these more conservative lawmakers and, say that, that ban is all rifles, they won t do it, right? but if we get a little bit closer, take a bite out of the apple every single time, they feel as they did with the latest gun reform legislation the got passed after you ve all day, on a federal level, maybe we can get one step closer to banning assault rifles, for instance, or increasing the age on a federal level to purchasing assault rifles. what do you make of what he said? that s exactly right. there is not one post, one policy, one protest that is going to fix this. we have today again and do the unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism. it s working, i mean, i know that we re told to be hopeless and helpless, i think cynicism is an excuse for inaction. in just the last couple of weeks, we have passed sweeping gun reform legislation in places that are considered purple. washington, when a soda, michigan, colorado, assault
ago. we believe this counteroffer delivers on what president biden told us in the oval office that day. and that is to try to reach somewhere near a trillion dollars over an eight-year period of time that could include our baseline spending. we have achieved that goal with this counteroffer. but we ve also, i think, done something that has stayed true to what our beliefs are when we very first started this endeavor, and that is sticking to the core physical infrastructure. garrett haake is joining us now from the hill. garrett, we have these two pieces of legislation, these two important pieces of legislation that are in front of senators today. not for a vote, but as far as a discussion, if you will. you talked about january 6th and the prospect of that bill likely to go nowhere as lee ann caldwell explained. what about the infrastructure
committees that are working on it in the senate. but senator manchin coming down on this putting out a statement this morning saying that it is reprehensible that the republicans aren t supporting this, this is really big. he put a statement a couple days ago asking republicans to come to the table. but still, only three have vocally said they are willing to support just a procedural vote to move onto this legislation to even begin debating it. we are watching the senate floor there. we are going to be watching the hallways of congress, because we expect to see mrs. sicknick and the family at other points throughout the morning here and perhaps even throughout the show. we ll bring it to you live when it happens. as we watch the hill, we want to talk about this counteroffer on infrastructure from republicans. the senator from west virginia spoke about it a few moments
he is being railroaded because the pentagon doesn t want to talk about ufos. they want to keep whatever they know, whatever data they have secret. we expect this report to congress sometime in the next sometime relatively soon. do you think that s going to be a big reveal? or something way less than that? i think most people i talk to inside the government will say that a lot of people out in ufo land are going to be disappointed. there s not some big reveal. if you look at the legislation that requested this report, written by senator marco rubio of florida, it s very specific. it s asking for a ufo strategy. in other words, what is the government doing? what agencies are involved, what personnel, what radar systems, satellites might be tracking these things, compiling them, analyzing them? there may be some nuggets in
he told me he s going to talk about all the indictments that are happening at the justice department. the senate committees that are investigating this. and he s going to assure her, he said, that he s going to work to ensure that nothing like this happens again in the future. but he s not going to change his mind on backing the january 6th commission. and with mcconnell not supporting this, it s going to be difficult to get those ten republican senators to also support it to advance this legislation once it comes up for a vote. and yet, you have this mother on a mission who is committed to trying to get some kind of accountability in the death of her son, and the backdrop to this, i think it s important to remind folks, and we said it. i want to hear more from you about what she s saying. you have republicans including the ones she s meeting with who have said and publicly tried to down play what happened on january 6th th. essentially do some revisionist history, because that s wha