to protect people. to help them save. with a home and auto bundle from progressive. ahh. i was born for this. and now it s prime time. cut. jamie, what are you doing? you re not even in this one. i thought it was thursday. sorry. -it is. -i thought i thought it was last thursday. we have some new pictures out of cleveland where president biden just made an unannounced stop at an ice cream shop where reporters asked him about the fight in the senate over a bill to create an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th riot. watch this exchange. i can t imagine anyone voting against the establishment of a commission on the greatest assault since the civil war on the capitol. but at any rate, i came for ice cream. and moving on we are hearing
investigations that are going to take place. by the way, we are still going to see an investigation on capitol hill. no doubt about that. nancy pelosi s either going to create a special commission, or she s going to empower her existing committees to investigate that day, january 6th. i just don t imagine that we re going to get out of this congress without some sort of investigation. all right, jake sherman on capitol hill, kelly o donnell traveling with the president. thanks to the both of you for starting us off this hour. and staying on the january 6 for a moment, here s what happened when reporters tried to ask senate republican leader mitch mcconnell about the commission bill this morning. are you working with members joining us now representative stacy plasket, a democrat who represents the u.s. virgin islands. she was also an impeachment manager during donald trump s second impeachment trial earlier this year. representative, thank you so much for your time. speaking of
it, has been there a very long time. he s the numbers guy. and so if you want to understand how an organization works and how its money moves and flows, he s the guy to talk to. and so at least from my perspective, he s a very typical, very ordinary witness,al be in a very high-profile investigation. when you look at the scope of challenges trump s facing, i want to just go over a few of them for you because the other legal challenges that he faces including the former president s onetime personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. they re urging a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against them filed by congressman benny thompson and ten other house democrats over the capitol riot. and trump s lawyer is basically arguing that trump has absolute immunity from civil lawsuits over his official actions while he was in office. how viable do you think that argument is going to be in a court? well, you know, that argument has been tried by mr. trump. if you recall, this may be an
a full ride scholarship to any state university. president biden commented on it last hour, as well i hear that as last night s vaccine lottery, ohio has a new millionaire. [ laughter ] i tell you what, who would have thunk it? the mother of the scholarship winner joseph costello described how the lottery impacted the timing of when they got vaccinated. we had been planning on getting all our children vaccinated by the end of this month, but the contest initial entry date essentially accelerated our decision. and we got them vaccinated before that. also president biden said that he plans to release the full u.s. intelligence report on the origin of the covid-19 pandemic in wuhan, china, which he ordered due in about 90 days. this afternoon, the office of the director of national intelligence released a statement that elements of the
make good on a visit that was canceled because of the pandemic when he was candidate biden in 2020. and also here to talk about a multistage plan for the economy that deals with things like getting the country back open step by step with vaccinations, various steps that people have taken, and seeing how that is affecting the job economy and people going back to work. frustration, of course, when republicans voted against his plan to rescue the american rescue plan as the biden administration talks about it. but also they acknowledge some of the benefits that have been felt in their own home states and districts. the president is also saying there s more that needs to be done for the economy, and that will still be a hard sell for a lot of republicans. on the infrastructure piece, can they reach an agreement? there s some progress there to report. but also concern about how to pay for it. you heard the president talking about ways that he believes corporations and wealthier americans ca