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danger he couldn't help him. on medical attention they didn't know he was in such distress to need medical attention. cephalwe will have to watch what happens as a result of this. thank you. thank you everyone for sticking with us on this wild ride. a lot of breaking news. wolf will take over right now. this is cnn breaking news. >> whatever you are watching from around the world thanks for joining us. we are covering breaking news with developments unfolding on several stories. the united states supreme court dead locks on controversial immigration orders issued by president obama. you are going to hear the president's reaction. we will break down legal and political impact of the ruling. it's significant. not guilty on all charges. a baltimore police officer is acquitted in the death of freddie gray, the officer caesar
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goodson drove the van gray was riding in. and house democrats getting ready to end their sit in over gun control but not giving up the fight. let's listen in. >> whenever you get engaged in something live with a sense of dignity. do it with a sense of pride. be happy and never get lost in a sea of despair. keep the faith. it's not a struggle that lasts for one day or one week or one year. it is a struggle. we are going to win the struggle.
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>> others suggested we are going to mobilize. our people are with us, not just in our district, but people all over america and around the world, social media told a story and i just want to thank you guys, really. you got it out there. you got in the way. you got in trouble, necessary trouble. we must never give up or give in. we must keep the faith and we must come back here on july 5 more determined than ever
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and brothers in the leadership so beautiful and so wonderful. i just want to thank you. we are going to leave here. we are going out down the steps to greet the people outside. american people are with us and people around the world are with us. so thank you very much. [ applause ] >> the congressman, civil rights icon who helped lead the sit in to protest the fact that there was no vote on the floor of the house of representatives on gun control. they just wrapped up this sit in that they had going since yesterday. i want to bring in senior
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political reporter on capitol hill. he has been covering it from the start. what happened because i thought this was going to go on indefinitely even though the house went into recess? >> reporter: just short time ago house democrats had a closed door meeting with their leadership team and others, whip team here on capitol hill. and these members came out of the meeting uncertain about whether they wanted to continue this. they tried to test support whether there was appetite to drag this out through the recess. the house is going on to recess, not coming back until after july 4. it just wasn't that much appetite to continue to do that not because they don't believe in the issue, they say because they believe they have been effective in making points politically. they say the protests will continue back in home districts. i think they can be very effective in making their case back home. they are not ruling out when they come back into session
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after july 4th recess doing something similar again. clearly they believe they have a lot of momentum yesterday a lot of members ready to go home. they may not have had a lot of floor presence over the next couple of weeks and probably a lot of people stop paying attention to them. the good time to sort of pull the plug on this effort. i should note there are significant developments happening on the senate side of the capitol later today. susan collins of maine pushing a bill to deny those on no fly list the right to buy a firearm. that bill is coming for senate vote to see if there is enough support to move this forward. what we are hearing is probably not going to have enough support to pass the senate. so collins actually criticized house democrats for making this
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a partisan exercise in her view she is trying to make this bipartisan bill. the nra is opposed to her bill. it shows how stymied congress is on this issue and one reason why we saw very emotional and unusual scene play out on the house floor over the last day or last several hours and into the early morning hours. >> we will see if republican senator susan collins can get the 60 votes out of 100 in the u.s. senate needed to move this piece of legislation forward. you are suggesting that is really problematic. other legislation earlier in the week failed 60 vote margin. let's say they do pass it in the senate it has to go to the house. is there indication paul ryan would let the susan collins legislation if it were to pass in the senate come up for a vote in the house? >> reporter: he has not ruled that out specifically. he was asked today at his press conference about the proposal.
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he said we will see what the senate does first. he was adamant that he was not going to cave to democratic pressure tactics. he said what the democrats are doing is threatening democracy in his words. he believes this is not the way to get a vote to come up. he said there are procedures and this is not one of them to hijack the house floor. after all, he could allow vote to come up and vote it down and move on. he does not believe pressure tactics will work. if it does pass the senate the chance of passing the house are very slim largely because the nra opposes the bill and of course the house is controlled by republicans who are close to nra. >> we are seeing john lewis walk down the steps of the u.s. capital. they ended the sit in at least for now. they are all going back presumably to their districts. they will be getting on planes.
