is winning out in that fight because a lot of the traditional conservatives like roy blunt, like rob portman are starting to leave and make their exits. and people who are in favor of trump's style policies, trump style approaches to politics, seem to be on the asendcy in republican politics and seem to be the ones nar raising money, that are getting support, that get to support of the former president who continues to be most popular figure in the party. so i do think that there is this reckoning, there is this civil war within the party and trying to decide what it wants be and what kind of identity it wants to embrace and right now, with the former president continuing to weigh in on politics and not sore of having that honeymoon period after his presidency where he stays behind the scenes is going to put more pressure on traditional conservatives to show that they are onboard with the trump agenda, with the america first agenda that the president embraced during his four years and if they don't, then they will have to decide to leave office. susan d.: toluse, in the seconds we have left,

. >> brennan: ohio's rob portman is just back from the region. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ is >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." it is the second official day of spring, a season that brings with it the complications of warmer weather. this year it is spring break, and a spring surge in unaccompanied children atothe southern border as they seek a better life in the u.s. we've got a lot to get to today, and we begin with senior national correspondent mark strassmann. [yelling] >> reporter: despite a curfew and a pandemic, miami beach jammed with spring breakers last night until police fired pepper balls to break up the party. >> we've got too many people coming, and we have covid at the same time. >> reporter: irresponsibility unmasked. to health officials, this is the other march madness. >> you can hardly see the sand because of all of the umbrellas on the beach. >> reporter: and reverse covid progress. over the last two months, new cases and daily deaths both have plummetted. but... >> doctor: you are s

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at the top is so right, mitch mcconnell is losing a lot of allies -- roy blunt, richard shelby, rob portman, potentially chuck grassley, who is 87 years old, pat toomey also, as you're showing right there, is a close ally of mitch mcconnell's as well in some cases. so, you just have -- that's -- i mean, in a chamber of only 50 republicans at the moment and 100 lawmakers, about you lose five, that's a pretty big punch. i'm not saying that mitch mcconnell's in any danger, but this is looking like the marsha blackburn/josh hawley senate more than the mitch mcconnell senate at the moment. >> yeah. i mean, it's really -- i don't think -- it's hard to overstate the significance of the shift, to have all of these members on their way out while their replacements coming in just have completely different tone and tenor and approach to the job. i think it's really going to change the way things are done. jake, let's talk for a second about the covid relief package. the vote seems to be sliding by a day as they try to get the text together for it. do you see any challenges on the horizon getting this

host: rob portman made the case for a bipartisan bill yesterday on the sunday shows.deo clip] >> covid relief has never been a partisan issue. over the last year, we have passed five bills with overwhelming bipartisan margins. there are a bunch of us republicans who went to see the president a few weeks ago and said, let's negotiate. we have done this five times before, we can do it again. this is not like texas or health care, this is covid relief. it does not fit in reconciliation because it has to be directly related to the budget, to revenues or spending, which is why the minimum wage got knocked out. i have not figured it out yet, but i think what he should do is what you did in the clinton administration is to start off with more bipartisan measures so that we don't poison the well's and we can continue to work together. in this case, it would be very easy to get republican support for a covid relief package. host: there is the ideal. what is the reality? guest: if you talk to folks in the white house, they would say that they don't think they can get the 10 rep

ohio senator rob portman says it's because migrants are hearing a different message. >> what they're from the new administration is were going to stop deportations 400 days, were going to stop the remaining mexico program. >> we were able to ride along. we saw quite a lot of action tonight. what did you take away? >> i saw tonight what's happening all over this quarter, they're more and more people coming. >> vice president of the national border patrol council hopes portman will convince congress for more help. >> the agents are undermanned, putting their lives on the line each and every day, and we need more personnel. >> some feel the biden administration is doing enough. >> i think the administration is pulling this thing under control. >> say the situation is far from under control. >> it is a total disaster. >> greg abbott is calling out the administration for the handling of the crisis during the middle of a pandemic. >> there is no viable usable running water at the location in midland. on top of that, more than 10% of the migrants at the midland location have now tested posi

