keeps the republican family mostly together to win a culture war battle. last hour, the house did its job and cleared a must-pass defense bill. the final vote tally was 219-210. if that seems really tight for a bill that sets military policy, it is. the sennarrow margin is thanks a very heated back and forth over controversial add-ones to the bill. republicans say those amendments are a necessary course correction to weed out wokeness from the military. democrats accuse republicans of hijacking the bill to shove right wing anoideology down the tloelts of the american people. his tone was triumphant. i m sorry to disappoint you. that republicans continue to keep our promises. we just, again, from all your questions all week long, will the nda pass this week. not many of you ask about the policy. so i want to spend a moment.
all been on tours. this is not a normal tour when you re filming stairwells and doorways. exactly. as was said, we developed evidence that representative loudermilk was escorting some constituents, some add-ones, this person taking pictures had met the constituents on a bus the day before and was taking pictures of stairwells and of tunnels. they didn t go to the capitol. it wasn t a tour of the capitol. it was in the house office building, but it was on the day before the riot. it was a time when the building is not open to the public. so anyone who came in had had to be escorted in by a member of congress. and we had a lot of questions for representatives of congress. we wrote them letters. we issued some subpoenas, and no one came to tell us of their perspective. we were very open minded and every relevant fact not just about so.net find it ironic that
republicans and democrats are arguing over a host of what we call add-ones to the ndaa. this happens every year because the ndaa is the last train out of the station. a journalism bill would allow journalistic institutions to force social media companies to reconsider how they pay for news. that s one reform proposed by senator manchin. there s a host of policies lawmakers are trying to get into the ndaa, the vaccine measure is one of several. we should mention the debate over the mandates as the whit house anticipates covid cases rising after the holidays in the coming weeks. give us an update. you mentioned kevin mccarthy on his bid for speaker. where do things stand? we re less than a month out. there are still a bunch of public noes. was a good week for kevin mccarthy, he got a bunch of rule changes that the right
this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat with add-ones of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use nuclear weapons. but he knows the west has nuclear weapons of its own and that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction has prevented any power from deploying them since 1945. these kinds of threats must ramp up china and india. but what does it tell us that putin decided to make his statement any way? that the war is going very badly for him. this month, ukrainian forces routed the russian army in a stunning series of victories. putin s first response was to open a new ferris wheel in
in a reconciliation bill that s limited to budget elements could create problems for some of our senators. but more specifically, may not get past the parliamentarian. that s really the most difficult hurdle for us to overcome is to try to tamper our aspirations based on the technical restrictions that come with a reconciliation bill. i imagine you re talking about sinema and manchin. we know their opposition to some of the policy ads. one would mean paid family leave. senator joe manchin has been vocal about wanting to be a bipartisan passage and more robust i should say, not necessarily wanting it to be a part of this bill. how do you think the last-minute add ones, and what i mean by last-minute is between one when the president left for europe last week to now. how is that affecting how you re talking to folks in the house and getting senators on board as