because as you know, i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple months. and i think it s it is very, very troublesome. but i making no connection at this moment for the motivation of the killer. i m waiting for an answer. police say the man arrested for the rampage has admitted to the shootings. eight people are dead in a ninth wounded in the atlanta area. but as you heard from the president it s not clear if anti-asian racism was the motivation here. six victims were asian women. the other two victims were white. investigators say robert aaron long gunned down four people first in a spa in cherokee county and shot a fifth who is expected to survive. investigators say long then traveled less than an hour south to atlanta, shooting and killing four more people at two massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff in cherokee county where long is in custody says he is talking to convertings and telling them
bill sounds like thursday might still be more on the bubble than the headlines would make you believe? i think that s right. look, i think these are arbitrary dates. i think monday was an arbitrary, today was an arbitrary date that was set by a small group of people i think what s important is do we want to deliver on the democratic agenda and the president s agenda negotiations are happening i think i don t think the speaker will bring the vote to the floor if she doesn t the bill to the floor if she doesn t have the votes, and i think she is very clear that without the reconciliation bill voted on, you know, we are going to have it can t be a pinky promise, right, rachel, it s got to be an actual bill that is written, the legislative text is written, the numbers are agreed to, everything is agreed to in order for us to vote for the bipartisan bill, and i think she s very clear on that so we re going to do everything we can i have been having conversations over the weekend eve
coaless around the strategy to pass president biden s agenda, at the same hour the house democrats were trying to do that tonight, over in the senate, at the exact same time, republican senators were busy fill bustering a democratic bill to keep the government from shutting down and hitting the debt ceiling this evening, all 50 republicans in the united states senate voted against a democratic bill to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling, and as long as they re allowed to use the filibuster in this way, they re basically steering the country fast into a wall while preventing the democrats from hitting the brakes funding for the government runs out thursday at midnight if there isn t any congressional action to avert it, the u.s. will start to default on its debts sometime in the next few weeks, which will be a massive self-inflicted financial calamity but that s now what we are on course for with republicans
democrats right now? are they going to try and block gorsuch s confirmation as retribution for merck garland? we re very acutely aware that this is not just a hearing about filling one vacancy in the supreme court because the court will be making decisions that will impact all of our lives for decades to come. and clearly neil gorsuch will be, should he be confirmed, will be sitting on that court for decades to come. so of course we will have a lot of questions about his judicial philosophy as it relates to a woman s right to choose, corporate interests over individual rights, et cetera. are you open to fill bustering neil gosh such? we haven t gotten to that point yet. we re going to go through many, many hours of questioning neil gorsuch. as i said, his judicial philosophy is relevant because afterall, it s justice scalia s judicial philosophy that led justice scalia to be very
by the way, we have 55,000 e-mails. 54,000. they are cherry picked. and two e-mails. i guarantee you and that really is the most important part of this. all of the bustering and things that we re doing, these are e-mails that are not even picked through massively already. and there is communication. we want to say good-bye to ed. thank you. a man accused of killing a wealthy d.c. family appeared in court a while ago. new details on how police finally nabbed daron wint and who else they arrested along with him. i m louis, and i quit smoking with chantix. i told myself for so long that i needed to quit smoking. i would quit then i d go right back to it. chantix absolutely helped me quit smoking. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix helped reduce my urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chan