roadblock on capitol hill tonight after an all-out push for democrats voting legislation. the president unable thus far to unite his party to pass it peter alexander is at the white house. reporter: president biden on the hill to deliver a sales pitch. instead tonight signaling surrender for now on his push for democratic voting rights legislation i don t know that we get it done but i know one thing, as long as i have a breath in me, as long as i am in the white house, as long as i am engaged at all, i m going to be fighting. reporter: the president once again unable to get his own party to pass a key priority before he went to the democrats at the capitol today kyrsten sinema took to kyrsten sinema took to the senate floor, reiterated her opposition to changing senate rules that would have allowed rights bills on their own, arguing the filibuster promotes bipartisan ship. while i continue to vote these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying dis
troopswa on heightened alert status for potential deployment to eastern europe. family members of staff of u.s. embassy in kiev, in ukraine, have been set home, the u.s. is threatening a whole new kind of sanctions against russia that have never been used against russia before. these are sanctions that really do seemss to be a qualitatively different thing compared to anything else russia has ever had to contemplate in terms of the consequences for their actions. we ll have more on that ahead tonight as well. on the political front, arizona democratic senator kyrsten sinema first joined with conservative democratic senator joe manchin and all of the republican senators last week to blockre voting rights protectio at the federal level. there seems like there will be consequences for senator sinema even if there won t be for senator manchin. we saw over the weekend that the democratic party in arizona censured her for her move to block democratic voting rights but politically the reactio
Democratic state legislators in Texas are heading to Washington for meetings with Congress and the White House after blocking a GOP elections bill last month.