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Rally, the department of Homeland Security warning all local Law Enforcement involved in protecting the capital that even though there is new online chatter for violence that could occur saturday, they need to be prepared for things to get out of control as soon as tomorrow. Tonight, former President Donald Trump is stoking tensions two days before a rally that has forced Capitol Hill into lockdown. Trump offering up support for hundreds of people in prison and accused of storming the capital on January 6th. In a statement, trump claimed the accused for victims of a Two Tiered System Of justice and reiterated his false claims about the 2020 election. Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protests concerning the rigged president ial election, trump wrote. His statement comes as workers quickly started erecting a massive temporary fence around the u. S. Capital. Turning what was once the most accessible and public landmark in washington into an impenetrable fortress all for a rally this saturday that organizers concede might not even draw 1,000 people. The official number we put down is 700. The intense Security Posture is the by product of the very event these protesters are coming to washington for. January 6th insurrection. Something Security Officials did not see coming and were unprepared to handle. They promised Capital Hill Leadership that this time things will be different. Just brief him about the demonstration thats scheduled for september 18th, just the Intelligence Information that were aware of and a little bit about our operational plan about what we plan to do. The Capital Police are not taking any chances. In part because this group is coming to call for the release of hundreds of people charged with their role on that deadly day. The tsa is ramping up security in airports. The national guard and Local Dc police have been asked to be on standby. There are worries some of the protesters may be armed, could be inspired by gop lawmakers like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Clyde who among those being under attack on January 6th now empathize with the rioters. This over throw the Government Fetish that exists, i dont understand it except there is a lot of bored people out there that probably never served a day in their life in the military and get to play dressup. A few gop candidates challenging republicans who voted to impeach trump will be there. And one congressman, raffle norman, will speak at an event hundreds of miles away in his Home State of South Carolina. Still, that is not enough for some in congress who believe both republicans and Democrats Should be speaking with a common voice and denouncing those who seek to excuse the conduct of those who participated in the January 6th riot. I think the capital we protected, but i find it any elected official who doesnt call out and denounce these protesters tomorrow, i think there is a great disservice to our country. And even though the former President Donald Trump issued that statement in support of those who remain accused of their role on January 6th, hes not expected to be here or play any role of any kind on saturday, much like every other republican member of congress who has said that they are not going to be here as well. Jim, thats a big difference from what we saw here on January 6th. Of course it was that big stop the steal Rally Led by the former president that served as the preclude to the January 6th insurrection. Ryan nobles, thanks for that. Lets get more on all of this with Phil Mud and our senior analyst andrew mccabe, the former Fbi Deputy Director and author. Andrew, let me start with you. The department of Homeland Security is warning about Potential Violence at Saturdays Rally and potentially tomorrow ahead of this rally as well. How unpredictable is this threat right now . Well, i think we know that the threat is very unpredictable, right . But i think what you are seeing from dhs and likely from other partners in the dc Law Enforcement community is they are providing the sorts of warnings, theyre taking the chatter that theyre hearing, the intelligence theyre coming across, theyre taking it very seriously. It raises an important question about what sort of intelligence did they see before January 6th and what sort of assessments or assumptions did they make then . Hopefully that will be answered for us by the investigative committee at some point in the future. Nevertheless, saturday is upon us. Dhs wants to make sure all the Law Enforcement folks involved in this have the most Cutting Edge recent intel theyre seeing and i think theyre doing the right thing. Phil, this dhs Intelligence Briefing warns offenders can, quote, mobilize violence with little to no warning. That is a big concern. You can have somebody in there that could cause great harm. Does that speak to the challenges of stopping this from getting under control. I think youre right. Let me give you a quick picture of what i would be worried about. This might be 95 predictable. There is going to be a ton of intelligence looking at this. For example, individuals you know who are suspects suspected of committing an act of violence watching in social media. In an extreme case you might have Intelligence Coverage of them. If there is a group involved in acts of Violence Or Thinking of acts of violence in the past, you might be surveilling them on the internet or in an extreme case having intelligence on them. You can look at a pattern of activity, jim, and say, look, we see when these guys are arriving, where theyre arriving. We see the tone of what theyre talking about, whether they are