House correspondent, Weekend Today cohost Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former Maryland Democratic congresswoman Debra Everets and former senator claire mccaskill. Peter first to you. Lets start with the covid Relief Package. The white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. So where do we stand . Are democrats on the Progressive Side getting nervous hell compromise too much, or are all saying hell go big even if it means going it alone . Reporter when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear President Biden, this white house wasnt really giving much ground here. They say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. The decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this
Democrats deliver the articles of impeachment against president trump. They were red by adam e schiff of the lawmakers selected by nancy pelosi to prosecute the case against donald trump. The case will start next week. The republican led senate ma not approve new witnesses or evidence. Six icdemocrpresident canadas debated in iowa. Bernie sanders with a slim lead over joe biden and elizabeth warren. We are joined by skype in washington dc. Lcome. Ron ll start with you. You are coming from the furthest away. This is the trial of the u. S. E senate. Only ird time in u. S. History that an impeachment trial has taken place. Tell us how this will work and what weshould expectto happen next. It will be a strange trial. It will not be a conventional trial. We may nos. Have witnes people will be giving speeches onehalf of the president and behalf of the managers of the house. The se tors will have tosit in their chairs a listen and not talk and not on their cell i phones fordays at a time. It
Keith bliss. Keith, welcome thank you very much, morgan good to be with you. Mid averages did hit new records this morning but have drifted back down to the flat line, not really moving very much right now are you surprised by that . Not at all. Im a little suppliesed at trpre lack of action it seems theyve hit their own food coma as we wait for earnings to come through we have 300 companies that are going to report next week. We are on fed watch, of course, waiting for the july 31st Rate Decision a bit like waiting and waiting markets are taking a breather right now. Here in the u. S. And elsewhere around the globe, people are starting to go on their holiday so you have lack of participation. Were going to get into all of that a little more. Secretary mnuchins crackdown. Wilfred is covering citi earnings dion is watching the debt ceiling debate lets begin with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchins comments on crypto moments ago eamon javers has that. The rarely used White House Press Bri
Mother says it was his sneakers. The new redhot jordan contour shoes that just came out earlier this month. Somebody tried to take those shoes . Somebody tried to take those shoes. Reporter and when he wouldnt give them up, they killed him . They killed him. Reporter what do you think of Something Like that . Its horrifying. Its horrifying. Reporter you see, ms. Smith bought a pair of the new jordans for james as an early christmas gift. He loved those shoes. He even went with her to pick them out. Hes wearing them in this picture. She says he was wearing them last night, last night at this basketball court. And she says someone killed her son to get those shoes. When you heard about what happened to your son, what was it like in your heart . I was disbelief, i still havent taken it in yet. I still dont believe it. Its untrue, its unreal. Its unreal to me. Because you cant excepted your children outside to play, for one. And we all walk around here with jordans. They can kill for our s
Shutdown. Give us a call. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. You can start calling in now. The question, again, can Congress Avoid a shutdown . Can they . Should they . You can start dialing in now. Heres the headline from politico from yesterday evening, republicans lack the votes to prevent a shutdown, but house leaders are confident that they can round up enough support before a vote on thursday. One of the reporters on that story, sarah farris, joins us on the phone 2340uf6. Where are we as of this morning . Guest thanks for having me. Basically were not at a doomsday situation. I dont think we should be drawing out our shutdown plans yet. But House Republican leaders do have a pretty tough day ahead of them, and t going to be we could pottially he a nailbiter vote when we do see this go up tonight.