Senate and joe mentions reference for the rules of the senate is inherited from robert bird and the three people who will be discussing robert birds view of the rules actually know maybe more about that even than joe manchin does inhouse robert prude him self was changed rules in the senate when he felt it was necessary and it wasn t working so that s how we re gonna begin tonight. It s one thing to say that you review or the rules of the senate and you want to follow in the footsteps of somebody like robert bird and so therefore you want change the filibuster when one of the things that robert did was change the filibuster to lower the threshold of the number of votes that it took. So i m looking forward to seeing that. And by the way, one of the people the new robert port is the host of this program so it s gonna be fun. Also rachel, boston accent morning bill breton is here. Bill brought in graduated from the boston police academy the same year that i graduated from high school in b
I will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets near the oval office. Republicans purge the truth from their party to go out to lie to the people. I don t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. Tonight just how far is liz cheney willing to go the stuff done from trump. This is the opening up position in this battle. Will you apologize the american public for what happened on your watch? former trump officials finally faced tough questions over the january 6th attack and what we learned about the presidents order for the military to protect his mob. What was the presidents response to you with response to the requests by may or bows or? do whatever is necessary to protect the demonstrators. Plus how one state s vaccination drive just became a lottery. And the winner each wednesday will receive $1 million. And after today s big announcement about vaccination 12 and over, well as a secretary of education what that means fo
Hello. Thanks for joining hello. Thanks forjoining us. Polls have now closed in mexico in the biggest and deadliest election in the country s history. More than 21,000 seats are being contested for mayors, state legislators and the entire lower house of congress, where the morena party of president andres manuel lopez 0brador is hoping to retain its two thirds majority. But the vote has been marred by some of the worst violence in mexico s history. 89 assassinations of politicians recorded from september to the end of may 35 of them were due to be standing in this vote. 0ur correspondent will grant joins me now from mexico city. Will, you can t ignore the scale of the violence that has accompanied this particular campaign. 0ne hopes not brought into the day of voting itself. Well, it has a little bit, i m afraid, david. There was an example of that in kawana, where a human head was placed outside polling stations, a shocking event there, although elsewhere although it wasn t a tax ne
Hello and welcome. There s a week to go until the british government announces whether or not remaining restrictions on social contact will end for people in england onjune 21st, but some scientists are calling for a delay following a rise in the number of cases of the delta variant first identified in india. Tim muffett reports. The summer solstice, june 21, the day on which this and this is due to end in england. Whereas this and this should be allowed once more. But will that happen? in seven days time, the government will make its decision and doubts are growing, along with an increase in cases of the delta variant of coronavirus. Which was first identified in india. Personally, i would very much like to see masks remaining in place. We have to consider delaying the opening up that was planned on the 21st and wait and see what happens in terms of the number of hospital admissions and, sadly, the number of deaths that may result. I number of deaths that may result. ,. , , result. I
Hello, thanks for joining hello, thanks forjoining us. Votes are being counted in mexico after midterm elections seen as a test of support for president andres manuel lopez obrador. He s hoping his party will retain its two thirds majority in congress to continue his programme of social and institutional reforms. Mexicans were also electing local mayors and half the state governors. Our correspondent will grant is in mexico city for us and says the violence also reached some polling stations. Although it wasn t attacks with necessarily with guns, with saw videos of polling stations being attacked by unknown activists from one side or the other, voting being shut down in oaxaca at one point, at one polling station there, so sporadic elements of electoral intimidation or violence. But by and large, this has been an election day that has passed off peacefully and most voters sort of turned out because they were angry about a variety of things or very much behind president manuel lopez o