Menendez. We begin this hour with Breaking News from capitol hill. At any moment, we expect the senate to begin to pick on the house bill to avert a government shutdown. However, we have Breaking News about why we have yet to the process began. Nbc news now reporting one senator is holding up the bill, concerned about a to a current. The house passed the 45day stopgap Funding Measure with bipartisan support earlier today, the bill includes money for Disaster Relief, keeps the government open until november 17th, but the bill does not include aid to ukraine. The house vote was a uturn for House Speaker kevin mccarthy, who ditched demands from hard on republicans and relied on votes from democrats to get a continuing resolution over the line. But the bill does not include further aid to ukraine. And that is a problem for democratic senator Michael Bennet. Nbc news says he is reportedly holding out this senate vote on the cr, citing concerns over the lack of funding for ukraine. This is w
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Howard fineman, an nbc news analyst who spent his tuesday in judge ellis courtroom marveling at Paul Manaforts wardrobe. Anyway, mimi, let me start with you. Define Obstruction Of Justice and is it something that has to be done in secret for it to be a crime . Sure, chuck. I want to answer the second part first. It does not have to be done in secret. The definition of Obstruction Of Justice, there are different prongs of it, depending on whether youre trying to interfere with witnesses or tamper with evidence. Its basically trying to impede an investigation corruptly, with corrupt intent, which simply could mean youre trying to stop an investigation because you dont like that that investigation is zeroing in on you or your close friends, so it cant be it has to be for a bad purpose and those would be bad purposes. And thats why this tweet right now looks so incriminating because whats happening you believe its very
reporting. turning back to washington now, senator joe manchin may have changed his might on the voting rights bill. but that doesn t mean the pressure is off the senator who is facing more protests right now. nbc news political reporter ali vitali is here in the march. ali, who are the activists and what are they telling you? reporter: geoff, you talk about the campaign regarding governor manchin right now, this is a demonstration in the home state of virginia, they are now here in other states like pennsylvania. i want to draw your attention to it. i want to zoom in to see, several of the leaders on this march are on their final warning to clear from the street where they re currently stopping traffic. among them is reverend william barber, as well as reverend jackson. and they re on the street, so we
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Biden says he’ll sign dozens of executive orders within his first 10 days in office, building on the policies outlined in his $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan.” MSNBC Political Reporter Ali Vitali and Guardian reporter Kenya Evelyn join MSNBC’s host of “American Voices” Alicia Menendez to discuss the President-elect’s ambitious agenda and whether he can win over Congressional Republicans after calling for unity on the campaign trail.Jan. 18, 2021
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