cracking down on protesters demanding the release of opposition leader alexei navalny. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this sunday, and we have breaking news tonight. a covid relief package pitched today by a group of ten republicans does not go far enough for the biden administration. the $600 billion gop proposal has a significantly lower price tag than. splan. i spoke to a senior official who said biden is open to some negotiation including scaling down stimulus checks to households making more than $150,000, but the official i spoke with said the republicans counteroffer, quote, is not going to scratch the itch. the more now from the white house. arlette. the let s start with the republican plan offer today. what s in it? well, this counterproposal from senate republicans is much smaller than what the biden administration had been pushing for. this gop proposal is roughly $600 billion, and just to go down the list of a few of the things
doubt that it happened. what we do know from marjorie taylor greene is she said it was a great call. she was grateful to have what she called the former president s support, and she also said that democrats are now attacking her in the same way that they used to attack donald trump. so, assuming that call happened, it is significant just because it shows how the former president remains in the background pulling strings, despite the fact that he does not is a twitter megaphone even as his own party up here on capitol hill continues the identity crisis, the blood letting, if you will. there s another example of that, as you mentioned, that is the back and forth between marjorie taylor greene and senator mitt romney of utah. romney tweeted out talking about the lies marjorie taylor greene has told and her claims that the election was stolen. she essentially shot back that romney cares nothing about what she called the people s number one concern, and then, there was this, pleas
50 republican senators, some who, along with trump, perpetuated that big lie, some who acted as shells for president trump as he tried to toss aside democracy. big question today for house democrats, will their prosecution of the former president include witnesses? another big question, what will the president s defense look like? this morning there is rare consensus across both aisles that the president s legal team blundered its way through their opening presentation, rambled, disor disorganized, embarrassed, terrible. those are how republican senators label the performance of the president s two lawyers and their performance reportedly enraged the former president. also breaking news into cnn this hour, prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal investigation into then president trump s phone call to election officials there. in that call the president tried to strong-arm officials to, quote, find sufficient votes to reverse his loss in georgia. we ll have more on t
on july 30th, 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history. again, just big words. with nothing to prove them. but he wanted to make his supporters believe that an election victory would be stolen from him and from them. this was to rile up his base, to make them angry. now, these were just a few of the many times president trump tweeted about this. he did it in speeches, rallies and television, too. this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. because the only way we re gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. the only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election. we re gonna win this election. with the rigged election, that s the only way we re going to lose. this will be one of the greatest, most fraudulent elections ever. this is clearly a man who refuses to accept the possibility or the reality in our democracy of losing an election. there are a dozen more tweets and
when you catch somebody in a fraud, you re allowed to go by very different rules. so i hope mike has the courage to do what he has to do. talking about you, pence. we re debating a step that has never been taken in american history. is this the senate? where the [ bleep ] are they? no trump, no peace! let s go! take it out! we need fresh patriots to the front! traitors! mobilize in your own cities, your own counties. storm your own capitol buildings and take every one of these crust mother [ bleep ]. this was a fraudulent election, but we can t play into the hands of these people. we have to have peace. so go home. we love you. you re very special. and that was just a small clip of the 13-minute video, and we urge you to watch it in full because that video is the case, open and shut. with maryland democrat jamie raskin, who s leading the push to convict trump, outlining the dangers of giving presidents a free pass in the final month of their terms.