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Good morning, everyone. the critical defense bill taking center stage in america s culture wars, not just the defense policy. late into the night, house republicans narrowly passing several controversial changes to the annual defense authorization bill including measures to eliminate the pentagon s diversity program, arestrict access to abortion in the military. just one hour from now the house is set to reconvene, consider more amendments after a long night of heated debate and voting. top house democrats are vowing to oppose the bill which has been for six decades a pilar of bipartisan agreement and serves as a cornerstone of u.s. defense policy. let s bring in cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox for the latest. we have been talking about what happened last night and that plays into moving this forward, but this bill for six decades passed on a bipartisan basis. it guides u.s. defense policy. ....
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Katherine clark of massachusetts. i guess the first question, are you formerly whipping the vote? look how unprecedented this situation is. we had the national defense bill that came out of committee just a few weeks ago with a nearly unanimous vote. a bipartisan bill, as is the tradition in congress. and we have the gop, who said we are going to scrap that bipartisan bill, put a big you are not welcome sign out in front of our military bases to women, people of color, lgbtq, and create a bill that is extreme. so there has been an unprecedented response from democrats where we have the ranking member, adam smith, saying he will now oppose this bill. we have democrats who have never voted against a national defense bill, who will not be voting for this bill, because it has been ....
The united states of america. i mean, i really cannot overstate how divisive and how racist and misogynist this bill has become. as we have seen, speaker mccarthy capitulate once again to the extreme elements of his party. all right. congresswoman katherine clark, thanks for coming on, sharing your perspective in this quickly unfolding situation. thank you. we are learning about lisa marie presley s cause of death, details from the autopsy and what she complained about moments before she passed. that s coming up next. the google cybersecurity certrtificate was made to fill that gap and help grow the workforce that s keepingng us all safe. ....
What is the future here? it looked a little daunting last night. first they have to pass this . kevin mccarthy is, obviously, going to be seeing whether or not the controversial amendments that h his members votes on are enough to hold his conference together. we expect it likely will be. we will get a little bit of a glimpse on where the house freedom caucus is this morning because they are going it have press conference. we expect most democrats will peel off, not support this despite the fact that it passed out of committee with bipartisan support, probably just a handful of five to seven democrats would back it. then the senate has to pass their own version of this bill, which we expect to happen over the next several weeks. then they will have a discussion. as one republican said to me last night, the expectation is once in bill comes back to the house it s going to look a lot like the bill that first passed out of the house arms services committee a couple weeks ago. i like h ....