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we will be following that through you. >> and now senator chris coons.nging his mind on it, but is the voting rights bill dead? >> it was disappointing news that joe manchin is not going to support the bill. i know joe well. we have served together for over a decade. now that we know where he stands, we need to get to work to see how we can get to work with joe manchin to get president biden's bold bills on infrastructure and on voting rights. >> what you witnessed, does the january 6 report answer your questions or should there be a last minute question to get a bipartisan commission to answer more about sources of the attack. >> the bipartisan report released this morning speak only to the things they were able to get answers to. the key questions you were discussing earlier with john bolton that we don't have answers to is what was president trump doing, what was his role in instigating and failing to act responsibly to the january 6 riot here in the capitol. what was the role of the fbi and national guard? we need a bipartisan january 6 commission th

let's discuss with democratic senator chris coons of delaware.ns committee and also very close to the president of the united states. that was classic russian what aboutism as it's called, but do americans' domestic divisions help putin undermine u.s. democracy? >> broadly speaking, wolf, the divisions within our country, the riot at the capitol on january 6th has been used by some of our opponents, folks like president putin, like xi jinping of china to spread doubt about the vibrancy and the viability of american democracy, but there is no equivalency between the ways in which putin's russia have been going after peaceful pro-democracy protesters like alexei navalny who he's poison and now thrown into trail on trumped-up charges and the folks who have been charged with assault because of their participation in breaking into the u.s. capitol and assaulting police officers. there's a real false equivalency going on there between putin and what's happening in his country and what's happening in ours. >> yeah. it was interesting though that putin d

the authors of the bill joining us, delaware senator chris coons.in europe trying to figure out what it looks like to put together a group of folks or countries, i should say, to counter some of the things going on in china that will probably match up a little bit what you're thinking about in this bill what has to happen next? >> i'm excited about the bill that's been passed this week with a strong bipartisan vote in the senate it was led by senators schumer and young but had very broad bipartisan support it invests in next generation technologies, in our national labs, science foundation, technology, innovation in partnership with the private sector president biden this week in europe will be meeting with our most important allies and pulling together the democracies who need to stand up to russia and its aggression and need to have a common strategy for how to out compete china in this century. >> what does that look like? >> what that looks like is coordinating our investments in new technologies i'll give you one example. 5g driving the next ge

let's get perspective from democratic senator chris coons. i spoke to him just before air time. >> senator, is it clear why senator manchin waited so long to put forward his version of an acceptable voting rights bill? if he had done that sooner, do you think you could have gotten some republicans on board? >> i don't know if there's anything we can do to get republicans on board with protecting access to the ballot with voting rights. but i'll remind you, anderson, that the restrictive laws that are being passed now in states across the country, states like georgia and arizona, they're trying to do it in texas, they hurt voters, both republicans and democrats alike. they make it harder to access the ballot bomx, they make it harder to vote under conditions not just like the pandemic, but in ordinary times. so the kinds of reforms that the for the people act would have put in place would have guaranteed better, broader access to the right to vote for americans of all backgrounds in both parties. i think if joe manchin had come forward with a

working with everyone from ymcas to all the areas where young people can find some solace, his buddy chris coonsy buddy, senator coombs, knows what he's doing. the point is, a lot of transgender youth, those who commit suicide based on the studies the foundation has done, do it because there mom doesn't understand. because mom or dad says you can't be here anymore. rejected. so folks, we've got a lot of work to do. let me close with this. when you go downstairs, see some of the smithsonian exhibit, you get a sense of the long journey and how long it's been and how far we've come and you've come. and how much further we have to go. so this afternoon, we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. progress won't come easily. it never has. we are going to stand strong, stand together. and i promise you we will succeed. i promise you. i said to folks earlier, why are you so optimistic, biden? well, as my neurosurgeon once said, i'm probably a congenital optimist. [laughter] but beyond that, it's a simple proposition. look at the young people, straight, gay, doesn't matter. they are the least edge is thi

our first guest is the junior democratic senator from delaware senator chris coons joining us from washington d.c.. senator thank you for joining axios and we are happy to have you with us. c thanks andrew. good afternoon. great beyonde with you. >> senator you've been co-authoring a string of bills within -- with the republican colleagues to encourage investments in renewables and other cutting-edge technologies. you cut greenhouse gas emissions. why do you think by partisan corporation is possible at this point on this issue in such a polarized washington and can you tell me a little bit about the themes running through the bills that you have been introducing this session in congress? c sure andrew. some of the bills that i've been working on better bipartisan go back to the time when i served on the energy committee a while ago, six to 10 years ago at this point in some of them are brand-new predators introduced them for the first time in this congress and through all of them i've been serving in the senate where the majority is shifted back and forth between democrats and republicans are

chris coons is very close to the president, but he also indicates it could all collapse within the next 24 hours. joe manchin said they need to get a deal before the senate leaves for a two-week recess starting tomorrow. that's where the focus will be, on straight party lines. can the democrats get behind one package? that's what they're starting to sort out. >> and i understand you have new reporting on speaker pelosi, making moves on the select committee to investigate the insurrection? >> reporter: yes, after she and other democrats had pushed for a bipartisan commission blocked in the senate. pelosi saying she would not make an announcement today, but i'm told that she's moving in that direction. she's expected to name that as soon as this week, and they would have to move forward. the question is, who is on it, who chairs it, how many republicans will be on it? but they almost certainly would have subpoena power. >> manu, thank you. >>> and now to more proof that former president trump's election lie was completely fabricated. david, did the republicans reject this? >> reporter: ye

