Or sleepier . Dana i would have gotten 10 hours of sleep if i went to bed like i felt like it. If you have any tips or tricks for the new schedule. Bill dana is here in the morning and evening and doing it all right now. Dana i went to bed earlier than most children last night and our Line Producer went to bed. Bill more caffeine. Eight hours. Dana we have a capitol hill watch with jackie heinrich. The Senate Moving Forward on covid relief without republican support . Thats right, dana. President biden reportedly told democrats to move forward with his 1. 9 trillion proposal not long after sitting down with Senate Republicans to try to hash out a bipartisan deal. 618 billion proposal was swiftly rejected. Democrats cleared a procedural hurdle to go forward with Budget Reconciliation to pass bigger bill with a simple majority. Republicans can join us but dont try to go against us. We have the majority and we arent backing down. Our members who were in the meeting felt that the president
the southwestern part of the state. claudia, what are you doing now? i m so owe i m getting important stuff. my paperwork. my husband s personal things. i lost him two months ago. now i ve lost my only home. so i m packing it up, taking it to my car. you re packing it up in a garbage can? yeah. have you the goe gotten any p yet? no. but that s okay. i m strong. i can get it, get the important things. all right, claudia, god bless you. thank you. all right. i ll be all right. claudia says she s strong, and that s what people are relying on, at least in the first early hours here, their own strength. some people have been asking us for water, food, and of course communication is a tough thing as well with all the cellphones down. right now really it s neighbor helping each other here until help from more than 35 states arrives. tucker, back to you. tucker: we ll assess the path of the storm and the damage that it s wrought with hurricane expert brian nor
happening now, breaking news. kevin mccarthy trying to seize the momentum right now in the fight for the speakership. the house is preparing to return to session at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, after two very dramatic votes saw the republican leader flip more than a dozen hardliner holdouts coming up just short of a majority. the country marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insur re insur insurrection. president biden honoring the defenders of democracy today, including several police officers brutally attacked while holding off the mob at the capitol. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. the momentum in the speaker s race swinging heavily toward house republican leader kevin mccarthy. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill. i understand you are getting new understand.
okay? [cheers and applause] now, if the results on november a end up how we think they are treading today, the gop could win both houses of congress and governorships that they have not taken into decades. if they do, it will in part be because more latino americans turned out for them then ever before. and democrats are clearly in panic mode. left-leaning latino voters are shifting towards the gop. it is a group that has been trending in the republican direction, particularly in key states, you look like those two like florida, like texas, the gop is rebuilding trust with latino voters. laura: which is why our theme tonight is the hispanic american electorate. [cheers and applause] so why are more shifting away from the democrat party and toward the gop? why is this happening? we have fantastic guests tonight. current and future political stars, business leaders, and the governor of this great state of texas, along with an amazing look at these people. they are aweso
only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k