moves in the senate common sense found common ground and february republicans told president biden we wanted to keep working together to finish this fight but democrats wanted to go it alone they spent almost 2 trillion dollars on a partisan bill that the white house brad was the most liberal bill in american history only one percent went to vaccinations no requirement to reopen schools probably over brought congress together 5 times this administration pushed us apart and other issues shit that should unite us is infrastructure republican support everything you think of when you think of infrastructure roads bridges ports airports waterways high speed broadband we're in for all of that but again democrats want to partisan wishless they will even build bridges to build

bridges less in 6 percent of the president's plan goes a roads and bridges is a liberal wish list of big government waste plus the big his job killing tax hikes in a generation experts say when all is said and done it would lower wages of the average american worker and shrink our economy tonight we also heard about a so-called family plan even more taxing even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college the beauty of the american dream is that families get to define it for themselves we should be expanding opportunities and options for all families not throwing money at certain issues because democrats think they know best. infrastructure spending by shrinks our economy is not commonsense weakening our southern borders and creating

a crisis is not compassionate the president is also abandoning principles he's held for decades now he says your tax dollars should fund abortions he's laying groundwork to pack the supreme court this is not common problem nowhere do we need coming ground more desperately than in our discussions of race i have experienced the pain of discrimination i know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason to be followed around a store on shopping i remember every morning at the kitchen table my grandfather would open the newspaper and read it i thought the later i realized he had never learned to read it he just wanted to set the right example i've also experienced

a different kind of intolerance i could call it uncle tom and the n word by progressives by liberals just last week a national newspaper suggested my family's poverty was actually a privilege because a relative only lan generations before my time believe me i know firsthand our healing is not finished and 2015 after the shooting of walter scott i wrote a bill to fund body cameras last year after the deaths of brianna taylor and george floyd i built an even bigger police reform proposal but my democratic colleagues blocked it i extended an olive branch i offered amendments but democrats used a filibuster to block the debate from even happening my friends across the aisle seemed to want the issue more than they wanted a solution but i'm still working. i'm hopeful that this will be different when

america comes together we've made tremendous progress but powerful forces want to pull us apart 100 years ago kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic and if they looked a certain way they were inferior today hughes are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again and if they look a certain way veron oppressor from colleges to corporations to our culture people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal you know this stuff is wrong hear me clearly america is not a racist country it's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination and it's wrong to try to use our painful past to discuss honestly

shut down the bait in the present i'm an african-american who was voted in the south my entire life i take voting rights personally republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat and so do the voters big majorities of american support early voting and big majority support voter id including african-americans and hispanics common sense makes common ground but today this conversation has collapsed. the state of georgia passed a law that expands early voting preserves no excuse to mail in voting and despite what the president claimed did not reduce election day hours if you actually read this law it's mainstream it'll be easier to vote early in georgia than in democrat run new york but the left doesn't want you to know that

they want people virtuous signaling by yelling about a law they haven't even read fact checkers have called out the white house for misstatements the president of certainly claims that this is worse than jim crow what is going on here i'll tell you a washington power grab this misplaced outrage is supposed to justify democrats new sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states it would send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with and make the bipartisan federal elections commission partisan this is not about civil rights or our racial past it's about breaking elections in the future and the same filibuster that president obama and president biden praised when they were senators the same filibuster that the democrats used to kill by police reform bill last year

has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe has now on the other foot race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants it's far too important. this should be a joyful springtime bishan this administration inherited a tide that had already turned the coronavirus is on the run thanks to operation war speed in the trump administration our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines thanks to our bipartisan work last year job openings are rebounding so why do we feel so divided anxious a nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so. have you laid a president who promised to bring us together should not be pushing agendas that

tear us apart the american family deserves better and we know what better looks like just before cove it we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for african-americans hispanics and asians and a 70 year low in nearly for women wages were it wages were growing faster at the bottom then at the top but the bottom 25 percent saw their wages go up faster than the top 25 percent that happened because republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all americans in addition to that we fast opportunity zones criminal justice reform and permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities for the 1st time ever we fought the drug epidemic rebuilt our military and cut taxes for working families the single moms like the one that

raised me are best future will not come from washington schemes or socialist dreams it will come from you the american people black hispanic white and asian republican and democrat brave police officers and black neighborhoods we are not abas aries we are family we're all in this together and we get to live in the greatest country on earth. the country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to congress in one lifetime so i am more than hopeful i am confident that our finest hour has yet to come original sin is never the end of the story not in our souls and not for a nation the real story is always return. i am standing here

because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times i believe our nation has succeeded the same way because generations of americans in their own ways have asked for grace and god has supplied it so i will close with a word from a worship song that really helped me through this past year of cove it the music is new but the words draw from scripture may the lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may his presence go before you and behind you and beside you in your weeping and your rejoicing he is for you may his favor be upon our nation for a 1000 generations and your family and your children and their children

