It seems like. If you listen to House Speaker nancy pelosi, theyre going to start to craft that legislation next week, hope to have it passed by end of the month, definitely passed by middle of march. Jobless benefits start to run out, thats the threat the white house referenced so much. Wolf, heres the catch. No republicans are on board. Theyre opposed to this. Despite calls for bipartisanship and invitations for republicans to the white house, President Biden now appears ready to move on without them. Theyre just not willing to go as far as i think we have to go. Reporter President Biden making clear in the strongest terms yet, he wont wait for republicans to pass his pandemic relief bill. What republicans proposed is to do nothing or not enough. Reporter days after sitting down with Senate Republicans in the oval office, biden said he wont delay the bill in hopes of getting some of them on board. If i have to choose between getting help now to americans who are hurting so badly, get
First Public Comments after house members, including 11 fellow republicans, voted to strip her of her Committee Assignments over the Crazy Conspiracies shes pushed before. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson In Washington along with our nbc news team, Peter Alexander at the white house, Leigh Ann Caldwell on capitol hill, nbc News Business correspondent jo ling kent has the new jobs numbers, and Austan Gooslbee served as chairman of the White House Council of economic advisers under President Obama. And just to map out, right, what were watching during our hour, because it is going to be a pretty packed one. Youve got that meeting with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs, along with President Biden, to talk about the next steps on covid relief. In an hour from now, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene holds that News Conference. Also at 11 00 eastern, were going to hear from members of the white house Covid Response team, who will probably have a whole lot more to say on Johnson
Await the hearing, what critics call Catch And Release. We have specifics tonight from los angeles. Customs and Border Protection says because of that steady increase in apprehensions, mexicos reluctance to accept more deported families and covert restrictions here, some facilities are at maximum safe capacity. Therefore, it says, per longstanding practice, the Long Term Solutions are not possible. Some migrants will be processed for removal, provided a notice to appear and released into the u. S. To await a future immigration hearing. This is needed to avoid keeping migrants beyond what court orders allow, right now the Border Patrol is stopping some 3,500 migrants per day trying to enter the u. S. A former dhs director chad wolf calls it a perfect storm likely to get worse as smugglers and families exploit the situation. Its a Significant Development they arent taking certain family units back under title 42, that is very concerning because if youre just doing that in one or two sect
The question is, does he have a defense for the actual charge against him . Plus Kevin Mccarthy meets with Marjorie Taylor greene as pressure grows to have her stripped of her committee assigns, the question is whether mccarthy is ready to take action. And a major shakeup in the tech world as jeff bezos prepares to step down. But does he plan to step away . It is way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early. The show that really just show that its delivers stay on time. And we start with the news. House Impeachment Managers are arguing that Donald Trumps responsibility for the events of january 6 is, quote, unmistakable. While the former president s lawyers countered by denying the allegations and calling the whole trial unconstitutional. In detailing their case for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office, the legal briefs linked trumps faufls claims that the election was stolen and his baseless efforts to overturn the resul
Legal basis for directing National Security agencies to take such an extreme action. As we reported on this broadcast yesterday the New York Times lays out the multipronged effort by trump and his allies to get just one federal agency to bite and join the crusade to overturn the result by seizing machines. Trump reportedly tried to get doj to seize the machines and then rejected by ag bill barr so then a plan for the Defense Department to do it. Only to get pushback from white House Counsel and Lo And Behold his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani. So then giuliani was asked if he could look into whether dhs could seize the machines. Giuliani said, sure. He tried but then he too was rebuffed by secretary Ken Cuccinelli and now another attempt by trump to get an official to agree to the plan. The New York Times Reporting This, quote, Cuccinelli Who told giuliani that the Homeland Security department didnt have the authority to impound the machines later encountered trump at a meeting on a differen