pat toomey, roy blunt, rob portman.eople who knew it early in the republican party, went along, enabled him and now think i don't want to stay. is that courageous, incidentally? just not staying and leaving and lethd some trump supporting candidate probably win those primaries and in some cases perhaps win the seats. >> you're right. it does go to caroline's point. it goes to what our parents taught us, that phrase "you knew better." caroline and bill are staying with us while we just slip in a break here. coming up, as trump continues to push the big lie, lawmakers in 43 states are pushing to limit voting rights. well, at least the right of some americans to cast their vote. we'll talk about that when we come back. did you know the source of odor in your home... ...could be all your soft surfaces? odors get trapped in your home's fabrics and resurface over time. febreze fabric refresher eliminates odors. its water-based formula safely penetrates fabrics where odors hide. spray it on your rugs, your curtains, your furni

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now there's a republican amendment offered by rob portman would end those benefits even earlier in julyublican senators are telling reporters, manchin is with them on their amendment. manchin and his office are not saying anything. and that vote on the minimum wage which is really kind of the vehicle that we're dealing with right now, has remained open while democrats try to figure out how to nail down this unemployment insurance portion of the bill before they can go forward on anything else. we are pretty well and good stuck here on the hill. >> to that point, is it possible we could see a compromise on a smaller minimum wage increase? not the $15 one? >> i think it is popular in the future but not on this bill. remember the parliamentarian is the one who said deal with the minimum wage in this context doesn't fit reconciliation rules. there are republican plans out there to raise the minimum wage, by smaller amounts that you could see it for a compromise down the road. progressives say $15 an hour is already a compromise. so that's the kind of thing we could find ourselves fighting a

he is the fifth republican senator to do so, joining richard shelby of alabama, rob portman of ohio, pat toomey of pennsylvania and richard burr of north carolina, who all previously announced they wouldn't seek another term in 2022. he didn't say why he was leaving the senate, but it is a trend. three republican senators said they would step down at the end of the last election in 2020. lamar alexander, mike enzi and pat roberts along with 26 republican members of congress, marcus. democrats also sometimes decide to do this, right? they say they've had enough or want to retire, spend more time with family. scott, thank you. >>> coming up, the organizers behind the push to recall governor newsom say they are ready to move forward. the number of signatures they have already gotten. >>> and -- >> i just didn't want to be alive anymore. and that was a very clear and real, and frightening, constant thought. >> a bombshell tell-all interview. where does the royal family go from here? reaction to everything meghan markle and prince harry said about leaving royalty behind. >>> and an actres

children to be in on the senate floor monday, texas republican john cornyn and ohio republican rob portman. >> that the biden administration's decision to reverse trump era. immigration policies caused the massive immigration thirds or simply no reason the administration should have been caught flat footed drawl. the president campaigned on promises. policies. they were sure to lead to this very situation. this is not the time to travel monday. the white house press secretary jen psaki called on those seeking refuge to stay put as the administration works to repair the our focus now isn't putting in place is on solutions expediting processing at the border, opening up additional facilities and vice president kamala harris says trump era policies are to blame for the problem. expect to have success, but it's going to take a lot of work. president biden says he is aware of the conditions at the border and will make a trip but did not say when. now last week we saw a nearly a dozen house republicans head down to the southern border and we know at least 17 senate republicans say they will go n

. >> reporter: republican senator rob portman was asked on abc's "this week" if he thinks trump's dominance is a blessing or a burden for the party. >> well, he's very popular among republicans. the polling shows that. i do think that the policies are what's more popular. that's actually why republicans did well in 2020. >> reporter: this year the conference has been less about traditional conservative values and more about loyalty to trump. notably absent were prominent republicans. former vice president mike pence. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who criticized trump after the january 6th riots. and house republican conference chair liz cheney, who voted to impeach the now-former president. trevor ault, abc news. >> thank you. >>> new york democratic governor cuomo authorized an independent investigation after a second woman accused him of sexual harassment. the governor's office issued four statements sunday, as he denied making advances towards the former aide. 25-year-old charlotte bennett says cuomo asked her if she ever had sex with older men. he faces calls to resign from bot

