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Tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chungs here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, Senior Fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also Senior Adviser in the biden white house. Julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do . Reporter yeah, its rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things arent going well here on capitol hill. But here you have overwhelming support from republicans and democrats to pass forward this crackdown of tiktok essentially, this bill, as you laid out...

With some of them are going to vote no regardless. including ron johnson of wisconsin said he will try to figure out other ways to get to the answers what happened on january 6th but voting no today. despite the late lobbying push, the lobbying of republican leaders having more effect on republicans who want to -- want this issue to essentially go away and will vote this afternoon. we'll see the time hasn't been set. but we expect that vote to happen today. and it will fail. guys. >> okay manu, thank you very much for the reporting from capitol hill. okay to the origin of covid-19. president...

Wanted to influence policy in iran had long and expensive stays at trump's international hotel here in washington, d.c. now the sheik wrote letters to both national security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo in july urging both of them to forge ties with those wanting to overthrow the iranian government. now four months later he ended up spending an unusually long stay at the expensive hotel. it's estimated he spent 26 nights in a suite on the eighth floor which is estimated to cost tens of thousands of dollars and according to the hotel's vip arrival list, the sheik's vis...

>> right. >> republicans only have 51 seats and senator john mccain has been out, obviously battling cancer, so he cannot lose anyone. >> right. >> and that is why he's making this lobbying push right now. he had a bunch of lawmakers, as abby mentioned, to the white house yesterday, particularly joe manchin, joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp, these democrats that are up in trump, states that trump carried last election, and they all voted for neil gorsuch last time. >> exactly. >> so, he's doing a lobbying campaign with them right now and trying to push this as quick as he can. >> and margaret, ...

Both are ceo's in the healthcare industry. cleveland clinic ceo and lewis kenonez a vietnam veteran and ceo of iq management services which provide healthcare services to the military. the unofficial lobbying push to confirm those already tapped for top administration jobs is well underway. coul coul like jeff sessions for attorney general. as for kelly ann conway so much swirling what will they sho do nor trump administration? she confirmed she will be moving to washington. >> i will stay outside in the political infrastructure or i will go to the west wing and take position next to the presi...