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Strengthen election security. christina: as following the story for us. christina? >> high, good morning. democrats walked out last night, effectively killing this voting bill for the voting session. chris turner, the chair of the house democratic caucus, started the walkout last night. he released a statement saying in part, "it became obvious that republicans were going to cut off debate to ram through their vote suppression legislation. at that point, we had to take extraordinary measures to protect our constituents and their right to vote. republicans have only their self don't act themsel...

Different mode from the democrats. there's just a tiny handful of democrats who were standing around, but all those republicans are organized in place. it's like they were showing up for something completely different from why you were there. >> i would have to agree with that. we were there to take the pledge and have the opening prayer, probably hear a couple of motions for other ancillary administrative purposes, and then gavel out to be coming back in at 1:00 for a voting session. this happens a lot in the general assembly, and we had an opportunity yesterday that -- it was just -- there w...

But the issue did deeply divide that island nation and the electorate there the bill comes after a long debate and a referendum in which same sex marriage was rejected by voters put forward by the government it's survived the terms why are conservatives to pass a watered down version that removes any reference to marriage from a law rival bills offering something closer to a limited same sex unions did not get enough votes. let's go straight to taipei now and correspondent william yang joining us good morning to you william so the parliament's voting session is still actually in progress and t...

Us, and words are not enough. we want to see action. this is why senator toomey, a republican from pennsylvania, and i have introduced legislation modelled after the iran sanctions legislation that doesn't just impose sanctions on north korea. we've already done that. but in order to enforce those, we need other countries to comply, especially a china. so our bill would impose secondary sanctions on banks and firms and china, wherever they are in the world, that are doing business with north korea. saying to these banks, you can do business with folks who are engaged with north korea, or you c...

Know, the new jersey assembly just formed a special committee yesterday to go about investigating the bridge scandal. now, what we understand from the new jersey assembly is that nothing will move forward until thursday when there's a voting session to reauthorize subpoena power for that committee. so more details to come on thursday, wolf. >> the investigations continuing, some of them only just beginning. thank you, erin. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria, what does he need to say in two hours when he addresses the folks in new jersey, and people will be watch...