many of them believe and hope that their march which has cap toured the attention of the world would somehow be able to convince the lawmakers to table or even scrap that piece of legislation. that s why they are marching and all eyes on what s going to happen in this building when they decide on the bill on wednesday. kristie lu stout in hong kong, our thanks to you and your team. here in the united states, they are literally setting the table right now north biggest political event yet in the 2020 presidential race. the hall of fame dinner in cedar rapids, iowa, where 19 of the 23, yes, we re at 23 democratic presidential candidates, 19 of them will speak tonight. the event about to get under way. a key contender is missing, the front-runner joe biden. the former vice president sending his regrets for mission the event. he s attending his granddaughter s graduation. now biden s absence comes at a brand new poll from cnn and the des moines register shows that the former vice pre
secure election act seemed like a sure thing. a bipartisan bill with the sole purpose of protect our voting systems from interference. republican roy blount was the chairman of the powerful senate rules committee. was set to mark up the bill on wednesday, with the expectation of a full senate vote in october. that markup never happened. no explanation was given as to why. until yesterday when yahoo! news reported the bill had been held up in the senate at the behest of the white house, which opposed the proposed legislation. the white house then told yahoo news that while the administration appreciates congress s interest in election security, the department of homeland security has all the statutory authority it needs to assist state and local officials to improve the security of existing election infrastructure. lead democrat on the bill senator amy klobuchar of minnesota joins me tonight. what happened here? it was a shocker, chris, because the bill was going so well. senator
if those people are talking, i got to tell you, the white house needs to be nervous. ted, you re so good. ted williams puts it in perspective in a language that i can understand, which is clear. what is clear, to ted s point though, right now the president s agenda might not be as clear. he wants to get tax cuts done. he wants to obviously continue a economic agenda that rates well with the american people. again, part of that concern today at the corner of wall and broad, we ll get into this more later, maybe this disrupted that momentum. bob cusack has more on that. what do you think, bob? so much for tax cuts. we re going to see a bill on wednesday, but this is just going to dominate the week. i think it s going to be difficult for republicans to push that kind of bill if we re waiting for other indictments, maybe other indictments come. there s no doubt about it. last week some republicans were talking about, okay, it s time to wrap up these investigations and the timing of thi
expire. clayton: texas representative victoria on a hunger strike over the state antisanctuary bill, banning universities from preventing law enforcement from helping ice. she started fasting yesterday and isn t eating until the house begins debating the bill on wednesday. heather: toddler remains hospitalized tumbling out of a bus an off-duty firefighter rushing in to help, she has a broken jaw but she s expected to recover. it is still unclear how the bus door opened. the hero firefighter encouraging everyone to take a first responder place in case of an emergency, look at that. senior meteorologist janice dean is back and she s tracking our
door opened. the hero firefighter now encouraging everyone to take a first responder class just in case of emergencies like this. so lucky. well a liberal lawmaker is starving herself. hoping not eating will protect illegal immigrants. texas representative victoria on a hunger strike over the state s anti-sanctuary bill. the proposal banning cities, counties and universities from preventing law enforcement from helping ice. she started fasting yesterday and is not eating until the house begins debating the bill on wednesday. angry student threatening to take uc berkeley to court. the college republican group says that they will take legal action if the school does not find a proper time and place for conservative commentator ann coulter to speak next week. now, the students claim that the university is violating their right to free speech. the school says they cancelled the original event for safety concerns. they are offering a new time