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on top of that, senator rob portman said he wants to hear from the acting security of defense. he wants their account of what happened. one of the big questions here, why was there concern about optics in the middle of the capitol riot as all of that unfolded, wolf, january 6th? >> they shouldn't have worried about optics. they had other, more pressing things to worry about. orren, thank you. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is with us, charles ramsey, former washington police chief and former philadelphia police commissioner is with us and analyst juliette kayem. your reporting on possible plots against the u.s. capitol complex tomorrow, march 4th. clearly, lawmakers are deeply worried about that. what more can you tell us about this threat? >> it escalated. it'st started as chatter, discussions on social media targeting the capitol tomorrow on this date, march 4th, which as you've discussed, some conspiracy theorists believe for some reason president trump will -- former president trump will become president again, but overnight this developed into someth

but ohio senator rob portman letting fox news tour the border with him. now with what he saw. griff. >> reporter: good afternoon. look, what he saw was what happened here in sunland park, mexico, right outside el paso. this is a heavy traffic area, and haas night was no exception. if i can bring you down the fenceline, you can see in the distance a couple of border patrol agents sitting watch here. there were some 25 single adult males mostly, they were runners, they wanted to evade border patrol, but they did get them while we were with portman who was out with the national border patrol council. we talked with portman afterwards, here's some of what he said. listen to this. >> we also talked to some of the people who they apprehended, and they all told me the same thing which is they can make a lot more money here in this country than they can back home. that's understandable. but we have a legal system to be able to do that. that increase is something we've got to deal with. we've got to change some of the rules, but also we've got to help the border p

neil: your name has come up as possible candidate to run for the seat that rob portman will be leavingrested in that? are you interested in running for the united states senate? >> yes, i am. >> isn't san francisco liberal like nancy pelosi a shoo-in to get reelected? >> i don't think so. even our members from the coastal areas recognize we are not a national party right now. these people left us in droves. they either went for trump and stayed at home. we need a leader who can go into the congressional districts and pull trump voters back and energize those voters but you need an, a robust economic message that covers everybody and we failed to do that. neil: all right. hans nichols, i apologize we had to chop up that a little bit. we didn't alter his statement. that is a very different guy from a couple years ago. i'm wondering what do you make of that? because that is a guy obviously contemplating a senate run. he would be very much running as a progressive? >> there are two different difft dynamics anyone getting involved in their own district has to be concerned what is happening

rob portman made a recent trip to the border and visited a processing center for unaccompanied children. he said the situation, is, quote, "spiraling out of control." >> people will listen to actions and watch actions and not listen to words. i spoke to a number of migrants. individuals coming over at night, men who told me they are -- they'll come anyway because they can ten times more in the united states. i talked to children and talked to them about the messaging and what they're hearing you can come into the united states, which you can, as a kid. they'll keep coming. >> joining me from los angeles is jessica levinson a professor of law at loyala law school. republicans are jumping on the immigration issue. pushing for hearing on the surge of children at the southern border. president biden said he'll go to the border at some point. how vulnerable has this issue made biden politically? >> i think it's actually made him quite vulnerable. i mean, he's done a magnificent job, i think, of responding to the pandemic. and that, obviously, is a pressing crisis and priority number one, two

carley: rob portman inviting griff jenkins to join the ride along and see crisis firsthand. the national border patrol council, we saw quite a lot of action. what did you take away? >> i saw what is happening across the border. more unlawful entries, 100,000 plus in february up 30% from january so it is getting worse and worse. >> coming here for a better life. we have a legal immigration system to do that. >> one thing after another. the agent running out there said i got to get out of here. another group coming through. that is the difference. >> do you think more will come under the new administration? >> a lot of programs that were there before, policies that were in place are working. when you have a new administration policies change but you need to see what policies are working and continue moving forward to fix the problem. is a crisis or not? we have issues that need to be taken care of. benjamin: alejandro mayorkas will be in texas to meet with them. >> texas governor greg abbott calling out the biden administration for denying access to unaccompanied minor shelter

