Fox and friends first starts right now. Bring me a higher love bring me a higher love you are looking live at milwaukee if youre in milwaukee. Thanks for always listening. You are watching Fox And Trends First On wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. Lets begin with this. President biden joined at the top democrats calling for new York Governor Andrew Cuomo to step down after a troubling report revealed he sexually harassed 11 women. Good jenkins joins us from washington as the embattled governor refuses to resign. Time to go. President biden not mincing words calling on cuomo to do the right thing after he refused to step down. I think he should resign. Some embraces that were totally innocent but the Attorney General decided everythings to warrant. Reporter the Teacher James revealed the findings, a 5month investigation showed Cuomo Kistler sexually harassed 11 women and retaliated against at least one, accusations the governor denied in a prerecorded message. I never touched any
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Draconian new Voting Restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help. To ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on Voting Rights that no state thats the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united States Senate right now basically because of one democratic senator named Joe Manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. Theyve met with White House officials up to and including the Vice President , kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families and away from their jobs and businesses. Away from beloved theyre likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure that theres no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrests when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested po
Capitol, by leaving the state, so theyre beyond the reach of texas Law Enforcement, these democrats are preventing a quorum in the State Legislature back home, which means that in very practical terms theyre preventing texas republicans from passing draconian new Voting Restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington, d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help, to ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on Voting Rights that no state can fall below. That of course is the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united States Senate right now. Basically because of one conservative democratic senator named Joe Manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. Theyve met with White House officials up to and include the Vice President kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families, away from their jobs
Joins us now. You ve written a piece for cnn. Com where you call biden s decisionmaking right now a high wire act. What does that mean? yes, this pertains to the infrastructure negotiations. The president obviously put a $4 trillion dew of economic proposals on the table. The infrastructure negotiation with republicans a piece of that. But guys, the president is getting pressure from progress he was. The talks aren t amounting to anything break it off and let s go it alone. He gets pressure from moderates saying clearly you need to continue the bipartisan negotiations. Obviously republicans are questioning his broader plans. All of these things come together. And i think it underscores why this is a complicated moment for the white house, why the president is in the negotiations, even though as you point out they are still hundreds of billions of dollars apart. There is no clear consensus on how to pay for anything. He needs to ensure if any go uni letellierly from a democrat side he h