klobuchar: mr. mel cho. mr. mitchell: we are paying almost four times what other countries are for the exact same drugs. no other country allows drugmakers to dictate the prices of drugs. that is why our prices are high. they negotiate. we do not. the outcome is prices that range is high as everyone knows. sen. klobuchar: thank you. return to solutions. mr. kade yous, the coal mines and the failure of u.s. competition law. are you saying these problems should have been an early warning sign it and most importantly, broad-based performance. if you look at these markets, there can be some specific tech laws. what we're going to be doing next month on the agricultural markets and something senator grassley is interested in as we ll as what we have seen from online travel. this is called the softball. leading question. would be most helpful. mr. kades: i do, senator. you talked about the ovation case. is it -- it is a perfect example of where antitrust has gone off the rails. it should be easy if there

klobuchar: according to a lot of us. i keep thinking of the hours that went by and the people in jured and the officers whose lives were changed forever. a lot has been reported about the quick response force waiting at andrews air force base just in case. that force was spent -- set up to control the traffic control mission. the quick response force could be deployed to the capital immediately once the violence began because they were not outfitted for right control. is that right? maj. gen. walker: no. they were outfitted. the quick reaction force was district of columbia, air national guard, security forces squadron. most of those guardsmen, our law enforcement officers and are civilian positions. they were ready to go and outfitted with the equipment they needed. sen. klobuchar: and they were that -- get andrews. -- at andrews. maj. gen. walker: i moved them to the armory to be closer. sen. klobuchar: who was on that conversation with you? you mentioned from the defense department. i know who was on their from the po

klobuchar: okay. paul: i did not. ms. klobuchar: okay.i think that may have contributed part to the lack of information, but i'll leave that for the future. now let's go back to another report that i know on january 3, mr. sund, you said in your written testimony that the capitol police published intelligence assessment of the event, including one on january 3. do you mostly rely on your federal partners like the fbi to gather and analyze intelligence on potential threats to the capitol and members of congress? steven: yes. i think what's important to realize, as a law enforcement agency, we're a consumer of intelligence and information that's provided by the intelligence community. the intelligence community is 18 federal agencies that collect information, do the analyzing of the raw data, raw intelligence, and then provide it to us. so we're reliant on that information to be complete and accurate. ms. klobuchar: but in that report, we now know, according to your testimony, that tens of thousands of participants were likely to descend on

klobuchar: mr. kades, i don't know what happened when pres. biden made this announcement to the pharmaceutical companies. did they plummet? mr. kades: they did not take a substantial hit. sen. klobuchar: sham fda petitions. a moment of asking questions. i figured you would have some impression. the practice of filing sham petitions wrist delaying the approval of generic drugs and imposes unnecessary burdens on fda with resources. give the -- can you elaborate on the competition because by the following -- filing of sham fta petitions? mr. kades: it is a tragic story. the government comes up with an idea that when the fda makes decisions, citizens and people involved should be able to petition the ftc -- fda. this improves participation. nobody in their wildest dreams thought that virtually all citizens petitions dealing with generic approval would be filed by their competitors in the branded companies, saying, this generic product, you have to put special respect -- restrictions on it or do not appr

klobuchar: okay. very good. for your emphasis on the fbi report and the issues that everyone here seems to acknowledge with getting that. that it didn't go at the right place, and just putting send it isn't enough for a report like that. okay. next we have senator cruz and then after that will be senator ossoff. and if there's any other senators who wish to ask questions, who haven't asked questions, you should tell us, because those are the last two we have. senator cruz. senator cruz: thank you, madam chair. and let me say to each of the witnesses here today, thank you for being here. thank you for your testimony. and thank you also for your service. i want to thank each of you, and also each of the heroic law enforcement officers who demonstrated extraordinary courage in fighting to repel the terrorist attack that unfolded on the capitol on january 6th. and we are grateful for the bravery and the courage in the face of a truly horrific attack. senator cruz: in the aftermath of that attack, there is naturally

