. >>> looking live out at capitol hill, where senate republicans have blocked efforts to begin debates on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure or deal. cbs correspondent natalie brand is live in washington where republicans are pushing for more time to haggle with democrats. >> this afternoon's procedural vote failed and was expected to fail because earlier today the group of republican senators negotiating this deal said they needed a few more days to iron out, finalize the details, come up with the actual legislative text. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: senate republicans voted down a motion to begin debates on a bipartisan infrastructure plan, saying they need more time. afterwards, the group of lawmakers negotiating said they're close to an agreement and are optimistic they'll be ready to move forward in coming days. >> we are making tremendous progress. >> reporter: senate majority leader chuck schumer changed his vote to no and later explained why on the senate floor. >> at the end of a no so i may move to reconsider this vote at a future time. >> senate gop leaders have

actually a total of 18 republicans supported the bill, the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. so 17 republican votes on the senate floor tonight, but 18 in reality. >> the old -- days >> including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days when there were big votes in the senate like that, but these days, i was talking to senator tester, and it's said unless you're naming a post office or doing something non-controversial, it's unheard of these days to get 18 people joining with democrats, so it's something. >> it really is. and i saw your interview with john tester and his confidence and his confidence throughout this process is one of the beacons that i kept my eye on because he is very realistic about what the possibilities are, he's not somebody who throws a lot -- throws around a lot of false optimism. so he was one of the keys for me and watching you get this far. it's not all the way there, but this vote is a huge hurdle for the bill to get over. >> i'm looking for to your show tonight, lawrence have a good one. >> thank you. while they say the senate will deli

but senate republicans blocked it with a filibuster. royce west is a democratic texas state. senna said he was at that meeting with cala harris on tuesday. he told me earlier, the state democrats have no intention of returning and the white house is firmly on their side. we have a president that is committed to make certain that elections voting is accessible to every american. he understands exactly what's going on in this country. as you've said, the 70 states that have passed harsh laws to suppress the vote. and there's not a team that's attempting to do so, so that's a national issue. i'm glad to have a president that's committed to doing everything in his power. in order to get something done. congress does have the power and right now they don't have the means in order to get it done. we're going to have to prevail upon and make certain that democrats in the senate understand that we're on bar time in texas right now.

senate. what does that do to the republican votes here in the senate? them and suggesting that you can't have one without the other i think makes it essentially for a lot of our members that they're enabling the other bill, which includes all the tax increases and things that republican senators are going to have -- >> and, jake, six of the 11 republican senators who initially backed that bipartisan proposal are suggesting they will not necessarily commit to supporting it all the way through so that really raises questions whether there will ultimately be the ten republican senates to get that bipartisan bill through. >> manu, thanks so much. appreciate it. joining us right now senate majority whip dick durbin of illinois. thank you so much, senator, for joining us. you heard the comments there from john thune, the number two senate republican. why link them? i mean, why not just have the bipartisan infrastructure bill go forward, get voted on, et cetera, and then separately do the reconciliation budget package which won't get any republican support so

senate. the bipartisan vote was much bigger than many of us expected. a total of 18 republicans supported the bill. the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. 17 republican senate votes on the floor but 18 in reality already there. including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days there were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to senator tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. democrats. it's quite something. >> it really is. i saw your interview with john throughout the problem and he's very realistic about what the possibilities are. he's not someone who throws around a lot of false optimism. he is one of the keys to watch it get this far. it's not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. >> looking forward to your show. have a good one. >> thank you, ali. as i say, the senate delivered a huge vote tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for joe biden in the senate tonight. it was also a huge win for chuck schumer's

in may republicans in the texas senate jammed through an earlier version of this voter suppression bill. republicans in the texas senate passed the bill in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend right before the end of the legislative session. and the fact it was right before the end of the session ended up being tactically important because it had passed the senate very late. it still had to pass the house. and the texas house had less than 24 hours to pass that bill through their chamber in time to send it to the governor's desk before the legislative session came to a close. and again, it had already passed the senate. the republicans who were the majority in the house promised it would pass the house, too. the governor had promised he would sign it. it was basically a foregone conclusion that the antivoting rights bill would become lawmaking it even harder to vote in the state of texas. it was a foregone conclusion that it was done. until it wasn't. again, this is what happened in may. two hours before the deadline to get that bill passed in the texas house, texas democrats qu

