we will show you the shocking and disturbing video of a black man killed in an encounter with police. thanks for joining us. well, after months of difficult negotiations the u.s. house of representatives has approved the creation of an independent bipartisan commission into the attack on the capitol last january. on this vote the yays are 252 and the nays are 175. the bill is passed without objection a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. 35 republicans broke ranks with their party s leadership in the final vote. that could be significant as the measure now heads to a showdown in the u.s. senate. both republican and democratic lawmakers hammered out the deal last week four months after thousands of trump supporters stormed the capitol, but once the plan was unveiled senate minority leader mitch mcconnell had this to say. after careful consideration, i ve made the decision to oppose the house democrats slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to
party don t want him to. the other demanding investigations into his political rivals. extraordinary new reporting breaking overnight showing that is exactly what the trump justice department did. ordering a big tech company to turn over records of at least two key democrats, both trump critics, showing no one is off limits. we re live with a reporter who broke that story. another member of the committee targeted by the doj. were her records subpoenaed, too? the current president is looking to prove that he is not trump, far from it, in his first test on the world stage. president biden at the g 7 hoping to normalize a new diplomacy. he preps for a bigger meeting next week with a jump. asked by reporters this morning what was his message to the russian president. mr. president, what s your message to mr. putin? good morning, i m hallie jackson in washington on a busy friday. we started on the breaking news with leann caldwell. also one of the reporters that broke the stor
leader kevin mccarthy is thinking and why he s against it. in arizona the 2020 recount in air quotes will proceed. all of this underscoring that the future of elections is at stake here. cnn s daniella diaz live on capitol hill with more. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. good morning, laura. that s right, the house is going to vote today on this seven-style commission to investigate the events leading up to and the day of the insurrection on january 6. it s expected to pass even though republican leaders are openly against this happening. and their conference voting they want their conference to vote against this. but, look, the bigger picture that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is against this, came out against this yesterday morning and said in a closed-door briefing with his members yesterday that he is against the scope of this investigation, this commission to investigate the insurrection, even though ranking member of the house homeland secur
top beat reporters standing by to bring them to you the second that we get them. we re also following the other news developing now, the attack on the democratic process from the former president with new reporting on donald trump s past and future and how it s affecting the present. those close to him saying he is fixated on how to try to overturn the 2020 election. he can t actually do it, but he s becoming obsessed with ongoing quote/unquote audits of the presidential vote according to reports as we learn more to what his justice department did to new york times reporters. the journalists are here live. all being used as a rallying cry for democrats on the hill. our reporting on what s described as the five-alarm fire push to rewrite senate rules after republicans blocked an investigation of the january 6th insurrection and why the current president s agenda might hinge on this. i m hallie jackson joined by chief legal correspondent ari mel bur who is on court watch. t
resonant. no matter what you choose it to be, we must all believe in something bigger than ourselves. for the religious, you know, like the ones i mentioned, it s god. but for all of us, religious, secular, whatever, there is still a call to something bigger. it is the pledge of allegiance to the collective, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. that pledge needs to be reaif you remembered right now. we are in a bad spot. we are mired in a time of a plague-like pandemic, and we are mired largely because of us and a collective lack of faith in the facts and the lack of faith to that pledge of allegiance. too many refuse to live the right way, with masks and with restraint, to hold back the variants. as a result all of us are suffering. covid is rising again. the cdc director is now warning of impending doom if we don t work together to ward off a fourth wave. but the vaccine, people say. yes, the vaccine. it matters. but it has always been about time. this t