what should chairwoman klobuchar be focusing on? where should she be aiming her questions when she's at that hearing in georgia? >> i think there's three things. i think we need to really understand kind of not just the urgency, but how this is a layered approach, how the administrative process -- while we're talking aboutnings georgia around not giving out water, but some of the most egregious is how they're weaponizing the administrative process. it was just a few days ago where the secretary of state, who's a republican, raffensperger called for the resignation of election officials in fulton county, the most majority many of black county in the state. this is a county that trump said he wanted to turn over the election and it still came up where the votes were correct. in that process, what he's also saying is there are plans to take over the election, so they're weaponizing the administrative process to undermine. what we think is one that actually comes down to really be able to get to the bottom of really hearing about what i

. >> thank you, chair klobuchar and all of you for being here today. drug competition and the pharmaceutical markets as well as drug pricing are frequent and recurring topics of congressional oversight and with good reason. access to prescription drugs is an issue that inevitably affects every life at one point or another. with free shipping for gadgets but a lot of people can't do without prescription drugs. my wife, for example, is one of 7 million americans who can't live without insulin. innovation competition and affordable prices are arguably more important to prescription drug markets than almost any other consumer market we can think of and it's a consumer market that happens to be particularly important to the sustainment of human life. it makes the continuing rise in drug prices all the more concerning. when we look at the data from 2007 to 2018, the cost of prescription drugs during that period rose three times faster than inflation and that is after we take into account manufacturing discounts. last month, aarp released findings of the drug

what should the chairwoman klobuchar be focusing on? where should she be aiming her questions when she is at that hearing in georgia? >> i think there is three. things we need to understand not just the urgency, but how this is a layered approach. how the administrative process, we about not being too give out water. the secretary of state, a republican, called for the red stagnation of election officials and fulton county. the most populous county and a heavy majority, black county in the state. this is the same county that trump actually wanted to turn over the election, and it came up there where the votes were correct. in that process, he's also saying there are plans to take over the election. they are up a saying -- weaponizing and undermining. it comes to really hearing what is happening on the county level, and the state level. really people to hear people and the frustrations of voters and how this is created a barrier. i don't think we can ignore the elephant in the room. unless we address and deal with the filibuster, it has

peter: so let's go to the democratic side, senator amy klobuchar. you write that she's trying to change the definition of what antitrust should be. elizabeth: yes, again, this comes back to the consumer harm standard, which they don't want consumer harms to be the sort of lone star antitrust law anymore. they want antitrust laws to be concerned with, his behavior just being anticompetitive? is it harming competitors, instead of which is it harming consumers? which would be a big change because anything a company does to improve its product or expand its line of business or attract new customers could be seen as harming competitors. that's why you have the house antitrust report saying things like, google changed its search engine, changed its search algorithm. that may have had the effect of making it harder for others to compete. but that also makes it better for people who are using google. so a lot of the times, you see klobuchar and morris kind of saying any these companies do things, change their business model otto, that it's been -- at all, t

white first if we want. >> thank you for the question, senator klobuchar. as we and other panelists here have said this is a new and evolving space. it's very dynamic. i can't predict what the future of this space look like but early signs are promising and i think you are grappling with the right question of how do we ensure we maximize the benefits of where this space is headed and mitigating against some of the potential issues. one of the areas that we have identified as an industry is this area of interoperability, and there's a robust conversation happening across the industry to try to address some of these issues but as i mentioned in my testimony, we joined with almost 200 other companies to work on this secure connectivity standard, an open protocol so these various smartphone devices and smartphones ecosystems can interact with each other. that's a promising conversation. the industry is engaged in that. we're contributing to that. i think one of the mitigated to the risk you are again if i is it's not just the big companies that are part of this