have you secured a meeting with senator senator, been able to meet with any republican senators?p to date. i'm quarantining. i have had occasion to talk to other lawmakers from arizona. sounds like they're organizing and mobilizing. perhaps we can partner together. again, we are here through the first week in august. we will not give up, and we will talk with anybody who wants to have a pragmatic discussion about bringing a fair voting rights standard to this country because i think it's necessary that we have that discussion. the issue is also important and it's not a democratic issue or republican issue. it's an american issue. we should be talking to anyone who has an open mind. >> thank you, representative, for being here. we hope that your symptoms continue to be mild and you get better by the day. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> jim. >>> just ahead, the white house has met with top executives with fox news over its coverage of the coronavirus. is that why we're seeing an aboutface from some fox personalities on vaccines? we'll talk about it next. mm. [ clicks tongue ] i

the republican bill to restrictl the right to vote in the state of texas, yes, it passed the senate, but did not pass the house. it could not be signed into laws they blocked it. that was what happened in may of this year. right away the republican governor of texas promised he would haul the legislature right on back.r. he said he would call a special legislative session specifically so republicans could put their w voter restriction bill back on the docket, and this time they'd get it to the governor's desk so he could sign it. that is the session we are in right now. it is the special session. and minus a few small changes, the bill republicans put forward in this new session, for all intents and purposes, is the same bill they tried to pass this spring even though they were foiled by that late tactical maneuver by the democrats. this bill they're moving to pass right now in texas would ban drive through voting. it would ban voting in the overnight hours. it would restrict voting by mail. it would restrict absentee voting, things that would make it harder for working people and the

schumer later today, but, victor and alisyn, a source telling me they have no plans to meet with senate republicansng me he has heard nothing from them, yoet, not a word from them. that's where the legislative reality comes into play, victor and alisyn. they have to get some sort of republican support to get anything through here lest they keep bumping up against that filibuster and that's simply the reality as it stands right now on capitol hill. >> jessica dean, thank you for that reporting. it looks like the president is running on time, so we should expect that speech that he will be giving on voting rights to be happening in this hour. so obviously we will continue to monitor that. >>> meanwhile, back in texas state house republicans are vowing to punish those absent lawmakers, voting to have the sergeant at arms arrest the representatives who walked out. >> members, the sergeant at arms and any officers appointed by him are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purpose of securing and maintaining their attendance, under warrant of arrest if necessary. >> o

i spoke to the staff of the senate republican conference asking them, wases there some sort of memo that went out to republicans, because it felt like it because they're all singing from the same hymnal. he said nothing from us. so still working to find out what is behind the strategy but definitely a noticeable shift. last week, senate republicans beginning their news conference with this, the importance of vaccinations and then again this week, talking about vaccinations again. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell talking about being a polio survivor and knowing how critical and vital it is to get vaccinated. but they aren't going as far -- republican leadership is not criticizing those republicans who are casting doubt on the vaccines. i pushed leader mcconnell on this last week. he said it's perplexing why more people aren't getting vaccinated and i said respectfully, it isn't all that perflex plex -- perplexing with people in your party casting doubt on this process. are you challenging them directly? he said he can only speak for himself. yamiche: and eva talking about unnamed re

some senate republicans say the cuts could leave the country less protected. military dead last we cannot defend. >> our nation. we cannot prevent war with these figures. >> the biden administration says it wants to eliminate weapons. it cannot stand up to china and russia or too costly to sustained just to sustain rather at the end of the day, congress has the final say on any government spending and senate republicans can exercise ability on a bipartisan bases to reverse any proposed cuts. >> haiti remains under a state of emergency tonight following yesterday's assassination of president jovenel mo ease last night. police killed 4 suspects in a gun battle at the president's private home to others were detained after a brief standoff in which 3 officers are being held hostage. haitian investigators are promising to find all of those responsible for the president's murder. the biden administration is condemning the killing and launching his own investigation and the united nations security council is meeting today to talk about the next steps. >> disgraced ca

senator named james lankford republican from oklahoma at the moment the mob a got inside at that moment he was giving a speech on the senate floor how he was going to join with ted cruz and josh hawley and the other republican senators to object to certifyint the result of the election. senator lankford in the middle of a long argument about wanting congress not to certify the election results on january 6. he thought the election should stay uncertified for another ten days past january 6th so the states could basically think again about whether their election results were really truly the election results and might prefer to send some different electors opposed to the ones they'd sent for the count that was supposed to be happening that day. that is the case that he was th making on the senate floor. pause the count. let's wait another ten days, let's give states ten more days to think about it. that was the case on the senate floor when someone from his office came up to him while speaking which does not happen to u.s. senators speaking on the floor. no one walks up and tells them an

