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major snowstorm in washington d.c. i hope to be opening the new session as president pro tem. it comes as a surprise that it was snowing. democrats want to pass the social spending bill. some democrats are pushing executive orders. there s executive actions that the president can take today to actually make life better for people and to, you know, let s say up the ante a little bit to make sure that we do get legislation done. the other pass has to be executive action. here s the problem. if the president could implement the policies, he would have done it already. democrats are looking at changes to the filibuster. but that requires an agreement of all democrats. yes, rules changes are on the table. we re discussing them actively with the senators. as i said in the dear colleague that i issued, we re going to vote on voting rights shortly including considering rules changes. schumer told democrats the senate could vote to change the filibuster by martin lut ....
you are in the cnn newsroom. breaking news tonight. former senator orrin hatch has died. his foundation posted a memorial on twitter moments ago writing the hatch foundation sadly announces the passing of senator orrin g. hatch. the former president pro tem of the united states senate and longest serving senator? utah history. he base rated his 88th birthday last month. melanie zinona in washington. and reaction pouring in right now. melanie what are you hearing. the tributes are starting to pour in orrin hatch was a giant on capitol hill. he had a career in the senate that spanned 42 years, which is practically multiple lifetimes on capitol hill. during that time he chaired multiple powerful committees including the senate finance committee. during that time he oversaw the passing of the gop tax law, which was a signature livingston achievement for the republican party under donald trump s tenure. he also briefly ran for president. the campaign didn t go anywhere. he ....
we fight like hell and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. we re going to the capitol. so let s walk down pennsylvania avenue. wait. there is more. last night trump made it clear people who heeded his call to action on january 6th might actually get away with it. if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly. yes. he is ready to abuse presidential pardon powers once again. this time to let supporters know they ll receive a get out of jail free card for january 6th and perhaps for whatever may come next. that s not a campaign promise, though. that s more like a dictator s decree. yes. america. the coup is still happening. joining me now, president pro tem of the united states senate and member. judiciary committee, democrat patrick leahy of vermont. senator leahy, does this ....
report, the mishandling of top-secret documents from his time as a senator butpr vice president and now made public. that report is beyond. biden has tried to say faves with the american public and it meriwas a shocking display ofco cognitive decline and we will play those outrageous remarks in a minute. but let s lay out the details in this report, devastating. according to the report, president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. investigators found classified documents including notebooks from meetings regarding highlyti sensitive material on foreign policy and national security carelessly stored in what appears to be his garage. and while the special counselhad found about biden handling of special documents is alarming, what it says about his cognizan state is quite frankly shockley and mike shocking. it should have every single american concern about the mental health, the cognitive ....
suggest that. is there any evidence to suggest that the presidency was what they were focused on? there is some evidence of that. there were people saying we don t want jefferson davis to be elected president and there was also one of the drafts of section 3 specifically mentioned the presidency and the vice president. but it wasn t the final enactment. right. it wasn t the final enactment, but it shows there was some concern about some people about confederate insurrectionists ascending to the presidency. we look at the historical evidence and pick the evidence we like and interpret is tan den shally because you can throw this counterveiling evidence back in our face. we wanted to focus on the text of the constitution, this was a compromised provision that was enacted in section 3. let me ask you another question about the states. you have forcefully made an argument about the states not being able to enforce section 3, so if we agree with you on that, what h ....