talking about violence. If you have 700 to A Thousand people, which is the range that some of the estimates, if 5 of those people go outside the range you anticipate, if they bring a type of weapon that you didnt anticipate, if they intend to go to the capital in a violent way, boy, all of a sudden, all bets are off. There is a lot of unpredictability here, jim. Andrew, amid these heightened tensions, you have former President Trump sympathizing with the cause of this rally in support of the January 6th attackers. It is almost like he wants to see a big crowd down at the capital on saturday even though hes not showing up himself. Are you seeing this as a Call To Action . Well, there is no question that this group responds quickly and decisively to the words of the former president. So anything that he says to support this rally, to throw another log on the fire of Discontent And Conspiracy theories is a bad thing for our Safety And Security around the rally. I think its you know, it is notable that he likely wants this to be a big, chaotic disastrous mess, but he doesnt want it so bad to show up and take part in it. Hes probably afraid of getting in trouble for having that sort of involvement. Once again, the president is trying to manipulate things from behind the curtain. Right. He didnt walk down to the capital on January 6th as he said he was going to in that speech. Thats right. The former president says these January 6th rioters are being persecuted so unfairly, end quote. I mean, come on. Theyre rioters. They should be in jail, right . Well, if somebody invades My House tonight, an act of trespass, hopefully a cop will show up and say youre arrested and hopefully a Judge And Jury says you violated the law. You go to prison. How hard is that . People show up not at My House, but the peoples house. They break windows and trespass. By the way, it is not political. It is not the congress. It is not the White House. It is judges and juries who if you look at the court documents are saying, you have got to be kidding me. I dont think this is about just the rally. I think this is about 2024. We had make America Great again. We had keep America Great. This is about make america free again. The president will start telling people they stole the election and they stole your right to the capital. I think this is political and election oriented, jim. What do you think . Yeah, there is no question. I think phil hit it spoton. This is entirely in support of a political narrative. Hes hoping to lure people in to basically do his bidding at these rallies to keep this grievance, this lie alive. And well find out tomorrow if thats actually how it plays out. The big lie just wont die. That is where we are tonight, no question about it. Thanks so much to both of you, phil and andrew. We appreciate it. Just ahead, the January 6th committee turns its attention to americas top general as a new book says he took secret action fearing President Trump was in mental decline. Youre in the situation room. , we can harness the energy of the tiny electron. We can create new ways to connect. Rethinking how we communicate to be more inclusive than ever. With app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change. Faster. Vmware. Welcome change. Michelob ultra organic seltzer. Two flavors bursting onto the scene. Theyll make quite a splash. Now in watermelon strawberry. And black cherry. As real as it tastes. Ive always been running. To meetings. Errands. Now im running for me. Ive always dreamed of seeing the world. But im not chasing my dream anymore. I made a financial plan to live it every day. 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What was your reaction to that . Jim, the best thing that former President Trump could do would be to simply stay out of this. His role in inciting the riot on January 6th that resulted in the deaths of several Police Officers and disgraced and defaced our Nations Capital and put so many at risk, i think, is a Deep Stain on his record of service as president of the United States. But President Biden is focussed on moving our country forward. The u. S. Capital police are making adequate preparations. We in the congress did appropriate several billion dollars after the January 6th riot to strengthen the perimeter and the security of the capital and to provide badly needed and deeply deserved support for the u. S. Capital police. So im cautiously optimistic well get through this weekend without more incidents of violence, but they are prepared to protect the capital. And, frankly, as President Biden showed in his Remarks Today, hes focussed on moving us forward and on helping the country get out of the pandemic, recover from the recession and be on a stronger footing going forward. Yeah. I want to ask you about that in just a moment. But first were just learning that the House Select Committee is seeking Pentagon Documents to learn more about the January 6th attack and what the joint Chief Chairman did in the last days of the trump presidency. Do you have any concerns about how general Milley Reviewed Protocols and handled the call with his chinese Counter Part . How did the joint Chiefs Chairman do in that situation as its been reported, do you think . Well, jim, i havent obviously had a chance to read the book, but based on press accounts on excerpts from the book, my impression is that he was preceded by secretary of Defense Esper in reaching out to his senior chinese military Counter Part, and he did so based on intelligence reports that the chinese believed we were preparing for a sneak attack. So what he was doing from press accounts is well within the Per View of his role as chairman of the