should be or whether it's needed, right now the practical question is whether democrats in the republican senate are gonna gather together to pass legislation or not. republicans are not going to support it, democrats could do it alone if they can get it together to do so. president biden gave that full-throated, double barreled speech yesterday on the need to act to protect voting rights. the need for the senate to act, to pass the for the people act, to pass the joe lewis advancement act, he did make any mention of the thing that is standing in the way of democrats passing the bill, which is the senate filibuster rule, which has been used by republicans to block progress on that and everything else even though they are not in the majority in the senate. republicans have blocked the for the people act once already using the filibuster. they will keep on doing it as long as they can. unless democrats in the senate, all of them, decide to change the filibuster rules so you cannot use the filibuster on voting rights anymore. they can make that sort of a change, until they do that, those fighting r

senators including the top-senate republican, mitch mcconnell, joined every enator in voting to begin debate on this bipartisan-infrastructure plan. now, after the vote, the bipartisan group of senators who have been negotiating this plan, for weeks, took a victory lap. >> not about republicans or democrats. it's about making america more productive, more efficient. therefore, improve the lives of the people we represent. >> the word in this town, and all across this country from the naysayers is that bipartisanship is dead. that it doesn't work, anymore. and that government is broken. and we are here to say, no. it works. >> we've still got a long ways to go, before we get to the finish line. but this was a vitally important, first step. >> i think, the country needed a bit of good news. and i think, what we're delivering, tonight, is that tonic, in a way, for the soul of america. >> tonic for the soul of america. well, america could sure use some tonic. today, the white house applauded the deal. noting that it included some of the largest-ever investments in

or so advancing a $1.00 trillion dollar infrastructure package by $67.00 boats to 32 earlier senate republicans that they had reached the deal with democrats, of a major standing issues. the bill includes $550000000000.00 in new spending on public works projects. sentences in a bipartisan group have been working with the white house to move forward with the plan. i think this is a incredible opportunity for us to both improve our infrastructure, which is badly needed make us more competitive. but 2nd, to show that bipartisanship can work, we can get things done in his town. so i'm, i'm very pleased with our ability tonight to move on to legislation and continue to demonstrate that my kind of following that story for us out of washington might, we heard that from that politician, they're saying bipartisanship works. we can get this done. will they get it done? do we think? well, that's her question. that's going to be difficult to answer in the coming days. but certainly this bill is historic, has president biden, has just described it in the tweet thing. it's the largest infrastructure bill in

senators? to talk to with the republican senators. do you have plans to speak with administration or anyone else do you think might be key to this process? >> well, we are very aware that the president of the united states will address the nation on voting rights. we're keenly aware that the leader, schumer, knows the -- needs to happen before the recess. not anyone on the bus wants the senate to go home thinking that everyone is fine with voting rights with america. let's take a break. we're here to staircase. the meetings are developing as we seek around ground. we've only been here minutes on the ground. he called it here first. i think we want to go to the hotel, check in with our families and we do have a meeting first thing tomorrow morning. and you should expect to see us on capitol hill before lunch tomorrow. >> representative trey martinez fischer, i don't know if you have a handheld phone or a laptop that you're talking on. is there any way you can lift it up so i can see your colleagues on the bus? i want to get a sense of

it has turned the state republican party in oklahoma against their senator as he faces a reelection. it's also animating hundreds of republican campaigns for all sorts of state offices all around the country. amy gardner reporting today for the washington post quote, dozens of candidates promoting the baseless notion that the election was rigged are seeking powerful statewide offices such as governor, attorney general and secretary of state, which would give them authority over the administration of elections. these candidates are running in several of the decisive states where trump and his allies sought to overturn the outcome and engineer his return to the white house. of the nearly 700 republicans who have filed initial paperwork with the fa sea to run next year for the u.s. senate or the house of representatives, at least a third of those 700 republican candidates have embraced trump's false claims about his defeat. at least a third of them. senator of the state, there are republicans in fact, republican controlled legislatures around country that are restricting voting rights an

