officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with an emotional anniversary of a pivotal moment in american history. on a busy weekend when the race for the white house was taking shape. president joe biden was in selma, alabama, today for the anniversary of bloody sunday, and a speech before some of the country s most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech, as former president donald trump spoke to the conservative political action conference, vowing retribution in his words. and earlier today in california, the politician who could be trump s biggest rival for the gop nomination in 2024, florida governor ron desantis, speaking at the ronald reagan library. but we begin in selma, alabama, with arlette saenz. arlette, what can you tell us? jim, president biden used the anniversary of bloody sunday as an historic moment in civil rights history,
i don t know where i m going. my dad just died. we just killed bambi. i m out here getting my ass kicked and every time i drive down the road i want to jerk the wheel [inaudible] bridge abutment. jesse: just like in politics we have success. no secret in washington that biden s time is running out and that democrats want someone younger. for them that guy was supposed to be mayor pete. and since pete was only just a mayor, they had to give him a job to beef up his resume. so they gave him transportation secretary. the job was supposed to literally transport him into the white house. how do you screw that job up? well, pete found a way. transportation secretaries don t have scandals but pete does. from the supply chain crisis to the airline drama to paternity gate, pete was breaking lay up after lay up after lay up. already on thin ice toxic train wrecked in an ohio town and mayor pete didn t speak about it for nearly two weeks. but pete was too busy campaigning. he took 23
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