republicans were rallying beh d behind, that and we heard the majority leader mitch mcconnell come out to endorse that and kevin mccarthy saying it is the only sensible alternative and he believes that his members would accept it, but the senate democrats rejected that last night, and here we are in the ominous language coming are from dick durbin this morning who said the longer this goes, the worse it gets, and that is the sentiment shared by so many up here especially when you have no end in sight, and no way out as of now. sunlen, thank you so much for state of play there on caple toll hill. i have a panel with me here in washington on this saturday afternoon. and so let e s start, april rya and good to see you. good to see you. with the president s tweet there where he is talking about all of the women across the country marching, but it is one of those and tell me is it one of the situation where is the women marching are saying that this is the apple and the president is
that its not an accident. not being distracted. we are going to cover i don t know. it s being covered. could be covered more. i want to say i personally tweeted out pictures from my home town, fairbanks, alaska, women marching. you can say that and also say it should be more inclusive. i don t think it is a denigrating march. it is not anti-trump. first of all. trump supporters were there. a political matter, observer of politics it is highly unusual to have the streets of washington and cities jammed the day after someone takes office. so something happened. okay. that ought to be, ought to be noted. it s not just like every other thing. january 21st there is a mountain of issues and causes represented there. how you translate that into a
we are leading the broadcast with this march. exactly. but we were going to no. no. no. it could be covered more. i want to say i personally tweeted out pictures of women marching. i think it s a wonderful march. i think you can say that and say it can be more inclusive. but you say it is not anti-trump what trump supporters are there? it is highly unusual to have all of these cities jammed a day after someone takes office. something happened. it ought to be noted. it s not just like every other thing but on january 21st just let me say this. the other thing, it wasn t just women out there. it was men.
rhetoric. the average protester we spoke to today their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, three generations of women marching, many with pin a joking reference to the access hollywood access hollywood tape in which donald trump made some off color, off-camera remarks that launch this movement. most of the women i spoke to with her daughters and granddaughters say they re here because they re concerned about some of the policies this next administration has espoused during the campaign. they didn t like the rhetoric, the misogyny, the talk of reversing traverses wade which has been the law of the country since the early 1970s. they re worried about turning back the clock on reproductive rights. they re worried about any issues to deal with. health care for women. they came to deliver a unified message. i. i can say for 500,000 people
the surge just in time for an election year. and scientists find earth s evil twin far, far away. the size is right, but strange life might sizzle on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december 21st. i m christine romans along with my friend ali velshi. i have to tell you. i m excited of the news of the new planet. it s different. not a political log jam. not pay rolle troll tax plan. new planets! we ll tell you all about it this morning. love it. other space cases. washington first. washington s dysfunction could mean less money in your pay cze paycheck yesterday. rejecting the payroll tax cut. and president obama during a surprise visit to the briefing room raled against this. the house republicans referred to what they re doing as high stakes poker. he s right about the stakes, but this is not poker. this is not a game. this shouldn t be politics as usual. kate bolduan live in w