Measure to pass. Republicans pretty much did get everything they wanted in this proposal for a commission. Nonetheless their leader in the senate reportedly personally lobbied his caucus as a personal favor to vote against the commission largely with an eye toward the 2022 midterms. I think the basic goal of our democratic friends is to keep relitigating in public what happened back on January 6th rather than getting to a quick solution through arrest of those who did it and security adjustments to make sure it never happens again. Again, his beloved Senate Chamber was taken over on that day. His appeals apparently were a lot more powerful than those from the appeals of the Grieving Mother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who was attacked as he battled the rioters. He died of what were said to be natural causes the next day. Gladys sicknick, a modest woman who never believed shed be in the public eye, just as she never believed shed have to bury her own son, joined senators on
feel for his wife and his kids, and i wish them well. yeah. and i just hope, part of his legacy is to remind people that this sickness is killing us. it affects everyone, everywhere. no one is immune, and it is a life sentence. yeah. we just lost so much of our talent and greatness. people think it s just kids. it isn t. people have it their whole lives, they struggle with addiction. a lot of people get it, in mid-life. think about what happened in minneapolis, right? yeah. we talk about george floyd and and what his girlfriend said about about how they, both, had pain issues. and then, became addicted. you think about so many artists. i mean, you know, artists of all different genres of music who lost their lives and who who struggle with addiction. some of them, you didn t even know. did we know that prince had an addiction issue? i never heard it. no, i never heard it. but so many people do, and that s the reason why, you know, we keep saying people
into our off-line discussion. we re out of time, and sacha, that s the only reason aaron got the last word. thanks for joining us tonight. okay, sacha did get the last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. well, good evening once again. day 44 of the biden administration, and the president s plan to slow the spread of a virus that s killed over half a million of our fellow citizens, wiped out about 10 million jobs is now up against a full on assault from republicans in the u.s. senate. biden s nearly $2 trillion relief bill is being read aloud right now on the senate floor. that would be 628 pages of it to a mostly empty chamber being read by the clerk at the request of wisconsin republican senator and conspiracy theorist ron johnson who made good on his threat to lead his party s effort to drag out the process of getting to final passage. this all got under way earlier today after vice president harris broke the 50-50 tie on the vote to begin debate of th
middle of the month and condemn violence, extremism and calling for cooperation, we are live in iraq where pope francis on the first people visit to the country. a royal family feud and the world is watching. the roof deepens ahead of prince harry and meghan markle s bomb shell interview. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robin curnow. # . so we begin with that view, millions of americans are waiting to hear, financial help could finally be on the way. the u.s. senate passed president biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. it does include direct $1,400 payments for some americans. he did not get bipartisan report. not a single republican voted for it. president biden spoke shortly after the bill is passed. this is what he had to say. i promised the american people help is on the way. today i can say we have taken one more giant step forward delivering on that promise that help is on the way. this plan will get checks out the door starting this mont
very key house progressives. the marine posted outside the door is what tells us in washington speak, classic signals of this traditional white house, that the president remains in the west wing. this is the latest in a series of meetings the president has been holding. earlier we know he spoke with top democrats, schumer and pelosi and met with key senators who can sometimes be holdouts including sinema, manchin and moderates. joe biden is doing what he did before. he is doing what he said he would, being peace maker. now liberals are threatening to take the bipartisan infrastructure bill which the senate passed last month unless there is a wider impact on the $3.5 trillion impact on the economic agenda. as of tonight there is not a full agreement on that publicly. speaker pelosi saying this back on capitol hill. after your meeting with president biden are you still planning on holding a bipartisan infrastructure vote on monday? you expect me to be we re on schedule, l