presidency. and his work to reduce costs by reducing energy costs for people, funding that is in that infrastructure bill, continuing to work to bring down the costs of health care, to help people meet this moment, these are the solutions the american people are looking for. this is what the president and democrats in congress are delivering. congresswoman, president biden s speech comes as democrats some democrats are opting not to appear with him. some candidates say he has sagging poll numbers, we know that. the attorney general josh shapiro, and lieutenant governor john fetterman declined invitations to appear with the president today. fetterman said he had a conflict and couldn t be there in pittsburgh showed up at the bridge collapse, at the emergency, as lieutenant
human chain to rescue the driver and two passengers. all this before president biden was flying to pittsburgh to highlight his $1 trillion infrastructure bill which sent $327 million to pennsylvania for a lot of things, including bridge repair. joining us is the assistant speaker of the house. democrati congresswoman from massachusetts catherine clark. congresswoman, it s good to see you. well, the timing good to see you, andrea. it s great to see you but the politics of this are in the president s court. he was there to proclaim that we did just pass this bipartisan infrastructure bill and now that you see in pittsburgh a bridge collapsing. it s terrible for everyone involved of course and the people injured, but likely the president can highlight this today. yes. and let me start here. our hearts and thoughts and prayers are with the people involved in this terrible collapse and also with the
that would obviously be someone that he would already have looked at. judge jackson. so, and then he s got judge childs, who is pending a conformation hearing next week and a south carolina judge strongly supported by jim clyburn. her strongest supporter. this is not some mystery here. he said he was going to do it. and i covered sandra day o connor conformation when i was covering the reagan white house. get the first woman and this is going to be the first black woman. this is hardly affirmative action. this is, many would say, a long over due recalibration of an all white court. except for clarence thomas. absolutely. i think look, the candidate biden pledged to do this and he s carrying through on that promise. we know this is going to be a black woman and we know this person, according to the white
democrats have grown accustomed to senators joe manchin and kristen sinema blocking much of the presidents agenda. this time there s hope within the party that biden s pick for the supreme court will buck that trend. new york magazine points out, quote, while the would be natural for some of the democratic base to fear that those senators would similarly block a supreme court nominee, the senators have supported every single biden judicial nominee so far and look ready to help the president fulfill his promise from the 2020 presidential primary of putting the focus black women on the court. with us tonight, melina tolliver, to progressive candidates and causes and john mccain, he s also among the cohost of the circus on showtime. thank you both for joining me. juanita, let me start with, you what do you make of joe biden s policies his historic promise to appoint
this is andrea mitchell reports in washington where president biden is warning ukraine s president zelensky that russia could invade in a matter of weeks. but zelensky saying he s tlr president of ukraine and knows the situation better. telling his public there is no need to panic. but the u.s. and nato say vladimir putin is conducting live fire exercise and ukraine s defense minister says the number of troops has now grown to 130,000 with even more russian troops expected to mobilize for further military exercises in belarus on ukraine s southern border. and lavrov telling viewers that russia does not want war with ukraine but will defend its interests. and slamming the western response saying nato s expansion and weapons deployment is unacceptable.