live. plus, kim jong-un s sister taking a swipe at the u.s. the new warning from nuclear north korea. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with break news in our politics lead, and one of president biden s top priorities about to die an ugly death on the floor of the u.s. senate. in the next hour the senate is set to vote to advance a sweeping election reform bill, the so-called for the people act. the bill would, among other things, make election day a public holiday, it would expand early voting to at least 15 consecutive days, it would ban partisan gerrymandering. expanding public financing of campaigns, requiring many states to overhaul their voting machines. tonight s vote is nearly guaranteed to fail because as of now zero republicans support the legislation, though we should point out, this is not a vote to pass the legislation today, it s just a vote to open debate on the act and begin amendments. are there really not ten republicans who are willin
democrats, moderate democrat joe manchin said he would vote with his party to open debate on the bill. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is here. how does this change things? reporter: well, what it means is that democrats will be unified in today s vote but it will still not change the outcome. this bill will be blocked by a republican filibuster. there are 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. 50 democrat, 50 republicans and the vote can going to go down, we expect 50-50 but democrats have been furiously trying to win over joe manchin or to make the argument to voters in their view that republicans are blocking the efforts to ease access to voting. that s the political argument that democrats have been trying to make and they re concerned that if manchin were to break ranks it would undercut that argument because republicans could say this is a bipartisan opposition to the democrats bill which they consider a federal takeover of the election. now after
house democratic whip james clyburn joins me in moments. culture wars. a conservative republican governor says his party has gone too far. that is a product of the cultural war in america. and faces blowback from former president trump and his followers. as trump dominates a major republican gathering, what does the party stand for now? arkansas s republican governor asa hutchinson ahead. hello, i m jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is as divided as ever. former president trump is back. he s about the same. his speech at a republican national retreat with donors and party leaders last night at mar-a-lago, he called mitch mcconnell a quote dumb son of a bitch, unquote, for opposing trump s election lie and upholding democracy. former president trump went after his vice president, mike pence, according to a source in the room for certifying the election results on january 6th. not surprisingly, trump did not say a word to condemn the violent insurr
rights mean for me and others that look like me. house member james clyburn joins me. a republican member says his party has gone too far. that is a product of the cultural war in america. and faces blowback from former president trump and his followers. as trump faces a major republican gathering, what does the party stand for now? asa hutchison from arkansas ahead. hello, i m jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is as divided as wefr. former president trump is back. he s about the same. his speech at a republican national retreat with donors last night at mar-a-lago, he called mitch mcconnell a quote dumb son of a bitch, unquote, for upholding democracy. former president trump went after his vice president, mike pence, according to a source in the room for certifying the election results on january 6th. not surprisingly, trump did not say a word to condemn the violent insurrection he helped incite that day and as the former president excuriates re
understanding of what voting rights mean for me and others that look like me. house member james clyburn joins me. culture wars. a conservative republican governor says his party has gone too far. that is a product of the cultural war in america. and faces blowback from former president trump and his followers. as trump dominates a major republican gathering, what does the party stand for now? arkansas s republican governor asa hutchinson ahead. hello, i m jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is as divided as ever. former president trump is back. he s about the same. his speech at a republican national retreat with donors last night at mar-a-lago, he called mitch mcconnell a quote dumb son of a bitch, unquote, for opposing trump s election lie and upholding democracy. former president trump went after his vice president, mike pence, according to a source in the room for certifying the election results on january 6th. not surprisingly, trump did not