everything. why doesn t congress? i don t see this just as congress can t compromise. i see this as right now the democrats are trying to get things passed that makes sense, like a january 6th investigation. or some sensible gun safety protections. things that are wildly popular all across this nation. the republican response has simply been no. they ve just crossed their arms and said no, we re just not going to do that. it s hard to compromise with someone who s just saying no. it s not like there s some place you meet in the middle on that. so to me, this is about what president biden did when he passed the rescue package. he said if this is something people want all across the nation, i m going to find a way to push it through and i m going to call that bipartisan, because republicans wanted it and
the worse mat shootings. the shooting in colorado, san jose, the attack in indianapolis, spa shootings in atlanta, six at a birthday party and six more in south carolina. that s a teeny tiny fraction of a hundred fatal shootings just this year. while some may be getting numb to stories like this, familiar lips of victims won t have that option. they live with the pain the rest of their lives. i want to bring in shannon pettypiece from d.c. president biden named a lot of these shootings in his statement yesterday when he again called for gun reform. what is he going to do to try to make things happen? how many times have we said enough is enough? right. and, steph, behind me the flags at the white house are once again flying at half-staff. once again we heard the
committee along congress bipartisan. that was part of what the president initially asked us to look at as infrastructure. we don t consider that physical infrastructure, but we do think it s part of the package that the president should be able to distinguish as part of his infrastructure. so what we are looking at today is a $928 billion package over eight years. it sticks to the core infrastructure features we talked to initially. it s a serious effort to try to reach a bipartisan agreement. the president said to me and us in february that he was really agnostic as to whether we passed a bunch of small bills or one large bill. and we heard him say inaction is not an option for him. we now passed two of the smaller and actually surface transportation hasn t gone out of the full senate yet. but it is a major anchor to this piece of legislation. so i think that shows there s a
president calling for congress to take some action. the white house is not getting heavily involved though at this point in congressional negotiations. part of that is because they do not want to upset the balance. senator chris murphy, who s been taking the lead on this for years, he s been trying to strike between republicans and democrats. while there s optimism on the hill around things like infrastructure, police reform, we re not hearing optimism about gun reform legislation. at least not in the coming months. so the white house has been trying to do things behind the scenes. there are executive actions the president passed back in april. he has the head of the atf he nominated that faces a really difficult fight in congress to get nominated. essentially the president is increasingly finding himself in the same place he was last time he was in the white house as vice president with a congress deadlocked over this issue of gun reform. sahil, you have new reporting, this is the o
feels they ve done their part and the w.h.o. feels they opened up the investigation, broadened the investigation to other lab facilities around the world, in particular the united states. so now it becomes a matter of fighting the lab leak theory with the ft. detrick theory. so 20 come up with some of the answers president biden is looking for in 90 days to help steer or guide this investigation into a better direction, it s still unclear. what we know at this point is there s been no indication here on the part of china they re going to be willing to allow u.s. investigators or w.h.o. investigators back on the ground here before the w.h.o. has a look elsewhere. dr. jha, let s talk about why it s so important to determine the origins of this. if the virus did leak from a wuhan lab, what would the potential implications of that be? yeah, so, stephanie, first, thank you for having me back. we need to understand what the origin is for a variety of reasons. not the least of which is we