Over tiktok taking place now. The house voting on a bill to force the chinese owner to sell the app or be banned in the United States. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Always a quick turn around. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Some lawmakers say the chinesebased company is a threat to National Security. Others say tiktok ban would limit free speech online. That bipartisan bill expected to pass but faces an uncertain future once it hits the senate. Jim jordan on stand by. Chad pergram has the news live from the hill. Hello to you. Theyre coming to the closing moments of this debate. One vote coming up in this series taking about 20, 25 minutes here but they believe they have the votes to pass this bill. It will take a 2 three vote. If all 432 members of the house vote that will be 288. But they expect to be well alove that threshold. Look to see, though, if some of the concern that former President Trump has expressed suppresses the gop vote a
Bully pulpit making a very important statement, particularly given, as van said, his long history in the united states senate, but for all practical pruurposes, no, it doesn t, because what he has to do is convince joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. and strategically, what the white house was hoping with a speech like this, is that it would, you know, get the grassroots up in arms and get them to bang down their doors and say, you have to do that. but as van said, that has been happening already. they didn t need the president to do that. what they want is for the president to use his chops as somebody who can get things done to do just that. and not necessarily make a big speech. dana bash, van jones appreciate it. thank you. there is a new tool in the fight against covid and it s got four paws and a fluffy tail. we will tell you how some schools are trying to slow the spread, next.
Will move forward to propose changes to the senate rules. but anderson, he does not have those votes yet. and tonight, senator schumer doesn t want to delude voters into thinking they have the votes here right now because, currently, they don t. yeah. kaitlan, i am sorry your tie was destroyed last night. i don t really know what that means but i am told that you would. i think it s a sports analogy, or reference, isn t it? something like that. i m glad this got brought up. i have finally recovered a little bit from a devastating loss and i m already looking forward to next season, so, please make sure charlie moore knows that. my executive producer from albany, georgia. kaitlan collins, thank you. georgia is one of many states now that have passed restrictive voting laws. more on that from cnn s sara murray. reporter: it was a year of cracking down on election problems that didn t exist. based on lies peddled by the former president. they rigged the election. reporter: aft
Just about the question about cloth masks, because, obviously, this is one of those things that affects us, a lot of people. i don t quite know what the answer is. i ve heard now, we ve had people on our air, they re basically kind of useless, better than nothing, but you really want the n-95 or the kn-95. or just some other kind of medical mask. what do you recommend? yeah. there well, i recommend that you get the highest-quality mask that you can tolerate and that s available to you. right now, doesn t seem to be any shortage of the masks that of some time ago were not available. if you can tolerate an n95, do it. if you want to get a kn-95, fine. and what the cdc has said and it gets misinterpreted but they are saying wearing any mask is better than no mask at all. but there is a gradation of capability of preventing you from getting infected and from you transmitting it to someone else.
Bipartisan plan is scheduled for wednesday. chris. chris: david spunt reporting from the white house. david, thank you. and joining us now from louisiana is republican senator bill cassidy. well, senator, as david just mentioned, you have the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, calling for a vote on wednesday, a vote to end the possibility of a filibuster on that infrastructure bill which hasn t even been completed yet. two questions. first of all, will you vote for cloture on wednesday and two, how confident are you that ten republicans will vote, which is the number you need to block a filibuster. how can i vote for cloture when the vote isn t written. unless you want failure, unless senator schumer doesn t want it to happen, you need a little more time to get it right. it can absolutely happen but you need to pay for it. senator barrasso spoke to that.