Sweet when republicans took credit for legislation they didnt even vote for. Will it hurt any chances for future compromise . It is way too early for this. Good morning, welcome to way too earl. Im aly melendez. The vote is not expected until potentially later today. Well have to wait until the senate wraps up their marathon debate. Republicans spent Hours Attack speaking on the floor early this morning. 60 votes are needed for the independent January 6th commission to move forward. So far only three republicans expressed their support. Senator murkowski expressed her Decision Appointment and the attempts to block the vote. Its important that there be a focus on the facts and on the truth. And that may be unsettling. But we need to understand that. We just Cant Pretend that nothing bad happened or that people just got too excitable. Something bad happened and its important to lay that out. I think there is more to be learned. I want to know more and im i want to know when i dont want t
is nbc news reporter amanda golden. amanda, thanks for being with us this saturday morning. i do understand president biden spoke with senator joe manchin. any idea what was said? yes. president biden spoke with joe manchin on the debate we saw go late into the night yesterday. we don t have the specifics, but it speaks to the pressure that was definitely bubbling up thach wanted to make sure they were unified to move forward for these finally amendments during the vote-o-rama which you can see and speaking to the larger divisions that we see, progressive versus more moderate issues. senator joe manchin from virginia was not onboard with the democrats. you spoke to the differences in costs that ended up coming up with this revised democratic plan of $300 a week instead of $400 and seeing where they could cut corners on costs that at least for more moderate democrats, it was more superfluous and now needed for the emergency covid relief they re pushing for right now. don t
american people that help was on the way. today, i can say we ve taken one more giant step forward in delivering on that promise that help was on the way. i want to thank start out by thanking the vice president, but i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach a compromise to do the right thing for the american people during this crisis and voted to pass the american rescue plan. it obviously wasn t easy. it wasn t always pretty. but it was so desperately needed, urgently needed. also, i also need to say a few words about the majority leader, chuck schumer, who i spoke with many times in this and again this morning. i served in the senate, as you all know, for many years. i ve never seen anyone work as skillfully, as ably, as patiently with determination to deliver such a consequential piece of legislation that was so urgently needed as the american rescue plan. chuck schumer, senator chuck schumer, when the country needed you most, you led, chuck. and y
60 minutes plus about former president trump. what wounded me so deeply and why it disappointed me so greatly that i and others did not get a pardon. o donnell: two million doses a day, a new record for vaccination as we re learning when children may be able to get a vaccination. plus, what is holding up those stimulus checks. shocking arrest. a dallas officer taken into custody, charged with two murders. the new details, tonight. the royal tell-all. in her interview with oprah winfrey, the duchess of sussex takes aim, accusing buckingham palace of lying about her. spacex explosion. a rocket explodes as engineers were celebrating a test. and, the sisters kept apart by the coronavirus, brought back together by the vaccine. t back this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. there are a lot of headlines as we come on the air, including new fall
florida s republican governor, ron desantis, submitted a new map for congressional districts. he proposed florida should cut in half the number of congressional districts that are majority black. okay. texas s largest counties are starting to report on the real world impact of the voting restrictions that texas republicans passed this past year. as many as half the ballot requests they are getting from voters in the largest counties are now being rejected by the state because the new voting rights restrictions they just passed requires that those ballot requests be rejected. half the ballot requests being turned away. in wisconsin, where republican legislators have been moving aggressively to restrict all sorts of voting methods, a state court judge sided with them and ruled that wisconsin can, in fact, remove its drop boxes that people use to drop off their ballots for the election. wisconsin s next election is less than a month from now. they are rushing to rip out the drop