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will be making a statement to supporters who gathered at the bottom of the capitol hill steps. much more coming up. there are some major decisions on the u.s. supreme court affecting millions of people here in the united states. we will update you on that. a lot of breaking news happening. we'll be right back. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be under attack. with the help of at&t, and security that senses and mitigates cyber threats, their critical data is safer than ever. giving them the agility to be open & secure. because no one knows & like at&t.
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supreme court which has delivered a major setback to president obama on the hot button issue of immigration. the court dead locked 4-4 on the president's executive orders that could have prevented more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from being deported and now the executive action is on hold. it will not be implemented. the president called the decision disappointing. he believes immigration reform eventually will become reality. >> today's decision is frustrating to those who seek to grow our economy and bring rationality. i think it is heartbreaking for the millions of immigrants who
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made their lives here, who have raised families here and hoped for the opportunity to work, pay taxes, serve in our military and more fully contribute to this country we all love in an open way. now we have a choice about who we are going to be as a country, what we want to teach our kids and how we want to be represented in congress and in the white house. we are going to have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate hypocrisy of the system where workers who pick our fruit or make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law or whether we are going to give them a chance just like our forebearers had a chance to take responsibility and give their kids a better future. we are going to have to decide whether we are people who accept cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms or whether
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we value families and keep them together for the sake of all of our communities. we have to decide whether we are a people who continue to educate the world's brightest students in high schools and universities only to send them away to compete against us or whether we encourage them to stay and create new jobs and new businesses right here in the united states. these are all the questions that voters now are going to have to ask themselves and will have to answer in november. these are the issues that are going to be debated by candidates across the country both congressional candidates as well as the presidential candidates. and in november americans will have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. i promise you this, though, sooner or later immigration reform will get done. >> for more on the ruling and impact let's bring in cnn justice correspondent pamela brown.
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pamela, walk us through the basics of this case. you can see the disappointment in the president's words and in his face. >> absolutely. as we heard the supreme court was dead locked over the president's executive action on immigration. this program would have shielded more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and would have allowed them to apply for work and receive work benefits. opponents of the program said this was an overreach of the president's power, that this was a job for congress and not the president. the administration argued that the president has discretion to decide who is deported and not deported. this would allow more than 4 million undocumented immigrants considered low priorities to come out of the shadows. because the court was dead locked this means lower court's ruling stands, program will not move forward but there is no national precedence. >> the 4 million individual whose would have benefitted from the president's executive action no longer have that benefit. >> that's right. i think one main purpose of
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president obama's statement was to try to calm a certain amount of the fear that those folks face. he said that the policy of not deporting people in those categories, people who came as children to the united states, so-called dreamers, the parents of american citizens, they are still going to be low priority for deportation. the problem that they are going to have and this is the core of the significance of the decision today is that they are not going to have the right to go get jobs, to go qualify for social security cards, to come out of the shadows. that is very much on hold. so that's the problem that they face now. they are not going to be deported but they will still have to be in this legal limbo. >> it has direct impact on a lot of people who thought they would be able to come out of the shadows. >> sometimes the supreme court
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decisions when we feel and talk about them in terms of abstractions, this is not an abstract case. this is a case about the lives of more than 4 million people who live in the country. >> the political fallout from all of this going into presidential election where the next president of the united states will have an opportunity to name one or two or three supreme court justices have an impact not for four or eight years but 20, 30 or 40 years. that will be a key issue for american voters. >> in the wake of this decision i think all of our inboxes were flooded with messages and reaction to this from progressives and democrats who really wanted to frame this as a human issue, sort of human toll. and then republicans, reince priebus sent out a statement saying this was a victory for the rule of law and our democracy. i think that is the framing we will see. i think over the last couple of days we have seen how salient the culture wars are.
