How are you doing, will . Super bowl weekend. Will right here. Good morning to you both. Thats right. Im live here in tampa. Super bowl lv. I know you are very excited about that jedediah. We will get your picks later. We know you will change the chiefs or the punxsutawney. For now a hometown battle in tampa. Hometown bucs look to be pretty popular, pete. Pete whats the feel . You are there on the ground. Its a little bit different everything is a little bit different whats the vibe in tampa . Will its excited because there is a Hometown Team for the first time Playing In Home Stadium for the super bowl. Its tampered by the bittersweet relation what would it be like if it were a normal year. Street packed and cash registers ringing they recognize its a little down from expectations. Pete absolutely. Jedediah i know you are waiting for my pick. Im waiting for yours, will cain. I had a conversation about it yesterday. You know what . Im going to wait and hold my pick and see who will pic
Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
And hours long session on the critical measure that could pave the way for President Bidens 1. 9 trillion relief package. Jillian Griff Jenkins has a breakdown, you always win. Reporter more exciting than watching the super bowl you can watch your senate hard at work on votearama. Theyve been at this since 2 30 p. M. Yesterday. It is a timehonored tradition where the Minority Party forces the Majority Party to endure endless amendments putting senators on the record. Any senator can offer an amendment to the Budget Measure and so far 850 have been filed and as we have seen overnight more than 30 reached a roll call voice vote on the floor. Unclear when the ends. We are told maybe in an hour or so. We will keep you posted. Some amendments pass, others fail. When it did pass, senators todd young, proposal to block Illegal Immigrants from getting stimulus checks. It was adopted but 42 lawmakers voted against it and some of the issues which range from tax increases on Small Businesses to t
Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
Allocated but hasnt gone out to anybody yet. So this bill will pass with basically democrat support, so reconciliation that allows them to squeak it by on 51 votes. And the compromise and unity that we heard so much about are not a priority at this white house so far. Republicans say this is a liberal wish list. President biden says that he will be the most progressive president in history. He told us that on the Campaign Trail and a promise that hes making good on and progresses are thrilled with it. Heres one progressive senator that said biden has been very good at the ending the garden so far. So are these passages about covid or about expanding the government here in the United States over the longer term . As this plays out, in the background of all of this about the money, theres a shift going on in the country. Take a look. Cases have dropped 47 since the daily average peak january 8. Very good news about where this virus is headed. Think about this. The governors that have rea