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money into minority communities. peter ducey starts us off tonight. good evening. today president biden used the greenwood vict of tulsa as an example of the kind of place where federal help never came in and matched the need after thousands of black americans were left homeless and hundreds were left dead. but he s now promising to change that. i come here to help fill the silence because in silence wounds deepen. to help heal president biden wants to use taxpayer dollars to make it easier for minorities to get mortgages and small business loans. the white house explains the federal government is the largest consumer of goods in the world buying everything from software to elevator services to financial and asset management. federal procurement is one of our most powerful tools to advance equity and build wealth in underserved communities but critics argue this is the wrong approach. when we re talking about making more grants available for small and disadvanta ....
about whether to simply gut the filibuster all together, reduce that 60-vote threshold to 51. but there is no support, not enough support within the democratic caucus to do that, given the opposition from joe manchin, kyrsten sinema of arizona, and others as well. so where does this leave everything, jake? this issue getting this bill passed into law almost certainly will not happen, nor will splitting this up into smaller pieces, a polarizing issue dividing the party, no sign this is going anywhere. and in a matter of minutes republicans will block it on the floor. so this is going to fail. so what comes next for democrats? have they laid out what they re going to do? democrats, i m learning, are plotting a series of hearings in order to provide a spotlight on this issue, draw attention to this issue, particularly in the state of georgia. i m told that the senate rules committee plans to have a field hearing in the state of georgia to talk about the republican effo ....
president biden will meet with democrats on capitol hill this afternoon trying to get moderates on board with blowing up the senate rule book, the nuclear option. it would clear a path for democrats to federalize u.s. elections. bill: the president s big speech on that topic is being slammed by republicans. a few democrats chiming in, too. minority leader mitch mcconnell went to the floor of the senate with a stem winder of a speech and let it fly. this president said we should see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. yesterday he called millions of americans his domestic enemies. the president s rant rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. dana: senator tom cotton had a memorable floor speech of his own. we ll talk to him in a moment. let s go to jackie heinrich at the white house as they wake to the number of 33% approval. good morning. senate democrats getting their fi ....
his taxpayer account. overdose deaths skyrocket. the number of americans killed reaches a record high during the pandemic. how fentanyl is fueling the crisis. rittenhouse verdict watch: the latest from kenosha, wisconsin. thanksgiving travel alert: new details on a major storm exected to slam the u.s. just as millions hit the road for the holiday. supply chain crisis: our rare access to one of the world s busiest ports, where workers tell us why it takes so long to get products from ships to shelves. and that 10-year-old who tried to take pope francis cap. tonight, his mother tells us about the miracle that came next. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we begin with testimony today from the man who shot and killed ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael is accused of murder, along with his father and a neighbor, who chased arbery through th ....
overdose deathing skyrocket. the number of americans killed reaches a record high during the pandemic. how fentanyl is fueling the crisis. rittenhouse verdict watch: the latest from kenosha, wisconsin. thanksgiving travel alert: new details on a major storm expected to slam the u.s. just as millions hit the road for the holiday. supply chain crisis: our rare access to one of the world s busiest ports, where workers tell us why it takes so long to get products fromo shelves. and that 10-year-old who tried to take pope francis cat. tonight, his mother tells us about the miracle that came next. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we want to begin with testimony today from the man who shot and killed ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael is accused of murder, along with his father and a neighbor, who chased arbery through their georgia neighborhood before killing him. ....