headlines, we ll pays some sort of toll. and i think this week, the bad headlines, the gridlock, and the loss of virginia s would finally pushed democrats to bridge some of their divides at least temporarily to get this done. that s the negative, but the white house can take the win, you can, bad weather is, tomorrow or by monday, there s gonna be some sort of rose garden ceremony to sign the infrastructure bill and touted as a major accomplishment. and rightly. so a major accomplishment for this president. quickly, back we go to ali vitali, ali we can do math, but these graphs don t help. armed with my high school degree, i can write read that there s 223 years, 203 nays. that s the peers to be a victory. and it is, we saw speaker pelosi high-fiving some of her colleagues on the floor. we heard cheers from inside the chamber because this one was for all the marbles on the
think he needs something to run on. of course, that s not happening, and he was defeated. the white house right now, we know we talk to the white house aides, the president is in the residence on the phone all day, he was supposed to head to roe v. wade his home in delaware today, it s not clear whether he ll travel there tomorrow or not. he and the vice president are both lobbying members to try to get this across the finish line, as ali noted, it looked like with some help from the republicans still get there. the white house has long said that, the longer we go on the reconciliation part of it, it is going to change quite a bit in the senate, i don t think anyone is taking joe manchin support for granted. the white house but does believe that when they cross the finish line, here, that the messy sauces making process of this will have been worth it. this will be something that will transform governments relationship with its citizens and really help americans with their everyday liv
this process that allows democrats to go it alone. that means, once the sun is done with it it may look very different, at least for now the house can say that they moved forward on half of this, and they cannot sherwin. ali, well done, jonathan lemire well ali takes on oxygen and nourishment, notably we also have a physician standing by, let me ask you. what is going to be the white house s answer to the question, sure, now we get the, orange traffic cones, now we get highways and bridges in airports and infrastructure, what has changed, why couldn t we have had this months ago? now we ll, first of all, kudos to allie for that comprehensive analysis. one democrat who is not happy with it timing of this potentially been done tonight, terry mcauliffe who of course was pleading with the white house and democrats on capitol hill to get this done before he faced voters on tuesday, i
for workers to either be fully vaccinated or to get tested weekly for the virus. about a dozen states and several companies are now filing lawsuits, of course, arguing the federal government s vaccine requirement is unconstitutional. so, we have a lot of work to do tonight, let s bring our starting line as we end the week. jonathan lin here, veteran white house reporter, and he also owes way too early in his spare time, 5 am weekdays on this network. ali vitali nbc s capitol hill correspondent, and irwin redlener founding director of columbia s disaster preparedness center. devices on public health, also a professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine. in his spine her time. bites ali vitali nation turns its lonely eyes to you. remember please, your host is a bit slow, so without any acronyms or use of the word