take action on supplemental national security legislation that finally meet those challenges head on. that was minority leader mitch mcconnell publicly supporting the senate bipartisan border deal yesterday, but just hours later the republican leader would change his message in a private meeting of his senate colleagues and the fate of the bill now very much in doubt. meanwhile, the gop led house is moving forward with its efforts to impeach the homeland security secretary. we ll go through the partisan politics playing out on capitol hill. plus, donald trump is dismissing nikki haley and issuing a challenge straight to president joe biden. we ll explain that just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. and we begin this morning on capitol hill. and in a striking turn of events senate republicans now appear poised to block the bipartisan border bill they themselves asked for an
Last at least a couple of weeks. no, they pulled the plug on it. this is a product in part of the new management coming in. discovery that s taking over cnn. what are you guys doing? this is insane. you take a giant pile of money. you put in in the front lawn and set it on fire and call it cnn plus. this is a platform that there was no market for. look, you don t have to have an mba. cnn routinely dead last in the cable news rankings, so who thought it was a good idea to launch a premium service where the very same host who can t attract an audience on deable are going to do it on the internet for a cost? it was never going to make sense from the beginning. and it met its very timely end i think very rapidly. brian: here is what bothers me because we all worked our way up this way. the people let go immediately are not the big time anchors. many other channel, junior staffers one that left their job for an opportunity at cnn they thought it could be stable. some left secure jobs fo