another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
be a number more than 2,500 is putting a strain on the department, and that s not counting people who committed crimes outside or people involved in the fake elector scheme or people who were and former president trump. and the pace of information is not slowing down. it s growing. last night a spokesman for the 1/6 committee said they decided to begin sharing transcript interviews with the justice department. 20 at first but there may be more to come. that s because we re seeing more members of former president trump s cabinet meeting with the committee, including steve mnuchin and mick mulvaney. mick mulvaney talked about the questions the committee wanted answered. why did i communicate, why did i say what i said? i sent some tweets and texts on january 6th. they want to talk about that. i was fairly heavily involved in the trump campaign. they want to know about the discussions i had leading up to the election day and the discussions right after the election day and the
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
green party activist and one-time progressive firebrand in the arizona senate has had over the course of her kroob wst the a little hard to know where she s coming from in her latest political incarnation, but her brand of renegade politics is fundamentally a dead end in ways that should be appreciated, even by those of us who would think that the democratic party would benefit from a bit more. and the argument is, no one knows where kyrsten sinema stands. at least joe manchin is saying, this is where i stand. this is my top line. this is what i won t go beyond. and let s be honest. washington, d.c. understands characters like joe manchin. he s transactional. he s wheeling and dealing. he s making a thing that is in his head best for him politically and best for his state financially. sinema is a much more sort of elliptical figure. you can t quite pin down what she wants. but with manchin, you know what he s after. the guy absolutely transparent about it. and it harkens back to a ki
days we ve seen more progress on that. and it really was underscored last night when we saw the president very sus sirchgtly lay out what s in the bill and out of the bill. where senator joe manchin stands, where kyrsten sinema stands. that s been nebulous to a lot of lawmakers on the hill. they feel like they haven t been clear on where the two key senators stand. the president laying it out. we can see if we look at what s in and out where the contours of the deal could come together. it s clearer now than it s ever been when you look at things like federal paid leave being tacked down from 12 weeks to four weeks. universal pre-k still in that bill. the child tax credit, al bee it only for a one-year extension which has drawn the ire of some who wanted to see it pulled out for a longer period of time. we re starting to see some of the concessions that could be made for things that aren t krntly in the bill. you see possible $800 vouchers for a hearing.