goodness, you are doing it wrong. all right. dr. shaftner, we could talk about this all evening. thanks so much for your expertise, as always, we appreciate it. and your sunny optimism, which is always helpful. thank you. amid this surge in uncertainty around omicron and yet another major university is going back to online classes. stanford university announced that it will be shifting to online instruction for the first two weeks of its upcoming winter quarter, campus housing will be open, but stanford is asking students to take a covid test before coming back. students are also strongly encouraged to get a booster when eligible. coming up, new reporting about the moments before senator joe manchin went on national television to declare he would not support the signature piece of president biden s domestic agenda. plus, how the white house is hitting back at joe manchin. with vitamin c, d and zinc season after season.
democratic senator joe manchin may have just dealt a fatal blow to the signature piece of president biden s domestic agenda. a massive social safety net bill that included money for everything from universal pre-k to paid family leave. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, i just can t. i ve tried everything humanly possible. i can t get there. you re done. this is a no. this is a no on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do. an administration source telling me tonight that white house aides discussed with president biden what approach to take in that damning statement released earlier about manchin, with biden giving the final sign-off on that statement according to a source. the biden administration said it was important to lay out exactly
support of the filibuster. in a statement to politico, a spokesperson for sinema said this. the senator continues to support the 60-vote threshold to protect the government from repeated rap cad policies that would present uncertainty, deepen divisions, and further erode americans confidence. there s been a warning against the carveout on the filibuster rule. joining us for all of this, lee ann caldwell. good morning. for a while, he was the only one in washington who thought he could get it done this year and certainly he s seemed to have come to that conclusion as well. take us through how he got there and what the timeline now means for the president s signature piece of legislation.
as a late night in washington tonight where the house is on the verge of passing the signature piece of president biden s agenda, the build back better act. and getting to this point has been quite a saga. a seemingly endless negotiation over the scope of the bill, the cost of the bill. he did standoffs over the wisdom of splitting the stuff off from the smaller bipartisan physical infrastructure bill that is my smaller bipartisan bills were split off by both of the house in the senate. it was signed into law by president biden this week. got of, course happened only on the condition that there would also be support for this larger spending bill that is going through the house tonight. tonight, it does look like democrats are on the cusp of passing this in the house. that is the first big necessary steps towards sealing the historic legislation advance for president biden, and for the country. it would be protests chilly transformational piece of legislation. i think we wouldn t be w
for 2.2 million low-income, uninsured americans. tonight the vote we cast is about history. we re going to change the lives and livelihoods for americans for generations to come. it s a late night in washington where the house is on the verge of passing the signature piece of president biden s agenda, the build back better act. and getting to this point has been quite a saga. seemingly endless negotiations over the scope of the bill and the cost of the bill, heated standoffs over the wisdom of splitting this stuff off from the smaller bipartisan physical infrastructure bill, that smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill was split off, passed by the house and senate and signed into law by president biden this week. that all happened, though, only on the condition that there would also be support for this larger spending bill that is