>> senator amy klobuchar today chaired a u.s. hearing that was uprooted from washington and moved to georgia and held in georgia instead. this is the first time the rules committee and the senate has held a field hearing in 20 years. but senator klobuchar decided that the issue of voting rights was worth hitting the road for. to go understand in person what's new republican installed voting restrictions mean on the ground in states where they're being enacted. so the committee, at least the democrats on the committee who showed up, republicans didn't show up for this. but democrats on the committee heard testimony from georgia voters an election officials including helen butler who you just heard from their. she served on the board of elections on her rural county in georgia for more than ten years, until this year when a provision in georgia's restrictive new voting law allowed local republican officials to remove her from the board this month so they could take full partisan republican control over her counties election adminis

chair klobuchar: thank you, senator. and thank you for your work as chair of the intelligence committee. we are going to break for 5-10 minutes and will be back. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [indiscernible conversations] chair: senator lankford, you are recognized. senator lankford: i appreciate your engagement. none of you have the answers on this. we are not expecting this panel to cover everything but i appreciate the gaps you're helping us fill. miss smislova, i want to ask a couple of questions about the ic. i read sensitive information sent to law enforcement in advance of january 6. help me understand. someone getting that report, capitol police, sergeant at arms, others, they get reports like this that are similar every day. if i look at the gist of reports prior to january 6 from intelligence, i have a hard time looking at it and getting c

we invite those that senator klobuchar mentioned, those states under attack, join us in washington. take a stand for democracy. let senators know that we support their effort to pass the for the people act because without this we will be silenced and we will not have the opportunity to have model legislation across this nation we want to thank you. we want to thank our senators for continuing the conversation. for continuing to work together because we didn't have that in texas. our republican legislators they want to spend 23 hours and here from over 500 people , 400 of them were against the measure they were preparing and only 65 for it. and they ignore the voices of the people. we will not allow that. we will not back down, wewill not stand down but we will stand up for our democracy . [applause] >> questions of any of us? [inaudible] >>. [inaudible] >> i'm not disappointed, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. i'm not saying we pass voting rights and by doing so we can't do anything else. i'm saying because we're doing these other things means we can't pass voting rights s

for that reason, we very much appreciate, senator klobuchar, that senator klobuchar has introduced legislation know that ranking member lee has now drafted his own bill that we will be studying closely. @viceally -- it's vitally important to recognize that a significant range of conduct that income a passes -- that suppresses competition in the smart home falls outside existing law. ap antitrust reregime for the digital age must address restrictions on interop rant and cross-subsidization and misuse of data. we urge congress to act soon. due to strong network events, markets can tip kickly, expld -- quickly, and it would be a shame to look back and wonder what might have been if only. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much. thanks for your testimony. next up, many crawford. mr. crawford. >> chair klobuchar, ranking member lee and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today. i have no expertise in antitrust. i come to you as a student of the history of political thought. the convenience of a smart home may be worth the price, that

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chairwoman klobuchar: ok. very good. chair peters: well, once again, i would like to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. it was a very long hearing. i appreciate your perseverance in dealing with certainly a number of very tough questions, and we all appreciate your answers. there's no question from what i have been hearing over the last two hearings. is that there were serious breakdowns and security planning that resulted in significant violence right here on the capitol grounds. the three r and 19 minute delay in authorizing -- the three hour and 19-minute delay in authorizing the deployment of the national guard to respond to the capitol to quell the violence, was one that left members of congress, staff and public in danger, and is without question, completely unacceptable. the breakdown in communication in the chain of command in the department of defense contributed to this delay stark , a difference from the department of defense during the protests this summer, is concerning and should never ever happ

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thank you, senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you. remember, we were together in atlanta just a while back during the presidential. i know you were covering all of the primaries, and it's bringing back strong them ris. so thank you. >> oh, yeah, we did a lot during all of the debates and also my work during that time. i remember. thank you. >>> joining me now is congressman jim clyburn of south carolina, the house majority whip. congressman, let me start with the filibuster. you've urged the president to publicly support a carve-out measure, rather than getting rid of the rule entirely. the filibuster has been changed in recent years, eliminated for judges and supreme court justices. what a carveout for voting rights look like, and how much leverage does the president have over senate rules? >> thank you very much for having me. a carveout would be simply to apply the reconciliation rules as you apply to the budget, apply that to voting. i am totally against the filibuster. but we had two democratic senators who say that they are not

