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As ron brownstein said, there were no hearings, no markup, and what he was being asked to do this morning, a couple hours ago, was just frankly a crazy process of, don't worry, this bill is not what we actually want to go into law, we want to get it across the senate line, pushed into a conference committee and we'll keep going. i think a lot of people looked at that and said that's really not the way the united states congress is supposed to work, but one person who has made a huge -- he's made this the core issue for him is jain. interestingly he did vote for one of the other bills this week...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, president trump ramping up his public shaming of the attorney general, but refusing to reotve if he's going to fire him or wants him to resign. he wants to be much tougher on leakers. when pressed on one of his early est and loyal reporters trump's response was, quote, time will tell. also breaking senate republicans vote to move forward with debate on health care legislation that required vice-president pence to cast the tie breaking vote. susan collins and lisa murkowski defying their party voting no. uncertain with republi...

Time now u for a check of the headlines at the half hour. a very busy hour in washington. the senate just in the last few minutes voting 51-50 to overturn an obama-era rule that prevents states from defunding planned parenthood clinics because they provide abortion services. 51-50 because it was a 50-50 tie then vice president mike pence acting as the president of the senate cast the tie breaking vote. also in washington, the senate intelligence committee holding its first hearing today on allegations of russian interference in last year's presidential election. one witness telling committee m...

Maybe history will be made, you will have the sitting vice president mike pence cast the tie breaking vote. if there's a 50-50 split, he as the vice president has the vote in the senate and she can be confirmed in short order and sworn in in short order. >> this morning, kellyanne conway was touting the his store, i can nature of vice president mike pence's tie-breaking vote to confirm betsy devos as secretary of education. it's only historic because no other cabinet member in history has ever needed the vice president's vote to win confirmation until today. when it did come down to a 50-50 sp...

12:00 noon. they do not expect any additional republicans to break ranks. that would usher in vice president mike pence to capitol hill to cast the tie breaking vote. this is historical because no other sitting vice president has ever cast the deciding ballot for a cabinet nominee. >> how divided and strong the opposition has been to her. her first hearing, she didn't seem to understand about the federal funding of the education system in a way that satisfied senators. they were worried about her representing all the millions. 94% of students are public school students. thank you, sunlen serfa...