consequential. just so i m clear, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, am i correct? and maybe more. and maybe other issues? so some progressives have been pushing the president to do more on voting rights for months now. the problem, of course, is his economic agenda, 4 trillion in traditional infrastructure what he calls the care economy could be at risk if he pushes moderate democrats to change the filibuster. cnn s jeremy diamond live for us this morning. hi, jeremy, in washington. gutting the filibuster would have major ramifications for washington and the country. but it s not up to him. reporter: it s not up to him. but certainly if he pushed for it, we would have perhaps a very different conversation. but one thing that the president made clear yesterday in the same breath as he was saying that he is open to fundamentally altering the filibuster, perhaps even scrapping it all together for issues like voting rights, the de
filibuster straight up. there are certain things that are just sacred rights. one is a sacred obligation that we re never going to renege on a debt. we re the only nation in the world. we have never, ever reneged on a single debt. but when it comes to voting rights voting rights particularly is consequential. just so i m clear, though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct? maybe more. and maybe other issues? so, how exactly would it change in the filibuster work? cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is traveling with the president. reporter: well, president biden made a significant amount of news in this cnn town hall in baltimore. perhaps most symbolically on the filibuster, saying that there could come a point where they have to fundamentally alter it, though, of course, they do not have the 60-vote threshold in the senate that has prevented the president and democrats from getting some of
paris agreement. that s happening in glasgow where all nations are expected to come with even more ambitious promises than they made a few years back. but so far joe biden s ambitions are falling short in the halls of congress. bill weir, cnn, charleston, south carolina. well, leaders from around the world will head to scotland soon for cop-26. russia s president won t be among them. the kremlin announced this week that vladimir putin sitting this one out, although russia will participate in the summit. the decision is just one of the dramatic developments and puzzling foreign policy moves coming out of moscow. cnn s sam kiley is there for more. good morning to you, sam. i mean, given what we ve just outlined there, what is putin s strategy here? i mean, he doesn t seem to be making many friends. reporter: well, no, but making friends is not really what vladimir putin has been all about for the last ten, 15 years. his troops, of course, illegally
replace the entire pipe system. a warmer and dryer winter expected across the south and west. government forecasters say that may worsen drought conditions in california. the cost of home heating oil is expected to rise more than 40% this winter. gun violence in the united states surging during this pandemic. penn state researchers study daily police reports and gun-related injuries and deaths in all 50 states and washington, d.c. during the 13-month period. they found a 30% increase in gun violence over the previous year. so many headlines from cnn s town hall with president biden last night from his legislative agenda to the filibuster and so much more. in case you missed it, here s 90 minutes boiled down to two. bottom line, do you think you will get a deal? i do think i ll get a deal. you are also proposing for the first time ever, federal paid parental leave. at one point you talked about 12 weeks, now there s reports it s down to maybe four weeks. it is down to four
be ready in the near term, meaning, weeks, not months and months. are you saying once you get this current agenda passed on spending and social programs, that you would be open to fundamentally altering the filibuster if we re doing away or doing away with it? well, that remains to be seen exactly what that means in terms of fundamentally, whether or not we end the filibuster straight up. when it comes to voting rights, so i m clear, though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct? and maybe more. and maybe other issues? [ applause ] all right. obviously a lot to digest there from last night s cnn town hall. so let s bring cnn politics senior writer zack wolf. zack, good morning. nice to see you. good morning. let s start with his filibuster sort of breaking news game changer. it seems to me that he s doing