decade. a bipartisan achievement for biden. can anything else get through the senate? wisconsin has been at the forefront of the national republican efforts to override the will of the people. i will speak to the democratic governor of wisconsin who just vetoed republican efforts to undermine democracy in his state. as cvid cases surge in florida, patiences are suing the governor. i don t want to hear a blip about covid from you. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c. he was accused of sexual harassment. now he resigned. i m not talking about donald trump. rather, the democratic governor of new york, andrew cuomo. he was forced out under pressure from his own party. this situation by its current trajectory will generate months of political and legal controversy. that is what is going to happen. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. therefore, that
most powerful in president nixon s reelection campaign were in federal court today. the first defendant arriving in the darkness of the underground garage. out front, several hundred persons had gathered. some came to watch and others to demonstrate. campaign lawyer, now defendant, kenneth parkinson arrived. then former attorney general john mitchell. put the traitors in jail! reporter: there were jeres geres for kolson and straun and his lawyer arriving almost unrecognized and one by one, the defendants responded to the charges, mitchell first, loudly, not guilty to all count the martian, not guilty, kolson, not guilty ehrlichman, not guilty, halderman, not guilty and parkinson and strong, not guilty. they were taunted with cheers of law and order. law and order was one of nixon s slogan and now they were using it to taunt his attorney general as he arrived to face criminal charges. america watching all these top aides, pleading guilty it these serious crimes and
bipartisan infrastructure plan and it has passed a critical vote with 17 republicans joining the democrats. senator mark warner, a democrat, joining us in five minutes with more on that. including $119 billion for roads and bridges and $66 billion for railways and $65 billion for broadband and $55 billion for water. it is a duty of government. and even faint praise by mitch mcconnell, the senate leader. but even still, it has to go through the house where they say it does not go enough, and the separate $3.5 trillion that the democrats will pass without the republican support. because of to vote last night, the senate is now moving forward with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and we are on track to pass both elements of the two-track strategy before we adjourn for august recess. and let s kick it off with the nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, and it is good to have you with us, friend. how soon could the senate move on this, and what happens when
passed in 19 states and after months of pressure and pleading from activists on democrats to do something, to do anything to stop this wave of voters suppression and nullification laws, the united states senate has now taken up a last ditch effort to try to pass federal voting rights legislation. debate on a sweeping bill that combines the two key voting proposals, the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act, began just a few hours ago. democrats are pressing ahead even though the bill is doomed to ultimately fail. given the plans by the gop to filibuster and the fact that senators joe manchin and sinema and perhaps others are unwilling to reform the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. senate democrats took to the floor to send the message that the fight for federal voting rights legislation is still a necessary effort. that will ultimately reveal who s on the side of democracy and who s not. win, lose, our draw, members of this chamber were electe
rallying cry. quote, no celebration without legislation. king s eldest son calling for action. holiday should be a day on, not a day off. today we re not here to celebrate, we are here to be on. we re here to call on president biden and the senate to pass the freedom to vote john r. lewis act, and to warn that our democracy stands on the brink of serious trouble. history will be watching what happens tomorrow. black and brown americans will be watching what happens tomorrow. in 50 years, students will read about what happens tomorrow and know whether our leaders had the integrity to do the right thing. that is the larger call at the higher altitude. now, down in the weeds of governing, democratic leaders are rallying for action against an obstruction that s green-lit mostly by republicans in two democratic holdouts, which has this scene starting the week where democratic leaders claim they re continuing to try to apply pressure, but it already feels like they ve hit a bri