Barbara Sprunt

And it's unclear that provisions of the bill would be able to get past those rules.

In fact, yesterday, Utah Senator Mike Lee, who's a major supporter of the elections bill,

said it's essentially impossible for it to pass in this way.

He has.

Here's what he said yesterday.

Now, I don't think that type of comment, basically, I'm probably not going to be happy no matter what, instills a lot of confidence for GOP lawmakers.

It leaves room for him to ultimately reject whatever framework emerges from these plans.

And Democrats say it makes it hard for them as well.

Here's Senator Patty Murray of Washington on the ongoing negotiations.

Okay, so what now?

Well, Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he wants to get DHS funded by the end of the week.

There's a two-week recess coming up for Congress.

But I think it's hard to commit to that.

There has been a lot of whiplash around here over the last few days.

It's hard to see a clear path forward.

Yeah.

And I have a question on that front.

Odette, all three of these attacks happened obviously when the U.S.

is still at war with Iran.

I'm curious to what degree you think that the war is contributing to the violence that we've seen this last week.