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Can and will be taking out into the country. >> the next big issue that president biden has to deal with and the democrats and republicans involves infrastructure spending. this vote now does have an impact on how that will unfold? >> i think the most interesting element of, if you want to look broader agenda for president biden is what happened yesterday when he had a private phone call with senator joe manchin. they talked very clearly about this issue, on the voting rights issue. and joe manchin got onboard. it was a long process. and it was a process for some democrats to acknowledge that ...

They are still claiming a victory as covid numbers continue to decline across the country. >> communities will make their own decisions. there's never magical through science about 70%. 70% was a bold, ambitious goal we set to continue to drive to get more people vaccinated across the country. and moments ago, senate majority leader chuck schumer announcing he had come to an agreement with senator manchin to get him to vote yes to proceed on for the people act. >> senator manchin has informed me he'll vote yes on the motion to proceed to debate the legislation. i've committed to him that if ...

Forward on the debate, we'll take up his proposed substitute amendment. >> access to early voting by mail-in voting. also early voting and putting those voter id requirements in there. there was a lot of push and pull about that between the democrats and republicans as well. but, again, the big news right now is that joe manchin will vote for this. that gets the democrats to 50. that was the best case scenario for them going into this. they will not get the 60 to move forward, but they will be able to say they were unified. that's good for them, they say, politically and also have a messaging ...

Second vote was for the first impeachment article. and he called a recess. and they'll get to it tomorrow morning. doug collins saying wait a minute, what's going on? and heard saying this is a kangaroo court. what is going on. can you explain what's happening? >> this is a surprise. to be honest. the expectation throughout the last 14 hours is this mark up this consideration of the two articles of impeachment would end tonight. at some point. we didn't know when. as you note there were going to be three votes. substitute amendment. adopted. and the two votes on the articles of the impeachment...

You have been watching tonight. what you have been watching all day history in the making. members of the house judiciary committee arguing over articles of impeachment geps the president of the united states. starting at 9:00 a.m., republicans offering amendment after amendment after amendment that would change the text of the impeachment. articles. or block them completely well into the night. it's 11:17 now. ahead of a vote to move those articles out of committee. i want to get to phil who is knows all things congressional. and he's the correspondent here. phil, once they were done debating...