this time hovering over alaska. and the fbi removing one document marked classified from former vice president mike pence s home. new hampshire republican governor chris sununu is with me now. governor, your average friday. nothing much going on. nothing much going on in d.c., right? what do you make of how biden handled this new object sounds like he handled it better. swift, decisive action. i think a lot of folks understand china s poking at us. they re kind of testing us, seeing if our political divides are enough to make us we don t know this is from china. we don t, of course. it might be, might not be. in this instance, whoever it might be from and whatever the result is, they seem to have handled it swiftly and appropriately. so then the other thing, of course, is all these classified documents that apparently presidents and vice presidents can t keep track of. is it just presidents and vice presidents, is it senators? who knows how many classified documents a
major victory. we expect one of our first vote on later on this afternoon will get it started. and then it is really in the hands of the republicans. they can offer as many events as they want, and they can talk pretty much over the next 20 hours or they want to. so if they can keep the clock moving, at the end of the day, if we keep our 15 votes together we can be able to pass this bill. also, breaking at this hour, president biden has tested negative for covid today. the president s physician announcing those results moments ago. and just ahead, we will go live to the white house on how this affects the presidents plans moving forward. meanwhile, indiana s past the state of the first state to pass abortions after roe v. wade is overturned. governor erin hoeven signing a total ban on the procedure after lawmakers approved. it senators on both sides of the aisle are getting reaction as the laws set to take effect september 15th. these kinds of decisions are never made in a vacuum
count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force
from my perspective, he has been very consistent sips the beginning was just completely out of bounds and as a former staffer myself. i just can t imagine that this was the kind of thing that they viewed as being a professional response to the situation. the senator himself, i think, has been telegraphing this for a long time and to suggest that he is the only senator who has these views about this measure is, i think, also inaccurate. i think there are a lot of other senators who would have been with him on this if it was not something that would have been dangerous for them politically, and i think he was actually speaking for a lot of people when he said this thing is dead. we couldn t find a way to move it forward and it s time to move on. bret: yeah. juan, they still need his vote and if chuck schumer the senate majority leader is going to put back the build back better bill as written and make everybody vote on it, ben may be right. there may be other senators who have a proble
republicans think they re trying to convert no, they re not trying to convert anyone. they re trying to hoelgd their base. they re just telling people those people are mean. they don t like donald trump and they re trying to take away 63 million votes. in their gut they realize that the louisiana case is actually true. i thought that was a brilliant analogy. that if the state of louisiana had a flood and the governor went to the president and said give us aid, and he said no not unless you declare our political opponent a rival, i m not sure that makes sense. who s the person that can t decide once they her that that it isn t impeachable? i think both of these two sides already have their base. i don t think either side thinks they re going to convert anyone else. i think the democrats are just trying to make a case that it senators that are going to vote on this get to take home and see