Hour on house speaker nancy pelosi s future. Up first the choice for senate republicans. Pursue the truth or give donald trump another pass? give him a pass does appear to be sadly the safe bet this hour. Ten senate republicans would be needed to break from their leader and join democrats to approve a commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection. The commission bill passed the house yesterday. 35 house republicans voted yes. That is not a small number especially given the house gop leadership urging a no vote and the former president donald trump making clear this is a loyalty test. Democrats this morning sending a very clear message. My senate republican colleagues must now ask themselves are they going to join us in pursuing the truth? or are they going to cover for donald trump and his big lie? to my republican friends and i do have them, take back your party. Let s get straight up to capitol hill and cnn s lauren fox. Describe the fate of this bill in the senate.
Are very used to that pant he wears. But, it is a remarkable not so remarkable. Semipredictable results in new mexico tonight. So far a stronger than expected showing for democrats. At the end of our hour we ll see exactly where the votes stand and we ll do it without steve cornacki which means i may have to take my jacket off. I am not sure. We ll see how it goes. Okay. If you stand up and take your jacket off, i don t even want to be for the ratings coming in tomorrow. It will be overwhelming. Yeah, you may reconsider the whole thing. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. In tulsa, oklahoma, today, president biden describes an assault on our democracy. He was talking about voting rights when he said that. He went to tulsa today to mark an assault that happened there 100 years ago. These two assaults 100 years apart are both driven by white supremacists. That s what s behind both of the assaults that president biden talked about today. The one that happened 100 years ago was a viole
Definitely couldn t wear the same pants that i wore the last time i talked him but apparently he s in a time warp in his pants. Yeah he s got the one pant so we are very used to that pants that he wears. But hey it s a remarkable semi predictable result in new mexico tonight but so far stronger than expected showing for the democrat at the end of our hour we will see exactly where the vote stands. And we re gonna do it without steve kornacki which means i might have to take my jacket off. I m not sure. We ll see how we do. Okay. If you stand up and take your jacket off i don t even want to be here for the ratings coming in tomorrow. It s gonna be very overwhelming. Yeah, okay you ve made me reconsider the whole thing. Okay, thank you rachel. Thank you lawrence. Thank you. Well in tulsa oklahoma today president biden described what he called a truly unprecedented assault on our democracy. And he was talking about voting rights when he said that. But he went to tulsa today to mark an ass
Migrants and smugglers use new militarystyle tactics to avoid being captured at the u. S. Border. Thanks for joining us. We begin this hour with growing pressure from democrats in the u. S. Congress for president biden to push israel for a ceasefire in the middle east. A new round of israeli air strikes today has killed four more civilians in gaza including a local journalist. That is according to the official palestinian news agency. The death toll stands at 218 in gaza, while 12 people have been killed in israel. The israeli air force says a 25minute attack by more than 50 jets hit a weapons depot. A rocket launcher and a command and control center in southern gaza. Outrage over israel s air strikes prompted widespread demonstrations across the west bank and east jerusalem. At least four people were killed in clashes with police. Journalist elliott gotkine joins us live this hour from the southern israeli city of ashdod. Elliott, what is the latest on this deadly exchange of fire tha