chuck schumer wants to keep the senate in all weekend. is this for show or work? reporter: it could be for work and it could be for show. again, the realities aren t necessarily changing here just because you are doing it on a weekend. the senate majority leader s office has aenl said they wanted to have action on voting around martin luther king jr. day so that puts you at monday. if the schedule holds and what we heard him say on the floor just a little while ago holds, then what you end up seeing is action on the voting rights bill tomorrow, it fails, you debate the rules and you go into the weekend and potentially do something then on monday. it could mean a working weekend, we know how much lawmakers here dislike that, but at the same time if this is a priority working the weekend might be a way to signal that. let me move to cornell belcher here who obviously does this for a living when it comes to giving democrats advice, how to walk this line, and we ve talked about this be
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these are mostly and assurance that are designed to orient as to the future. whether it s investment in early childhood education, community college or the climate policy investments. and we really need to think of that. it s a shame that we would have to strike the climate policy initiatives out of this package. but, we have to get 50 votes. kendis and lindsey, something very unusual is happening at the white house this weekend. and that is president biden is actually here this weekend. you know, typically on a saturday, sunday morning, you re talking to one of us in wilmington, delaware. he tends to get away from washington during the weekend. it s rare that he s at the white house and in my experience so far in this young administration, that is a sign of some urgency. that there are some meetings he is here to have with his staff. usually over a working weekend. so, we heard from the president on friday acknowledging the fact that democrats are not
he will need to manage. cnn s arlette saenz. president biden at camp david but what is he facing right now and when he returns to the white house? reporter: the challenges are certainly piling up on president biden s plate and this is a working weekend for the president in camp david. perhaps top of mind for him is the deteriorating security situation in afghanistan and to that end, we are told that the president received a briefing this morning on that situation in afghanistan. you can actually see in this photo released by the white house, a secure video conference with vice president harris, secretary of defense lloyd austin, national security adviser sullivan and other officials to talk about the drawdown of embassy personnel in afghanistan. the president already ordered 3,000 military members to go in to help with that drawdown and evacuation and are also talking
instability across afghanistan is of grave concern. we believe this is the prudent thing to do. given the rapidly deteriorating situation. we expect another update through the friday prisim of th government. the president stands by his decision to withdrawal all troops from afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. joining me now from wilmington, delaware. on the ground, is the president headed to camp david, is this going to be a working weekend? this will be a working