what we hear from officials is blame towards republicans for standing in the way of things like canceling student debt and lifting title 42. again, i don t want to get ahead of the president. i will let him speak to that when the time comes. reporter: other than a golf outing with his son yesterday, we haven t seen much of the president or heard much from his office. same for two statements commemorating the death of barbara walters and pope emeritus, the white house has not shared any plans on how the president plans to ring in the new year. molly: a little suspense that mistry from st. croix, appreciate the reporting. rich: in just three days republicans take the house and steve scalise is detailing the work ahead for his colleagues. he released this letter outlining we ate bills and three resolutions he will bring up in the first two weeks of
there. kelly, thank you. congress back today. stakes could not be higher to pass president biden s agenda ahead of this year s midterms. we expect to see senate democrats try and push ahead with some version of build back better. and voting rights as well in the coming weeks. just this morning, senator chuck schumer released a letter outlining the path forward on voting rights specifically. in the letter he ties it to january 6th. and the deadly insurrection. he calls for a rule change to pass legislation. and with the new year always comes more considerations about the future. according to the washington post, for house democrats, that means preparing for the post pelosi era. nbc s leigh ann caldwell is on the hill with more, and i also want to bring in my former colleague, sotomayor, apparently not working at the washington post . she s behind this solid new
investigate any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in that state. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, and university of alabama law professor and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she is also an msnbc legal analyst. we have a lot of stories to go over right now but they all fall under the banner of the 2020 election and the effort to either subvert it or to overturn it in some places. leigh ann, we ll start with the latest bit of news and that is the committee wanting to talk to ivanka trump. ivanka trump s spokesperson responding. when i read that response, it didn t immediately address what they were asking which was to come talk to them. it didn t, katy. it s been a big week for the january 6th select committee. i know pete is going to talk about the supreme court. as far as ivanka trump is concerned, the committee sent her an 11-page letter outlining what th
me to be fired under the hatch act because i had committedsu such crimes. i committed such crimes as saying cory booker sounded more like a hallmark card than us senator running for presidentnn. fact check. true . i had said elizabeth warren spent thirty six years she spent years appropriating somebody else sss ethnicity, pretended she wass a native american. that was true . she had done it for thirty six years and so for her this is serious stuff. and iad think if people hadld i know if people had had the information it would have mattered and it by the way,ho it still should matter. i what they re doing in wilmington so much. yeah, well it does matter. this is his son. this is his son, the china aspect. the ukraine aspect. allas of this stinks to high heaven. ithigh always has. they knew it and that s why they suppressed it. but we can t forget who started the whole russian disinformation hoax thing. l kellyanne, here s a politico piece that started it all more than 50 former senior
over the past couple months. it s been over two months since first subpoenas were issued for him, and they haven t had a whole lot to show for it. his lawyer had offered to do some sort of written answers to questions for the committee, but the committee has signaled that would not be sufficient for them, so, you know, they re inching closer towards a contempt referral, but as we heard from congressman aguilar just now, no final decisions have been made on that. what do we know about what the committee is hoping to get from meadows? we know that chairman bennie thompson has written a letter outlining their goals about the information they re hoping to get from meadows. what do we know about that? chairman thompson told me and other reporters that this letter had been draft and this was all part of the paper trail the committee trying to leave behind before they inch towards a contempt charge. showing they ve gone back and forth, they ve made an effort in good faith to reach some so