Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. the big story, of, course we have two hot wars for the president to navigate on the world stage. the republican-controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impeachment inquiry into president biden despite failing to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the president. the vote was strictly along party lines with all 221 republicans voting yes, all 212 democrats voting no. republicans say the move will grant them the ability to better enforce their subpoenas in the courts. house oversight chair republican james comer has accused hunter biden and other biden family members of engaging in, quote, shady business practices. but as we said, has yet to reveal any evidence of wrongdoing or influence peddling by the president himself. so here is what several house democrats said ahead of the vote. see the biden impeachment investigation isn t a who done it. it s a what is it? it s like an agatha christy novel where the
monkeypox outbreak. this is what we are watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m cait baldwin. what could be the final hearing of the investigation into the insurrection, a key witness is a former spokesperson of the oath keepers. committee members are promising that the testimony and others will help connect the dots linking members of donald trump s inner circle to the extremist groups and now, another wildcard. former strategist to trumpkin steve bannon is willing to testify days before his contempt trial is set to begin also at this hour, live pics from the white house as he will be holding an event to mark the passage of the bipartisan gun safety bill marking a big achievement for washington even though cities and families around the country, continue to deal with gun violence every day. we will bring you that from the white house, when it begins. but let s start with the insurrection hearing what are we expecting from tomorrow? reporter: they have tried
from modeling. but the bottom line is, we are seeing so much investment and so much movement and so much declared intentional policies from the state and from the private sector and from the federal government now. do you worry, i have started to get worried about a vaccine problem, which is this. you had this incredible crash course by the trump administration, among others. you got a vaccine. the vaccine was incredible, amazing production of american ingenuity and information, and then the madness of american politics polarized people against the vaccine. i worry that is going to happen. it is like the, i am watching because i report on this a lot. i am watching these engineering breakthroughs happening. mass deployment. commercialization. i am worried that you are seeing the cultivation of opposition to these innovations. it worries me to because we know there vested interests that want to see the clean
right now, we have less than 1000 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the u.s., but the number may be five times that number. if we know who has monkeypox, we are able to trace their contacts and have a more limited number of people that we are giving the vaccine, too, but because of lack of testing we have to assume that a larger sample of individuals may be at risk. so, we have to fix the vaccine problem, but ultimately, i believe this is a problem with lack of testing. this does not spread like covid. this is a very different virus. so, at this point, who should be concerned about this? what do people need to be watching for as there is concern that the government is losing the fight to get their arms wrapped around this. blisters or lesions that may resemble pimples that occur in