what they agreed to is delay action on the china bill until the first week in june. the week of june 8th. they ll come back on june 8th and vote on those. they ll deal with that bill then. but within the next hour, the senate will vote to see whether they would open debate on that bill that would investigate, create this commission to investigate the january 6th attack. now to move forward on that january 6th bill, it would require 06 60 votes to do. that what we know from the reporting is there are not 60 votes to move ahead. 10 republicans have to break ranks and join 50 democrat to break a republican led filibuster. and this if republicans are successful as expected to filibuster this, it will be the first legislative fill i burster they have done this congress and expect that to be successful effort. we expect a handful of republicans to break ranks, five, six, seven. getting to ten sun likely.
optimistic the senate will approve the bipartisan commission. interesting. it is. all of this is happening while there is stiff opposition from republican leadership also threats of a filibuster. good morning. is there reason for the optimism? there is really not. you know, he is saying he is optimistic. there are not the ten republican votes who will break ranks and break a filibuster. republican led filibuster which actually will be the first legislative filibuster of this congress if if successful and which is expected. it could happen as soon as this week. and just to begin debate. the what chuck schumer said is expected to do in the coming days is take the procedural steps to bring that bill forward for a vote. that point it will be the make or break moment. whether there will be 60 votes to overcome any objections, any full buster or whether there won t be. at the moment, there is no path because even republicans who voted to convict donald trump for insighting the january 6t
republicans, it s considered doa, after sandy hook, a bipartisan bill lost, 54-46. couldn t clear the 60 vote threshold needed to break a mitch mcconnell led filibuster. we hear the same old talk, thoughts and prayers, guns don t kill people, people kill people or as president trump. mental illness pulls trigger not the gun. the gun helps. for example, the weapon used in dayton helped kill nine people in 30 seconds. some people say this time is different after all the nra is weakened by financial mismanagement. trump s personal instinct seems to be in favor of background checks and he effectively banned bump stocks after the vegas shooting. men who once said of killing legislation. that could be the grim reaper. maybe it s time to take him at his word and that s your reality check. john, thank you so much. i will be speaking to one republican who makes me think
necessarily that done deal, dana. what it mean is even if it were to pass the senate, if they had the 60 votes to break the expected republican led filibuster, let s say on the senate floor. let s say they get more than 60 votes to break that filibuster, they have an up and down vote, they get 51 votes in favor and then goes to the house of representatives where i don t know what s going to happen if the nra comes out and adamantly opposes this compromise to expand background checks. that s right. and i think so much of it is going to be determined by how big the vote is in the senate. if it is overwhelming, the l be very hard for republicans who run the house to stop it. one thing that we can report is our deidra walsh learned there s a companion bill in the house. peter king the republican from new york is on it and virtually, she s told is the same as the manchin/toomey bill. that is a start for them to try to move this in the house. because they would need at least one republican
magazine clips to be banned. he is most unlikely to get either one. if he keeps on the background checks, eric cantor the majority leader in the house, republican house supported the virginia law. it is not universal but is more robust. that is most likely where we re going but the president has to worry about democrats in the senate and the possibility of a republican led filibuster. asa hutchinson, former congressman from arkansas i think will run for governor of arkansas next year. he has a good shot getting elected. the technology advancements make it hard to argue against the background checks. all right. john, thanks very much. when we come back, a surprising new update in college basketball player kevin ware s condition just two days after suffering a really gruesome injury. plus the pentagon fighting a push to award the prestigious purple heart to victims of the fort hood massacre. former presidential candidate newt gingrich is outraged. he is here live in the situati