joint chiefs and in partnership with the then Secretary Of Defense to reach out and try to diffuse those tensions to try and avoid a preventable exchange. Look, china is an increasingly assertive regional and global military power. And i think if the chairman of the joint chiefs acted as its been reported, as i have understood it, and that was briefed to and shared with other Military Leaders in the intelligence community, this is squarely within his lane to avoid needless conflict with other countries based on the intelligence he had available at the time. And getting to the biden agenda, President Biden is tauting his economic agenda saying the country faces an Inflection Point. But does he have a plan to convince moderate democrats that you see who dont see the need to spend what biden wants to spend on this huge whats been referred to as a human Infrastructure Plan . What are you saying to convince some of your colleagues to get onboard . Well, jim, President Biden met in person with Senator Cinema and manchin. Hes been actively engaged in helping members of congress who are more progressive understand and embrace his agenda to reduce the costs for working families, to reduce the cost of Health Care, of day care, of higher education, of Workforce Training and to make the investments we need to make over the coming decade to make sure that were in a position to grow and grow quickly. I was thrilled in august when we passed on a bipartisan basis, a landmark infrastructure bill, and now we are working in the democratic caucus to pass the Followon Investment thats badly needed to make it possible for americans to get back to work by providing more affordable access to high quality preschool and day care, by reducing the costs of Health Care and by making sure that every american is paying their fair share of the costs of the moving forward. It is not clear to me exactly how much this package will ultimately cost. But i will remind you it will be spread over ten years and it will build a solid foundation under americas middle class. President biden is very persuasive, and i think hes making the case and making it well. I think Thats Code for the negotiations are underway as we speak. Senator, thanks so much for your time. We appreciate it. Coming up, a bizarre twist in an already strange crime drama. A prominent South Carolina attorney has just been released on mail after hiring a hitman to kill him as part of a failed suicidal fraud scheme. Hear Renaes Story at deere. Com when traders tell us how to make thinkorswim even better, we listen. Like jack. He wanted a streamlined version he could access anywhere, no download necessary. And kim. She wanted to execute a preset Trade Strategy in seconds. So we gave Em Thinkorswim web. Because platforms this innovative, arent just made for traders theyre made by them. Thinkorswim trading. From td ameritrade. 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He broke down in tears as he appeared before the magistrate judge. The once powerful and wealthy attorney his lawyers say is no longer a man of means. A warrant for his arrest detailed the botched Murder Attempt that was meant to provide millions of dollars of life insurance money, attorneys day. He arranged for curtis smith, a former client, to shoot and kill him. The plan failed because the shot wasnt fatale. Smith has been charged with assisted suicide, assault and battery, pointing and presenting a firearm, Insurance Fraud. So far hes not entered a plea and has asked for a court appointed attorney. Now another twist. The South Carolina Law Enforcement division announcing the opening of another investigation. The 2018 death of the familys longtime housekeeper who died in what was described as a Trip And Fall accident on their property. It was alex who told the story that she had tripped and fell down the stairs over his dogs. And, so, they trusted him. At the time, her death was said due to natural causes. The Hampton County Coroner told investigators in a letter the Decedents Death was not reported to the coroner at the time, nor was an autopsy performed. On the death sercertificate, Th Injury was called accidental. The family says they reached a partial tetlement for wrongful death, but they say they never received the money they say they were due. He walked in to his best Friend And College roommate to bring a lawsuit against himself on behalf of the estate. Now, you know, as a lawyer 33 years, i have never heard that, where you encourage somebody and take them to a lawyer who you hand pick and then have that lawyer bring claims against you. This new development in the death as he was already struggling with the unsolved murders of his Wife And Son in june. Allegations that he stole money from his Familys Law Firm and his own admission of a decades long opoid addiction. All of this playing out in a very public down fall. And bond was set at 20,000. So essentially he doesnt have to put any money up at this point. He was out of jail within the hour after that hearing. But still so many threats now that investigators must follow. So many different cases and a number of deaths. But what stands out most of all is of course the deaths of his Wife And Son and the question that haunts so many minds here is any of what we have seen in the past 36 to 72 hours connected to those deaths or what do people think . Jim . I worry about what those details will be. Martin savage, thank you for that report. Lets go to joey jackson. Joey, have you ever seen a case like this before . It seems like we are learning something new every day, sufficient details about his background and all those questions that Martin Savage was just raising. This