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we had gun control debate going on. today immigration reform. monday decision on abortion case. these are the issues that the supreme court has ruled on and these are the issues that energize both bases of the party. i think for republicans i think this issue whether or not they can expand, whether or not they can be a party where there are different types of people, different demographic to appeal to, that is a real issue if you think about states like florida, colorado, nevada, 17% to 19% latino electorate. but you can see democrats being passionate about this and the same thing from gop. >> listen to the speaker of the house reacting to the supreme court decision. >> this is a win for the
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constitution. it's a win for congress and it's a win in our fight to restore the separation of powers. president doesn't write laws, congress writes laws. >> that has been their argument all along. >> i am reminded of what speaker ryan said to you yesterday when you interviewed him about his uneasy relationship with donald trump. one thing he said is donald trump will appoint conservatives to the supreme court. and if we learn anything from today we learn the significance of the supreme court and the centrality of the supreme court in the presidential election. republicans like speaker ryan don't care a great deal for donald trump but they are correct in knowing, in recognizing that donald trump will appoint very different people to the supreme court from hillary clinton and that alone justifies supporting him. >> hillary clinton tweeted today's heartbreaking scotus
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immigration ruling could tear apart 5 million families facing deportation. we must do better. there was another ruling. >> i think this was a bit of a surprise ruling. this was seven justices upholding the affirmative action program from the university of texas. this is the second time the case made it to the court, a white woman from texas sued the university for discrimination. she said the fact that see was white put her at disadvantage. this allows students in texas 10% to be accepted. they consider race as factor for admission. the justices said race can continue to be used as a factor but there was strong desnts. >> the president said he welcomed this decision as opposed to the other decision on
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immigration. this decision affirming affirmative action as a factor in admittance at u.s. colleges. >> justice kennedy has been on the supreme court since 1987, a long time. in every major affirmative action case since 1987 he has voted against affirmative action. now he has found a program at the university of texas that he thinks is constitutional. and this is going to be very much a green light to admissions offices in public and private universes to use race as one factor, not the only factor, not a green light for quotas, but to consider the value of diversity on university campuses. and that, again, is practically a very big deal in terms of how our campuses are going to look going forward. >> and this was a victory for the liberals. >> again, i think it goes back to what we were talking about
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before, the culture wars. again, you saw from progressives really the idea that they seem to affirm the idea that diversity is a good thing. in many ways i think you see democrats this their argument going forward talking about what america looks like and what america should be. you heard the president talk about that in his speech, the idea of congress has to recognize what america looks like. so again this was an important day, some ways unexpected with affirmative action decision and then to bow determined in terms of immigration reform. >> two very important decisions by the supreme court. today they are wrapping up their sessions. we think monday will be the last day, a couple of other decisions we are waiting for. >> absolutely. coming up, president obama frustrated with the supreme court decision keeps some undocumented immigrants from
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we're following breaking news u.s. supreme court dead locking on president obama's executive action that would have allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work legally here in the united states. the ruling two years after president obama stood behind a podium urging immigrants in his words to come out of the shadows. last hour he stood behind a podium to address the supreme
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court's decision. >> we are going to have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate the hypocrisy of the system where workers who pick our fruit or make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law or whether we are going to give them a chance just like our forebarers had a chance to take responsibility and give kids a better chance. we have to decide whether we are people who accept cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms or whether we actually value families. >> let's talk about this with republican congressman adam kissinger of illinois. your reaction to what we heard from the president. >> i agree with the supreme court's decision upholding the lower court because this is a debate that belongs in congress. it belongs in elections. these are debates to have. it does not belong in a president who decides he is not getting what he wants therefore makes an executive order.
