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
officials pursuing this where themselves in a position to financially benefit from any knock-on effects on this change in american policy, but then the transfer of the technology itself is also something that s highly regulated, not just by american sort of tradition or reasonable restraint, but also by law. absolutely. there s something called the atomic energy act of 1954, and specifically section 123 of that act, which specifically requires congressional approval for the export of sensitive nuclear technology to other countries. this was clearly an end-run around congress. not to mention, as you previously said, an end-run around conflicts of interest rules. also michael flynn committed a felony in omitting his contacts with saudi arabia prior to coming to the administration on his sf-86 form. that s the form that s required for security clearance and so forth. in terms of that last point
process will be the first of that and that conversation you had there was the smartest thing i ve yet seen. thank you, rachel. i have goose bumps. appreciate it. have great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all right. if you ever wanted to put the fbi out of business, one cheap and cheerful way to do that is organize a federal government shutdown that went on, i don t know, for some really long period of time like more than 30 days. one of the things that you endure regularly, if you work for an agency like the fbi is that they routinely do financial background checks on you. you get the basic idea of why they might do that, right? for example, you may have seen the kind of application you have to fill out to get a security clearance from the u.s. government. the sf-86 form is famous in the trump era because various senior trump administration officials have had problems of various kinds with security clearance
applications and sf-86s. but if you look at the forms, if you look at what you have to demonstrate and spell out to get a security clearance, they ask you about all sorts of things but one of the things that is really striking when you look at the questions they ask in the documentation you have to provide is it s a ton of financial stuff. a big part of the way they assess you in terms of whether some adversary or crook might be able to leverage something against you, part of the way they check that is to check your finances. if you re going to have access to sensitive national security or intelligence related information, they want to make sure you re not going to be s susceptible to bribery, literally selling your country for cash. if you re in debt up to your eyeballs and have financial burdens of any kind that might cause you real stress, that s a big red flag. so they stress test you
investigated. his contacts with the russians doing the campaign are important to mueller. jared was the one who said, i m going to be the back channel to russia and had all of those meetings with russians. some of which he did not report on his sf-86 form, if you ll recall. and he was also in new jersey the weekend the president decided, infamously now, to fire james comey. and jared allies say, look, he had nothing to do with it, he just approved of it, but lots of other people have told us that, in fact, he drove the decision. the news that kushner s full security clearance has been reinstated, i m wondering if that tells us anything about the mueller investigation or if they re not related at all. well, abbe lowell is clearly trying to make the link, saying, look, they would haven t given him this security clearance if there were lots of red flags that were being raised by the intelligence community, but the truth is, we really don t know. we don t know if mueller is