there were parts in russia that people lived to be 120 years old, eat yogurt and you ll live longer. i ate it until i was 11 and heard that wasn t the case. then i heard in japan, japanese live a long time so i started to eat sushi and then the french drink wine. what do they do in tulsa, oklahoma? like the president met with somebody who is like, 102? 106? 107? there were three over 100. three over 100 and the male survivor grabbed my hand, he said, i watch you all the time. and started lecturing me about what was going on. i think what drove them in talking to them in all sincerity was they wanted the story out. sometimes purpose can extend your life. keep you going. i think that the purpose of them talking about what they saw, this viciousness, this murder, their loved ones being assaulted and killed because of the color of their skin, i think it drove them to keep living until they finally watched the president of the united states telling their story. valid
about whether to simply gut the filibuster all together, reduce that 60-vote threshold to 51. but there is no support, not enough support within the democratic caucus to do that, given the opposition from joe manchin, kyrsten sinema of arizona, and others as well. so where does this leave everything, jake? this issue getting this bill passed into law almost certainly will not happen, nor will splitting this up into smaller pieces, a polarizing issue dividing the party, no sign this is going anywhere. and in a matter of minutes republicans will block it on the floor. so this is going to fail. so what comes next for democrats? have they laid out what they re going to do? democrats, i m learning, are plotting a series of hearings in order to provide a spotlight on this issue, draw attention to this issue, particularly in the state of georgia. i m told that the senate rules committee plans to have a field hearing in the state of georgia to talk about the republican efforts in
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
january 2nd last year with georgia secretary of state where trump urged the republican to find votes to help him win. also, breaking this afternoon, the house committee investigating the january 6th attack wants to interview former first daughter and white house adviser ivanka trump. let s begin with sara murray following the developments out of fulton county georgia. sarah, explain how a dgrand jur could change the investigation. she s been looking into donald trump and his allies for a year in their efforts to overturn the results in the georgia 2020 election and whether that s criminal. it allows her to essentially compel witnesses to gather more evidence and also it has this group of people that are just going to be focused on this trump matter. they re not going to be looking at evidence in any other case. here s how she described it if her letter to the court asking for a special grand jury. she said we have made efforts to interview multiple witnesses and gather ev
biden s epic failures both here at home and abroad according to the article it is rare for a president to be at odds with republicans, with moderate democrats, and liberal democrats hold the same time. but that is where biden find himself. in other words, nobody likes you, joe. port, joey. nobody thinks he is competent either, even msdnc, blasting biden for failure to change the tone in the country. bring people together after his speech last week. former president trump in arizona, this is funny, he said that biden was more destructive than five presidents combined. now a new cbs poll mike shows that 50% of americans are frustrated with biden s presidency. only 25% are satisfied. it takes an awful lot of failure to get 75% of the country not loving what you are doing and fully 50% of the country frustrated at what you are doing. look at this graph from gallup. in just one year, biden managed to flip america s party identification average a nine-point democratic advantage