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i agree with the idea of immigration reform. i have been very outspoken about it but something that has to be sustainable coming through the house of representatives. simply the president's frustration on inaction is not an excuse to put forward an executive order. one thing people forget is at the point he launched this executive order we were actually making progress to a bipartisan immigration reform solution and once that happened could we have gotten it right, i don't know. once it happened the executive order was put out both sides went to the corner and there was no progress. >> how far would you go in supporting comprehensive immigration reform? we know that donald trump, the presumptive republican nominee wants to deport immediately 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. he says they have to go back to their countries. the good ones they say can come back to the united states. he is the leader of your party. where do you stand on this? >> obviously, i have been very clear i don't agree with a lot
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of what donald trump says. i'm not supporting him right now. it's unrealistic. it's not humane to say you are going to deport 11 million people. what we need to do is recognize that they are here. i think getting a pathway to legalizing them here, having them pay taxes and be productive citizens is the answer to start as well as border security. that will be essential. these are things that if we put them hand in hand together, the problem is when the president says he is frustrated that he is not getting what he wants through congress and going to do it by executive order and the supreme court had their voice heard on that today. >> the supreme court ruled that he didn't have that authority at least for now. he is not ruling it out down the road or right now. don't you feel bad for those 4 million people who began to come out of the shadows, if you will, started registering, hoping to start a new life, some children are american citizens, born in
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the united states, were legal here and now potentially once again they have to start fearing about this notion they could be deported, these families could be ripped apart. >> i feel bad for them. that is why i have been aggressively saying we need to do immigration reform. we need to find a solution to allow the folks to become taxpayers. doing that through the executive order and putting both sides in the corner frankly i think has done more harm than good in the long run. we were close. i can't predict whether we would have reached bipartisan immigration reform. we were way further along in achieving that until the executive order. i know people were asking administration to delay on doing that because we were making progress. it needs to happen going forward but within the construct of the constitution which is the house of representatives and senate to make those decisions. >> i know you don't support donald trump as the next
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president of the united states but he makes the case that if you don't vote for him hillary clinton will be the president and the supreme court nominee she puts forward could have an impact for 20 or 30 years down the road, very different than conservative nominees he would put forward. what is your reaction to that? >> well, you know, it's a very compelling case. we are concerned with what the supreme court looks like. i want to get to where i can support the republican nominee. i'm not a never trump guy but i'm american before republican. a lot of things he says has been concerning to me. i can't automatically support him just because he is the republican nominee. there is a compelling case to be made for supreme court. we will see if he makes that case instead of outlandish things he has been saying. the democrats have just ended their silt in on the floor of the house. they wanted a vote on gun control.
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that vote is not happening anytime soon. your reaction? >> i mean, of course, i'm all for having the debate. i have said that. i think we were making progress, some kind of bipartisan in terms of background checks with terrorist no fly lists. a sit in, that is a huge break down of how the house operates. it was great for social media, but for long term ramifications we have a level of respect that we debate in out here and that allows the area to function. i hope this is not long term because this leads to a break down of frankly civil debate which is extremely important in a republic like ours. >> democrats are recalling as i'm sure you were in the congress back in 2008 when the democrats were the majority nancy pelosi was speaker, republicans staged a sit in, as well, over another issue. this is not the first time this
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happened in washington. >> that was during a recess. that is important to note, as well. >> the democrats at that time they just shut off the lights in the house chamber, as well in addition to going to recess. we will continue to watch all of this. thanks very much for joining us. >> you bet. thanks. still to come, the verdict is in in the murder trial of the baltimore police officer who drove the police van in which freddie gray was fatally injured. will it affect the remaining trials? how is the city responding? we are going live to baltimore. that's next.
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news out of baltimore where the police van driver charged in the death of 25-year-old freddie gray has been found not guilty on all counts by a judge. the officer had faced several charges including one for second degree murder, was the most serious charge of the six police officers indicted in freddie gray's death. goodson was accused by prosecutors of taking gray on a quote rough ride designed to toss a prisoner around. we are joined now live and here with us is our legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. what happened in court and what is the reaction so far from the community? >> reporter: the judge saying there was just nothing to back up the prosecution's assertion that it was a rough ride saying while freddie gray was injured in the van it is not clear when he was injured or if he was presented as sort of medical
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emergency that goodson or other officers thought he needed a seat belt on that matter whether or not that would have helped freddie gray given that he had been so yelling at police. in the courtroom goodson just stared straight ahead at the judge as he read not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. playing out specifically how the prosecution failed to reach that level of evidence as to convict officer goodson. his family in the crowd crying as those verdicts were read out. officer nero stood up and just sort of said yes. on the other side of the courtroom a much different reaction. moseby was in the court. she had her head down saying no, no, no, nodding her head back and forth throughout proceedings.