goodnight and god bless the united states of america. speaking from washington d.c. that was the republican senator tim scott he was assuring the republican party's response to the u.s. president joe biden's address to congress just a short while ago let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly also joining us from capitol hill so talk us through what we just heard from the senator kimberly. well it's no accident that tim scott the most prominent african-american currently in the u.s. congress in the senate was chosen to give this message given the fact that so much of what joe biden has talked about in his 1st 100 days has to deal with grace and so what we've heard now is from a black man who says that not everyone in the united states agrees with joe biden's policies essentially what he's saying is that at times he is accusing the democrats

of using race to divide americans and to use it to advance policy so this is a pretty powerful accusation and it really is touching on a raw nerve that is percolating in american society what he's saying is that he believes that as a black man he has benefited greatly from all of the opportunities that america has to offer and that in his view america is not inherently racist he also talked about how he's concerned that children today specifically white children are being told they are the oppressors and that they are responsible for the actions of their ancestors and that he feels this is the wrong approach he also talked about how he believes that when it comes to voting rights that he has benefited from this greatly in fact he talked there at the close of his speech about how his own family has gone from what he said was cotton to congress in one lifetime meaning that his

parents or grandparents probably were likely were. picking cotton in the fields in the in the american south but he now holds one of the highest offices that any american can hold in the u.s. congress so he's saying this is an example of what's right with america and to point to what's wrong with america is the wrong approach so this is a pretty powerful message and it's also going to be one that's going to touch a nerve because it really gets to the heart of what a lot of americans may be feeling or not feeling maybe support or disagree i think as we've been talking about throughout the night with respect to unity i think we have an answer to our question about whether or not joe biden was able to achieve that unity 8 doesn't appear that there is much of that coming from the republican response of senator tim scott which is exactly what i wanted to ask you about kimberly in fact because he said senator scott just said the president biden is

filled with empty platitudes i'm quoting here about his policies and plans are pulling americans apart so again not really saying that the president is uniting the country. and certainly there were a few things in joe biden speech that were specifically targeted towards conservatives especially when he talked about world america and the fact that 35 percent of rule america doesn't even have internet this is something that he wants to reach out recognize that there are people that are being left behind and we should point out when it comes to rule of america it's largely a white audience that he was speaking to so it appears that joe biden has made some efforts but according to tim scott they were the wrong ones i think we should also mention very quickly that what we're dealing with here isn't just an issue of division when it comes to race but it's a division when it comes to the issue of political philosophy and how you believe

that the problems of america which most people agree on. how you solve them whether it is through big government and that is what joe's biden's speech was about or whether it's about the american individual and that is what we heard from tim scott the difference also coming when it comes to taxes republicans believing in lower taxes let free enterprise generate jobs and opportunity joe biden believes that government has a major role in that and to pay for these programs you tax the wealthy and corporations so these are fundamental differences in opinion when it comes to political philosophy and it also has we've just heard tonight a real highlight in the divisions in the foundation of america with respect to race ok thank you so much can really for reporting from capitol hill let's i once again speak to john nichols who is the national affairs correspondent the nation magazine the and also the author of the fight for the soul of the democratic party joining us from madison wisconsin once again thanks for sticking around what do you make of

the the republican rebuttal. it was very well delivered it was a powerful statement and i think that that at the heart of it was his declaration that america is not a racist country now that is something that many americans would disagree with. but in a sense jim static was not really speaking to those folks who were committed to being that america as a race country or that america must focus on addressing structural racism he was speaking to the base of the republican party and to those swing voters who might be attracted to the republicans this was a very political statement by tim scott but it was i think quite effective because he delivered it in a very personal style he spoke of his mother he did new people into a conversation and frankly again he is very conservative he is

a potential republican presidential candidate in 2024 and you heard him framing out an alternative message that of president biden and frankly to that of the democratic party oh no one of the other messages that seemed to come through was that he was saying that's why look president biden and heritage and a tide that was already turning and he seemed to be telling the a comp accomplishments of the previous administration that of donald trump. there's no question when he did that i thought that was pretty striking. that he actually mentioned president trump's name and he credited president from an operation works the vaccination development program with getting the united states to the place where it is at right now obviously many democrats who disagree with that in fact

will remember that just in november the clear majority of the american people voted to get rid of president from so there's clearly a divide on this issue but where senator scott went to was an argument that i think republicans will devote a lot of time to bringing out in the months and years to come and that is a sense a belief that what president did was not sufficient to get president elected but it was sufficient to begin a recovery that republicans will try to claim credit for frankly i think they'll have a hard time doing that because obviously president biden holds the office now and so he the sitting president tends to get the blame when things go wrong it credit when things go right and so the republicans are frankly setting themselves a tough task but again tim scott did i think is able job as you might

look for in at least attempting to frame out the argument that is part is going to be putting forward in 20222024 john across thank you so much for speaking to us from wisconsin. i. will move on to other news for a moment and tell you about us federal investigators who have raided the manhattan apartment and the office of donald trump's former lawyer rudy giuliani seizing electronic devices so prosecutors have been looking into giuliani's dealings in ukraine which included an investigation into then democratic contender joe biden and his son hunter giuliani's lawyers said the probe is politically motivated and called the raids legal thuggery gabriel is on those in new york with more on the investigation. federal investigators are closing in on rudy giuliani and that their

