explain what we are seeing right now. walk us through the sausage making. here s what we just saw. the vote just ended on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. it passed the senate. our cough count was 19 republicans in favor along with all democrats. you saw kamala harris there gaveling that down and then leader schumer moved immediately to bring up the first vote in this process of passing that $3.5 trillion bill that will be democrats only. this vote is also democrats only or it can or midwest certainly will be and they need a 50-vote threshold to get started on debating that part of the resolution. part of the reason harris is in the chair is the possibility that she would have had to break a 50/50 tie. we are down republican senator, mike browns of south dakota is with his wife who receiving cancer treatment and he could not be here today.
she should not have to cast any tiebreaking vote. garrett haake, thank you again. the u.s. senate just passing a massive infrastructure bill, $1.2 trillion bipartisan support. let us take you now to governor andrew cuomo. he has started his news conference. let s listen in. however, it was also false. my lawyers, as you just heard have reviewed the report over the past several days and have already raised serious issues and flaws. that should concern all new yorkers because when there is a bias or lack of fairness in the justice department it is a concern for everyone, not just those immediately affected. the most serious allegations made against me had no credible, factual basis in the report, and there is a difference between
earlier, and this infrastructure issue vexed many congress and house, and i think it s so striking that it s the top of the news cycle. we should also sort of describe the scene here in the upper chamber for folks that might be listening on the radio and even folks watching at home, there could be confusion, because you see certain folks with masks on and some with them off, and they are required in the house and not required in the senate. you can see there on the right side of your screen, mitt romney from utah engaging in conversation with susan collins of maine. i think we see bernie sanders just walking by as well. we can also tell you that the senior senator from south carolina, lindsay graham spotted there in the upper chamber for the vote. of course, for those of you who have been following over the
it. shannon, what is the mood there at the white house within this administration after months of work at times, a fair amount of cynicism over whether this would happen at all, and certainly whether it would happen in a bipartisan way? we got indications from the white house that they are looking for a way to seize this moment. the president just returned to the white house from wilmington where he spent a long weekend, and this is a time when presidents are traditionally on vacation and he s back in washington this afternoon for this vote. the vice president is planning to travel to capitol hill to preside over the vote, and the predicated he will talk to reporters after the vote, and he said i ll talk to you after the vote. we can expect to hear more from the president today. the white house is certainly aware that it s not a done deal to ali s point about the hurdles
where if you are doing a legal defense would be directed at the albany district attorney who is considering whether or not to file criminal charges based on the allegations by the executive assistant and the governor s testimony under oath relating to that. this is a pr strategy. she s making the same arguments, i think, and by the way, i will not make a comment on whether or not the arguments are effective or not, they are the kinds of arguments lawyers make in criminal trials or in prosecutor s office to persuade them to go forward, and they don t usually do them in a press conference, and she s not really speaking to the albany d.a., as we just heard, and she s speaking to the public and also to the assembly. that s a political process and it has substantive aspects of it, and it s ultimately a political vote by the assembly. she s really speaking to them and she s speaking to the public to try and garnish rapport.