KING: Bringing up the speed on several breaking news stories this hour. One is the Attorney General of the United States Bill Barr has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. The Justice Department is just tweeting out that the Attorney General will testify on July 28th. House Democrats have been threatening to issue a subpoena. They want to ask the Attorney General a number of questions because they believe he has put the President's political interests ahead of the facts and the law in several cases. So the Attorney General of the United States will be up on Capitol Hill on that side at the end of July, July 28th, the agreement now to testify before the Judiciary Committee. And just moments ago on the Senate side of the Capitol, Democrats successfully blocking debate on a big Republican police reform bill. Let's go back up to Capitol Hill live to Manu Raju for the details on that. Manu?</s>RAJU: Yes, 55-45 was the vote tally. There were Democrats who did vote to open up debate. Those Democrats include Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a frequent swing vote, Doug Jones of Alabama, someone who's in a difficult reelection race, and also Angus King and Independent of Maine who caucuses with Democrats. But they needed 60 votes to open up debate and they fell short. In fact, they are technically to be 56 votes. Mitch McConnell switched his vote for procedural reasons. So the Republicans are four votes shy. And what does that mean going forward? That means it's likely that there'll probably no police reform measure enacted this year because Democrats say that the Republican bill is unsalvageable in their view. They believe there need to be national mandates to be much stricter on how the police deal with these issues, to deal with what we've seen and all these brutal cases across the country. Nevertheless, John, Mitch McConnell says it's noncommittal about making taking up this action, taking up this bill again. But they're expected to move on to other matters before they head to July 4th recess after next week, John.</s>KING: The protests as well in action. We will see if Washington answers it, not today.
Senate Dems Block Debate On GOP Police Reform Bill.