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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Velshi, bombshell new reporting on the investigations into the failed former president's failed coup attempt. |
| 0:07.0 | We'll tell you which former Trump administration official is testifying and what he's saying when the reporter who broke the story joins us later in the show. |
| 0:15.0 | Plus, the Senate is back in session today with another vote expected by tonight as the bipartisan infrastructure bill inches |
| 0:22.8 | toward final passage. We'll give you the very latest from the Senate and we'll hear from a Texas |
| 0:28.2 | mayor who has to fight COVID-19 and his governor to try to protect his fellow citizens from the |
| 0:33.9 | virus. Then we'll talk to a state attorney general who's making major moves to stop |
| 0:38.4 | Republicans in her state from pulling off an Arizona-style sham audit to overturn election results. |
| 0:45.6 | Velshi starts now. |
| 0:52.8 | Good morning. It is Sunday, August the 8th. I'm Ali Valshi. The Senate is working through the weekend and getting even closer to passing President Biden's one trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure package. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, the chamber will reconvene at noon to continue working on it, and final passage of the bill could come this week. |
| 1:16.7 | Last night, the deal cleared a major procedural hurdle after 18 Republicans joined with Democrats and voted to end debate on the bill and move it forward. |
| 1:19.3 | But if negotiations seem to be on the fast track to completion, a lone Republican is proving |
| 1:25.5 | to be something of a speed bump. |
| 1:27.1 | That would be Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty, a Republican. |
| 1:30.5 | Despite 18 of his Republican colleagues voting to advance the deal, |
| 1:33.8 | Hagerty says he will continue to try and slow walk it. |
| 1:37.4 | Seems because he wants to. |
| 1:39.8 | On the Senate floor last night, Hagerty said he believes there's no need to speed up |
| 1:43.7 | consideration of this package. The country's deteriorating roads, bridges, dams, and water. On the Senate floor last night, Haggerty said he believes there's no need to speed up consideration |
| 1:44.2 | of this package. |
| 1:45.4 | The country's deteriorating roads, bridges, dams, and water pipes, on the other hand, might |
| 1:49.7 | beg to differ with him. |
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