He s worried about making the senate dysfunctional. the senate is dysfunctional. the only thing saving the senate is doing away with the filibuster, which would great an incentive for bipartisanship. but the fate of this republic depends on joe manchin changing his mind. sam stein put together these votes that went down. january 6th commission, the dream act, manchin, toomey, 59 votes. paycheck pharynx 5 votes, all lost, all filibustered. thank you all so much. next, was rudy giuliani used by a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election? we know there s another active investigation to find the answer to that question and more. we ll talk about what we know exactly so far, next. definitely moisturizer! antibacterial can i have both? new dove care & protect body wash eliminates 99% of bacteria and moisturizes for hours two for one! can i keep it?
She deeply loves democracy. she loves the capitol. she talks about being a young girl and seeing the captain and the formative experience that it had. this was not about politics for her. she wanted to put a commission together to preserve democracy. fact that the republicans aren t willing to do that is sad for them but it s sad for the country. i mean, it s sad for the country in what the republican party continues to become. you think there will be forward movement on some select committee? that s basically clear, right? that s 100%. there s going to be a select committee. there will be an investigation. so i don t really you know, that s the thing. it s not even that the republicans are making some rational choice that somehow now this won t be in the news that s a good point. it s just it s pure pandering to trump and the base. if trump s against the commission, they need to be against the commission. they re not even a rational
Votes, but that s preposterous. you mentioned toomey is one of them, burr is the other. that s eight. had mitch mcconnell, who after he opposed the impeachment to donald trump said donald trump was morally and practically responsible for the insurrection, which i assume means the deaths at the capitol and the injuries of the police officers, had mitch mcconnell said we need a bipartisan investigation, that s nine. he needs to find one other senator. it s not as if this was an impossible task finding ten senators. mitch mcconnell, who is the avatar for the debasement of my former friends at the establishment of the republican party, said himself that trump was responsible for this. he could have whipped for the ten votes. he didn t do so. he could have gotten donald trump impeached and convicted three months ago. he didn t do so. his excuse then was that the democrats rushed this. remember that, chris? the democrats had rushed this,
Know, the investigation into these ukrainians. but certainly he fits into this category of ukrainians who helped rudy giuliani gather information, dirt on the bidens, helped him arrange this trip to kiev and budapest, during which he met with ukrainian prosecutors and with dur ketch. while we can t say with precision which ones may be targets of the investigation or subjects of the investigation, we know because we know the treasury and the intelligence community was ringing the alarm bells about these guys and subsequently sanctioned them, like, this is the universe of folks who an investigation like this would logically look at. manhattan federal investigation, the judges appointed a special master to sift through the second time we ve seen this because of michael cohen.
Got longer, citing people with knowledge of the matter, the new york times reports federal prosecutors in brooklyn are investigating whether several ukrainian officials orchestrated a plan to medal in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using rudy giuliani to spread their misleading claims about president biden and tilt the election in donald trump s favor. the investigation started in the last months of the trump administration and it is separate to the manhattan federal criminal probe into giuliani and ukraine. the times says giuliani is not a subject of the brooklyn investigation but that investigators are focusing on at least one ukrainian official who met with giuliani in ukraine in 2019. betsy swan of politico has been covering giuliani in ukraine for years. kevin, what can you tell us about this investigation and why it s in the eastern district, and why it appears to be separate from the southern