senator kirstyrsten sinema conf to me the video we re about to see it real smeep was at a wedding of a friend and some progressive protesters showed up at the wedding and disrupted senator sinema s friend s wedding outside the wedding. take a listen. doing to our country you know what? tell her. tell her. i don t disagree. it s my daughter s wedding. please just go down to the corner for one hour. please. that s the mother of the bride. the couple from what i understand is not a political couple at all. just the bride happens to be friends with senator sinema. do progressives do people like that think that this is effective, that this does
(birds chirping) (upbeat music) (phone beep) (music quieter) (phone clicks) tonight democrats in congress appear to be caving to the demands of moderate senator kirstyrsten sinema of arizona. tax hikes won t be used to pay
it back. and here s why. you can have as many transformative plans as you want. it doesn t matter if you don t have the votes for them and the united states senate, every single senator has the ability with one vote to kill or make a plan. when you only have 50 votes in the united states senate, which is what president biden is dealing with right now. now, behind the scenes, alisyn, over the course of the last several days, the president has met for more than an hour with joe manchin, same with kyrsten sinema. he has an idea of where the senators are. i think the big question is, what are the steps going forward, for his entire agenda, given what we ve seen? okay, phil mattingly and ryan nobles, thanks for setting the table for us. as you just heard, progressives are still frustrated with moderates. democratic senators kirstyrsten sinema and joe manchin. have kyrsten sinema come to my district and meet with my folks in st. louis. have her come and meet with those that sleep on th
for that i know you talked about kirstyrsten sinema for years, hi know much was made about your senate victory. here you are now and there s a whole host of issues you can take on from arizona. you tell me, what was it about these two phenomenal people sitting to your left. what was it about daniel s story that made you decide. this will be my first mission, my very first senate floor speech. i was honored to meet howard and jean shortly after we lost daniel. he was my constituent when i was a member of the u.s. house of representatives. within days of losing daniel, i met howard and jean, they immediately turned their grief into action. to make sure that other veterans didn t face the same crippling circumstances and feeling of hopelessness that daniel faced. and, well, you know this as soon
recount. and then some time over the weekend we re probably going to hit the deadline for a manual recount as well in florida. that s going to be really where we see how well the system holds up. so let s talk a little bit about arizona for a moment. democrat kirstyrsten sinema s historic win, ending a 30-year hold of republicans in that position. what does it say about that state heading into the 2020 presidential campaign? it certainly says that there s at least an opening for a democrat in that state in 2020, particularly because it seems like at least that martha mcsally, the republican congresswoman who conceded last night had sort of aligned herself closer with donald trump s positions than even she necessarily had when she was a member of the house from a sort of more moderate maybe