. >> dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. let's take a look. >> the residents here in at least the rio grande valley sector of texas where we are say they've never seen anything like it. the rio grande river is where we're seeing an unbelievable number of migrants coming across this sector here in el paso is on fire as well. >> hasn't heard the u.s. president now is not the time to come. >> i listen to the news that they were letting people in. >> does it frustrate you that the new administration does not call this a crisis? >> yes, sir, it does. when you see a father with a 4-month-old baby riding on his chest, a 4-month-old baby, that's sad. >> bill: the texas governor greg abbott on stand by. let's start with griff jenkins on the border in el paso, texas today. we say the access has been cut off. how did this happen then, griff? >> bill, dana, good morning to you. it happened because i'm in el paso and senator portma

republican on the homeland security committee, one of the two committees who had the hearing today, rob portman told me earlier he does want those two former trump officials to testify about what happened. he have said that he believes they have already started -- the committee has already started to reach out to try to schedule a hearing. he's not sure if they want to testify but there's a bipartisan desire to hear exactly from those individuals about why they did not sign off on the guard, why there was any hesitance to do so given what we're all seeing, the images that have day, the deadly violence occurring and why they had to wait for more than three hours on that day for backup. brooke. >> cannot imagine hearing this news, three hours being you in the middle of it covering, it being a lawmaker, being a capitol hill staffer and just wondering why. manu, how infuriating. thank you for that. i want to bring in our fbi special agent and legal and national security analyst. arba, three hours, you know. the fact that it took three hours for army leaders then to authorize the deployment of the g

little steps and they come right over, last night we got an exclusive right along with senator rob portmanl council, we were out in this area and we saw more than 25 apprehensions, quite a lot of action because these folks didn't want to surrender, they were running on senator portman and i got a chance to talk to some of the migrants and learn how difficult their task is in their journey and why they are coming, listen. eco-that's in mexico. >> you know, they punch you. it's pretty tough. out here at these borders, they so when they punch you the bruises don't show up. >> thanks, griff. what's it like for a law enforcement on the ground at the border, national border patrol council, vice president joins me now and by the way we have reached out to homeland security, we have not heard back yet. chris? how are the agents handling this surge? >> you know, we are woefully understrength at many stations, we are seeing huge, huge numbers, larger numbers than i've ever seen and it's very difficult dealing with what we've got going on right now. >> it just seems impossible, and of course this is

called him and met privately with chuck schumer, rank and file democrats hesitate with him and rob portman, who was the ohio repreublican who h the alternative plan. he was getting enormous pressure on both sides but ultimately decided he is going to cut this this deal that will most likely pave the way for the deal's passage, and as i said, a daunting series of amendments. you cannily ly tell, it's an unpredictable process. >> manu, you are the man. why has it been, it's not just manchin. and they have issues in the house. they have issues in the senate. i think manchin is more of a proxy than we are told outright. what does it mean, moving forward, it's to the enact the biden agenda. 50 votes from members on that. senator tim cain, live from the hill, next i think the sketchy website i bought this turtle from stole all of my info. ooh, have you looked on the bright side? discover never holds you responsible for unauthorized purchases on your card. (giggling) that's my turtle. fraud protection. discover. something brighter. (giggling) that's my turtle. i made a business out of my passion.

. >> a higher republican rob portman, a ranking member today says he wants to hear more on this from the former army secretary. another ranking member, missouri republican roy blunt voted much of his questioning to the subject and senator ted cruz eliciting new information whether those guidelines hobbled the guard's response. >> senator cruz, i would have had that authority prior to january 6th to employ direct a quick reaction for us. the secretary of defense, his letter authorizes me to use the quick reaction force and it says only as a last resort. where the secretary of the army, his direction to me withholds the authority to use the quick reaction force and he will only authorize that and only after he has a concept of operations sent to him, a conop sent to him. that was unusual to me. i never seen that before. >> senator josh hawley called attention to what the general said but he quickly directed his questioning toward the notion these new orders were an over reaction to criticism of the guard's role in the mayhem last summer. he then segwayed into questions he asked the fbi

