lawmakers issuing a slew of new subpoenas, 14 people from seven states who were purported alternate electors for donald trump. what we're learning about who they are and what the committee wants to hear from them. our capitol hill team is standing by. plus fresh nbc reporting on the new names under consideration for the supreme court. what we know about the two women now being considered for a seat on the nation's highest court. good afternoon, i'm garrett haake in washington in for hallie jackson, and we are awaiting the president in pennsylvania. we will bring that to you live when he speaks. first, let's bring in our nbc news team. courtney kube is at the pentagon, richard engel in ukraine, kelly o'donnell and we're joined by four-star general barry mccaffrey. courtney, i want to start with you, what we just heard from pentagon officials. what were your takeaways? give us the new. >> that's right. one of the things i was struck by is how secretary austin did not rule out the possibility that the u.s. military could be brought in, into ukraine, in advance of an invasion for the purpose of helping americans get out. he didn't say it would happen, but he didn't rule it out. and that brings back, of course, only months ago the evacuation of americans and afghans out of afghanistan when we saw the 82nd airborne and other u.s. military forces brought in to kabul airport to help americans get out. again, secretary general milley did not announce that but they did leave open the possibility that could happen. we also heard more specificity from general milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, about what exactly it is russia has around ukraine. among the things he mentioned are more than 100,000 ground forces, air, naval, special forces, cyber warfare, electronic warfare, command and control, logistics and engineers. why that's important to point out is that he was laying the groundwork in conjunction with secretary austin as to why they think vladimir putin and russia now have enough forces and support forces there for a full-scale invasion if in fact they have chosen to do that. after we heard from president biden only days ago, the possibility there could be some sort of a small incursion, we heard a pretty different version of what could happen today from secretary of defense lloyd austin. here's what he had to say. >> well, we don't believe that president putin has made a final decision to use these forces against ukraine. he clearly now has that capability. there are multiple options available to him, including the seizure of cities and significant territories. >> so, again, secretary of defense lloyd austin saying there that vladimir putin, while the u.s. still believes he hasn't made a decision about what to do, he now has the capabilities in place for an invasion if he so chooses. also today we did not hear any more -- any announcements about any u.s. military flowing into the region from the united states as part of that nato response force. it still remains on the table. more than 8,500 troops are on prepare to deploy orders if they are called in. >> that's a little bit about what vladimir putin has available to him. general mccaffrey, i want to get your reaction to what the joint chiefs chairman said about nato's capabilities in the region. >> nato has approximately 130 plus brigades of maneuver forces, not including u.s. forces. 93 squadrons of high-end fighters, four carriers, many more surface combatants. the military capability of nato is very, very significant. >> general, for those of us who don't do military math, what do you make of these capabilities that we apparently have in the region? >> look, i think, first of all, secretary austin and general milley were being very sober minded and very careful what they talked about and they underscored i think correctly that it's not about just deterrence of a russian invasion to ukraine, it's about reassurance of our 30 nato allies that will be there for him. but look, poor mr. putin has put himself in a box. he's got a massive capable military force that could probably take down ukraine in 90 days. it would be a horrific mistake. casualties, fighting in cities, kyiv, 3 million people. but in the background, nato's military capability is enormous. 130 brigades that are capable of countering russian aggression against the baltic states, poland, you name it. so it's hard to see how putin backs down. i think this is not going to end well. there's going to be some overt attempt to take down parts of ukraine, unless the u.s. or nato caves in and gives him the reassurances he has demanded. i don't think that's going to happen. so we're in a period of complexity and great danger. >> richard engel, remarks like this whenever you see top military leaders speaking like this, there's a domestic audience but probably a big foreign audience too. how would these remarks be received in ukraine and potentially in russia? >> reporter: so as general mccaffrey said, it is very complex right now. and president zelensky, who was an actor before he got this job, he was a comedian and he became famous playing a president on television. now he's trying to play it cool. he was on the stage today briefing foreign reporters. he has not been speaking publicly very often over the last several days. he was trying to show his best poker face, that he's not rattled, that his country is not fazed in any way. he accused the west, accused the united states, accused nato of sowing panic. he said it was wrong that the united states ordered the evacuation and other governments ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel. it was the stay calm and carry on mantra, summoning up his best sort of winston churchill, but without the we will fight them at the beaches. we did not hear many strong notions that ukraine would put up a significant defense. instead, he tried to tell reporters and tell him own people that this is a phase. that this will pass. that it won't necessarily happen. that ukraine has seen this kind of thing before with russia mobilizing forces along its borders and that it is simply demanding concessions and that things will go away and ukrainians will get back to their lives. perhaps the suspended disbelief, but here people seem to be going along with it, maybe because they have no other choice. we're not seeing panic in the streets. we're not seeing restaurants close. we're not seeing protests. people aren't packing up their belongings and leaving. they are going on, at least for now, with their lives as normal. the ukrainian president also had one significant point that goes to the conversation you were just having about nato. nato has an enormous military capability, but it is designed to stop russia from expanding its war beyond ukraine. it is not to go into ukraine and stop the advancing russian force. or potentially advancing russian force. what president zelensky is saying is if the west really wants to help ukraine, why not impose those sanctions now? why wait until ukraine is attacked or potentially taken over to impose sanctions? he said that means the sanctions aren't designed to help ukraine -- >> right. >> -- it means they're designed to deter russia from going beyond ukraine. >> that's been the argument of a lot of republican lawmakers that i cover. they want to see action taken on the front end before vladimir putin makes whatever decision he may make. kelly o'donnell, you saw here that nations' two top military officials both pointing out in their remarks they think conflict is not inevitable and there is still time for diplomacy. talk to us about what you are hearing from the white house and where diplomatic efforts are at this hour. >> reporter: certainly the u.s. is not prepared to say diplomacy is dead and the means for further discussions are not