Mayor cos will get a vote expected to happen shortly. A top priority remains covid relief. President biden held a meeting with ten republican senators looking for a bipartisan agreement, but theyre pitching a bill one third the size of President Bidens proposal. Ill ask democratic senator chris murphy if a way Forward Together is even possible at this point. What both sides do agree on, though, we need more money for the vaccine rollout. The hiccup to that rollout this morning, the weather. Coming up, how many east coast states are still trying to sidestep the snow and get back on track. Well get to that part of the story in a moment. Lets get to our reporters focused on the action in our nations capital. Shannon pettypiece at the white house, Garrett Haake at his post on capitol hill and jacob sober rof following the implications of this administrations Immigration Policy and miss petedy piece well start with you at 1600, walk us through the Executive Actions President Biden is expect
and they re only operating on a theory that this would be good for our economy and leaked information alone. all of the negotiations have been done in secret, signing off on trade promotion authority would put time limits on congressional consideration and prevent any amendments or even debate. not many people like that. it would give president obama the obama administration more leverage with trading partners in its negotiations, but less input from congress. it is blindly signing up to send jobs overseas without putting up any fight, as i see it. the trade promotion authority bill was presented by max baucus of montana who is about to leave the senate to become the ambassador to china. interesting, isn t it? democrats should not give into this no matter how badly president obama says he wants it. if any democrat is going to fall for this, this theory that it s going to be better for the economy, they re really not a true supporter of the middle class or manufacturing and labor in thi
choices about compromise. if you get the republicans keeping the house majority, the democrats keep a narrow senate majority and a lot of new members are more to the extreme, then you get more of the same, if not worse. ryan, you saw it in the interview i did with peter king, the republican congressman from new york, almost two parts of the republican party right now are merging very different, not only on domestic issues but on national security issues. yeah, that s sort of interesting. on the right and the left, there s this sort of populist anti-government movement gathering around civil liberties issues and what pete king, what king would call isolationist. i don t think rand paul considers himself an isolationist. but that divide, look, rand paul is still a bit of an outlyer. he s the only one worked up on the nsa spying. in the house, there s a little more of a paul wing. i think that s where the tea party energy is and where the energy is in the republican party. let me pl
foundation rates them both as less conservative than almost every other house republican. al, fiscally conservative republican jim mathison of utah who opposed obama care and max baucus of montana, who supported the bill but blasted its implementation. i just tell you, i just see huge train wreck. reporter: when former moderate congressman republican retired last year, he said the partisanship drove his decision. today, he s working for a centrist political action committee. there is no willingness on either side of the aisle to sort of reach out that hand and find common ground. it just doesn t exist anymore, the middle. it s a pretty lonely place in the congress. reporter: political analyst stu rothenberg says the growing rift between parties is making it impossible to get anything done. when you don t have a middle, you don t have people who are go-to guys to put together the deal. reporter: take, for example, this congress. it has passed just 57 bills,
he s thinking about running for the democratic presidential nomination and had this allusion to hillary clinton, who is also thinking about it. george bush got a bunch of democrats to vote to go to that war. i was just shaking my head in montana. i m asking you to pick the leaders that are going to say we re not going to make those mistakes. hillary clinton when she was a senator voted to go to war in iraq. and this young guy who had no chance of being the democratic nominee was a senator from illinois, barack obama, i think, used that in 2008. he happens to be president. so what is schweitzer out there doing, trying to test. can you recreate the 2008 dynamic in 2016 against hillary clinton. if you re hillary clinton, you are probably thinking huh? i m not even sure he runs in the end but if not, it s not smart, if you will, i don t want to call it not stupid, but is there any traction against this woman, why not try what worked last time. sometimes the best record is no record