we went with a ride-along with rob portman. we talked to him about what he saw and he intended to do with the secretary mayorkas today. here's some of what he said. listen. >> we've been looking at the issues including this huge problem with unaccompanied kids coming across the border. those numbers have increased even more dramatically to the point that right now we have a true crisis in detention facilities. >> and fox news confirming who the secretary is meeting with along with a bipartisan group including senators peters, murphy and cav now. we spoke to some of the migrants. one of whom lived in chicago, deported and trying to come back across the wall. i asked him if the my gants are heeding the white house's message not to come. here's what he said. >> you think more will come under the new administration? >> it's not going to stop, ever. >> kristin, it would be nice if we heard from secretary mayorkas publicly, but no press avail as far as we understand is coming. one thing i bet he's being informed on, in the last 24 ho

richard burr, i'm out, rob portman, roy blunt. they're not fighting for the republican party.y're just like, let the trumpies have it. are we basically going to have john birch society 2.0? >> you'll get more republican senate if the democrats don't pick up those seats. the old school senators came there to legislate, to debate, to legislate, to compromise. what you're seeing now is basically the senate republicans have dominated people who want the sound bite. why does ted cruz say the things that he says, because he knows that's going to be played on fox news. that is the -- that's the mean, that's the narrative that's going to play in conservative media and the fact check won't catch up with the fact that he's waving that bloody shirt. it is trump 2.0. you have that $1.9 trillion piece of legislation and they're focusing on the bogus the aliens will get it. one big question, how is this going to be different than 2009? republicans just think that by voting no that they're going to be able to run against this big spending package and have big wins in the midterm election. i

your rob portmans and richard burrs. they're all retiring.class who came in, mtg, cawthorn, boebert, gaetz, they're going to be met by a class of people who only care about the performance that came up in trumpism. looking at the ohio senate race, josh van dell, the front runner right now. all he's doing is just obnoxious tweets, trying to get twitter to ban him. and maybe lara trump in north carolina. this is what you'll see in the next class, the quiet enablers moving out and the people coming in being more all-in on the trump style of politics. >> professor, you get the last word tonight. and it's an important question. we've just witnessed another emotional week in our country. what is the chance that we have just seen a turning point? >> little or nothing, brian. i can take this right back to georgia. look, i'm familiar with that area. i used to live in georgia for a long, long time. we will not see the changes we want, we didn't see it after sandy hook and every single shooting. i can go to georgia today and buy a gun and walk out of th

. >> senator rob portman wants the former secretary of defense, chris miller, and former secretary of the army to testify, to answer these questions. do you agree? >> 100%. jake, my question has always been not so much what happened prior, although we know this is a preplanned attack, but what happened after the insurrection was occurring at the capitol and why did it take so long for the guard to respond? i think there's a lot of unanswered questions out there. i know the fbi has an ongoing investigation that i actually called for, and i hope we get to the bottom of it. >> it seems to me that whether we're talking about the attack on january 6th or this possible attack tomorrow, president trump, these people, these attackers worship him. they love him. they think that they're doing this in his name. do you think donald trump should be more forcefully saying clearly i'm not going to be inaugurated tomorrow? joe biden was elected fair and square? i feel like that could potentially quell a lot of these potentially violent threats. >> well, i think president trump has a responsibility to

senator hoping to fill rob portman's seat when he leaves in 2022.tadt, behind the story, the national politico reporter for politico. alex, what a headline. hunger games, huh? tell us what went on behind the scenes here. >> so basically trump was in his golf club in florida. and there was a fundraiser for an ohio candidate running a different race. and you had four ohio senate candidates who decided to make their trek all the way down to florida to essentially kiss trump's ring. and the former president invites the four of them into a back room. he puts them in a circular table forced to face one another. and essentially it's an audition, these four candidates engaged in in order to sort of impress the former president. and speaking with someone who is directly familiar with what happened, it felt a lot like trump's old reality show the apprentice where you had all these different candidates just trying to curry favor and impress the former president, in hopes of landing his all-important endorsement. >> so any idea who did well here? >> well, it's