amy klobuchar, thanks so much for joining us klobuchar. it looks like that bus might be coming your way and i saw that some of these people want to talk to it about you. what did you have to tell them as they arrive in washington? >> well, i have met with representatives when she was here last time and i believe that they're doing what's right. they are trying to stand up for whatever way possible for the freedom of people to vote and they're coming to the very place that they're supposed to find salvation. and i really actually like the trip johnson, along with vice president hunt -- protect civil rights in the sixties. when you have a conservative effort across the country, but in georgia and in other places, it doesn't stay have passed voter suppression's laws to limit people's freedom to vote. and you know the answer should be in washington, where the constitution clearly says that a new congress has the right to make or alter our federal elections. if i don't know it causes greater than doing that right now, this is the moment to get

shares, senator klobuchar has her own anti-trust proposals. i think you can find good common ground between the two issues and i propose to go farther than senator klobuchar has, we should have a hard ban on mergers and acquisitions on corporations 100 billion or more. the standards that courts use to value anti-trust cases and make it promoting competition, protecting competition. i think that ought to be the standard and currently used with welfare standards and i think is too differential in practice and change the standard and i highlight those because those are two major areas where my bill is tougher and stronger than other proposals out there, but i think that's good. i think we need to have a tampa bay about how our courts have been enforcing the law, debate how we can cut the monopoly corporations down to size, not just in the big tech sector and most pressing, but still, we're seeing economic concentration among multiple industries and i think we need to confront that. >> senator, you mentioned changing the standard for anti-trust li

klobuchar: ok.een a lot of discussion about this norfolk memo that arrived, as you noted, with key people in the capitol police and others the night before. they testified last week, the chief, that he didn't even know about it until the few days before our hearing. and, in fact, while there may be some that downplays that intelligence, while we don't have the memo publicly, that in that memo, there were statements that congress needs to hear the glass breaking, doors being kicked out, blood being spilled. we get our president or we die. go there ready for war. some of the specific calls for violence that we know were posted at that time, we know that president trump called on people to go there on january 6. we know that he told them to go wild. we know that in that memo there were discussions, as reported in the news, perimeter maps, bringing back the wounded. and to me, it just seems like it's beyond aspirational in nature, that it seems like some of these reports that we now know exist out there

the committee chair, senator amy klobuchar, joins me now. senator, thank you so much.extra busy day for you, having to travel. this is the first field hearing held by the rules committee in 20 years. i want to play some of what you heard from witnesses in georgia. here it is. >> one of my colleagues in the house, representative allen cowell, in a committee meeting said to somebody who was testifying, you're correct, it was found, meaning fraud, it's just in a lot of people's minds that there was. he actually said that in a committee meeting. it's really not there, it's just in a lot of people's minds that there was. so this legislation is based on things that are in the imagination in people's minds. >> after an hour and a half of standing outside, we made it inside the building, finally. just to find out that the line inside the building was just as long as the line outside the building. we were able to handle those three hours standing in line but we know not everybody can. >> so what else did you hear today, and will this testimony compel your colleagues in the sena

if i could talk to senator klobuchar, i would make that point.o after the business model that's going to take heavy artillery such as threatening the executives with prison time for the actual crimes they have committed. >> you two are so good. if my viewers do not follow you both and read your material, they should. most of my information on this comes from the two of you. >> they've got to follow -- they have to follow brandy because there is nobody like them. they are absolutely the world's best. >> we appreciate all of you. thank you, nbc senior reporter brandy zadrozny and roger mcnamee, who was an early investor in facebook and google and an adviser, and that does it for me. i'm sad to leave you, but i'm very happy to leave you in the hands of tiffany cross. catch me back here tomorrow morning from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m. eastern on velshi. i'll be joined by house majority whip, jim clyburn, senators bob casey and alex padilla and many more. do not go anywhere because a jam packed "cross connection" starts right now. ♪♪ >>> the select committee

