well, on some things it may and on some things it won t. take for example what s been happening in congress this week. what we just saw today was a tentative step forward for his build back better plan as we all know how he calls it, which is in order to get not just physical infrastructure but also get childcare investments, get all kinds of other sorts of as he put it soft infrastructure in place you had to figure out a way to get multiple players to sit down. mike donnellen, who is one of the president s top advisers, once said to me that he feels that the president feels as if a lot of washington negotiates upside down, they focus on what they disagree with first rather than on what they might be able to get into agreement. so these things are not over the goal line yet. the united states is deeply and very seriously still engaged in afghanistan. this is the hardest problem he s faced since coming into office. and he has yet to accomplish these infrastructure plans. but he s fu
45 minutes. but senior administration officials admitting tonight, quote, a lot of deserving afghans the u.s. wanted to help will be left behind. the reality, it s just not possible to get every single afghan who wants to leave out of the country. the taliban says that the roads to the airport are now closed to afghans but open to foreigners. every day we re on the ground is another day we know that isis k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. but in the face of all of this we really don t know how many americans are still in afghanistan. the president says the secretary of state antony blinken will have numbers tomorrow. tomorrow i ve asked secretary blinken to give you an update and detailed report on exactly how many americans are still in afghanistan, how many we got out
what? we know what you are. no more masks. again, ignorance is, i don t know if it s bliss but it something. people in florida support mask mandates in schools in spite of their anti mask governor. 60% of them in a new poll. we ve got to figure out how to convince people to do the right thing. to do the right thing for your own health, for your children s health. otherwise, we could be living with this permanently. that as on capitol hill president joe biden notched a big win tonight. the house approving a budget frame work that will pave the way for democrats to spend $3.5 trillion on a sweeping economic package to expand the social safety net, a top priority for the president. to win the future, we need to take the next step. today the house of representatives did just that. today s vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda.
this is enough time. even if biden stuck by that normal september 11th deadline that he had initially set back in april, they don t think that s enough time, don, to actually get everyone out. yeah, i m not being rude but as you re speaking, i m looking down. i understand you have reporting as well as our white house colleague jeremy dimond. the president has been briefed today on the findings of the covid-19 origins. what do you know about that? reporter: yeah, this is a 90-day review the president ordered in may. because of course a major question everyone has in several countries across the globe is how this pandemic started and what led to this. and there had been essentially a split in the intelligence community over whether or not it could have been a possible lab leak, something we ve seen pushed by several people of the former administration, or if it wa r was something that jumped from animals to humans and that is how it spread of course and became the pandemic we are sti
the bottom line is in my view we re a step closer to truly investing in the american people, positioning our economy for long-term growth, and building an america that outcompetes the rest of the world. that vote by the way after a tense night last night of democrats battling democrats p which just goes to show you everything is negotiable in the biden presidency. and there was another big vote tonight, the house voting 219-212 to pass the john lewis voting rights act. i talked to the president about that during our cnn town hall last month. this is important for people who look like me. my grandmother would sit around when i was a kid, fifth grade, had a fifth grade education. i learned that she couldn t read when i was doing my homework. she would tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar or the soap and so why is protecting the filibuster, is