i wanted to show you this is the area where we were able to ride exclusively along with senator rob portman, ranking member of the homeland security committee as he got a tour of this area where the national border patrol council who were in their union uniforms showing us around. it was a busy, active night. we witnessed more than 25 apprehensions adult single males mostly. we talked to senator portman afterwards what he was seeing and about the visit with mayorkas today. here is what he said about what that will entail. listen. >> we'll be looking at some of the issues including this huge problem with unaccompanied kids coming across the border. those numbers have increase even more dramatically. we have a true crisis in detention facilities. there is not enough room for them and appropriate places for them to be held. >> this area we were walking with portman and the border patrol union vice president and people on the other side apparently didn't come over because we were standing here. when we left we found out later they did indeed come. one of the migrants who was apprehended lived i

on the other, pattern of republicans from the governing wing of the party, people like rob portman steppingif you look at the demography, heavily blue collar, nonurban, lot of eve evangelical christians, it's more likely than not that his replacement, as you noted, will be more trumpy than he is. that's another indication that the is the direction that the republican party is headed in, better or worse. >> you know republicans want to regain control of the senate. do you think this lessens their chances? >> missouri is a tough lift for democrats in the way the parties are dividing now, as we've seen the democrats become more dominant in urban areas and republicans become stronger in rural areas. i remember campaigning in missouri, watching bill clinton campaign there in 1992. it's one that is the kind of dividing line as parties have shifted in the last decade tirksly in the trump era. it's a real tough reach for democrats. >>> let's pivot and talk about this covid relief bill. it passed without a single republican yes vote. covid relief, right, massively popular among americans. people are

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manchin was considering supporting a republican alternative to this provision that was offered up by rob portman of ohio. that would have cut off the benefits through july at only $300 a week and also, not provide that tax credit. so this appears to be enough for manchin to cut off those benefits a little less than a month earlier than what democrats had originally intended but this was a long day, john, of a lot of anxiety for democrats that were concerned that they were not going to be able to cut this deal with manchin, and he was single handedly holding this process up. republicans attacked democrats earlier in the day saying they did not want this to be a bipartisan plan and holding up the whole process. keep in mind, john, we haven't begun the process known as voter-rama necessary through the reconciliation package where senators offer amendments on the floor to be voted on. that could go on for several hours. we're still a long way away from finish line on this covid relief package but this is a significant development is democrats have the votes they need to push this measure forward. >>

about immigration and certain elements of it and willing to get to a bipartisan end game here, rob portman>> it could be possible, but not the way they're going at it. i was in the white house when president bush's bipartisan deal on immigration blew up in our faces read it was hard to do. i agree that it could absorb more people, i'd like to do it in a more lawful way come up what he's doing ironically is destroying any prospect for an immigration deal and the way he's done it by inviting people in and then telling them not to come is mind-boggling and again, if you set out to destroy the prospects for an immigration deal, you couldn't do better than what joe biden is doing right now. >> bret: up next, china and russia combining forces causing concern in the u.s. my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter...she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to retirement... ...they're with me all the way through it. voya. be confident to and through retirement. the john deere z365r ztr

has 7600 children in its care that is more than double the average number historically, senator rob portman really concerning and terrifying for children but our risk of being handed over to human traffickers when you have illegal border crossings and weak border security that is at risk, your reaction. >> your exactly right, this is not a political issue if you care about human beings and human rights you should absolutely care about border security let me tell you the cartel between human trafficking, get people to come here, the raping the women and using children as pawns and distorting them in and not to mention the drugs that they are pouring into our communities affecting our loved ones in american lives and community we won't tolerated as sheriff's that's why were standing up against it and we have been for a long time but we as the american people need your help to stop this this is not going to bee good for america. elizabeth: we hear you we hear you loudri and clear and again, people need to understand this is humanitarian issue it's about crime it's not about legal immigration,