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there is room to get some work across the aisle and the subcommitteemm that amy klobuchar chairs with her own antitrust proposal good, ground i also propose to go farther than senator klobuchar has but have a hard stand on mergers and acquisitions those have a market cap of 100 billion or more to change the standard the courts evaluate antitrust cases. promoting competition ought to be the standard courts use the consumer welfare standard which i think is too deferential in practice i think we got to change the standard because those are two major areas where my bill is tougher and stronger but i think we need to have a debate on howo we can cut these monopoly corporations down to size but still we see economic concentration and we need to confront that. >> you mentioned changing the standards for antitrust litigation. can you bring other conservatives around to that idea? and also said it's a nonstarter for them. >> it is able to move absolutely as i talked to conservatives traditionally on principle is brief of the free market and competition those who define themselves as economic

senator klobuchar, given the answer you gave, when?you the timeline. we've got a full -- near agreement with senator manchin on a different package, which contains so many of the basic voting rights. continuing to finalize that. we have the house starting the john lewis act in the house. here is one thing we haven't talked about. we have the infrastructure packages. the build back better packages. we're working on it with the biden administration. the first is bipartisan and the second most likely, of course, be a democratic package through another process called reconciliation. we can put election infrastructure funding along with housing and child care and the like and do what we can to incentivize mail in balloting. that is no substitution for the people act. it's another vehicle where i can push these provisions and use it as much as i possibly can under the law. >> final question and real fast. you didn't say -- excuse me, you didn't say anything about movement on filibuster reform. when are you going to push on that? >> that woul

on sunday rules committee chair woman amy klobuchar had a round table with stacey abrams hearing from voters about obstacles to the ballot. speaking with garrett haake before the hearing, klobuchar took aim at the ongoing complicity with the big lie. >> i believe it is even a bigger deal than party versus party. this is literally a quest to save our democracy because once you start disenfranchising people, then people lose faith. >> for her part, stacey abrams' voting rights organization, fair fight action, is launching 2.0 of its hot call summer campaign, asking supporters to call their senators every day until they take action to pass the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights restoration act. joining me is stacey abrams, author of "our time is now" which is available now in paperback. stacey, it is always great to talk with you. let's talk about what the field hearing that took place today means in practical terms. >> well, first and foremost it is an opportunity to once again set the record straight. there has been an attempt by opponents of s-1 to be, you know, eithe

amy klobuchar spoke about her effort to get him onboard.ant you to listen. >> number one is to get republicans. i don't think that's going to happen. the second thing is, well, senator manchin has indicated some interest in the standing filibuster. that's one way to do it. we could have it focused on voting rights only. we are continuing to work with him and many others to get this done. >> i wonder if you agree. and if you are hopeful that he could move on this issue. >> well, of course. i'm hopeful that he will, you know. we have people pushing for voter legislation, including his colleagues. something that will allow voting rights legislation to get passed. you can draw that line because it all started with the big lie, trump's lie about massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. the pinnacle of that was on january 6th. we saw the disastrous consequences of that. and then, we saw more consequences in the spring, as state legislature after state legislature, passed legislation to suppress voting rights in texas, and georgia, and other stat

and next week, senator klobuchar, always on the ball on these issues, will lead the senate rules committee to the state of georgia, your state, mr. president, for their first field hearing in 20 years. it will be an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the consequences of the big lie and show the american people just how far republicans have gone in order to make it harder, harder for people to vote in the 2020 election. the bottom line is this -- democrats will not stop fighting to protect voting rights and defend our democracy. as i said, the vote in june was the opening gun, not the finish line. last month, all 50 democrats, all 50 senate democrats united for the first time this congress to move forward on a strong voting rights bill. shamefully, shamefully republicans refused to even allow debate on voting rights legislation. hiding behind some of the exact same states' rights arguments, very similar arguments that southern senators used in the 1960's to oppose the voting rights act. how do you feel about that, republicans and republican leadership? how do you feel about using the same

