Favor of even allowing debate on the legislation. Put another way, all 50 republican senators voted no. While states are back home working hard to suppress the vote or certain votes, should we say, theres not a republican in the senate who wants to even allow a debate on this topic. An angry Majority Leader spoke moments after the vote was announced. Senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history alongside donald trump, the big lie, and Voter Suppression. Today, every single democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote in america. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote. Afterwards, she vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting
Voting. The Point Of View of the voter you dont do anything that you need, you dont need it rancorous. As the hard part of it is how is it gets tabulated. The candidates, the next choice, moves up, recalculated the counting the vote part of it is hard to explain. When you do as a voter is not that hard. But i bet that kornacki can explain all of that. It is exactly its the counting the vote spot in the script or i just gave up. And you can watch that on tv later this evening. Youll see the moment where rank choice, they get to choose their top and here is steve, it is going to go just like that. [laughs] now he knows to be ready in the middle of your sentence. Very good. Yeah, thank you rachel. Thank you. What we saw on the United States senate today was a show performed for two senators. Majority leader chuck schumer, wrote the Voting Rights bill before the and the senate just to show Democratic Senators joe manchin and kirsten cinema that the bipartisanship is hopeless in the United
Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
Taylor greene says shes been freed to push the Republican Party farther right after being stripped of her committee assignments. So, now i have a lot of free time on my hands, which means i can talk to a whole lot more people all over this country, and i can talk to more people and make connections and build a huge amount of support that ive already got started. And it has been one month since the capitol insurrection. The New York Times releasing a breakdown of who has been brought to justice so far, including at least 22 current or former members of the military. And covid hospitalizations dropping, but fear increasing as Health Officials warn, the super bowl parties could end up being superspreader events. As we do say good morning, everybody. It is saturday, february 6th. Im kendis gibson. And im lindsey reiser. Its good to know that at least we have something normal, the great unifier. Super bowl . Yes, sports. Its hard to believe its been only a month since all of that. We came t
On englands toughest lockdown level. Stocks higher on signs of a stimulus bill before the u. S. Possible. S still nancy pelosi tells bloomberg an agreement is urgently needed, by the white house warns there is still a ways to go. Shill. Etflix shares they miss estimates for subscribers. The forecast suggests the pandemic boom is starting to fade. You can see how the shares have fallen 6 . We are under one hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating this morning. Kind of a mixed picture and not a lot of size, no direction or size. Ftse futures are down 0. 10 . 0. 10 . Ures are up take a look at what u. S. Futures this morning after the netflix , ahead of thee tesla results, you can see gains here. 0. 5 . Tures of about nasdaq futures gaining 0. 3 . Anna lets get to the breaking news. We have data coming from the u. K. Inflation numbers first. The cpi number, month on month is a 0. 4 . Survey. St under the that seems to be the theme