taiwan in six different locations opening fire. so what is the cost/benefit analysis of this trip here? live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 4, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where closing arguments are expected in just a few hours in the trial of u.s. back star brittney griner. it is the second hearing so far this week for griner who was arrested at a moscow airport back this february. she is being held on drug charges after being caught with cannabis oil in her luggage. griner pleaded guilty to the charges against her in hopes of securing a lighter sentence. the u.s. has attempted to broker a prisoner swap with moscow, but so far no agreement. fred pleitgen isle following the developments for us from moscow. and this could be the final day, we could get the result. reporter: we could indeed. certainly something that is not set in stone and isn t necessarily on the official agenda.
trying to cross illegally into this country including three individuals from yemen. kevin mccarthy will be here with an update and unlike joe biden, who doesn t even seem to realize there is a crisis, mccarthy actually visited the border. we will show you some of that videotape. but first, with razor-thin majorities in the u.s. house and the senate, now democrats are attempting to implement what will be the single largest biggest power grab in modern american political history. as we speak, there is now a full court press to abolish the legislative filibuster in the united states senate. what joe biden just said earlier tonight in an interview for abc. i know you have been reluctant to do away with the filibuster. aren t you going to have issues between observing it and advancing your agenda customer yes, and here is the choice. we will have to do what we first did when i first got to the senate and back in the old days. that is that a filibuster, you have to stand up and
country, including three individuals from yemen. minority leader kevin mccarty will be here with an update and unlike joe biden who doesn t even seem to realize there s a crisis, mccarthy actually visited the border. we ll show you some of that videotape. but first with razor-thin majorities in the u.s. house and the senate, now democrats are attempting to implement what would be the single largest biggest power glad in modern american political history. as we speak there is now a full court press to abolish the legislative filibuster in the united states senate. look what joe biden just said earlier tonight. in the near view with abc s george stephanopoulos. aren t you going to have to choose between preserving the filibuster and advancing your agenda? yes. here s a choice. you have to do it what it used to be when i first got to the senate back in the old days when you used to be around there. and that is in a filibuster, you had to stand up and command the floor. you h
is rotting, that is spoiling, that people really could use at this point. and they can t. and this is just emblematic in what we re seeing in every town throughout southeastern kentucky. it is the grocery store, the post office and the bank. it is the school. it is the fire department in almost every city. just down the road in jeremiah, we saw the fire and rescue center completely destroyed. the tanker that you see there, that yellow one out frond, we spoke with the chief the fire chief there, and he says that he has spent 15 hours through the flood on that tanker. he got a call in the middle of the night, told the station is flooding, you need to get here. he said that his pickup truck got swept up. he was able to steer it into that yellow tanker, ram it in there, but he couldn t get the door and the window open. here s what he said. i reached and found my pistol
you know, in the white house i think they are coming to an understanding of to be harder. to say look, the train is moving the train is leaving the station and this stuff needs to start passing right away because they understand that s the only way his approval his approval may start to rebound. um, but it s also that on other items, you were just mentioning voting rights, on police reform, on immigration. there are no republican votes to be had. so, part of why democrats can t move there is because there are not ten republicans on that. i think i think they are realizing tonight like when the president said and others said that votes simply aren t there. do you think democrats are understanding tonight that the votes simply aren t there? no, that s bs and let me tell you why because of the simple fact that if if it was mitch mcconnell, you know what he would do? ram it down the throats of the democrats. we have seen him abolish the filibuster to ram through justices and