. >> next senators chris coons, mitt romney their thoughts on foreign policy and the importance of u.s. leadership around the world. they spoke at an event hosted by the mccain institute. >> hello, everyone, my name is cardice, dean of social sciences and i want to welcome you to the mccain institute forum. i want to extend a very special welcome today to our three senators who have joined us. welcome to senator mitt romney from utah, welcome to senator coons in delaware and welcome to senator shaheen from new hampshire. thank you very much for being here today. we will jump in with the first question and i will let whoever wants to take the first path at it go ahead and do that. i will try to keep us moving. rsi have more questions for you all and a couple of standby ones. we will try a to keep us moving. excited to hear thoughts on important topic. first, as the 21st century advances, does the united states need to retain dominance in particular regions of the world or specificar areas of productin f so what are they and what specifically can the u.s. do in terms of foreign policy to

chris coons, a delaware democrat very close to joe biden.e said some of my progressive members have been saying for weeks. i have reminded them repeatedly in order to go along straight party lines, they need to go through this bipartisan process first. the democrats are trying to see what they can do on a small erbi er bill and see if they can get a bigger caucus together on a big bill. the democrats are not in line. >> so frustration is building on infrastructure. it seems to be boiling over already on voting reform. that bill failed in the senate. democrats are now split over what to do next. what options do they really have? >> not a whole lot, because there's pressure from the left also to gut the senate's filibuster rules to move from a super majority of 60 votes down to a simple majority of 51 votes in order to advance legislation. there is resistance among moderate democrats to do that, people like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. angus king told me he does not support lowering that threshold down to 51 votes. that means at the moment

if you listen to chris coons, a key ally of biden, and listen to how they set the table. >> i think there'so better time for president biden to make it clear in person to president putin exactly what he intends to do on push back on russian aggression. >> i don't think there's much for him to gain. i think the meeting is premature in the sense. i don't think biden fully understands what his objectives with russia are or how to achieve them. >> who is right? >> well, you know, the truth is that -- john bolton knows this very well. the joe biden, the risks are low in a way of meeting with putin in a sense that the low bar was set for him by trump and biden by talking tough to putin's face and having that be his message clears that low bar. you know, anybody would after the summit which john bolton, if you read his account, he was trump's national security adviser and was horrified what trump did in that meeting with putin, and so in that sense it's likely to be a winner here. is there something concrete beyond that that will come out of it? >> we'll answer that question when the summit is ove

. >> i believe it was susan collins and chris coons back in 2017.thank you. >>> president biden has a big agenda on his first overseas trip this week. the biggest meeting on his schedule may be the sit-down with the russian president, vladimir putin. i'll talk about it all with cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley in just a moment. ♪ every spray ♪ ♪ every day ♪ ♪ dove and degree fund local youth programs. ♪ every day u does good ♪ unilever what do we want for dinner? burger... i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. what happens when we welcome change? we can make emergency medicine possible at 40,000 feet. instead of burning our past for power, we can harness the energy of the tiny electron. we can create new ways to connect. rethinking how we communicate to be more inclusive than ever. with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change. faster. vmware. welcome change. life... doesn't stop for diabetes

. >> meanwhile we saw dan sullivan he is a long with tammy duckworth and chris coons a high level senators. that's going to get under beijing's good and. it is a chance for us to help taiwan with covid but also in dealing with supporting taiwan as a democracy against beijing's wishes. what is that message the fact that we are showing such support to taiwan? >> it sends a good message to china that we are taking our relationship with taiwan seriously. by sending three of her senators on a fact-finding and goodwill mission is going to get under the skin as you mentioned of china. china has the one china policy in which they view taiwan as part of them. and anytime another country, let alone the united states in particular treats taiwan as its own particular country that is going to send a message to china that we value and we are sticking by them. >> sticking by them against china's aggression. form intelligence agency officer matthew shoemaker thank you for your insight on china. will be back with the more news just a second, stay with us. (man) i've made progress with my mental health. so

