Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she s
i am your justice. for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am a right to bucshon. miami retribution. there is so much about that i don t mess. anyway, trump won the presidential straw poll taken at this year s conference by wide margin. which is not surprising considering most other white house hopeful skipped the event. cpac itself has grown like a modern convention over the years. after all, this was where trump made his first major public appearance after the january six insurrection. many of the speeches this year reflected the extremism of the republican party. get speakers often invoking, so called, woke policies and sowing distrust in the government. kamala harris as watch, this woke self loathing has flipped our country. now these woke teachers want him to memorize 50 different genders and sexuality s, you ve got pronouns, it is too much for kids to handle. there are many agencies in the federal government that have gone woke the first agency we wi
contrast. right now my mind is on selma, alabama, our residents are preparing to commemorate one of the most pivotal advance of the black freedom struggle. tomorrow i will be joining you live from selma, we re all be taking part in the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. in my capacity at the head of the national action network. president biden will make his third visit to selma as commander-in-chief. and will call for new action to the voting rights activists who risked their lives for, back on march seven, 1965. but as democrats prepare to mark that sovereign memorial. and grace, and have have grayson affection and reflection. republicans will close out this year s conservative political action conference. with more of the car to conservatives. that have been on display for the last four days. with tonight s keynote speech coming from none other than donald trump. scheduled to take the stage within the hour. the contrast is stark. and the emblematic of the divide betwe
rescue bill of my lifetime is now very likely to be signed into law. saturday after an all-night session, senate democrats passed the $1.9 trillion covid relief package in a strict party line vote. democrats all voted yes. republicans all voted no. because senators made some changes to the bill, it now has to go back to the democratic controlled house which is expected to pass the identical senate version this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. so the bill would then go to the president, president biden for his signature. take a step back. we re in the early part of march. right? we re not at the 100-day marker yet. this is an incredible victory for both the country, the biden administration, the democratic party, which held together. amid unified opposition from congressional republicans. they didn t get a vote in either house. they tried to break the party apart. that s republicans did. by forcing tough votes on amendments and arguing against the bill in public. but in th
everything under control. at least that is the hope in some 1965 in southern alabama that was not even close to the case of two young girls. sunday, march 7th of that year eight year old shyann webbed there in the center of this photo, 11 year old joanne bland, the taliban towards the right, went out to march with 600 others in a civil rights demonstration which was ultimately met by violence. in what would become known as bloody sunday. that event shock the national congress and helped lead the nation to the passage of the voting rights act of 1965. on the morning of the play in march, eight-year-old cheyenne left a short note to her parents. she was sorry for disobeying them but she had to go that day. she recalls writing, quote, i am marching for my freedom. unbeknownst to her mom and dad, cheyenne had been in fact