is all a huge mystery at this point. There is no question about that, jim. I think we can start with the bail conditions. Im surprised at what they are. 20,000 personal recognizance bond. He doesnt have to put up any money. He conspired to kill himself, really. Were talking about Insurance Fraud. Were talking about admissions his attorney made. I have never seen that either. The attorney going on tv and really admitting to all of the elements of the offense, the conspiracy with mr. Smith, how it went down, why it went down, the fraud that was involved. We know that and there is no connection at this point, jim. Perhaps we will learn because Law Enforcement is investigating, we know that his Wife And Son were brutally murdered a few months ago in june. We know the issue as it relates to the housekeeper. Again, not a connection as we look there at the missing links and the deaths all over the place. She in fact dead for apparently a slip and fall. I dont know how that happens, but thats open for investigation. And then you have him walking into court 20,000 personal recognizance and walking out to a rehabilitation facility. Look, i practice at a progressive jurisdiction, New York. I cant get 20,000 on a robbery of a Bike Kl and a cell phone, so thats the first issue. It goes to, look, im all for justice. I just want justice to be evenly and fairly decided. Innocent or proven guilty, i get it. But the accusations so significant, and i think the bail should at least reflect the significance of the offense. You have to wonder if this was not a prominent attorney in the situation represented by prominent attorneys whether the Bail Situation would be the same. Joey, lets go back to that graphic we were showing a few moments ago showing the five deaths connected to the family. Should we expect to see new in Depth Investigations . Thats what we should see, right, on the part of Law Enforcement into these previous deaths. I mean, this is bizarre. Yeah. It is a great question. I think thats exactly what we will see. You have to ask why. Why . Because we know we have an individual who has demonstrated to have misled and misrepresented as it relates to this case. Lets bring everyone back. September 4th he makes a Phone Call indicating that of course hes shot. Having nothing to do with it. Oh, my goodness. He was supposedly shot in the head by someone he didnt know. He does know the person. He in Fact Made Plans with the person as a result of this Death Benefit that he wanted to give of his eldest son of 10 million. So why do i bring all this up . Not only does it go to the nature of the incident of the offense, it goes to, if you were lying then, are you lying now . Do you know anything about your wife being shot brutally and killed. Your son being killed indeed, right . The housekeeper. It opens everything up. They will conduct a major investigation. As bizarre as the story is now, jim, and we dont know the details, i think it might get even bizarrer as we move forward. You can bet on that. Thanks as always. We appreciate it. Thank you. Just ahead, well set the stage for a Showdown Over Covid Booster Shots and whether theyre needed. Fda advisers hours away from the potentially heated meeting. Its a sunny day. Nah, a stormy day. We see a close up of the grille. An overhead shot. She drives hands free. Along the coast. Make it palm springs. Cadillac is going electric. If you want to be bold, you have to go offscript. Reserve your lyriq september 18th. My plaque psoriasis. The itching. The burning. The stinging. My skin was no longer mine. My psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen. Painful. Emerge tremfyant™. With tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. 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Hes come out with a new Book World War c lessons from the Covid19 Pandemic and how to prepare for the next one. Sounds like a timely book, sanjay. Can you walk us through what to expect from the Fda Meeting on these boosters . I suppose it goes without saying this is not going to get resolved tomorrow. No, i dont think so, jim. We have heard a lot about these Fda Meetings over the past year. And typically, we have a pretty good idea of how theyre going to go ahead of time. Im not so sure on this one. There is strong feelings on both sides either to boost or not to boost. Let me lay out the four big questions i think they will be dealing with. Keep in mind, jim, this is an advisory committee meeting, so they want to look at basically is immunity waning . Are people who are vaccinated longer ago, do they have less immunity than those vaccinated more recently. People may test positive, but how symptomatic are they . How long does the Booster Effect last . Is it just something that gives you a lot of Extra Protection for a short time . And finally how much do boosters reduce transmission . Jim, i think this is a big one. This idea following the Breakthrough Cases and saying were seeing more Breakthrough Cases, therefore, were trying to boost, this is what the fda is going to look at. Let me show you israel. As you know, a much smaller country, but 63 of the country vaccinated and they have been boosting since august, early august. Case numbers are higher than they have ever been. So i think you would be hard pressed just based on that data to say a vaccinated country even boosting that it is necessarily reducing breakthrough infections. So hospitalizations going way down, deaths going way down. Those are the important things and that will focus the discussion tomorrow. If we did havent the vaccines, what would those numbers be like . Do you worry about all this back and forth is raising concerns about the