A look at the days latest news and headlines. Manafort to try to get evidence on President Trump that could result in impeachment. This judge who later ruled the trial could proceed has been very critical of the Governments Team throughout and they are now filing motions complaining that he is prejudicing or misleading or confusing the jury with his quips. Theyve gotten him to admit he was wrong once in open court, but today he ignored their complaints. He constantly asked them how long the individual segments of the trial they are going to take he wants them to go as fast as possible. It was the judge today who delayed the start time by five hours. The jury was reminded very quickly how important it is they dont talk to anybody including each other about the details of this case. We have no idea why a 9 45 00 a. M. Starting time got pushed back to 2 30 p. M. And we arent going to find out immediately. The transcripts have now been
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keeps running into the same opposition, and some of that is coming from within his own party. yes, he has a majority, but it is extremely narrow, and he does not have the full democratic majority in the senate on his side to pass many of his priorities, so how s he going to get through that. as you say, on voting rights in particular, i do think there was some political imperative for biden to show this was a priority, to show that he was going to try to take some action even if he knew it wasn t going to pass, but it didn t pass. so now what is the next step. they are caught in a little bit of a bind right now. they re always going to have this blockade unless biden can find a way to change the names of two very important democratic senators, and right now i think there s very little indication that he s going to be able to do that. shannon: so they didn t get these voting change bills through. a number of democrats have talked about they now have worries about the legitimacy of the n
months. the democrats dropped the for the people act, they drop build back better from 3. 5 trillion to 1. 75 trillion, it didn t pass. the obstructionism on the right, especially, is absolutely right now, is not? i think they have to do a better job being more imaginative in a way and forcing tougher votes for republicans. they didn t highlight certain aspects of the bills that would be harder for republicans to oppose. so i think that the democrats could ve played they could ve done better. the administration could ve done somewhat better. but i also agree that, i mean, at the end of the day, you have to bring home to people the republican structures. and i think david just said that was very important. it has to be choice, not just a referendum. people electing your president, they had a sigh of relief perhaps, high hopes. you have to, if you have a chance, if you can in the mid term, not let people have a
valuable and possible on the altar of wood is unattainable. it sounds lovely and pragmatic, but i feel like a misses what happened over the past 12 months. the democrats dropped the for the people act, they drop build back better from 3.5 trillion to 1.75 trillion, it didn t pass. the obstructionism on the right, especially, is absolutely right now, is not? i think they have to do a better job being more imaginative in a way and forcing tougher votes for republicans. they didn t highlight certain aspects of the bills that would be harder for republicans to oppose. so i think that the democrats could ve played they could ve done better. the administration could ve done somewhat better. but i also agree that, i mean, at the end of the day, you have to bring home to people the republican structures. and i think david just said that was very important. it has to be choice, not just a referendum. people electing your president, they had a sigh of relief perhaps, high hopes.
opposition, and some of that is coming from within his own party. yes, he has a majority, but it is extremely narrow, and he does not have the full democratic majority in the senate on his side to pass many of his priorities, so how s he going to get through that. as you say, on voting rights in particular, i do think there was some political imperative for biden to show this was a priority, to show that he was going to try to take some action even if he knew it wasn t going to pass, but it didn t pass. so now what is the next step. they are caught in a little bit of a bind right now. they re always going to have this blockade unless biden can find a way to change the names of two very important democratic senators, and right now i think there s very little indication that he s going to be able to do that. shannon: so they didn t get these voting change bills through. a number of democrats have talked about they now have worries about the legitimacy of the next round of elections. the