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The ten senators needed to break the 60-vote filibuster threshold. we only saw in the vote that happened just yesterday, the six republican senators that allowed democrats to break party in order to move the commission forward. those six senator, we can put up a full screen so you can see include mitt romney, ben sasse, senators bill cassidy, susan collins and lisa murkowski of alaska, but also i want to note that republican senator of pennsylvania, pat toomey was one senator who did say he would have voted in favor of this commission had he been present and he was away for a family commitment...

Republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania who had indicated he would vote in favor of this, however, he wasn't present for that vote. that all accumulates with falling short of the ten republicans needed to break the 60-vote filibuster threshold. so not a lot of promising indications for how this can move forward and we heard from the mother of capitol police officer brian sicknick. she came here to personally lobby senators trying to get them to support what this legislation could do to further investigate january 6th. she was unsuccessful in her attempts, of course, but she did say in an...

Bipartisan agreement on infrastructure rejecting the offer of a $1.7 trillion package which is a reduction from biden's original plan that totalled $2.3 trillion. republicans still say the price tag is too high. the white house responding with the following statement. the president put forward a reasonable offer in the interest of finding common ground. the ball is now in their court to respond with a good faith counter offer. the team set a soft deadline of memorial day to see if a deal is within reach and on the docket is the bill to form a commission and could be the first of the biden era ...

As he put it last night this way. his appearance caused questions about stability. it was all about his grievances. he attacked republican incumbents. he had unrealistic goals like changing the filibuster threshold and government shutdown among them. he had no message. no follow on on afghanistan from 24 hours earlier committing young men and women to war. no mention of the sailors on board the "uss john mccain." so my question is, if all that is true, was this at all a chastened teleprompter president we saw today, in your view? >> no, i don't think so. what you see is you know, he started ou...

Mar-a-lago and moving their benefits elsewhere. there are just so many humiliations and things that trigger him in the media he is still consuming, you know, even if john kelley is controlling the things that come across his deck, he feels, obviously, more isolated, more attacked, and when you see that, there's a lot of pressure that bids up almost constantly. so yes, he let a lot of that steam off last night. we saw him sticking to the teleprompter president today. it probably won't be long till he's back to going off script and ad libbinging. > carolyn, a guy who i respect looked at the pres...