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 twotrack 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 or if they are ult
With them, a verdict. For decades, labour has counted on this seat as one of its safest, but now after taking so much of the party s territory in the general election two years ago, the conservatives are confident this too could be theirs. Careful counting and socially distanced democracy in action has made for a long night but, in the early hours, labour all but conceded defeat. We haven t got over the line tonight, which is clearly disappointing. I think we had a good candidate, we had a solid campaign, one that had integrity and a good plan for hartlepool behind it but, ultimately, on the day, i just don t think we were able to get the numbers. Across england, there are council elections at almost every layer of local government. Counties, boroughs, districts and more. Almost 5,000 seats being contested. In the north east, the conservatives gained seats on sunderland city council, eroding labour s once rocksolid hold. I think what we ve seen is that a lot of the ukip votes have gone
vigilante justice and guns all figure highly in the trial of kyle rittenhouse, and the jurors went home after a third day of deliberations and the judge barring an entire cable news outlet from the courtroom and showing the degree to which rittenhouse is barely old enough to vote has been a figure in right-wing politics. matt gaetz all, but offered him an internship. in a case that goes to congress power that has constitutional questions dating back to the founding, lawyers for steve bannon were in court today making moves to slow walk their contempt of congress case through the process, perhaps hoping to run out the clock. and mark meadows who, like bannon, is also defying a subpoena appeared on bannon s podcast, touting the boss as a future house speaker. i would love to see the gavel go from nancy pelosi to donald trump. you re talking about melting down. people would go crazy. that s minority leader kevin mccarthy over whether basic civility can survive in congress,
most deal with how we get along as citizens or neighbors, or simply as members of our participatory democracy, which we ve all been learning isn t so simple anymore. in georgia tonight the defense rested in the trial of three white men charged with murdering a black man, ahmaud arbery. as with the circumstances of his killing, the trial itself complete with defense attorney trying to exclude black pastors from the courtroom has made race a central issue in the matter. policing and vigilante justice and guns all figure highly in the trial of kyle rittenhouse, and the jurors went home after a third day of deliberations and the judge barring an entire cable news outlet from the courtroom and showing the degree to which rittenhouse is barely old enough to vote has been a figure in right-wing politics. florida republican congressman matt gaetz last night all but offered him an internship. meantime, in a case that goes straight to congress power to conduct oversight and constituti