investigation into his him that has been going on for more than 2 years is advancing and advancing significantly also for federal investigators to raid a home such as this of a suspect they need to get permission from a judge in order in order to get that permission they need to show the judge that they have a reasonable amount of evidence that the person the suspect committed a serious crime so clearly they have been able to convince a judge because they clearly got the authorization they needed to carry out this rate of d.o.j. and any federal agents are not commenting at all about this raid but the new york times and others are reporting from sources that federal agents confiscated several electronic devices from giuliani's home and we're also finding out late on wednesday now that there are raids of more people as well associates of rudy giuliani outside of new york 2 in particular 2 lawyers that are associates of him

have confirmed that their offices were raided wednesday afternoon as well so clearly this is closing in on rudy giuliani this investigation by federal officials that we believe is traced back to giuliani's ties to ukraine antigovernment demonstrations in colombia's capital have turned violent thousands the $519.00 restrictions and marched through the streets of bogota to protest against president's proposed tax hikes demonstrators and right police in some parts protesters pressed ahead with the rally this fight a government that's a postponed colombia saw widespread anti-government protests in 2019 but slow down during the pandemic. has more from the. clashes broke out between protesters and the police here in the capital at the end of a massive day of protests across colombia some protesters story trowing

iraq's at the police the police responded with stun grenades and tear gas dispersing a massive crowd tens of thousands of people took to the streets here in time and number of cities across colombia against a tax reform proposed by the government that would raise taxes on many basic items people in colombia or angry they are tired they have been greatly affected the by. the idea of having to pay more taxes was just at the last drop for many of them so it's important to say that most of the day was peaceful here in the capital bogota the clashes were at the end of the demonstrations there were other clashes in the city. and

the mayor there decided to impose a curfew at 1 pm local the mayor of bogota also the side that 'd she will stop all services at 5 pm and this asking people to go back home now people took to the streets to spite the fact that both the national government and local governments have asked people not to demonstrate not to protest given the fact that we are in the middle. way of coping 19 infections in the country hospitals are close to collapse but people felt that they needed to come out and protest given the sheer numbers of people that protested today many are now asking if this will be at the beginning of a new season of social upheaval in the country. struggling to control the covert 19 pandemic in the past 24 hours they health ministry has reported nearly 3200

deaths it has a 2nd highest number of fatalities after the us with almost 400000 deaths a highly contagious variant inconsistent restrictions on the president's repeated denial of the risks have been blamed for the crisis countries in south america could see a worse cover $1000.00 served on last year that's according to the pan american health organization would says brazil peru and chile are reporting the highest number of infections in the region there are fears a new variant which began in peru may be contributing to the spike arline america editor of the c.n.n. has more from santiago. neither nationwide confinements and nighttime crew shoes nor an impressive vaccination campaign has been able to significantly rein in the pandemic in chile and a new variant of cold would 19 maybe degrees the way it's been labeled c 37 1st seen at the end of december in lima peru where it now accounts for 40 percent

of cases there the death rate has been rising sharply professor published says that such a rapid spread could indicate it is stronger than other variants seen so far. appear in sustained way over time and some exceptional cases in some parts of the world variants with new properties me appear and it seems that this is what we're observing in this case the only thing that we know is that spreads rapidly in peru and then today suggests that it's more contagious scientists are rushing to determine if the c $37.00 variant is not only more contagious but also more powerful than previous ones after israel chile is the country with the highest percentage of its population that has been inoculated against cold with 19 i've already had my 2 jobs for example like millions of others in this country. but the real question now is how effective will they be against this new variant it will take weeks if not longer before we have any idea. that's not the only bad news

a recent survey indicates that in brazil and chile 13 percent more people are seeking relief from the stress of the pandemic at their local liquor shop. in june last year to listen to your ministry carried out its own poll 2 minutes ago the survey was a big success more than 34000 people took part versus 10000 in europe and the results were quite content of. the showed that while 21 percent of chileans who drinking more 41 percent reported they were drinking less because it was socializing much less but 11 months later the result of a new ministry survey may be very different begin to look after the fact that people are forced to stay at home means they are drinking a bit more for various reasons anxiety stress boredom. after more than a year of very long confinement and prohibitions the frustration level is running

high and the possibility of a new variant set in the clock back yet again is adding yet another ingredient to the complex cocktail you see in human al-jazeera said of. a state of north carolina will not release the body camera video showing the police killing of andrew brown jr a court has ruled that releasing the footage may jeopardize ongoing investigations the sudan be unarmed black man happened in elizabeth city an independent autopsy shows he was shot in the back of the heads. northern ireland's 1st minister has announced she's stepping down after members of her party challenge her leadership arlene foster will resign as leader of the democratic unionist party northern ireland's 1st minister critics blame her for the trade barrier down the irish known as the northern ireland protocol which was agreed as part of the exit from the.

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