Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
in the faulkner focus. it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect they re all elect because they can t be sworn in because they haven t chosen a speaker those 20 like jim jordan for the job. jordan supports mccarthy. how will that work out? he said he is not interested in being the speaker position. leading the charge for jim jordan and against kevin mccarthy florida congressman-elect matt gaetz. many of his colleagues not happy. south carolina republican nancy mace tweeted gaetz full ego was on display and he will screw around and get another pelosi elected to the spot, her words. former speaker newt gingrich said the hold juts are hurting themselves. i think a numb
byron tell us a moment ago, congressman donalds say he believes therehe ballot, byron donalds and voted for himself. we ll see what happens and will cover it. john: nothing will happen today, i don t think, so whatever negotiations occur after the house adjourns for the day. meantime, new at 2:00 and breaking right now, the man accused in the murders of four idaho students on the way to idaho where he faces four counts of first-degree murder. sandra: the 28-year-old man tells his defense lawyer he is eager to be exonerated. john: dan springer is outside the idaho facility. when can we expect kohberger to arrive, dan? it s a good question, john, and we are tracking a plane we think he is on that stopped in champagne, illinois to refuel, and then it will be coming up here and it could be 3, 4 hours. we don t know exactly when he ll get here, but we do know he ll be coming to the county jail. i talked to the county prosecutor. he says if he gets here before court ends, a
Afternoon. I Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We have to warn you with this first video that its very disturbing hard to watch video that appears to show Sean Diddy Combs attacking his exgirlfriend Cassie Ventura back in 2016. Cnn obtained this video just a short while ago. You see him running after her in the hallway on throwing her to the ground. It seems to back up the accusations and venturers lawsuit that she settled last year. We have reached out to diddy us Test Representative and will have more details on what this means for any potential charges against him and were all of this might be heading. Very Disturbing Development breaking late this afternoon in the diddy combs situation. Also ahead this hour Michael Collins former Legal Advisor bob costello who has become very central and a lot of what surrounds the remaining days and hours of this case. He says is called upon he is ready to testify that cohen told him over and over again that he had nothing on former Presiden