relationships, others were born a one night stands. but few of the fathers ever met their offspring, and fewer still brought them home to america. after the, war those children, known as admirations, endured harsh discrimination and abject poverty in vietnam, viewed as ugly reminders of an invading army. shamed by reports of their horrible living conditions, congress enacted legislation in 1987 giving americans special immigration status. some of those children have been looking for their american fathers for the entire lives. i need to know where i come from said chinchar, a real estate agent in houston, who has searched in vain for her gi father. i always feel that without him i don t exist. those children by law all had a right to american citizenship. we left behind tens of thousands of them in vietnam. people are always left behind
members and right here at this just from sitting. and tryingo figure out what is going on with senator mahin and senator kyrsten sinemado you have any better insight intohis? we lawrence it s great to see you, and i want to say that the position of the progress in a caucus, we are at 96 members strong caucus. has been for three and a half months that we are not going to move one piece of the president agenda without the much bigger piece of the presidents agenda. and i just want to take you back, just for a moment, to five months ago. august 28th, 2021. wod have been on that night lawrence, president biden came out of the white house, he wen down pennsylvania avenue, he came to the capitol and he delired a speech. he delivered a speech to congress. i happen to be one of the few that was invited to that speech because it was covid times, and not all of us could go. i was sitting towards the back
very big moments and had very big hearings today to probe pramila jayapal, is going to be here with the latest on what s happening in the house. and rachel, i m confused. i m confused. i m just watching and i m confused. lawrence, you re not allowed to be confused. you re the one who explains all the congress tough to us. you can t allow yourself to be bill wielded. it s wicked uncomfortable i ve never seen anything like it. i m a spectator. it will resolve, or won t. but the person who can tell you the most right now about how it s gonna result, is pramila jayapal, where you are about to have as your guest. thank you rachel. well it was like most senate here in since the republican party became the trump party. with one side trying to illuminate what happened and the other side sometimes in their way, trying to illuminate what happened. but all too frequently, just
everything together. we cannot have the train leave the station and leave a whole lot of pieces of what american milies need back on the platform. not childcare, not housing, not health care, not climate. we cannot do that. senator, there is veo from the sete oor toy, weare u and senatorschur and senatosanderwereall gather together talking and that is not going to in th congressional record. could you please tell us, word for word, what we said in that discussion? oh, i could, but i won t. [laughs] not gointo talk about private conversations. all right, thank you very much senator, appreciate you joining us tonight. good to be with you. thank you. coming up, president joe biden, caring his schedule, giving us a trip to chicago, you try to sh his frastructure packag forward in congress. congresswoman pramila jayapal,
a hostage. this may have a perverse impact, if in fact we get this taken to a point where a deal with it in reconciliation. and i want to make the point, lawrence, that if we do it that way, let s end this ridiculous thing once and for all by adopting the wonderfully named mcconnell rule, meaning the president raises the debt ceiling, congress can disapprove. and he can veto it. he can prevail at anytime. no more of these hostage taking, reckless elements run by republicans when democrats have always avoided them. so the strategy could mean that the debt ceiling goes from being a legislative hostage to being a legislative engine, pushing the reconciliatiobill forward? and if that happens, and we get rid of theebt ceiling, the ridiculous process, and get both of these lls,