efficacy of vaccines . Yeah. I mean, thats the issue. I mean, jim, you know, youre a White House guy. This announcement about the boosters came from the White House. They said boosters are coming and they even put a date on it, which is monday, September 20th. And then almost afterwards they said, by the way, we got to let the Fda And Cdc weigh in on this. At the same time, two Career Scientists at the fda announced they would be leaving as we found out over this issue. So there is a lot of back and forth at the highest scientific levels. Look, there may be an answer and it may be an answer ultimately people agree on, but i think they should have coordinated that messaging within these agencies before laying that on the american people. I think a lot of people just said this is preordained. We all need to be boosted. And im not so sure thats going to be the message we hear from the fda. They may say if you are over a certain age, you need to be boosted but not necessarily for the general population. You have all these people rushing out and trying to get them at the meantime. In the meantime, sanjay, well take some of these next questions for next time, sanjay. But in the meantime, i want to at least talk about what you have coming up. Dr. Sanjay gupta is going to be joining us over the weekend. Hes got a special coming up. He will be talking about the scientists and the origin of covid19. That new cnn special report begins Sunday Night at 8 00. Definitely wanted to get that promo in there, sanjay. Were looking forward to that. Thank you, jim. Coming up, as the January 6th committee turns its attention to mark milley, we will big deeper and how it prepared him for the controversy hes facing now. Azier. Bring a friend every month and get every month for 5. Boom 12 months of 5 wireless. Visible, wireless that gets better with friends. What happens when we Welcome Change . We can transform our workforce overnight out of convenience, or necessity. 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Crushing, crushing amounts of pressure. It became very clear to a lot of people that the president might not step aside. Following his own instincts was something he appeared ready to do from an early age. According to a 2019 New York times profile of him, Milleys Father who fought in World War ii did not want his son to go into the military and even got one of marks brothers to sabotage his visit to west point. He instead went to princeton and studied at Columbia And Mit as well. Intellectually very bright dude. He is known as a friendly talker who loves to chat about military history. Over who four dids in the army, he served in iraq and afghanistan, came under fire several times, commanded highprofile units with the 101st airborne. All of those are really tough jobs where you not only have to be tactically and operationally proficient, but you also have to be a pretty damn good leader and be able to have that Emotional Intelligence to feel the room. Instincts that would be tested in the summer of last year when Milley Dressed in fatigues walked with trump to his infamous Photo Op at a church after protesters were cleared out. He took heavy criticism and later apologized. I should not have been there. When questioned this summer about why some cadets attended a seminar on white rage, he made a connection to the January 6th insurrection. I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States of america . What caused that . What is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend . Milley was heavily criticized for his role in the biden Administrations Withdrawal in the u. S. Troops from afghanistan. But it is his maneuvers with trump which observers say nothing could have prepared him for. He had the education and some of the training. It is always tough to step into a situation where you are dealing with a toxic leader. He was placed in an extremely stressful and difficult situation without a whole lot of people he could talk to on getting advice on how to take action. The Defense Department did not contact specifically for our story, but top Defense Officials have come out in recent days saying his actions reported in the new Bob Woodward Book were completely appropriate. Donald trump has responded to both books about milleys actions by calling milley a, quote, dumbass, a better politician than a general. Brian todd, thanks so much for that report. Coming up, we learned about an indictment into the probe of the Trump Russia Investigation. More details after the break. Paper money. Its the future get outta here. Im leaving with my gold. Its not crazy. Help me, mother. Its an omelet. Just crack an egg. [announcer] at southern new hampshire university, were committed to making college more affordable. 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Hurry, offer ends September 20th Breaking News. The special council probing the origins of the Trump Russia Investigation has just landed another indictment. Our correspondent has details for us. Evan, this is interesting. What can you tell us . Reporter the name of this lawyer is michael sussman. He worked as a lawyer for the Clinton Campaign in 2016, as well as the democrats. But according to the indictment that John Durham just filed today, he lied to the fbi when he held a meeting with the general council at the time, jim baker, which he turned over a Thumb Drive which contained information about some mysterious allegations, there were communications between a server belonging to the Trump Organization and a bank in russia called alpha bank. The fbi investigated it. They couldnt figure out what it was. Ended up deciding that it wasnt any kind of nefarious matter. But