From House Democrats. Its such a body blow to our democracy. Just how far reaching was this effort by the Justice Department . Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is trying to mend fences and build bridges. As President Biden is welcomed back to the club at the g7 summit in europe, he is also preparing for a closelywatched summit with russian president Vladimir Putin as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. The president will take questions from reporters this hour. We will bring that Press Conference to you live when it happens. In the meantime, the president s priorities here at home from infrastructure to Voting Rights have run smack into the reality of a 50 50 senate. And late this week, a stunning new revelation prompted an uproar on capitol hill and beyond. We learned the trump Justice Department seized Cell Phone Data from the former president s political enemies including members of congress. And joining me now exclusively is the House
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For a 2nd and to another big factor in this election to the course the coronavirus pandemic the u. S. Has hit with same you figure is 7000000 cases 200000 deaths i think huge numbers the biggest in the world and this is how significant is the coronavirus and then it kind of bathed in this election one would have expected it to be the number one story all the time but we are living in a time of economic crisis now the replacement of the Supreme Court to go with another justice i think actually the biggest significance of this judicial appointment has to do with trying to distract the public from the underlying failure to address the cole did challenges coronavirus hooley and swiftly in a coordinated fashion. Will this make a difference when we look at the poll numbers they have been sort of frozen. A significant. Lead for joe biden and it appears no matter what the headlines are that different stays the same so i suspect what makes this particular election different is just how stable t
A very outspoken and. Lobbyist ok if she is indeed the nominee how is. Confirmation is a scar indeed. Well some white house official actually warry that judge barrett he might gallon eyes not only democrats but also suborbital women and independent voters who would have favored a more mainstream pick but however barrett has been far only whetted by conservative groups and im less there is something lurking we dont know about the republican dominated senate will appoint air as the late successor of late are b. G. As they know that only need a simple majority to process and right now all indications say that they have these votes with only 2 republicans objecting objecting to the nomination happening so close to the election and already this nomination is plagued with controversy for lots of reasons some of which weve just talked about but also because of the timing coming just weeks ahead of november the november 3rd election how is this playing into trumps reelection strategy. Well it