has 7600 children in his care that is more than double the average number historically senator rob portmanis is really concerning and terrifying for children put at risk of being handed over to human traffickers when you have illegal border crossing, when you have weak border security, that's who that risk, your reaction. >> your exactly right this is not a political issue everybody if you care by human beings and human rights you should care about border security, the cartel between human trafficking and drug trafficking and for people to come here there raping the women, using children as pawns, extorting them in and not to mention the drugs that they reporting into our community affecting our loved ones in american lives, we will not tolerate as sheriffs that's why were standing up against it we have been for a long time but we need american people help to stop this because this is not going to be good for america. elizabeth: we hear you loud and clear, again people need to understand this is a humanitarian issue, it's not about illegal immigration. >> this is about human trafficking an

called him and met privately with chuck schumer, rank and file democrats hesitate with him and rob portman, who was the ohio republican who has the alternative plan. he was getting enormous pressure on both sides but ultimately decided he is going to cut this this deal that will most likely pave the way for the deal's passage, and as i said, a daunting series of amendments. we'll see if anything changes. you can ly tell, it's an unpredictable process. >> manu, you are the man. why has it been so hard for democrats to get this passed. it's not just manchin. and they have issues in the house. they have issues in the senate. i think manchin is more of a proxy than we are told outright. what does it mean, moving forward, it's to the enact the biden agenda. is it about getting rid of the filibuster? 50 votes from members on that. senator tim cain, live from the hill, next . my audible library is just like scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll, it's a lot. i downloaded audible and really, really enjoyed it. and then it kind of just became a lifestyle after that. audible allows me to find a s

blunt becomes the latest republican incumbent to call it quits following similar announcements by rob portmannd richard burr. blunt wields a great deal of behind the scenes power in the senate as the ranking member of the rules committee. gloria gorger is with me now. more than anything, blunt has been there so long, he's known as a pragmatic republican leader. >> uh-huh. >> he's a close ally of minority leader mitch mcconnell. were you surprised to learn he wasn't running again? >> surprised and then when i thought about it, not surprised. i mean, this is a man -- you say pragmatic, not of the trump wing of the republican party. although he did call biden president-elect before trump would have wanted him to. he did not vote for impeachment. but i think there are lots of republicans -- you just saw them all on your screen who have decided that rather than face divisive primaries with pro-trump candidates on the right challenging them he decided at the age of 71 he just wasn't up for it. he is a close ally of mcconnell, released a glowing statement about him, calling him a true ally of the se

republican plan that would extend jobless benefits at $300 a week through july being offered by senator rob portman. that does not have the tax-free benefits as part of that plan. joe manchin i'm told is supporting the republican plan and republican leaders behind the scenes are trying to get all 50 of their members behind this alternative plan so the concern among democrats is there could be 51 votes to amend the bill with the jobless benefits and as a result throw this wrench by democrats to get this bill out of the senate and back to the house for final passage by the deadline of march 14 before the jobless benefits expire. this effort now behind the scenes is taking place to see if there's a resolution, and for more than three hours, bianna, there's been no action on the senate floor as they have been trying to resolve this dispute. we've expecting dozens and dozens of amendments to vote on right now and nothing has happened because all of this rioting on jobless benefits and concerns that any changes here could essentially undercut and derail the larger $1.9 trillion relief plan central to joe

with these continued questions about the timeline of national guard deployment republican senator rob portman now wants former army secretary ryan mccarthy and former acting defense secretary christopher miller to also testify, though no word yet on when or if they will appear before the committee. but wolf, former secretary miller still has not spoken out about the details of that day. >> all right, jessica, thanks very much. let's discuss with cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. he's the cnn senior law enforcement analyst. jessica sticking around to help us appreciate what's going on as well. you know, andrew, these plots targeting congress tomorrow, tomorrow stem from this re bizarre crazy qanon conspiracy. how do you assess this threat level right now? because as you heard, the house of representatives was supposed to be in session tomorrow but out of an abundance of fear right now they've decided they won't be in session tomorrow. >> an abundance of fear, wolf, or an abundance of caution. and i think in light of our experience on january

