Lbj Room News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Rules to keep voting rights protected through legislation in the united states senate. eyes open, heads up. busy time. now time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening. news breaking during your hour includes in from politico about senator sinema meeting with a small group of senate democrats on rules changes this evening in the lbj room in the capitol. this is possible indication that the public pressure that both joe biden and chuck schumer put on senators manchin and sinema today. might be nudging them a bit. the report says the senators in this meeting, in addition to ...

For the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening rachel. who's breaking during this hour, includes us from politico about senator sinema, meeting with a small group of senate democrats on rules changes this evening. in the lbj room, in the capital. this is possible indication that the public pressure that both joe biden and judge schumer put on senators manchin and sinema today, might be nudging them a bit. the report says that the senators in this meeting, in addition to sinema were, tim kaine, angus king, jon tester, brian schatz, elizabeth warren, ben cardin, chris coons, maggie h...

9:00 p.m. on the east coast. in order to prevent the shutdown of the federal government, the senate has to pszass a bill tha funds the government by midnight. well, one hour from now at 10:00 p.m. eastern, they have scheduled a vote on that and nobody knows how that vote is going to go by our last informal count, it still looked like they might not even be close but here is the thing, just in the past few minutes, all of the senators on the democratic side have gone into an all hands on deck meeting. so far the democrats have not been willing to cross over and vote for the republicans bill bec...

Then the backlash started. by 1981, ronald reagan's government was fighting a war on the war on poverty." he's right. mocking and deriding and campaigning against programs to fight poverty was a big part of how ronald reagan got elected. and it was central to the whole idea of his presidency. in terms of domestic policy. >> my friends, some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty. and poverty won. >> poverty won. we lost. we should stop fighting. marco rubio surely wants to be seen as reagan-esque. right now he does have that same message. stop fighting. to get people out of ...

Comes to the issue of poverty and how to end it. >> it is interesting, both parties are embracing lbj's pledge because democrats are going to stage a number of demonstrations too today. it would be nice if republicans and democrats would kind of get together but that won't happen. >> they are both embracing the pledge. they definitely have different points of view on whether or not lbj's programs worked. marco rubio, he is going to give a big speech in the lbj room. before he was president, he was a powerful senate majority leader and the room that democrats regularly meet in -- that republica...