he forced that republican chairman to resign from the senate. then, in 2000, five mitch mcconnell became the republican leader of the senate and everything changed for mitch mcconnell. the last fully honorable thing mitch mcconnell did in the senate was in 2006 when he proudly voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. then, with the obama presidency came mitch mcconnell's vowed to block barack obama's election by trying to block every single thing on president obama's agenda in the united states senate. instead of using his powers as senate majority leader to tame donald trump he became his errand boy. mitch mcconnell had become the most dangerously malevolent senate leader in history. he fought to preserve the trump presidency into impeachment trials when he knew donald trump was guilty as charged. it has been inexplicable for those who knew the response of mitch mcconnell of his first 20 years to watch him destroy as the leader. none of us were ready for the apparent reappearance of the old mitch mcconnell, the one we used to know. it happene

think it will fall in place before august recess, i have my doubts. >> a lot of democratic senators think republicans, folks like you, were never going to get to guess on this, and not moving forward is another delay on a vote you're probably going to vote against and package you're probably going to vote against anyway. what do you say to that? >> i think on hard infrastructure, roads and bridges, now let's throw rural broadband in there, waterways, rail, the stuff you normally put in that category, and if there's no squishiness in pay fors. i am a believer that even though it hasn't happened since '93, we raised diesel and gas taxes to pay for it in indiana. you ought to be charging electric vehicles some amount for using the road, especially if we have more of them on the road. public, private partnerships, those are hard pay force. -- fors. i think it can come together. we avoid hard pay fors here on almost everything we do. that's what bothers me in terms of not taking what we all know we need, lack of political will, to get that in concrete terms. >> democrats i think would say when you put re

things like this. >> republican senators must ignore former president trump if we are ever going to make progress for the american people. he is rooting for our entire political system to fail. >> yeah. he actually said that. republican senators must ignore former president trump. as if that's possible. the politics of governing require public optimism. you must always be publicly optimistic until and unless all is lost. nobody knows that better than joe biden. >> are you confident there will be an infrastructure deal this week, a bipartisan infrastructure deal? >> i'm always confident, yes. >> joe biden and chuck schumer have known the bipartisan deal can come across and crash and burn at any moment. that is why they are moving on a separate track and are ready to incorporate whatever can be salvaged into the democrats' only bill if that will be the only bill that will pass. the republican fall-back position is nothing. no infrastructure improvements to anyone ever in the country. they will not tighten a single bolt on a single bridge, not one. the republican fall back position, it is t

there are a lot of people in the house republican and senate republican leadership circles watching or are aware of the hearing and say i can't believe there's nobody in the room to offer any sort of other point of view besides these people. it was a cut and dry incident. what was experienced by the officers a lot of us experienced. the decision to stay outside the room for mccarthy and for the house republican leadership is going to be one that people will spend a lot of time thinking about, hashing over the next couple of weeks and months. listen, we wrote about this this morning. this investigation is going to drag on for months. not only did house republicans and senate republicans reject the bill to give them full veto power over subpoenas and committee work, they're not even in the room now. probably better service for the american people because what we heard from several if not all members that mccarthy proposed, several of them -- >> jake, i'm going to interrupt you. we have some of the committee members at the sticks, including liz cheney. >> to be able to do this in a nonpar

the senate republicans that they've reached the deal with democrats are the major as standing issues. the bill does include $550000000000.00 in new spending on public works projects. and it's the 1st part of the us president jo biden's infrastructure agenda. our correspondent mike, kind of tracking that story for us as of washington d. c. mike, how significant is this bill, and is it likely to pass in congress? well, it's a deeply significant pull, a massive amount of money over trillion dollars that will go to upgrade the countries infrastructure. going to will build new bridges, new roads, improve the water system, replace every lead pipe in the water system in the united states. so its impact would be massive on the country and on its economy. now at the moment the senate is voting in a procedural motion, the boat to still to be finally italy. but it does appear that it's across the 60 both threshold needed to proceed with a debate on the bill. so this essentially is just the beginning of what is likely to be a grueling process taking days and possibly weeks. but the fact that they

senator rob portman said 11 senate republicans have committed to supporting a vote to at least begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill on monday. yesterday democratic senator joe manchin who is one of the leaders of the bipartisan negotiations said this. >> i think we've moved in pretty much got an agreement on the infrastructure bill, what we call traditional infrastructure. we're pretty much down the road on that and hopefully will have everything. i think the 11 republicans have been signed, exactly what's asked for, and that should be presented and we go from there. we are just starting on the other. >> do you have a deal on bipartisan infrastructure? >> i think they pretty much got it worked out. >> leading off our discussion tonight a congressional historian, emeritus scholar at the american enterprise institute and coauthor of "it's even worse than it looks: how the american constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism" and the opinion columnist for "the washington post" and senior fellow at the brookings institution. e.

