also expected to travel to kansas city, missouri. that event is being billed as an infrastructure event to tout the bipartisan infrastructure law that was passed just a few weeks ago. the president has done a number of these trips in the past few weeks. but each visit, he has used it as an opportunity to continue to make the case for build back better. we can expect him on wednesday to say, we ve passed part one of my economic agenda with the infrastructure law. it s time now to pass part two. lindsey? julie, over to you. it s also a very busy time for congress. and specifically, the january 6th committee. what s the latest on that front? yeah, well, lindsey, the next couple of weeks, the committee is racing to finish a lot of the work they have left to do. and that includes hearing from a lot of high-profile witnesses a they depose under a subpoena. now, just this week, we expect a couple of those high-profile device to show up before the committee, some of them already saying tha
taking a live look right now outside at the beautiful christmas tree at 30 rock here. it s 7:43 a.m. eastern time. you see a lot of people out on the rink already. and look, the holidays can be a busy time for all of us. maybe off to-do list to keep everything straight. the same goes for congress. this is what s on their to-do list over the next few weeks. they ve got to deal with the debt limit and defense spending bill. and senate majority leader chuck schumer wants to get build back better passed by christmas. the last one is a big focus for the president, who s trying to get his ambitious agenda passed before midterms. helping us keep track of this holiday to-do list in washington is lori eagan and julie sirken on capitol hill, this is a big week, what s on the schedule? reporter: just a few weeks
major industrialized policies that doesn t have this kind of policy in place. but even if she and the advocates, pressing and pushing for this policy to get senator joe manchin to support something, it s not going to include medical leave, and it will add to the cost of this bill, which is already about $150 billion over the line that he initially put out there this summer. but i ve got told you, democrats are also getting tired of him and they want him to start compromising with them. alex? well, no time like the present to start doing that. and piece by piece, looks like something is happening. okay, julie tsirkin on capitol hill, thank you so much, julie. let s go to mike memoli in wilmington, delaware. what are we hearing, mike, from the white house, as bbb is entering this next phase in the senate? it s really been a long, legislative grind for this white house. first to get the infrastructure bill passed. the president, of course, just signing that into law last monday. and n
rittenhouse s acquittal. the california democrat slamming the judge. he was absolutely outrageous in the way that he conducted himself. and everybody saw that. he was the talk of the country. the way that he conducted himself. and he was brazen, he was bold, he was on the side of the defendant, and i don t think justice has been served. and it all comes as the supreme court could rule as soon as tomorrow on the controversial texas abortion law. it is the most restrictive in this nation. let s go in depth now with nbc s julie sirken at the capitol. i m going to start with you, julie. what are you hearing this weekend as the senate is preparing to take up build back better in the coming weeks. where s it all going to begin? reporter: what we re hearing from democrats today is they re pretty united in their message in getting this across the finish line. none of the democrats that have arizona or west virginia next to their names, but they re on the
to know about his actions in the white house on january 6th. nbc s julie sirken joining me now. what is donald trump trying to keep secret? reporter: how much time do we have? there s over 700 pages from documents that the former president doesn t want the house committee to get their hands on. those records includes things like the white house daily diary which is a record of what the former president did on january 6th. includes call logs, visitor logs. he doesn t want them to see proposed talking points for his former press secretary, a draft text of the presidential speech that came before the mob attacked the capitol. the former president sued the national archives and the house select committee trying to keep them from turning over these documents. that of course came when