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a lot of frustration here in the community. they feel that freddie gray may have died in vein. many say at least a lot of attention is being put on the baltimore police after all of this. they may not have gotten convictions but at least a lot of attention. the question now is what happens with the other officers? can they get convictions on any officers. >> what do you think? there are three more trials outstanding. how is this verdict going to impact those? >> this defendant had the highest level of charges. so it sends a message to the public and to the courts and the prosecution that if you can't convict beyond a reasonable doubt as to a high charge like murder what does it say about lesser crimes? it does not bode well for prosecution. >> did the prosecution overreact and overcharge the six baltimore police officers? >> as a biassed criminal defense attorney it is my feeling that
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is the case. when you think about the crime of depraved heart murder, a form of unintentional killing but unintentional in name only. the act required is so malicious, so in disregard of safety, so indifferent that it is almost as bad as intending to kill itself skpmpt when you look at this case the failure to buckle a suspect in, is that a mistake? is it against policy? yes. does it rise to the level of something so reckless that it might as well be intent to kill? the judge said no. before we talk about intent the prosecution had to prove causation. freddie gray was in the truck. he was injured but did this driver cause that injury? >> we'll see what happens next. obviously, huge impact in baltimore right now we are
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watching this case closely. we want to go to the u.s. senate. the republican senator susan collins introduced compromised gun control legislation is speaking out. i want to hear what she is saying. >> perhaps that massacre would have been prevented. third, our amendment provides robust due process procedures to protect the second amendment rights of law-abiding americans. any american denied a purchase under this amendment would have the opportunity to have their case heard before a federal district judge. the government would have the burden of proof in order to deny the sale and would have to present its case within a short but reasonable period of time. if the government failed to make its case, if this turned out to be some terrible error, it would
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have to pay attorneys fees for the person who had been denied the purchase and, of course, the purchase of the firearm could go forward. and our amendment makes sure that the applicant can have cleared counsel present to make sure that the government cannot take away a fundamental right without a legal advocate to protect their due process rights. now, critics of our amendment have mistakenly claimed that this bill would allow americans to be denied to keep and bear arms based merely on suspicion or a hunch. that is simply not true. we are not using the terrorist screening database which has 1.1 million people on it, that is
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not what we are using. we are using the carefully defined no fly and select list because those are the most carefully constructed subsets of all of the government's terrorist watch lists. these lists include names of individuals who pose the greatest threat of committing an act of terrorism against aviation, against the homeland, against u.s. interests overseas. and there are, in fact, only 109,000 individuals on this list of which only 27,000 are americans. mr. president -- >> the time for the majority has expired. the senator from virginia.
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>> if i can rise to compliment my colleague. >> you have susan collins making her case for compromised legislation to expand gun control here in the united states. on the house side democrats have ended their sit in protest coming after more than 24 hours seizing the house floor demanding a vote on gun control after the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history. the speaker put the house in recess shutting off the chamber official cameras. one representative chose to share video stream with live streaming app rr called per scope. that is scott peters who is here with us right now. thank you very much for coming in. a lot of people are asking what happened to the no bill, no break. you guys are take ag break right now? >> we don't have control over the schedule that the republican
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leadership sets but we felt we had a very successful day. we are able to connect with the american people on an issue that they care about and they saw the frustration we have. >> where does it go from here? the house is in recess until july 5. what happens on july 5? >> i don't think the issue will go away. we will have to figure out how to continue to put the pressure on. i think we had good success yesterday in really gauging the interest of the american people in sharing this anger over these awful shootings. from schools to movies to colleges to now a night club this is the kind of thing that is unacceptable. we know 85% to 95% of people agree with the two limited proposals we had, expand background checks to cover gun sales and make sure terrorists can't buy guns. >> yesterday i interviewed house
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speaker paul ryan. listen to this clip from that conversation. >> they are sending out fundraising solicitations like this one. house democrats on the house floor, your contribution will go to the dccc. this is congress, the house of representatives, oldest democracy in the world and descending it to chaos. >> that was not from my interview with the speaker but he said it was a publicity stunt. today you hear him saying you guys are trying to raise money as a result of this. >> you can call it what it wants. i share a love of house of representatives as body. all mr. ryan has to do is put this before the body to let us take action on it. we have republican and democratic co sponsors for the background check build. for him to say that we are creating this chaos, all he has to do is let the body do its work. the congressional approval is at
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15% under his leadership. it's time for us to do what the american people elected us to do. >> aren't there rules in the house of representatives? there is a majority and minority. you in the minority. he is the majority. he is the speaker just like when nancy pelosi was the speaker she could determine what comes up for a vote. if you become the majority again as you hope will be the case you will decide what gets voted those are the rules of the house. >> they are. you have to look at why we have such low congressional approval. people are angry. you see it in the elections across country at the dysfunction in washington, d.c. they want us to vote on immigration. the senate voted yes. the house didn't take it up. they want us to vote on these gun issues. the senate voted no. he is using it as an excuse not to take it up. we are not taking up the nomination of a supreme court justice. we are frustrated like the american people that we are not getting a chance to do what they told us to do.