are helpless who need help, if you look at the right along that griff jenkins did with senator rob portman came over the border illegally and said we need money and we need help and we need to get here, that is the wrong thing to do we do have a crisis on the border and i don't know what alternative reality the president is living in or particularly secretary mayorkas nearly doing the full ginsberg this morning on sunday show and suggesting the border is secure enclosed. that is not the case, the humanitarian crisis is humanitarian, it's economic and it's about safety and we do not have the facilities or the ability in this country to humanely treat these people and this is to become a crisis and spiraled out of control. mike: were running low on time but i want to get one last topic and that is the cuomo situation in new york, eight women now and governors turn our governor cuomo's days numbered in office? >> the tough part of the situation governor cuomo is an expert at maneuvering crises he has gone through multiple investigations that he admitted in his four terms in his chief of staff

federal presidential interference rate that is my take bread coming up tomorrow on smart guy senator rob portman and maria salazar among our gases. kennedy: welcome to what is already a fantastic week. he is back, former president trump making his return to the spotlight like rocky coming out of retirement. arguing the case he is the future of the republican party and could be their best option to win back the whole white house in 2024 it all happened yesterday at seatac in orlando. it strums a major speech since you know. and he made the case that united conservative movement is much stronger than a divided party, watch. >> we have a republican party is going to unite and be stronger than ever before. i am not starting a new party. that was fake news. fake news. would not that be brilliant customer could start a new party and divider vote so we could never win. no one not interested in that. i stand before you today to declare that the incredible journey we have begun together, it is far from being over. who knows, i may even decide to beat them for a third time, okay? [cheering] [applause] ken

senator rob portman wants to hear from both the former acting secretary of defense and the former armyd in their decision-making process. and the time line that have day, that was certainly a sentiment shared by many senators in that hearing. there are two competing narratives about the dod, the pentagon, and the d.c. national guard. critically, those competing narratives are emerging from the pentagon and from the d.c. national guard. and that has confused the entire process of trying to figure out what went wrong on january 6th in the response. >> still such an amazing amount of time to go by. thank you very much. >>> next, he says he's sorry, but did new york's governor go far enough to stop the growing calls for his resignation after being accused of making unwanted advances to multiple women. >>> mexico didn't pay for trump's wall and didn't pay for the statue at cpac. so who did? help keep the gum s. new parodontax active gum repair toothpaste. managing type 2 diabetes? you're on it. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease but could your

the party who have said that they're going to retire at the end of this term, including senator rob portman of ohio, toomey of pennsylvania, so that is just a sea change with this old guard republicans retiring. it's ushering in what the republican base really wants and that is this that more populist trump-like senator to represent them. i was told that polling for senator blunt was very soft. he was worried about a primary challenger and that is just the writing on the wall. he decided not to run for re-election and that's something that other republican senators in that lane are having to grapple with at this point. >> leigh ann caldwell and eugene daniels, thank you for joining us. >>> nbc news got ahold of a draft report lieutenant general honore will give to lawmakers. he said capitol police were understaffed, insufficiently equipped and inadequately trained to secure the capitol. what he suggests they need to do about it. >>> and it has been 19 hours, but still no response from the palace on those explosive accusations from meghan markle and prince harry. why the silence? >>> first u

for example, ohio republican senator rob portman was saying president biden is, in his words, redefiningcture to include things that have never been increased infrastructure before, like -- and he is saying health care, workforce development, research and development. how do you answer that? >> well, infrastructure is being redefined whether we keep up or not, and that is not a bad thing. look, i'm transportation secretary, so i think a lot about things like roads and bridges, that are more traditional. but in these times, broadband is an essential part of infrastructure. water -- it might be underground, so you don't see it, but it is just as important, and often important to just the ability of communities and families to thrive at all. this is infrastructure, too. the grid, after what we just saw in texas, americans citizens melting snowballs in their bathtubs to be able to flush their toilets. that should never happen again, and i absolutely consider that part of an infrastructure package, even if it is not part of the transportation piece that i work on every day. >> woodruff: anoth

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