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Southern senators in the sixties who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote afterward chief vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. When were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern it isnt an american concern. This is about the american peoples right to vote. Unfettered. It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way, because nobody is debating i dont believe, whether all americans have the right to vote. The bottom line is that the president and i are very clear to support as one, to support the john lewis ....
welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants in iraq and in syria. let s get right to an msnbc news correspondent, matt riley, in tel aviv. thank you for being with us this morning. matt, these airstrikes and these retaliatory met, these airstrikes and retaliatory strikes, how do they complicate things for secretary blinken as he heads to the region? well, i think that this is a perfect timing for secretary blinken. and what he will be doing, he ll be coming here to israel. he ll also be going to places like egypt, saudi arabia. ....
the situation room. breaking this hour president biden and the united states making good on their vow to strike back after three american soldiers were killed in jordan. the white house revealing moments ago strikes on three facilities and iraq and four in syria were successful. our correspondents are standing by as our live coverage continues right now. let s get straight to natasha ber trnd at the pentagon. what more are we learning about these strikes? reporter: we are getting more information in from the national security council as well as a senior official at the pentagon joint chiefs. we re told the reason why there was kind of a delay here in conducting these 85 different strikes across these facilities, these seven different facilities in iraq and syria is essentially they were waiting for good weather to present itself. and that window kind of opened today and it all came together so they would avoid, of course, unnecessary casualties according to the mili ....
bret: but breaking tonight, a pair of journalists who were permitted to see through sources internal communications at twitter testified today before a house committee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. republicans who control that committee are trying to show a link between censorship of conservatives, the biden administration, and the fbi. democrats today tried to pushback in a fiery hearing. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening to you. today s hearing delivered on a promise from house republicans to expose what was going on at twitter behind the scenes leading up to and after the 2020 election and, as we expected today, things got tense. can discuss. no one has yielded the gentle lady is out of order. and she is out of order because he interrupted. gentle lady is not recognized. you are not recognized. he has not said that. the new house subcommittee on ....
higher taxes proposed for big companies and high earners. that revenue would fund a big federal pay raise and the largest peacetime military budget ever. republicans quick to say the proposal is a progressive pipe dream that is going nowhere fast. the president claims his plan will actually cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit. critics are saying that expiring covid-19 payments are probably to thank for that. mcconnell called it a wish list. thank goodness the house is republican. more reaction from senate republicans here. i think that what we ll be seeing is their aspirational budget if they were king of the world and could wave a magic wand, this is what they would want. they think you should give all your money and freedom in washington because they, the biden administration, knows better who you to spend it than you do. i don t agree with that. i don t suspect that we ll pay any attention to president biden s budget. julie: charles payne is here to break ....