eastern. >>> back on the hill, senate republicans are expected to block a vote to start debate on a $1.2 infrastructure deal. what do republicans want? they say they want more time to strike a deal. they want to know what's in the bill. senate majority leader chuck schumer is pushing forward with today's vote. joining us now democratic senator from maryland chris van hol holland. good to have you with us. can we get your reaction to the news from spoeaker pelosi and kevin mccarthy, threatening there will be an investigation by republicans. >> aspeaker pelosi made exactly the right call. this is a special committee that's designed to get at the truth and the facts of what happened during the attack on the capitol on january 6th and all the events leading up to it. you can't get to the truth when you have people on the committee who are just spreading the big lie and who have demonstrated time and again that they're only interested in spreading false information. so she made the right call. she tried, of course, to establish a bipartisan commission. that was shot down here in the senate by

economists say right now it's the highest in 13 years with margins rager to razor-thin in the senate, republicans to join all 50 democrats to advance the bipartisan measure. >> i will just tell you right now the votes are not there to pass this at this point and the reason -- to pay for is people want them to be legitimate. >> negotiations continue today and in the coming days, and initial vote on the bipartisan plan is scheduled for wednesday. chris. >> chris: david spunt reporting from the white house. david, thank you. joining us now from louisiana is republican senator bill cassidy. senator, as david just mention mentioned, you have the senate majority leader chuck schumer calling for vote on wednesday, a cloture vote to end the possibility of a filibuster on that infrastructure bill, which hasn't even been completed yet. two questions. first of all, will you vote for cloture on wednesday and two, how confident are you that ten republicans will vote, which is the number you need, to block a filibuster? >> senator cassidy: how can i vote for cloture when the bill isn't written? and less you wa

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i believe because i take my republican colleagues at their -- i come from a tradition in the senate, word. and i've found rob portman does that. >> do you think that testimony move forward on monday? >> i do. here's what i think. what happens is the vote on monday is a motion to be able to proceed to this issue. and then they will debate the issue of the elements, the individual elements of this plan to say we're going to fix that damn bridge of yours going into kentucky. i'm serious. >> president joe biden at his town hall also really emphasized the bigger picture implications here. he said that this legislation would provide jobs to americans, and he said that it would increase commerce. he really wanted to speak directly with americans to tell them how this would affect their lives directly. but the bottom line here is that the negotiations, the window for these negotiations, are closing. there is only a little bit of time left before the august recess and then after that, only a little bit of time left before the holidays. and then next year is a midterm year. so president joe bi

senate. we have yet to see if anything actually comes of those negotiations. i'm not holding my breath. but the democrats-only bill, they can use a budget technique to b pass that with zero republican votes in the senate as long as all 50 democratic senators can hang together. and they do have at least a framework agreement to do that to the tune of $3.5 trillion. progressives are pretty excited today about the top lines of this proposed bill. the deal that democratic leadership announced late last night includes big changes, bige policy advancements that would have a big material impact on millions of americans' lives. things like what's called a l clean energy standard that requires utilities to sharply increase the proportion of energy they generate that comes from things like solar and wind. it would expand medicare so that medicare would start to cover dental and vision and hearing. which would be huge for the tens of millions of americans on medicare.h it would get health insurance to an additional 2 million americans by expanding medicaid even in republican states that refuse to expand it themselves.g it would fund universal pre-k for all american kids and d affordable child

some senate republicans are already vowing to bombard it with a host of amendments.many democrats in both the house and the senate have made clear they will only support it if it is followed by a sizable reconciliation bill that will fund family programs, education, health care and climate change, all things that republicans did not want in the smaller bipartisan package. arizona senator kyrsten sinema, who was credited by the bipartisan group for bringing the deal together, angered some in her party when she said that the $3.5 trillion pricetag being floated for that larger reconciliation deal is too high. she doesn't support it. which ignited a strong response from house progressives. democraticic representative alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted "good luck tanking your own party's investment in child care, climate action, and infrastructure while presuming you're survive a 3 vote house margin especially after choosing to exclude members of color from negotiations and calling that a bipartisan accomplishment. pramila jay apal also let it be known she and her colleagu

