check, mantion and toomey. and that s why we lost that. the nra i understand is fighting this, and they re going to lose. i think that s a really good sign. and this is really and some of these provisions will save lives. also mental health in schools is actually it s funny republicans like finally get on the board with mental health because, oh, we can do that with guns and we re doing something about guns and we ll do mental health. but i ve been fighting mental health in schools. forgetting even guns, it s good for kids and it s good for teachers. teachers shouldn t have to be the mental health counselors in schools. well, there are some states also saying teachers can be armed, ohio, for example. i know that s not a subject you think should even be out in the sphere.
urging her progressives to physical therapy going to vote tonight, to vote no. kaitlan, you want you to standby because brian is going to help us with this conversation, the press secretary for hillary clinton s 2016 campaign. what happens now? the president returned to the residence, left the west wing. what s up now? well, what they ve been negotiating the last few hours tonight was trying to reach a framework on an alternative to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. so pelosi with her house moderates and schumer with mantion and sinema was trying to figure out could we put together at least an outline to the alternative to the $3.5 trillion package that you could say you would nominally support, and then we could go to the progressives withholding their support on the highway bill in the house and get them to vote for it based on that outline. and they ve not been able to come up with that outline
3.5 trillion to do what the president wants done and what the country needs done. but let s work out of it and stay out of all this negotiating in the mediach am that s not the way to negotiate. let s keep this around the table and see what we can come up with. here s what senator cortez had to say about senator mantion. it s not just senator manchin who has leverage. frankly, the entire party needs to quote-unquote worry. because just as we have a slim senate margin we have a slim house margin. so we aren t saying it s either your bill or our bill but that both of these bills must move forward together or neither will. you worry that the moderate democrats agenda could tank both of these bills?
make sure senator mantion is paying attention to what is required to save our democracy. congressman, good to talk to you as always. and that is tonight s last word. you can catch me tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern on my show, velshi. tomorrow i m joined by stacey plaskett of the u.s. virgin islands. don t want to miss that. that s tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. eastern. the 11th hour with brian williams begins right now. well, good evening once again. day 122 of the biden administration which ends this week having survived its first major foreign policy crisis. tonight the cease-fire that ended 11 days of back and forth fighting between israel and hamas militants has now been in effect for just over 24 hours and appears to be holding.
particularly in the south and midwest. and mitch mcconnell opened the door just to having a hearing. remember that s all he s endorsed. he hasn t supported background checks. he s supported having a debate when the senate comes back in session in september. that s because of that political pressure. so those two factors are different if the president can stay focused. and he floated the mantion, toomey bipartisan bill which he helped defeat after sandy hook. after las vegas another thing that should have been a no-brainer is the bump stock ban. the president he should immediately do that, but it took a year. he did it, took a year but with executive action, did it. and maybe there s something on the margins, baby steps if the president feels strongly about we could see some of this. maybe. but as you said it took a year and it s executive action. anything at this point that s going to take a year to move through congress, it s a pretty safe bet it is not going to