Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
Controversies admitting the School Shootings and 9 11 Terror Attacks are, in fact, real. Also breaking, a lawyer for former President Trump saying he will not testify under oath at his Impeachment Trial on the senate floor next week after a dramatic move by House Democratic Impeachment Managers calling on him to take part in the proceeding. Meanwhile, we just heard President Biden make his first Foreign Policy address since taking office and declaring, im quoting him now, america is back, diplomacy is back as he announced some major Policy Shifts in a rebuke of his predecessor. Lets start our coverage this hour up on capitol hill. Our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju is joining us right now. Were standing by for an extraordinary vote to begin. Tell our viewers whats going on. House democrats are pushing forward a truly unprecedented measure to strip Marjorie Taylor greene from two of her Committee Assignments punishing her for views that she expressed before she was a member
Mitigation plans in our schools, that was, until the ctu blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring. We waited for hours last night. Hours, and still did not receive a proposal from the Chicago Teachers Union leadership and as of this morning, we are still waiting. But to be clear, not patiently, not anymore. We are failing those children by not giving them the option to return to school. Failing grades, depression, isolation, and so much more. My patience for delays from ctu leadership is over. Jesse San Francisco has had enough as well be at the situation is a ridiculous that the city is now suing its own Public School district to get classrooms reopened. Where is joe biden in the Democratic Party for all of this . Why isnt he backing up local leaders in San Francisco with mayor lightfoot . Michael bloomberg seems to have an idea why. He is telling the president , grow a backbone. Its time for joe biden to stand up and say that kids are the most important things.
We are coming on the air this morning with Breaking News from capitol hill. Our first look at just how house Impeachment Managers plan to prosecute their case against donald trump. Set to file their pre friel brief and we are now getting a look at it just seconds ago, this is all ahead of next weeks Historic Second senate trial and we have a better sense of what their argument will be. A point by point case that trump is responsible for inciting the deadly insurrection at the capitol and that his responsibility for those events is unmistakable. Those managers taking direct aim at what im told will be one of the key arguments by the former president s team. That defense team also rushing to meet their own filing deadline today. My new reporting on how theyre going to convince senators or try to to acquit donald trump again. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team covering this. Garrett haake on capitol hill, Shannon Pettypiece outside the white house,
Call starting with the claims from the former president about suitcases full of ballots. Mr trump also made claims about so called dead voters. Mr raffensperger did push back against mr trump in the call. And in the most pointed exchange,of the call trump spelled out how many voters he needed. Stephen loosley an analyst in us politics at the United States studies centre in sydney laid out the legal dilemmas mr trump now faces. It isa it is a very serious indictment for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a Racketeering Charge under Georgia State law, Racketeering Legislation is modelled on the originalfederal legislation designed to bring down the mafia. The problem that donald trump faces is generally a conviction under legislation in georgia leads to a prison sentence, Thatis Georgia leads to a prison sentence, that is not certain, but that is the probability, secondly, mark meadows, the former chief of staff in the Trump White House is amongst the