infrastructure. one task may be more pleasant than the other. on the pandemic, the president will talk about trying to sprint to 70% overall vaccination rate with at least one shot for american adults by the fourth of july. that s a goal that he has set. the vaccination matrix, like the broader pandemic matrix is going in the right direction. he will be meeting with the republican point person on this subject on infrastructure, and they need to try. the president wants to try and show he can get bipartisan progress, and moderate democrats like joe manchin who would be needed if they are going to go democrats only later in the process need to see that he tried to do that. they are going to try and see if
notice that i am going to need them at some point, and i think we re really at an inflexion point, because will the president use them or need them on voting rights more than on infrastructure, for example, if he cuts a small deal with them on infrastructure, will he get promises out of them on something that is very important to the president and the democratic base, which is voting rights? i think right now the president has got to figure out what his top priority is, and where cinema and manchin can cut a deal with him and what he can give on, and i think that s the point the white house is at right now. here s the thing, manchin is a democrat in an overwhelmingly republican state. he sure is. does president biden think putting pressure on those two will change anything?
i honestly don t think he does, and i really think it was to let democrats know that he intends to deal with these people and that he hears democrats when they say, wait a minute, if they are not going to help us in any way, what is the point of dealing with them? democrats have to figure out what their priorities are. if he can get those guys on voting rights, for example, maybe he will give a little on infrastructure. we have yet to see what kind of deal he s going to cut, and that s why he will meet with shelly more cap toe today, who is leading the moderate group of republicans to figure out where they are. i think there s a chessboard here, and he s got to figure out what his next moves are on what particular issue, because they are all coming together kind of at the same time. you mention how former president trump has the hold over his party, and there s a new reporting that former
common ground on because the gop don t want to see taxes go up for anyone while the president wants to raise them for corporations and the wealthiest americans. so still, a lot of details, and as you know, alex, the devil is in them and they have not been able to come to any type of an agreement and the president at an inflexion point. it s hard to reconcile all of that, but we keep hoping. thank you, monica. republican senators facing blowback after blocking the creation of an independent commission to investigate the january attack on the capitol. let s go to amanda golden. what kind of fallout has there been on this and what are the next steps for democrats here. alex, now that we ve seen this procedural motion to be blocked and the bipartisan commission to take place to investigate the events of january 6th, but that s not stopping democrats from potentially moving forward in their own way to continue to investigate the attack that we saw talk place at the capitol
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