without congressman john lewis. following a year of devastation from the pandemic, the house takes it up on tuesday, but senate democrats passed the american rescue plan on their own. not a shred of republican support in the senate chamber. they were only able to get the bill passed through reconciliation, which raises a lot of questions about the future of governance in america and how to pass landmark legislation with the filibuster rule in place. joining me to help answer some of those questions, democrat pennsylvania senator bob casey. senator, good to see you. your overall reaction to the landmark bill you and your fellow senators passed yesterday? well, it was a great day because the american people were the winners, and especially families that have been struggling, especially middle class and low income families that almost never, almost never get attention from washington. you know the data that has been cited by columbia university of holding up the piece of pap
they can t handle. the buildings are not made to withstand these kinds of temperatures, and we re seeing that play out in the fact that people are trying to stay warm however they can. people have been sending in pictures of the thermostats inside their homes, and it s heartbreaking. one reads 45 degrees. i spoke to another gentleman who had to move his wife across the street in the snow after it dropped into the 30s there into a neighbor s home because they were the only ones that had a fireplace. that s up here in dallas. in houston, they re also breaking record lows as well. we had a chance to hear from the county judge in harris county on the state of really this frigid disaster playing out. take a listen. demand is up right now. a lot of the plants, the production plants, are down, and that is natural gas, all sorts of production. in order for the texas power grid not to fail, there has to be a balance between the two. the weather is going to go away in a couple days.
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heist. why police are now saying it was an inside job. i m kate baldwin was sarah sidner and john berman this is cnn news central we are standing by to see donald trump leave trump tower for his new york criminal trial. it is within the realm of possibility that they seat a jury by the end of the day. donald trump. we ll be there to see if he can stay awake, which has been an issue according to people who have watched him in the courtroom. also an issue potentially social media posts that donald trump push about jury selection. one of our legal analyst says, quote i think the judge is going to go rip split but she did not say split exactly here. so we re standing by to see the judge s reaction. trunk normally speaks before going into court, we will see if he addresses the jury issue, then also, we will see if he weighs in on what could be the biggest story of the day. house speaker mike johnson putting his job on the line for a vote on ukraine aid. will donald i ll trump, c
so anything the judge will have to evaluate each particular piece of evidence that the prosecution wants to launch against the former president to impeach him, impeach in the sense of just demonstrate to the jury that he is not truthful and then prior circumstances, his testimony should not be weighted heavily based on prior untruthfulness. so that is in the scenario that he would decide to testify himself, which still would be an enormous question mark. and i tend to think that his defense attorneys would incline be inclined to guide him not to but that will i think the judge will have to consider each individual circumstance and whether each piece of information needs is appropriate to be entered. all right. we re just waiting here on the next few moments, we will see donald trump heading to the courthouse where there ll be 96 potential jurors who will be questions. carry cordero. thank you so much. appreciate your time this morning. okay an american