republicans will cooperate with that time line. let s start voting on amendments. the longer it takes to finish the bill, the longer we ll be here. our full consideration should not be choked off by any artificial timetable but our democrat uk colleagues may sen sill out the differences. president biden announcing new executive actions to keep americans in their homes. it comes as some house members are still camped out on the capitol steps calling for action on the he fiction moratorium in this country. we re going to talk about it with house financial services chairwoman maxine waters. mean time, the biden administration also set to expand priority refugee access for civilian that s works with the government in afghanistan. and we re 24 hours away from simone biles talking about plans to take part in the balance beam final after withdrawing from several competitions to focus on her mental health. next hour, top officials from the white house will hold a briefing on th
and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the fight of our lifetime. well, that s what kamala harris says it is, as she slams the growing number of laws that democrats say will seriously restrict voting rights in america. these laws create obstacle upon obstacle. these laws make it harder for you to vote. because they don t want you to vote. and so i will say again, your vote matters. your voice matters. this is the fight of our lifetime. well, right now, ground zero for the fight over voting rights is the state of texas. there are protests tonight outside the state capitol where a special session is under way. republicans there proposing legislation that critics say would suppress voting. by banning drive-through voting, putting new restrictions on mail-in voting and granting new powers to poll watchers. the original bill had measures taken out. it was blocked by democrats, who walked out of the state s capitol, leaving republicans without the minimum numbe
next ones to get a restricted voting bill that targets access on to their governor s desk. it s just a matter of how restrictive it s going to be. not to be outdone in suppression is florida, where its legislature just passed their own bill going after voter access and assistance. minority voters in particular. and like texas, the focus is on controlling what local officials can do about it. but don t look at these locations and presume it s a sudden thing. like i said before, this is a national campaign. nearly every state has some kind of voter restriction legislation on the books. the only thing they have on common are conservative lawmakers who are intimidated by the electoral results of 2020 and committed to ensure it does not happen again. also on tonight s show, i ll be in elizabeth city, north carolina tomorrow as head of national network to eulogize andrew brown, jr., who is right now being commemorated after being killed by law enforcement. the full picture not yet
u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. at least one of the warrants were seeking information related to ms. yovanovitch. the warrant also, quote, sought his conversations with ukranian officials who had butted heads with miss yovanovitch who was seeking information about then-president biden. he tried to count the votes long after the election was certified, and that s why trump was trying to shield giuliani when he was still in office. he wasn t even briefed on the raid of giuliani s home. were you aware of that raid before it happened? i give you my word i was not. i made a pledge i would not interfere in any way, order or try to stop any investigation the justice department had underway. i learned about that last night when the rest of the world learned about it. that s not the role of the president. the justice department is the people s lawyer, not the president s lawyer. i should also say that the investigation of giuliani could pose a threat to his former
to get murkowski or any other republicans we hope the republicans will start joining us. i have a very good relationship with lisa murkowski, we hope they will start joining us for the good of the country. leader schumer, next week do you expect immigration infrastructure. still sounding hopeful there, saying good relationship with lisa murkowski, she voted no but in the end a 50-49 passage of this $1.9 trillion relief package, and you saw senate majority leader chuck schumer there rather victorious, calling it a very fine day, calling it one of the most important pieces of legislation in decades. joining me on the phone is ohio senator sharrod browne, you heard the majority leader saying republicans tried to trick us but it didn t work. how do you assess the road on getting to this passage? it clearly was a bipartisan effort. bipartisan in the sense that the american public wanted rental assistance for people that were about to be evicted in the middle of a pandemi