some good common ground between the two of us on these issues, i propose to go further than senator klobuchar i think we ought to have a hard band of mergers and acquisitions for making corporations that have a market cap of a hundred billion or more, we added change the standard the court used to evaluate antitrust cases, i think we ought to make up anti-promoting competition that ought to be the standard called the consumer welfare standard which i think ends up being too deferential and practice to monopolies, we had a change the standard and i highlight those because the two major areas where my bill is tougher and stronger than other proposals out there but i think that is good and we need to have a debate about how we are enforcing the law and we need to have a debate on how we can cut the monopoly corporations down the side not just in the tech sector although the big tech corporations are the most pressing but were seen economic concentration across multiple industries and i think we need to confront that. >> senator you mentioned changing the standard for antitrust litigation, are yo

i asked senator klobuchar about how she views that possibility earlier this morning.. how much of what is happening here is designed to convince joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and the other democratic senators who are unsure about that that everything else has been tried? >> i think part of this is yes, bringing back evidence. there is evidence from colleagues but getting evidence from voters and bringing it back with us is important. this is a bigger deal than just party versus party. this is literally a quest to save our democracy. >> so hallie, a good way to look at this is again democrats trying to keep the spotlight on this issue, keep voters engaged on this issue, viewers engaged on this issue, while they figure out what a legislative solution may be, because they are stuck right now when it comes to the for the people act. >> garrett haake live in atlanta. priscilla, let me go to you. you're down there in texas with democrats from that state in washington on their second week to try to block a restricted voting bill there. you had a chance to talk with voters.

i think there is room to get some work done on the subcommittee on the part of that amye klobuchar chair she has her own antitrust proposals. i think you can find some good common ground between the twod of us on these two issues break propose to go further than et cetera klobuchar has very think we ought towe have a hard ban on mergers and acquisitions those have a market of 100 or more. we should use the standard court used to evaluate antitrust cases very think we ought to make it promoting competition, protecting competition. that ought to be the standard. cohorts use the welfare standard which i think ends it being too deferential to monopolies. i think we should change the standard. we highlight those because they're twowo major areas where the bill is tougher and than others out there but weha need to have a debate about how courts have been enforcing the law. beheadings have a debate about how they cut down to size not just the tech sector. although the big tech corporations are perhaps the most pressing. across multiple industries. and we need to confront that. >> increases stan

stacey abrams, senator klobuchar held a roundtable with georgia voters today.g that those voters need to know, these to understand about the obstacles to voting that are being erected by republicans? >> well, again, since 2020, 17 states have passed voter suppression laws, and there are hundreds being entered into 48 states currently. and this is on top of already having fewer voting rights than we have for more than 50 years despite the fact that people have given their lives for the kind of demanding and the expansion of this democracy. so what people need to know is that who is hurt the worst when deny people votes is poor people, low-income people, working people of all races, of all creeds, of all geographies because what happens is that elected officials come into office, are smuggled into office because of voter suppression, that then pass policies that attack the vast majority of people in our society. and what we also know is that people across the board, across party lines, across geography, all are saying that we should actually expand voting rights

. >>> and joining our discussion, now, is democratic senator, amy klobuchar, of minnesota. she is the chair of the senate rules committee, which has oversight over federal elections. senator klobuchar, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, lawrence. >> it -- it looks like that bus. i don't know. it might be coming your way. and some of those people might need to talk to you. >> i hope so. yes. >> what -- what do you have to tell them as they arrive in washington? >> well, i had met with the representative when she was here last time and i believe they're doing what's right. they are trying to stand up, in whatever way possible, for the freedom of people to vote. and they are coming to the very place that they're supposed to find salvation. and i really, actually, like that she brought up lyndon johnson, who along with vice president hubert humphrey, pushed hard to get legislation through to protect civil rights in the '60s. when you have a concerted effort, across the country, not just in texas, but in georgia and in other places, dozens, states have passed voter-s