senator chris coons is with us from capitol hill. senator, thank you for joining us.the white house. that was the ten senators. you were a part of the larger group of 20 bipartisan senators who have been meeting on this. tell us your thoughts about the impact and the import about what we just heard from the president and your colleagues at the white house. >> dana, this is a great day for president biden, for the determined group of ten democrats and republicans who you just heard from. they have been hammering away at this for days and days. and now the work begins to build it out. to make sure that beyond the 21 of us who have publicly been supporting it and urging them along, we get more supporters in both caucuses. over the next eight years, this represents 1 $.2 trillion in investment and infrastructure. that really is a big deal. and this framework has 559 billion in new spending. to get an agreement on that, on a bipartisan basis took a lot of very hard work. so i just want to congratulate the folks who were just over at the white house with president biden. th

shortly after the investigation was released i spoke to democratic senator chris coons, of delaware to the border. , . , facilities after trying to cross the border. , ., , , ., , border. these are very serious allegation- _ border. these are very serious allegation. if— border. these are very serious allegation. if true _ border. these are very serious allegation. if true we, - border. these are very serious allegation. if true we, there i border. these are very serious i allegation. if true we, there should be consequences. i think homeland security— be consequences. i think homeland security committee, i'm on that committee, we should haves hearings on this— committee, we should haves hearings on this very— committee, we should haves hearings on this very issue. i've been down to the _ on this very issue. i've been down to the detention facility, i didn't see any— to the detention facility, i didn't see any evidence or of these types of epic— see any evidence or of these types of epic lignite allegations. it's a very dangerous path that these children— very dangerous path that these

you're not going to be in a situation where kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and mark warn erand chris coonskage later in the year. they're trusting of democratic leadership, i think this has to do with nancy pelosi and her relationship with those folks. they know they're not going to get everything. >> kasie on infrastructure, does it end up looking like 1.2, 1.3 trillion, and does manchin call the republicans' bluff? what happens? >> i think if they can get this bipartisan package, the white house is betting it's worth waiting another week to do it and if they do, the number is lower than that. then there is a chance they will be able to convince joe manchin and kyrsten sinema to get on board because they'll point to the success of the bipartisan plan. i think that's alive. that's what the biden white house is thinking through right now. >> so that's infrastructure, what happens with voting rights? i still say they're going to get there. i don't know how they're going to get there. joe manchin, he has his ways. how are -- what are you hearing? how are they going to get there? >> i -- i --

here's delaware senator chris coons on the senate floor. he supports the deal. about creating jobs.his is about investing in our economy and our communities and our country, and this is about strengthening the united states globally against our adversaries and competitors. i need not remind you that just one year ago, public health and economic crises created by

president, this letter written on april 7, 2017 persuasively authored by susan collins and chris coons and signed by more than 60 of our fellow senators, urging senator mcconnell and senator schumer to preserve the existing rules, practices and traditions as they pertain to rights and members to engage in extended debate on legislation. they note that these rules have changed on our executive calendar when we consider judicial nominees or executive branch nominees. but they say we are mindful of the unique role the senate plays in the legislative process and we are steadfastly committed to ensuring that this great institution continues to serve as the world's greatest deliberative body. therefore, we are asking you, senator schumer and senator mcconnell, we are asking you to join us in opposing any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives of senators to engage in full, robust and extended debate as we consider legislation before this body in the future. let me remind you, more than 60 senators signed this. 26 democrats currently serving in the senate signed it, 27 if you

here's delaware senator chris coons on the senate floor. he supports the deal. about creating jobs. this is about investing in our economy and our communities and our country, and this is about strengthening the united states globally against our adversaries and competitors. i need not remind you that just one year ago, public health and economic crises created by the covid-19 pandemic were ravaging communities all over our nation, and today under the leadership of the biden administration, covid-19 cases and deaths are down by over 90%. more than 70% of adults over the age of 30 have been vaccinated, and as a result, businesses are opening, communities are opening, states are opening, unemployment has come down significantly and the economy is recovering at a robust pace. but if our economy is going to be sustainable, if it is going to be long term, if it's going to be robust, we have to make long-overdue investments in infrastructure. globally, the united states now ranks 13th in infrastructure. in every state, we have roads and bridges, tunnels, water systems that are crumbling o

president, this letter written on april 7, 2017 persuasively authored by susan collins and chris coons and signed by more than 60 of our fellow senators, urging senator mcconnell and senator schumer to preserve the existing rules, practices and traditions as they pertain to rights and members to engage in extended debate on legislation. they note that these rules have changed on our executive calendar when we consider judicial nominees or executive branch nominees. but they say we are mindful of the unique role the senate plays in the legislative process and we are steadfastly committed to ensuring that this great institution continues to serve as the world's greatest deliberative body. therefore, we are asking you, senator schumer and senator mcconnell, we are asking you to join us in opposing any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives of senators to engage in full, robust and extended debate as we consider legislation before this body in the future. let me remind you, more than 60 senators signed this. 26 democrats currently serving in the senate signed it, 27 if you