with president biden ending talks with a group of republicans led by senator shelley moore capito onto members of a bipartisan group of moderate senators >> seth: i'm sorry, which group of republicans do you think you're going to find common ground with? the group that thinks the forest service has the power to alter the earth's orbit, or the group that thinks the election was hacked by italian satellites "all right folks, how about a compromise how about instead of the forest service, we use the italian satellites to alter the earth's orbit? do we have a deal? also, there's a downside to humoring republicans, and that's time every day wasted on bipartisan talks that will inevitably go nowhere is a day that could have been spent working on or passing much-needed legislation on everything from climate change to voting rights that's mitch mcconnell's goal, to run out the clock didn't we learn that lesson from the obama era? he spent months making good faith efforts to woo republicans. he went to a house gop conference to take questions, a. in the end, all he got out of it was zero vote

that's what this week's vote is about, and i hope my republican colleagues will -- >> that is sense speech for god knows what's, a bipartisan group of senatorsting just tonight, sounding hopeful on infrastructure agreement on the horizon. but majority leader schumer still pushing ahead with a procedural vote tomorrow, that is expected to fail, for their part republicans are threatening to filibuster, denying democrats the ten votes they need to proceed. with us tonight, cornell belcher, veteran of the obama campaign among others and matthew dowd, former george w. bush strategist, founder of country over party. gentlemen, i hope you are ready for this we, have a lot of work to do, cornell i will start with you and play for you some mitt romney from earlier today. >> are you concerned that if the vote will happen this week and registration -- >> i think the vote should be held next monday, not wednesday. give us a time to solve the remaining issues. >> cornell, sorted out for our audience, what is schumer up to? >> well i think schumer is up to trying to push for legislation, the question isn't what's schumer's doing, the question is what mitc

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meanwhile, back in texas, the state senate republicans who do have a quorum and are in session past their own voter restriction bill tonight along party lines. though i should note, a whole bunch of democrats in the state senate also -- state house republicans, meanwhile, voted to send the sergeant and arms to obtain the democrats that have left even though they have no authority to make arrests outside of texas. and texas governor greg abbott promised to pass republican voter restriction bills even if he has to imprison democrats to do so. >> i can and i will continue to call special session after special session, after special session all the way up until the election next year. as soon as they come to the state of texas, they will be arrested, they will cabinet inside the texas capital until they get their job done. >> joining me now live from texas, adam serwer, author of "the cruelty is the point" which is now in bookstores that you should absolutely pick up. adam, abbott seems -- the uniform intensity and focus on this agenda not just on the state of texas is always so striking to m

particular project, she will not accept the legislation that is being debated by the senate at present . republicans in the senate, adamant that the house of legislation will not come to the senate floor. given all of these circumstances, it's very clear that there's a long and arduous journey ahead for the legislation to arrive on president biden's desk for signature. ah, the killing of a popular africa comedian. but taliban has drawn international condemnation. bizarre mohammed hasha who was also a police officer, was abducted from his home encounter hard province and killed the video showing his treatments at the hands of taliban fighters. the sparked outrage high ranking officials and i've got on the stand and the us have the 9th, the killing telephone spokesman has reportedly said it will investigate of the conflict in afghanistan is driving more people to make the perilous journey to europe, turkeys, cool. sconces intercepted the boats carrying more than 230 people in the g and see, many of them are africans in recent weeks. are going number. have been reaching sir k through iran. seen him bec

the senate republican leader, of course now retired, 98 years old.t where he's trying to get his infrastructure plan, the smaller bill that he's trying to forge across the finish line. it is difficult. you've had republicans pushing back today on a democratic offer. democrats saying republicans are moving the goalpost. very hard to do in the modern environment which is more polarized than it was then. but even then, you had a lot of partisan passions and on the issue of the americans with disabilities, like infrastructure, it doesn't fit in the normal partisan frame. they got that done. it was one of highlights of george h.w. bush's administration and joe biden wants to make this bipartisan infrastructure plan one of the highlights of his administration trying to recapture some of that bipartisan magic right now. >> i'm sitting here wondering, do you think something like the a.d.a. could be passed today? >> i do. i think that you get certain categories of action that if they can't readily fall into the partisan pegs that we have become accustomed to,

