Good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Developing this hour, President Bidens 1. 9 trillion plan is one step closer to becoming a reality. In a new excerpt from cbs news, the president giving a new insight into where key provisions like Minimum Wage Hike Stand as lawmakers work to get the bill to his desk. Its somewhere between an individual making up to 75 and phasing out and a couple making up to 150 and phasing out. But im wide open on what that is. You also want to raise the minimum wage to 15. Is that something you would be willing to negotiate on to get republican support . Apparently thats not going to occur because of the roles in the senate. Youre saying it will not be in it . My guess is it will not be in it. Today marks one month since the attack on the u. S. Capitol left five people dead. The Impeachment Trial will start just days from now. Trumps defense team confirming he will not testify under oath. Congressman
The School Shooting survivor she harassed. David hogg will join us next hour. Instead, she seems to blame some giant, mystical force that allowed her to believe it all and repeat it all and lie all over the place. And that leads us right to the second trump Impeachment Trial. House managers making a highstakes gamble, asking the former president to testify. Mr. Trumps defense Team Shooting down that idea. And breaking this morning, moments ago, Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a Budget Resolution that allows President Bidens 1. 9 trillion Coronavirus Relief package to go forward without republican support. Joining us now, cnns senior political reporter, niamalika henderson, and cnn political analyst, david gregory. And nia, you say, Marjorie Taylor greene, while she lost her committee assignments, you say qanon won and keeps winning. Why . I think thats right. Even if you listen to her words in that speech, at some point, she equates the media with qanon, an
Really interesting to see the Vice President cast that vote before dawn. Well, certainly she leaves the u. S. Senate and she has to be back in that chair to break the tie. This isnt the first time youll see her breaking ties in an effort to try and pass the president s covid relief package. Look, this was a major moment on the senate floor, and they started this entire process yesterday at 2 30 in the afternoon. Then they had 15 hours of what is known up here as a voterama. Its a lot tougher because members are voting every 10 or 15 minutes on different amendments that folks are bringing to the floor. Its really an effort by the Minority Party to try to put the majority in tough spots by having to take very hard votes they can then later use on the campaign trail. And that works both ways. Both parties using this process to their advantage. But heres why it all matters. This unlocks joe bidens ability to pass a covid relief bill with just democratic votes. What youll see in the next co
Alone while pushing new reform in congress as well. The centerpiece today is reversing Donald Trumps approach to immigration, launching a process for reuniting around 600 Migrant Children in the u. S. Who remain separated from their parents under Donald Trumps hardline policies. Biden ordering the federal government to do a top to Bottom Breakdown of Immigration Policies and finding ways to root out measures that bidens team says under trump were cruel and inhumane, or just not working. Im not making new law. Im eliminating bad policy. What im doing is taking on the issues that 99 that the president , the last president of the United States issues Executive Orders i thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country. We want to put in place an Immigration Process here that can that is humane, that is moral, thats going to take some time. Its not going to happen overnight. A moral policy, they say, pursuing an ethical approach to immigratio
there. good evening. we begin tonight with a picture of the last week with firearms in and a van full of ammunition in a washington neighborhood home to many dignitaries, including former president and ms. obama the details coming from a court filing from a suspect, keller toronto, be kept in custody, and they are chilling alleged threats against speaker kevin mccarthy and democratic congressman jamie raskin. also that he allegedly livestreamed a claim that he had a detonator for explosives and evidence that he got the obama address from a social media post by former president trump. caitlin polantz is working the story and joins us now. walk us through the timeline of what exactly the former president did and one discuss showed up in the obama neighborhood, and how it connects to. anderson, there is not a long time between the two events happening, so donald trump post newsletter that reportedly at the address of the obamas endeavor hood, where they live now in washingto