all of this has now turned into a charge against sussman essentially for lying when he met with the fbi and presented this information. He at the time was working for the Clinton Campaign, and he apparently didnt say has said that he wasnt representing any particular client when he had this meeting in 2016. So look, John Durham has been at this now, doing this investigation and weve been anticipating that his investigation would wrap up. And frankly, weve been waiting to see somewhat other big shoe is to were going to drop. And right now what were facing right here is a case against sussman, which is for making a false statement to the fbi, not really the big Boom that we were expecting durham to produce at the end of this investigation, jim. And not the Big Fish that President Trump was hoping for i suspect either. This investigation has been going on for two years now and hasnt yielded much in terms of charges . Whats going on . So the investigation of the investigation has been going on for longer than the mueller investigation, over two years. And as you pointed out, mueller produced indictments against 34 people and three companies, again, in just about two years, in the case of durham, hes been going longer than that. This is the second case he brought. The other was against a former Fbi Lawyer who worked who falsified some information in the Carter Page Fisa application. Again, that was false statements charge. One to have criticisms that republicans and the gop and the president s supporters made of neweler, they said a lot of these cases that they brought were Process Crimes. Thats kind of what were talking about. Were talking about what seems to be Process Crimes about whether suss man lied to the fbi when he had this conversation. Again, at the time, jim, it was well known that sussman represented the Clinton Campaign. This was not a surprise to the fbi. They spent some time investigating it. But they already had an investigation of the Trump Russia Matter at the time. This is not what all the trumpists were hoping for at the end of all this. E evan, thanks for that. Joe biden says the economy is what he calls an Inflection Point as he pushes congress to pass his Spending Plan which could change the trajectory of our nation. Phil mattingly has more. His Remarks Today on the economy come with sharp divisions of his own party. We talked to Senator Chris coons earlier this evening. He was suggesting that the negotiations are happening, they are underway, and they are intense. Reporter theres no question, the intensity is very real, from White House officials involved in those negotiations and those on Capitol Hill. And he alluded to those remarks when he said the proposal has a long road ahead that. Is true, as Democrats S try to hammer out agreements on everything. When we talk to White House officials, theyll say Thats Part of what Joe Biden was trying to do, trying to get above those negotiations. Theres every recognition how important every Policy Decision is, but theres the overarching point here, which is that this is a moment where democrats have the chance to do something very big and very significant. He was making clear dont squaunder that moment. I believe were at an Inflection Point in this country. Lets not squander this moment, trying to preserve an economy that hasnt worked too well for americans for a long time. Lets not look backward trying to rebuild what we had. Lets look forward together as one america. Not to Build Back, but to Build Back better. Reporter jim, we talked to White House officials involved in these negotiations. They underscore that they understand the needle that theyre going to have to thread here and how complicated between the moderate side of the democratic party and the progress sifs, who have strong feelings about where things should land. They also say when you talk to White House officials, that this is kind of everything. This is the agenda. This is what Joe Biden was elected on, this is what he stakes his first year of the presidency on, and if democrats want something, they have to figure out how to agree, particularly given how many items are democratic priorities theyve had for years. Now is the opportunity to get some of those into law. Dont squander that opportunity, jim. Could he come down hes been making these signals that yes, he could come down to a different price tag, but along the lines of what Joe Manchin is calling for . He met with Senator Manchin and senate sinema yesterday. The president wants an outcome. If that means a smaller price tag, they could end up there. But everything is very fluid at the moment, jim. No question about it. But at the same time, phil, if he doesnt get this passed, this is not good for the Midterm Election Cycle for his party. Thats a very real issue that officials are bringing to democrats. That was kind of the point of him earlier. He was talking about policy, but they need something to get done. Cnns phil mattingly, thanks so much. Thank you very much for watching. Ill see you here this weekend. In the meantime, Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Have a good night. Outfront next, the department of Homeland Security warning that violence connected to Saturdays Rally on Capitol Hill could begin tomorrow, as former President Trump adds more fuel to the fire by embracing them. And Nancy Pelosi defends general milleys actions in the final days of the trump administration. John bolton is outfront tonight. Breaking news in texas. 9,500 migrants and counting. Many arriving in just the last 48 hours, living in squalor along the border. Were on the ground with

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