when you've got a committee chaired that objected to the election of george bush and delete senate republican senators should be on terrorist watch list, with suing president trump at the time, what we are objecting to is that we're not going to find the solutions. we want to find the solutions so that this would never happen again. that's always asked. thank you very much. have a good day. >> what about mcconnell's role? he appointed singer to the capitol police board. [background sounds] >> the committee investing the january 6th attack on u.s. cap holds its first hearing this morning. office from u.s. capitol police and washington metropolitan police department will tell members what they saw and experience on that day. watch the hearing life today beginning at 9:30 9:30 a.mn on c-span3, on my c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> sunday c-span series january six, use in the house continues there three more members of congress share stories of what they saw, heard and experienced that day, clinton representative rodney davis of illinois who served as a teller for the elec

when you've got a committee chaired that objected to the election of george bush and delete senate republican senators should be on terrorist watch list, with suing president trump at the time, what we are objecting to is that we're not going to find the solutions. we want to find the solutions so that this would never happen again. that's always asked. thank you very much. have a good day. >> what about mcconnell's role? he appointed singer to the capitol police board.>> and nown managing space traffic and avoiding collisions with debris. the senate commerce subcommittee on space and science use testimony on the increase in space junk, security to prevent attacks and space and escalation of private industry in space travel. this is 90 minutes.

senate republicans revolted on monday against opening debate on infrastructure. and while a bipartisan bill was still being written, lining up in opposition to a squeeze play by majority leader chuck schumer. schumer and senate democrats need at least ten republicans who agree to advance a still unwritten bill to spend nearly $600 billion on roads, bridges and broadband during a vote expected on wednesday. but both republican republicans and the gop lawmakers working on the bipartisan infrastructure package carried the same warning for schumer. quote, he's not going to get 60, let's put it that way said minority whip john thune. one story we're obviously following the senate in today over on c-span 2. also over on c-span 2 and getting under way shortly, our coverage is live now but it's the blue origin launch live in west texas and some video we're seeing from the coverage. that launch of the blue origin spacecraft is set for 9:00 eastern. we will look in and watch that launch if we are able when 9:00 comes around. but it's open forum and your chance to dictate th

earlier, senate republicans said they had reached a deal with democrats. senators in a bipartisan group working with the white house to move forward with the plan. >> i think this is an incredible opportunity to both improve infrastructure, which is badly needed, but show the bipartisanship can work. i'm very pleased with our ability to move on to legislation and continue to demonstrate that. reporter: pedro castillo has been sworn in as peru's president. his left-wing party wants to rewrite the constitution and address and equality. turkish authorities have intercepted a boat, many were afghans escaping the conflict. dozens of people have been injured by a wildfire in turkey, strong wind sent the flames to a resort town. homes in four districts were evacuated. it's being investigated. england is allowing fully vaccinated visitors to arrive without the need to quarantine. it goes into effect on monday. those are your top stories so far this hour. up next is inside story. i will have a quick summary for you in 20 minutes. ♪ host: who owns the rights to vacci

the associated press is reporting today that republicans in the pennsylvania state senate might be planningtate. that effort is led by republican state senator doug mastriano. he was among a group of gop state lawmakers who just last month traveled from pennsylvania to arizona to so-called observe the ongoing so-called audit of 2.1 million votes cast. this week, he reportedly briefed his fellow pennsylvania state senate republicans on his plan for an arizona-style audit. he does seem to be taking pages right out of the arizona playbook. in arizona, the republican state senate leader used her subpoena power to force the board of elections to turn over ballots. this pennsylvania state senator also runs a committee that theoretically has subpoena power. in arizona, the state senate fronted $150,000 to pay for their so-called audit. the rest of the funding for it is coming from sources that nobody involved will disclose. this pennsylvania state senator is also trying to secure funding for an audit and has sought advice from a law firm about how to go about using money from a private non-profit

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>> donald trump is not where the senate republican caucus clearly is. with 17 republicans, including as you noted at the top, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell backing this, and actually, i think there is some opportunity for democrats to find other republicans who voted against this first vote to actually get onto the final package, one of those that we're watching closely is what does senator john thune of south dakota do? this is one example of, i think, where the president really is out of step with where the republican conference is. the senators want to make a deal. they have been working on this in a way that a lot of people that have covered congress as lung as i have been skeptical they were going to be able to get this far, but the fact they did, it's going to be a long road, but it is on track. they're moving forward. right now, we already saw when the president backs somebody, in that texas run-off, it doesn't always work out in his favor. though how aggressively he's going to campaign against this, it sounds as if it's one or two of his