waited for generations for this investment and don t want us to slow down and have the usual washington process where just clearing your throat takes a couple hours it seems. i am familiar with that style of speaking on the hill. senator, there s another deadline today getting less attention, that s on the reconciliation package, $3.5 trillion bill not nearly as far along as the bipartisan one. the majority leader wanted all democrats ready to go forward on this, wanted agreement the 50 of you saw this as the path forward. are you there yet? what s your understanding of the whip count on that decision which is an even bigger investment? garrett, that s a good question. what we re talking about in that bill is making investments in people that have never been made before, investments in child care, early learning for every 3 and 4-year-old in the country, investing in more education beyond high school, particularly
pelosi is an egregious abuse of power. he says the committee has lost all legitimacy and credibility. unless speaker pelosi reverses the decision, he says republicans will not be party to this sham investigation, so you could be looking at five empty seats for the first committee hearing next tuesday. we will continue to follow that story. believe it or not, there s a lot else going on on capitol hill today, so we have to turn to the other big news from the other chamber where the president s entire legislative agenda basically comes down to two pieces of legislation right now and the senate is about to hold its first key vote on one of them. in about an hour, the senate is expected to hold a vote to debate the bipartisan infrastructure deal. the vote is expected to fail. senate majority leader telling lawmakers time to get moving. republicans are countering they re just not ready. this shouldn t be held today,
the white house says, senior officials from the white house are in meetings, working all hours of the day, trying to get an agreement. it is constructive to what the president is doing as he leaves washington during the vote. he is landing in air force one in kentucky, not an insignificant political state, driving across the river to ohio, a state represented by a retiring republican who is part of the infrastructure negotiations, rob portman. because he is retiring, it will be a key battleground in the senate math in 2022. this white house is doing all it can to get its legislative agenda across the finish line, do so with its eyes on it. i spoke with the political director, one of the first interviews, discussing the midterm strategy, the idea is good policy, good governorance. that s what the president is coming for, coming to union allies and national remarks part
january 6th, what did she do leading up to january 6th as far as security is concerned. they have a lot of questions. we ll see if that s still going to be a priority, if they want to go down that road. quickly, i know speaker pelosi said a minute ago it was not the fact that banks and jordan voted against certifying election results that got them banned essentially from the committee. do we have a sense of what the criteria was? troy nails, one of the other picks voted against certifying results. he is still welcomed, supposedly. reporter: yeah. speaker pelosi hasn t laid out her criteria other than saying she wants it to be taken extremely seriously. representative jordan has been a huge fighter on behalf of the former president, he ran defense on both impeachment campaigns. jim banks has become a loyal soldier for the former president and of leader mccarthy, i think she didn t have a lot of trust
they re rising very quickly. that s what s worrying doctors here. last week on monday, they had zero covid patients in intensive care. one week later, monday this week, they had eight. when we were on the icu floor yesterday, a ninth patient was brought in. they said eight out of nine on the floor while we were there had been ventilated at some point of time. all but one unvaccinated. the biggest outward, obvious difference you can tell looking at patients compared to when we were seeing covid patients in the icu last year were ages. these patients were younger than what i saw last time. there were people in their late 20s and 30s and 40s. i asked one of the icu doctors if any of them had co-morbidities, said the vast majorities did not. there were some, some were considered medically overweight or obese. other than that, didn t have