the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that is we
not one g.o.p. and are voted in favor of the nearly $740 billion spending bill. meanwhile vice president kamala harris had to come in and break the 50/50 tie. on this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 50, the senate being equally divided the vice president votes in the formative in the bill as amended is passed. that vote came after a marathon 16 hours session over the weekend, they called it vote aroma word demo republicans add tried to plan amendments and when it was all over the package still contain hundreds of billions of dollars from climate change, deficit reduction, and tax hikes. the supersize of the irs adding 807,000 agents while the democrats are putting themselves in the back for this and getting their wit liberal wish list past. republicans warned this is turning into a war in the middle class that will backfire big time on the dems come november. here is hundred that ted cruz. all the democrats say they are worried and want to lower gas prices, they al
we re learning that person is matthew pottinger. and he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then-president trump s national security council. but he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. i i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. a reminder of what that tweet said, quote, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, unquote. when trump was out of sight from the public during the riot, of course, he had time to slam his on vp on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature anywhere across this country, let alone at the capitol. and for all the hours and hours and hours of vid
chronological order, the lead up to january 6th, and now they are coming to the crucial moment, at the end, when the attack is going on, and addressing the question is what was donald trump doing. to me, i remember watching the events unfold, to me, the most memorable thing that donald trump said on that day when he finally was in the public, made a public statement, what did he say about people writing? he said, we love you. that, to me, sums up his approach towards this riot from the beginning. what we don t know and what we will start find out thursday night, is, what was happening inside the white house during those 187 minutes. who was talking to the president, what were they saying, what was the president saying in response and why wasn t he going to the public saying stop this madness. we all remember, and everyone was saying, where s the president? why isn t he saying anything right now? what is going on? the chairman, vinny thompson is telling our colleague that th
fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and that s fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. here s jessica schneider. tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service, under subpoena from the january 6th committee, acknowledging they re still unable to uncover the texts after admitting last weekda wee ww wweek. sending this letter laying out concerns about the potential unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling secret service to investigation and report back to the archives within 30 days to detail how the messages got athdeleted. secret service is pledging to cooperate. we want to see w