In gummies find it at walmart im Elizabeth Wagmeister in los angeles in this is cnn Closed Captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com mesothelial mom, its all we do with local offices throughout the country. And his hope you get the compensation you deserve, 800 to eight to 44, 44 this is cnn Breaking News. Thanks so much for joining us On Cnn News Central this afternoon. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keilar in washington, and we start with Breaking News from the Nations Capital independent senator Kyrsten Sinema of arizona, announcing she will not run for reelection. A decision that could pave the way for a republican successor, something that would dramatically shift the makeup of the us center. Yeah, lets get straight now to cnn, chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju, who is on capitol hill. Manu tell us what sinema said about her decision . Well, she really laments the state of politics. Sinema has been a key player during the Biden Administration, was key to let legisla
joining the filibuster efforts. senator manchin is voting for him. do democrats have no choice but to vote against gorsuch as a matter of principle? no, they do have a choice and this is what s so puzzling about this whole process here is it seems when you talk to democrats privately, there s this frustration that the pressure from their base to filibuster is incredible short-sighted. let s just play out a scenario here. so donald trump gets sees that the democrats are trying to block his supreme court nominee, a nominee who by all accounts has, you know, a solid set of qualifications, has done very well in his confirmation hearings. so the democrats basically try to thwart trump there. gets him very angry. so the next time when there is a supreme court vacancy, what does trump do? he says, okay, i ve had it with you guys, i m going to nominate whoever i want. and that could be someone like ted cruz. it could be somebody real far to the right.
energy . chamber of kprs commerce supported this vil. since obama has been president, i m not saying in the past. democrats, since baum has been president, the number of filibuster efforts have been unprecedented. i think they got it backwards. reid is the dictator ship of the minority. why is it impossible. they can t, places where it would have popular support. individuals should have the same break the president s giving his cronies in the terms of waivers. there s a big majority for repealing the tax. if you re still awake, i may put you to sleep explaining the
i don t want to be a naysayer, yesterday we were having a fairly good day, democrats and republicans were working together and it seemed like for the first time the filibuster efforts were being put down. but when you look at the path ahead, for gun safety legislation, it is far more difficult, i think than a lot of people actually realize. given this open amendment process. i think that s right. lindsay graham is working on an alternative bill, alternative gun bill far to the right. and he guessed the other day that he thinks he has a majority for it. so you know, the question here is, whether or not you need 50 or 60 votes to get some of these things through. that s kind of going to decide you know, what, what ends up prevailing. now the reason that reid didn t use this new filibuster reform rule that he has to get past this hurdle the other day, is because then amendments only need a 50-vote threshold. so he went the traditional route. then they browbeat republicans in the press a
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