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After finding he made Demon Straably false statements about the election while serving as an attorney to former president donald trump. And following a story where a fire is burning at the site of a partial Building Collapse near miami. Rescuers are searching for doeses of people who are still missing. At least one person is dead. Well have a live report from the scene in just a few minutes. We begin this hour and a very busy thursday in washington with the very latest. Joining us now Nbc News National Political reporter on capitol hill and the White House Correspondent for the pbs newshour and also an msnbc political analyst, was at that event with the president and had a chance to ask him a question. But first, i want to try to understand what is being described as a framework agreement. What more do we know about this . What does it look like . And do people genuinely believe it has the votes to get through the house and senate . Reporter its very significant for President Joe Bidens top legislative priority. This contains 579 billion in new spending, most for transportation, roads and bridges, things republicans agree on as well. We know it will not be funded by any new Tax Increases but more irs enforcement and some repurposing of relief funds. Can this get to 60 votes . The senate . Its one thing to have 10 or 20 chatting with each other. The fact they have President Bidens for is significant. They need enough republican support and probably whats important now is to keep your eyes on mitch mcconnell, crucial in winning ten republican votes. One thing is moving at the same time as a Human Infrastructure Bill in child care, eldercare, climate change. Progressives have said they have not support a bipartisan deal if that doesnt happen as well. The house will not consider any bipartisan deal before the house passes a bigger Human Infrastructure Package of President Bidens priorities. Both bills appear to be moving and both have a shot at passage, ayman. So lets talk about that for a moment. How will the president try to bring those democrats that are skittish about this onboard . He mentioned it in the Press Conference he had taking some of those questions including yours. Generally speaking is the white house confident this will get across the finish live as sahil said, will you have to pick up five more senators and Progressive Democratic ones as well . Well, this is really feeling like here at the white house that President Biden has caught his white whale. In remarks over this is him saying i feel confident this will be a deal that will stick. He says i take them at their word, talking about republicans and democrats, senators who have brokered the deal, and i take them that this will happen. He has said, though, at that this cannot happen, this infrastructure deal, 573 billion in new spending, that cant happen without reconciliation and what democrats are calling Human Infrastructure focused on child care, climate change, electric cars, on communities, so the president here is saying, look, people told me i couldnt get this done but we are able to sit you down at a table and broker this deal. He ran on the idea of bipartisanship. People were questioning this. It felt like the white whale moment but there are a lot of other pending issues, very important issues, Voting Rights as one of them. Is there any sense this is going to open up an era of bipartisanship on Something Like the Voting Rights or other important issues people in this country care about . Well, that was my question to President Biden and the question i think really is underscoring all of this. Okay, you were able to get a deal on infrastructure. Thats a big deal. What about the other things including what President Biden has said is an existential threat to our democracy, that being Voting Rights. He talked for a long time about that when i questioned him. Look, this is about people trying to nullify the votes of democrats and im going to do my best to push back but there is an unclear idea of what exactly the president can do and what he will do to try to stop these gopbacked laws from going through all of these state legislatures. It is, of course, a very big deal. Its something the president says hes going to be trying to focus on. Ive talked to sources who say the doj is going to get more active in criticizing and getting into these state issues, and theres also going to be that first line of defense that some activists say judges, nominating judges, more and more of them, President Biden said. He was animated when he answered my question on voting. You can tell he is passionate about that. Really its a big unclear question about what will come of it. Sahil, lets pivot to the other beg announcement coming out of capitol hill, the select committee to investigate the january 6 riot. How confident are democrats in that undertaking Something Like this will not be seen as a partisan endeavor just like the republicanled committee to investigate the attacks on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi in 2012 dragged on for months and years and produced nothing of great substance . Reporter ayman, that has been a concern of democrats which is why the select committee was not their preferred course of action. They want that had bipartisan 9 11style commission to investigate that january 6th attack on the capitol. They want that had to have the support