it's why texas came to us. >> it sounds from that clip like senator klobuchar gets it. do you get the sense other lawmakers you have spoken to in d.c. share her sense of urgency? >> i do. i think it was important to come here to express, look, we're on the front lines of this fight in our state legislatures, and it was important for them to hear exactly what we're going through on the ground in texas. yes, i did take away that from our meetings, people understood, senators understood that the time to act is now, where we bought some time by leaving texas, but we can only hold the line for so long. we are the party in the minority, and ultimately, republicans will come back and have the majority vote to get the vote that they want to make it harder to vote. >> okay, so that of course, then brings us back to where we always circle back to, which is this idea of federal action. representative, after your meeting with senator manchin this week, he told a reporter you have all come to a, quote, total agreement on what you want. first, i need to know, do you agree with that a

. >> now this morning senator amy klobuchar, who chairs the committee taking the extraordinary steps to hold this field hearing today stressed the urgency in an interview with our garrett haake taking aim at the lies and disinformation. >> i think the republicans know what's going on here but there's a figure out there and his name is donald trump. and he has basically continued to perpetuate a lie that somehow he won the last election. everyone knows that's not true that looks at this and all the local election officials, democrats and republicans, know that's not true. that's why i believe this is an even bigger deal than just party versus party. this is a quest to save our democracy because once you start disenfranchising people, people lose faith. >> this is literally a threat to our democracy. that's the kind of passion that we're increasingly hearing from democrats who frame the threat to voting rights as an existential threat to democracy itself. but their conviction is being confronted with the reality in washington that without complete unity inside the democratic party that

senator cloa klobuchar has been pushing that bill. we'll see. see if it is a bipartisan bill and we'll know where to go from there. so if they were to proceed to vote, i'm sure they got the votes to pass it. you see what's left on the table so we'll know how to proceed and in subsequent legislation. as i understand it, the bill they are voting on or may vote on is a $65 billion bill, which is $30 billion short of where we think it ought to be. >> thank you so much, congressman. in our report we talk about the unique challenges facing black communities in the black rural south, when you think about your constituents what do you think about the lack of broadband services in south carolina? mr. clyburn: as you can imagine covid-19 revealed some significant let's just say disrepair that exists. i often talk about the notion "democracy in america." he said it is not great but rather because it is trying to repair its faults. fault lines were opened by covid-19 and that place in the lack of broadband. because of the lack of connectivity under 38% of b

it's being hosted by stacy abram and senator klobuchar.ee both of them in the center of your screen. they're in cobb county, where voters waited up to four hours for submit their votes. >>> with national as, labor leaders to try to pullet pressure a congress to pass federal voting legislation. they're not backing down from their mission. >> i do believe that that is going to put a chill on our sit-down visits, but we're committed to this, and here until this bill dies on the 7th. we're willing to do whatever is necessary to make these businesses happen. >> the more than 50 democratic lawmakers in texas have been in the nation's capital for nearly a week already after fleeing the state. one of them jones my now. representative wu, what more details can you give us about this week's event? you know, i've been told that everybody is being tested every day. how confident are you that everything will go smooth? >> i think the basic takeaway is the moment we realized there was a problem, democrats were transparent we left everyone else know we.

she finished dead last behind amy klobuchar, probably the most unlikable politician in america. needs -- she definitely wants that mantle after president biden. >> they say poor kamala harris has been thrown these difficult intractable problems to solve and that is why she's having difficulties. immigration, voting rights, too much for anybody. >> it does raise questions. is president biden trying to throw her under the bus? created the immigration crisis by dismantling policies and then say kamala harris, being the border czar, it looks like maybe throwing her under the bus. the existing tensions, kind of. raymond: i can't wait to join you on july 4th for the big fox news special at 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. we will be cohosting together. britney spears fighting to regain control of her life from her conservator. alan dershowitz breaks down the latest develops, stay right there. ♪ ♪ speak of the next question hmi okay? i am totally fine, extremely happy, have beautiful children. i'm taking a break right now because i am enjoying myself. raymond: britney spears so i lied and told the