facing criticism from advocates who called for a more sustained effort. voting rights is a fight. republicans, when they show up, they show up with an axe. democrats show up with a butter knife. reporter: but the white house left only to call for a vote destined to fail if only to make the record clear. it will highlight very clearly for the american people who stands with them in protecting voting rights and who stands against it. reporter: it s the latest in a bevy of biden priorities stuck in the senate, including the $1.75 trillion economic package, as administration officials acknowledge the singular issue most responsible is the pandemic where historic efforts to district woot vaccines are now overshadowed by a scramble for tests, masks and coordinated messaging in the face of the omicron variant surge and as economic oversees an economic recovery that leads the world. it was its biggest jyear of
relationship with iraq s government. the reason for this withdrawal, despite secretary pennetta wanting to keep 3,000 or 4,000 troop there s as trainers past the end of this0ñ!cjyear, the rn for not doing that is that iraq s parliament, iraq s government could not agree on granting legal immunity to american forces there. so they will be coming home. the president said they will be home for the holidays. jim miklaszewski is back with us from the pentagon. mik, this is a long history and it is the end of an era. absolutely. as chris matthews said earlier, the iraq war was unpopular from the beginning. there were many up on capitol hill and some even in the military at the time questioning really the wisdom of going into iraq while you were trying to fight a war in afghanistan. of course the war in afghanistan went largely ignored as the troop surge and the numbers of troops in iraq really