to a teenage boy. ♪ its intercepted. reader got the hit on murray. safety for 2 instead of 6. and its a rams touchdown. ♪ i belong with you ♪ you belong with me. >> ainsley: good tuesday morning. what a beautiful shot of somerset, pennsylvania. there is snow on the ground. the christmas tree is up. the american flag is flying. somerset county has been called the roof garden of pennsyl...