of democrats and republicans. A universally accepted document people could point to and say here is what really happened as an effort to debunk the lies and Conspiracy Theories about what happened that day including some emanating from the former president. But the democrats having seen them filibuster the commission had a choice to make, do they investigate it themselves, do a partisan investigation, or do they fold and do nothing . And speaker pelosis point with reporters democrats will not sit by and do nothing. She said the semple of american democracy, the building im standing in, was attacked by insurrectionists and they feel they have an obligation to try to get to the truth. You are right, republicans will attack this as a republican investigation and large portions of their base are probably not going to trust anything that comes out of this. Two of the more noteworthy moments of that News Conference when the president stepped away from the microphone as he was being asked about afghanistan, and the Vice President s trip tomorrow to the u. S. mexico border. It was unclear to hear the president s response, but does the white house think this trip will help with the intense criticism over the administrations handling of a recent spike in migrants coming to the border . What is their explanation for the timing of this . I can tell you the president he wanted to defend Vice President harris today. He was about to leave the room and there was a question posed why is the Vice President going to the border now . Whats it really going to do . He stopped and said shes doing a great job at the border. What you feel when you talk to white house officials and what they say this is about Vice President harris saying, yes, im going to go there, look at these migrants, im going to understand what these problems are but still her focus is on the root causes. There is this political calculus when you talk to activists and critics, frankly, of Vice President harris, be who said she needed to go to the border. There were questions over and over again why arent you at the border if you are dealing with migration and the root causes, how can you not see the problem firsthand . There is this idea when shes coming to the border but they insisted she wait for the appropriate time and that is now. Yamiche alcindor and sahil kapur, thank you. A democrat from california and a member of the transportation and infrastructure committee, thank you for your time. A very important day for people like yourself who are heavily invested. You were one of the first members of the house the president asked to meet on this subject on infrastructure. Knowing what you know from this framework agreement, i dont want to use the word bill yet, will you support it . Absolutely this is very close what we talked about at the white house two and a half months ago and very close to what we put out of our committee, the Transportation Committee a couple weeks back. Each of the various elements in infrastructure, not included the Education Research piece of it, each one of those was added up and came to just under 600 billion of new money. This is an important piece of what we need to do to move this nation forward. Well add a few things along the way. We want this to come out of the senate. Well do everything we can to support this. Yes, there are folks in our caucus who want to have the rest of the infrastructure going along. Keep in mind the senate actually passed a major piece of the soft infrastructure just two weeks ago when they pass add bill that was designed to compete with china. Half of the 200 plus billion dollars in the bill was education and research. The rest had to do with pumping up the American Technology side of it. We are on the way. Yamiche talked about a white whale. There are several white whales out there. Yes, one of those whales has been harpooned and its being brought onto the boat. There are others out there. Will we get to those . Yes, we will. Yes, we can. The new president , President Biden, said he would do this. He said he would crush the virus. That was the rescue plan. He would support businesses. He would support family, put money in pockets, give the businesses the opportunity to survive, to exist in the days ahead. Yes, we need to vaccinate more people but that was the first thing the president did. Not one republican helped us. Not one in the senate or the house. We got that done through reconciliation. We will move forward with concrete, steel, broad band, all the rest. The soft infrastructure, if we have to do that with another reconciliation, we will. Well get this done. So lets talk about the support and the bipartisan support because it involves ten senators from both parties. If you want it to pass you will need another handful of republican senators and progressive democrats. The president says he doesnt know how every lawmaker will vote. What is the early sense youre getting from your Democratic Caucus today, particularly the progressive wing of the party you are alluding to . The democrats in congress the democrats across this nation know and understand we have a variety of things we need to do. I mentioned the rescue bill. We did that. That has made all the difference in getting this economy open again. Were moving on to the solid infrastructure, the foundation for Economic Growth in the future coupled with that is the workforce necessary to support the economy and thats your