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all mr. ryan has to do is turn on the cameras, let us vote, have an honest debate. >> more sit-ins, more civil disobedience, more breaking of the rules? >> that's not the procedure we would like to follow. we came to legislate. we would like to work across party lines to get answers to these questions. we have reached the point of frustration where after sandy hook and after orlando, we see no action in the very body, deliberative body, which mr. ryan boasts is supposed to take legislative action. >> the president tweeted his support for you. we need more than moments of silence. we need action. that's what's going on in the house right now. practically speaking, has anything been achieved. will you get that vote? >> i got to see the reaction over social media to the connection. i played with periscope in the beginning, took it down a couple times. i got this reaction, put it back up. we were watching this. we were engaged with it.
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i think we have changed the conversation, because we have connected the american people and shown them we are just as frustrated as they are with the leadership. >> you used to work with susan collins to compromise legislation on the senate side. >> we don't put law enforcement through the paces of proving people should be on the watch list for purposes of flight. i don't know why we would do it with guns. at least she is taking steps to try to work across the aisle. we have to commend her for that. >> you came up with the idea of periscope to use that app to bypass c-span. >> my deal was, if you put on the house cameras, i would turn mine off. it was important for the american people to see this. john lewis was sitting on the floor as part of a protest of civil disobedience. that wasn't in accord with the house rules. i thought it was the appropriate thing to do. i think america appreciated it. >> thanks for coming in. only moments away, the senate has agreed to hold a
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procedural vote on a new gun bill introduced by republican senator susan collins of maine. will it pass? let's go back to manu raju, up on capitol hill. what are the chances of her legislation getting the votes to move forward? >> very slim. the vote that is happening does not require 60 votes to advance. it is a complicated procedural maneuver. it needs 51 votes to keep it pending. she could potentially get to that majority threshold. if she does, it doesn't mean it passes the senate. there has to be another vote in the senate. that would require 60 votes. it is a test vote to see how much support that she has in the senate right now for this measure. now, susan collins is pushing this. what it is, it would essentially prohibit folks on that no-fly
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list, prohibit them from getting guns. if the folks are denied guns, they can appeal that process after the fact. if some republicans raise concerns, constitutional concerns, saying people should not be denied, initially, up front, getting a gun from a secret list, the government should investigate before denying that purchase. so what you are going to see actually on the floor shortly is an alternative measure put forward by other republicans. that includes the number two republican and ron johnson of wisconsin offering an alternative to the collins plan. susan collins was upset saying this republican alternative will siphon off votes from her plan which she thought was on the cusp of getting enough support to stay pending to the current
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legislation. a lot of procedural maneuvering around because it shows how politically sensitive this issue is, wolf. even in that off chance if it were to get that 60 votes to pass the senate, it wouldn't pass the house from the theatrics happening all week. one reason republican leaders are moving forward so aggressively, they want to have votes. they don't believe this is a good issue politically. they want to move on to other issues. >> manu raju doing some excellent reporting on this sensitive issue. another important story we are following in the uk, voters are making a monumental choice, casting their balance lot toss decide whether to stay in or leave the european union. a record 46.5 billion are registered to take part. the issue has divided britains separating them into leave and
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here we are, top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. we are expecting the leader of house democrats, nancy pelosi, to come out on capitol hill and talk about this historic protest that lasted for more than 24 hours. democratic members stanled this sit-in decrying the
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