the yeas are 57, the nays are 43, donald trump is hereby acquitted of the charge in said article. welcome back, that was the scene from the senate one year ago yesterday with former president donald trump acquitted there for the second time after being impeached by the house for incitement of the january 6th insurrection. while it s been a full year since congress tried to turn the page on the former president, both parties are facing some trump dilemmas in washington and on the 2022 campaign trail. joining me is republican strategies matt gorman, washington post political reporter eugene scott and maria theresa komar, and also is a
even divided families. you know, both sides believe the other is deranged and delusional. and that s incredibly dangerous. we re not a third world country. we re also not a dictatorship, but this is something else, tom, and it s scary. of course, the new administration including kamala harris, the first female u.s. vice president ever, had other issues to tackle. there was the pandemic to manage, the economic fallout, and democrats vowing to turn things around, which was not so easy. yeah, i mean, the democrats are kind of blowing this moment. on this vote, the yeas are 69. the nays are 30. the bill as amended is passed. a rapidly developing rift between progressives and centrists nearly scuttled one of the best wins for the white house. the infrastructure bill. sometimes simple decisions are made hard by the other baggage you bring into a situation or what s going on. i was not extending a forever
it completely unwinds our republic. the president still insists he wants to keep working with manchin. lawmakers know appeasing the west virginia moderate may mean trimming the bill to fewer programs that last longer. i suspect we will narrow it down and concentrate on three or four initiatives. other democrats say they are open to the idea of piece mealing bill and passing stand alones. that s a strategy that s being negotiated. we are open to a way to reach the finish line. senate majority leader wants to vote on bbb early next year even if he doesn t have the yeas to pass it. that four senators in purple states who may have been hiding behind manchin to go on the record. schumer is also threatening to force a vote to carve out what he calls the ill conceived and abused filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation with just 50 votes as opposed to 60. even that is looking doubtful. we have to senators who say
i suspect we will narrow it down and concentrate on three or four initiatives. and they might have distress that every one of those initiatives, whichever ones we end up focusing on, i really important things that are not only worth doing, but absolutely have to be done in this country. meanwhile, majority leader chuck schumer wants to vote on build back better next year even if he doesn t have the yeas to pass it. that would force democrats to go on the record on how they feel about the bill and put those up for reelection in an uncomfortable position. there are a number of democrats understand that we cannot continue to just swipe the credit card. we ve got to stop this intergenerational theft and putting this burden of trillions of dollars of debt onto our children and our grandchildren. looking for a win, schumer
decision. we want to make it as competence it is possible because the needs are there, but we have to make sure we have the votes to pass it. majority leader chuck schumer wants of vote on bbp early next year even if he doesn t have the yeas to pass it. it would put vulnerable democrats up for reelection in an comfortable situation. looking for another win, schumer wants to force a vote to carve out what he called the ill-conceived and abused filibuster. you were just talking about this. they want to try to bypass that g.o.p. block on the voting rights. mind you, this is the same filibuster they used when they were in the minority. the founding fathers never thought the minority should prevail, but that is we are dealing with right now. if we want to move this country forward and save our democracy, we have to make a change. all this as pressure continues to mount on senator manchin, some calling them out of touch for saying no