Formalized a deal that cements their control of the United States senate. President biden and his colleagues have made it clear that on covid relief, they have zero interest in waiting on republicans. Yesterday democrats pushed forward with a motion to pass bidens 1. 9 trillion covid package with or without republican support. Mitch mcconnell called the move totally partisan. Which is rich coming from a guy who used the exact same tool to pass a 1. 5 trillion tax cut for the rich. Youll notice that republicans love to wave the word unity like a bloody shirt when they criticize democrats. You know whats better than fake unity, action, action that helps people. Thats the job of governing. In many ways, were now down to just one governing party. This morning speak nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer led a congressional tribute to Brian Sicknick who died during the insurrection last month. Each day when members enter the capitol hill, this temple of democracy, we will rem
boundaries for their children. set boundaries for adolescents. set boundaries for teenagers on the use of phones. on use of social media. it s hard to protect them. on the use of everything. it s hard but it is it is a lot more important than so many other things. okay. we re over time here, though. we will revisit this. that does it for us this morning. it is so great that yasmin vossoughian is back with us, and she picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, good friday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we ve got a lot happening this hour. we want to start in memphis where any moment now five former police officers will be arraigned in court in connection with the death of tyre nichols. you re looking at a live cam there right now inside that courtroom. all have been charged with second degree and a number of other counts as well. authorities say nichols was beaten by officers last month following a traffic stop. he died
good afternoon. i m casey hunt here in washington. we re going to begin with breaking news. just moments ago we learned that tesla is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles in order to remove the, quote, full self-driving feature. that is the beta software that lets the car drive with minimal human intervention. gabe cohen has our latest reporting on this. this is a lot of cars and a big deal. reporter: we re talking about poten potentially 363,000 tesla vehicles being recalled. we are just getting this recall report in that s coming from the national highway traffic safety administration. i want to walk you through what models we re talking about. so we re talking about the tesla model s, model x, model 3 and model y vehicles, spanning several years. 2016 all the way up until 2023. as you mentioned, all of these vehicles we re talking about are equipped with that self-driving beta software and now tesla is going to be giving a free software update. in the meantime, th
hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. any moment now, president biden is expected to update americans on the recent and unprecedented shootdowns of objects over north america. the president has been facing growing pressure to bring more transparency to the issue that has gripped the nation for the last month. let s get straight to jeremy diamond in washington. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is the first time we hear directly from president biden in a formal setting on the downing not only of that chinese spy balloon but the three objects brought down between friday and sunday. to get to this point, a couple of things had to happen because the white house has really been in discussions over the last several days about the wisdom, the merits of the president potentially addressing this issue. they were wary at first of making this a bigger issue than it actually is. and they were also wanting to make sure the president waited until
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