Have to go on hiatus though Training Camp for his main job with the chiefs begins in just a few weeks, while swifts Eras Tour rolls on in europe all right, thanks to our panel. Thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt, cnn new central starts right now we are standing by for a meeting that will tell u. S. President bidens immediate future in minutes. All House Democrats gathered Behind Closed Doors to discuss and debate if he should drop out of the president ial race major developments overnight. Millions of people are waking up this morning without power after Hurricane Beryl slammed into texas, dumping record amounts of rain and adding to the troubled today, sweltering temperatures are in the forecast this morning the trial began and for actor Alec Baldwin on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting on the set of the Movie Rust happened three years ago. Were live outside court a Jury Selection begins, im Sara Sidner with Kate Bolduan and john berman. This is
Capitol hill, meeting in solidarity with democratic senators as their majority leader, chuck schumer, reportedly expects his caucus to push to take up voting rights legislation ahead of the senate s rapidly approaching summer recess with an eye on next year s mid terms. What appears to be a budding victory lap for the biden administration, the containment of covid19, thanks to a vigorous vaccination campaign is now in peril at a crucial time. With the delta variant of the covid19 virus ravaging the nation, specifically those states where republican governors have demonized if not thenned to punish the mandated mask use of masks. All of that tonight on politics nation. So let s get started. Joining me now is senator debby stabenow of michigan, a democrat. Senator, thank you for joining us first tonight. Let me go to this, senator stabenow, because it appears that this infrastructure plan is advancing legislatively. Is it fair to say that former president trump s effort to bring down the
Even larger, more progressive bill through reconciliation. That s a special filibuster proof maneuver that requires a simple majority for passage. In other words, without republican support. Meanwhile, the senate continues to work on voting rights. The judiciary committee met saturday with a former trump d. O. J. Official and a key city in afghanistan just fell to the taliban. That will be of key concern to the senate foreign relations committee where my first guest is a member. Joining me now is senator jeff merkley of oregon. Senator merkley, thank you for coming back to the sunday show. You re welcome. Good to be with you. All right. Let s start with infrastructure. Will i understand senator haggerty of tennessee raised objections, i think put a hold on proceedings because he wanted to go back to regular order. Will things get back on track today? yes, we re in a 30hour period before our final vote from being held, a simple majority vote on the substitute amendment. But then face th
Course there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, not in any state, much less in texas. Today, texans turned out in austin, showing they are fed up with the shenanigans, demanding state lawmakers make it easier to vote. I m going to vote and there s too many people, white and black, that died for this purpose, to see that somebody s going to suppress. They should be having voting easier than getting a big mac. Easier and even more satisfied. Trump s lie has texas republicans moving in the opposite direction. Trump is heading to texas tomorrow to speak at cpac in dallas after a week of speeches at the conservative conference that made it clear the gop remains with him. Since the election, everyone that i talk to is furious, i mean, we re livid, we re upset, we feel like the election was stolen. Every every donor, every voter that i ve met believes there was some level of election fraud and many and most believe that it was enough to overturn the election.
oppressed and oprah nods in empathy because oprah is oppressed, too. osc beat a long time incumbent in a race nobody thought she could win. her prior job had been waitressing at a taco bar in new york. say what you will about her views. that is a legitimately impressive achievement. if your daughter did it, you d be proud. honestly. but oc doesn t seem proud. she seems agrieved. with every passing year, as her fame and power grows, she seems angrier and more brittle. within a month of arriving in washington, she had amassed a larger social media presence than any member of congress in the first month. as of today she s got 12.6 million twitter followers. that s nearly twice as many as nancy pelosi has. pelosi s been doing this for half a century. so ocasio-cortez has one of the largest political megaphones on earth. she wants more than that. she now insists should she be able to speak totally unfiltered to millions of people at once, but that nobody should be allowed to disag