Towards her desk. Beto orourke tweeted this show of support. Unlike the filibuster in the u. S. Senate, the Filibuster Rules in the Texas Senate requires senatoring a have a Al Alvarado not able to eat, drink, use the restroom. Were with you. Ultimately the Senators Longshot Effort ended with this plea my friends, Voter Suppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. As we have drawn this sdougs an end it is my sincere hope that simple acts by everyday texans from the Senate Floor to the Ballot Box can help to shed the light on all important issues. What do we want our democracy to look like . Do we want our state to be more or less inclusive instead of making it easier to vote . This bill makes it easier to intimidate. Instead of making it harder to cheat, it makes it harder to vote. Republicans true to their brazen commitment to rolling back access to the polls and totally impervious to the fact there was no fraud, ignored Alvarados Plea and passed the restrictive bill that
Is one of our legal breakdowns i want you to stay tuned for. We will get exactly into the man who decides the fate of Trump Org and potentially the fate of trump itself. Surgical general murphy. We begin with the two potential suspects of the probe i mentioned, donald Trump Jr. And eric trump. They actually have decided to do what many defendants in this Trump Orbit have done. Theyre subjects potentially, not defendants yet. But they are speaking out on television. This is significant because its the first time since the news broke that there is a Grand Jury impanelled, which is significant escalation of that case as it weighs charges. Now, charges may not mean anyone, right . You can always decide not to charge anyone. Or it could mean trump executives. Along with eric weisselberg. Don and eric ran the company in absent when Donald Trump was at the White House. Eric trump with some Sort Of window into the Grand Jury process. My father gets subpoena after subpoena. They attack us for d
Investigators of the government want to talk to somebody, we as journalists definitely do. I cant wait to watch, ari. Thank you. All right, nicolle. See you soon. I want to welcome you to The Beat. We have, as mentioned, a show were excited about. A beat exclusive on this Trump Organization pro. You wont see these individuals and Witnesses Anyone else. We will be joined, as nicolle and i were briefly discussing, by three of the people that were closest to Donald Trumps business, a business hes been running a long time and now are giving him legal problems in New York. Were talking about the former lawyer Michael Cohen, and david axelrods daughterinlaw Jess Fer Weiss of berg, and were talking the Senior Adviser to Melania Trump. Thats coming up a little later in the program. We begin with the Republican Partys complete and total inversion of the Big Lie. This has become a crisis in realtime. The u. S. Senate could vote as soon as this week to investigate the January 6th insurrection. Al
Expected to green light a newcoronavirus vaccine. A panel, strongly, endorsed the Johnson Johnson version, last night. Paving the way for final approval, this weekend. The j j shot will be the first to require just one dose. Meantime, in orlando, giving you a live look right now at cpac. Oh, there we see mike pompeo. In just about 24 hours, you will be seeing donald trump who is set to make his firstpublic appearance since leaving the white house. We are going to expand on those headlines now with nbc reporters in the nations capitol, wilmington, delaware, as well as orlando, florida. Shannon pettypiece, in delaware. Shannon, welcome to you. So whats the message President Biden is sending to capitol hill, as the covidrelief bill moves there you the senate . Well, he is looking to keep the pressure on congress to get the bill over the finish line. There is definitely no spiking of the football, yet. They have still got to get this passed in the senate. There is a lot of indications it w
A very good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to Alex Witt Reports. Were going to begin with the breaking news out of arizona. The Arizona Democratic party formally censuring senator Kyrsten Sinema, sinema one of two Democratic Senators who voted this week to support the filibuster. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is following this story for us. Vaughn, gif us the back stories to why this happened and what it now means for senator sinema. You know, the actual Arizona Democratic party, alex, they set up this potential vote that happened here just in the last hour, all the way back in october when the full Arizona Democratic party state committee, this is a group of several hundred local Arizona Democratic party activists, voted on this particular measure, what that said is if senator sinema were to essentially hold up potential Voting Rights legislation, that they would then call on the exec Exective Committee of the Arizona Democratic committee this january