education, your child care, the benefits through the pandemic but have an opportunity in the future to get the education, the jobs training they must have to work in a modern economy and be competitive to reestablish america as the number one nation in the world. And dont forget that to be the number one nation in the world we have to be the strongest democracy and that brings us back to the Voting Rights issue this is our package of issues. We will not let this go. We will do everything necessary. We will make the compromises that move this thing towards the solution necessaries for this nation. You saw the Senate Making those compromises. Good. The soft infrastructure, if the republicans dont want voters to be able to vote, they will be forever branded as the jim crow party. If they dont want to educate our kids and vote for research, then they will be branded. They will be branded as the party that did not want america to be the competitive nation in this world. There are reports senator blumenthal called this pathetic. Do you have a response to that . Well, maybe it is in his area, but in california the biggest, most dynamic state in this nation this is foundational to our environmental future. There is the foundation here, the foundation of moving to the electric vehicle, which we have to do. Theres also the infrastructure for that, the electrification of our transit system. It is the ability for this nation to set up a modern Transportation System whether it is a freeway, a highway, a bridge, bus or train. Amtrak critically important. West coast in california we depend on that with the capital corridor from sacramento all the way to san jose. And in our legislation and will probably be in the final legislation the movement of goods and services by truck, train, boat across the ocean through our harbors are the pieces of the puzzle embedded in this compromise that the white house has put together. So a big shoutout to the president. He said he would do this. It is on its way to being done. And moments ago the new York Bar Association removed Rudy Giuliani from its membership following giulianis suspension earlier today from practicing law in new york by the state Supreme Court Appellate Division. In a scathing 33page order the judge writes that giulianis false statements were made to improperly bolster his narrative that due to widespread voter fraud victory in the 2020 United States president ial election was stolen from his client. He spoke outside his Manhattan Office following the ruling. How can they say i lied if i never had a hearing . Tell me what theyre basing it on. They havent questioned me, havent questioned a witness. Do you still believe the election was a fraud . What im telling you is lets get beyond that. If you want to say something, you have to give me a chance to defend myself. Professor of law melissa murray, a former law clerk to judge Sonia Sotomayor and is an msnbc contributor. Its great to have you on. Let me get your reaction to what we heard from giuliani claiming this is onesided, he has not had a chance to defend himself or even discuss what was happening in that courtroom and in terms of suspension. Explain what happens and will giuliani get a chance to defend himself in court the way he wants . He is exactly right. He hasnt had a chance to rebut these allegations in court because this is, again, an interim suspension. He will have an opportunity because Disciplinary Proceedings will commence immediately following this particular ruling. That said, the fact that the Appellate Division has chosen to temporarily suspend his license is an unusual step underscoring the gravity and the idea mr. Giuliani through these fraud lend, allegedly, statements, imperilled the system of democracy we know in the United States and the electoral process. He will have an opportunity to go to court, but the fact theyve temporarily suspended his license does not bode well for him as that disciplinary proceeding commences. How often do they suspend a license from a Practicing Lawyer . Help us understand the weight of the decision in weight of its significance . Certainly the step of temporarily suspending his license is an fush one but, again, i think it underscores the nature of the charges. If he goes forward and they prove he violated the lawyers code here in the state of new york he would be disbarred. It doesnt happen often but does happen. Its a means of professional sanctioning for those who failed to uphold the ethical commitments of the profession. Thank you for breaking that down for us. And we continue to follow Breaking News in florida this hour. That partial Building Collapse thats left at least one person dead. Were live on the ground with an update on the Search And Rescue efforts. Plus, it is being called a Revolutionary Retraining. One Police Department will be chained to think of policing as, quote, Customer Service. We have the rollout and pushback from the officers. Youre watching Ayman Mohyeldin reports. Reports. When technology is easier to use. Barriers dont stand a chance. Thats why well stop at nothing to deliver our technology asaservice. Things you start when youre 45. To deliver our technology asaservice. Coaching. New workouts. And screening for colon cancer. Yep. The American Cancer Society recommends screening starting at age 45, instead of 50, since colon cancer is increasing in younger adults. 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