valuable. and when you talk about sanctions, one of the positions that antony blinken, the secretary of state has said, if sanctions were imposed now that they would lose their deterrent effect. if putin were punished now, there would be no reason to stop him. that's an argument the administration is making. other voices see it differently. in terms of saying there is still an off-ramp to putin, that is part of what we saw. and to have the secretary of defense and joint chiefs chairman speak about where plans are and to demonstrate the kind of advice and counsel they have given the president and to do that on such a grand scale today. see, not only here in this country but certainly viewed around the world, very significant as a message that the u.s. wants to fortify the relationships with close allies in nato, is taking a measured approach. and as much as president zelensky and ukraine is concerned about steps the u.s. is taking, if you look at the domestic perspective of the biden administration, they want to show that they are taking prudent steps in advance of what may be a very difficult conflict that could come and wanting to protect american lives. all of us lived through the afghanistan exodus and all of the difficulties that happened there, and the unexpected and unforeseen chaotic developments that happened. so they're trying to put in place some of the basic steps that are fairly standard from a state department point of view and preparation point of view of telling americans to leave the country of ukraine now if they are able and the other kinds of messages they put out, to reduce the risks to americans and reduce the risks to nato partner countries and to try to calm things down from an outer perimeter. those are things the u.s. may have greater control over, controlling what is in the mind of vladimir putin or his intentions much harder to do. and so the message from the u.s. at this point is trying to extend the time for diplomacy, hoping that that will calm things down. but as we understand it, the message that the president gave to president zelensky in their third phone call since december was to be prepared for this not to go well and there to be tensions. a difficult conversation. the white house says the same kinds of things the president has said publicly. >> general mccaffrey, i have time for one more question to you and it was something that made my ears perk up, first in the news conference and then courtney reported u.s. troops in ukraine ahead of any invasion to help with evacuations. everyone involved up and down the leadership ladder says we don't want any confrontation between u.s. troops and nato troops and russia. but if there are american forces inside ukraine, what happens? >> to be honest i think it's a minor question. if there's a massive russian invasion that tries to take down all the urban areas with intense ground combat with ukraine and armed forces, the least of our problems is going to be u.s. citizens who have been put on warning. there are four nato nations they can escape into on the ground. it's highly unlikely you'd see four brigades around the kyiv international airport, so i don't think a consideration. i don't think putin is actually going to go for an all-out invasion. it would be a strategic disaster for him. but very likely there's going to be some overt military action against ukrainians. that's what we're facing right now. putin has put himself in a box. i don't see how he backs himself out of it. >> general mccaffrey, kelly o'donnell, richard engel and courtney kube, thank you all for your reporting and analysis on this. we'll be keeping a very close eye on this obviously across the weekend. now to some breaking news on the investigation into the january 6th investigation. the house committee unveiling 14 new subpoenas targeting republican officials they believe were part of an effort to use, quote, alternate electors following the 2020 election. these are people who allegedly submitted ballots intended to swing the counting of electoral votes in favor of now former president trump. the committee says they believe these electors came from these seven key swing states that you see on the screen. joining me to help explain all of this is my nbc news capitol hill team colleague, ali vitali and politico congressional reporter nicholas wu. ali, i'll start with you. what do we know about who these folks are and why? >> you laid out the basics here. 14 people subpoenaed today across seven different states, all of them states that biden won, and all of them states where we saw fake slates of electors also sent to the national archives. it really gives us a sense of how the january 6th committee is looking into the efforts to overturn the election results. the way that you can think about these fake slates of electors are that in these states that biden won, in some of them we were seeing the trump campaign try to contest the election results. some of these slates of electors were being put forward in that vein, following through to the ending conclusion, even though biden ultimately won those states. what you can think of them as are bricks that are laid in the larger conspiracy theory that some in the trump orbit put forward that they could be used by mike pence and supersede the will of the people and make trump stay president. of course we know that's not what mike pence did in the end. but you start to see the theory take shape here. it's also relative to people who we already know were subpoenaed. these 14 people, their names were on the fake slate of electors, but the committee wants to know from them who was behind this strategy? we know that people in the then president's orbit like boris epshteyn and rudy giuliani were part of these conversations. boris epshteyn has said he was behind part of this strategy and some of this thinking but the committee is trying to figure out where this originated from. they want to hear from these electors and get documents from them. it's really giving us a sense of the way this committee is drilling down on what the former president's orbit may have been trying to do around actually laying the groundwork to potentially overturn election results. >> nick, let's borrow ali's metaphor here. if these slates of fake electors were the bricks, how does the committee see them being put together in some kind of conspiracy? they're not just interested in these 14 individuals, they're interested in the way this was all being constructed. walk us through the way they want to tie all of these elements together. >> exactly. we're going to keep on going through the road metaphor. we're looking at where all the roads end up connecting. basically what the committee laid out in all of these letters explaining their subpoenas to these 14 people is that they're looking to really drill down on the question of how exactly these meetings of alternate slates of electors were coordinated. we've seen reports that it was rudy giuliani who oversaw a lot of this. they want to see to what degree the white house and the trump campaign were in fact involved in getting this altogether. as i've previously reported, the committee has taken an interest too in whether or not there were any crimes committed in the process. whether it's forgery of these documents or broader claims of election fraud. >> nick, these electors, they're being investigated all over the place. but is there any indication that these folks who signed on to be part of these fake slates, did they potentially commit a crime, or is this something where they could be pawns in some bigger conspiracy? >> well, it's interesting that you ask that. i interviewed the michigan secretary of state earlier this week on this same question. she actually indicated that some of these people might actually have been misled by some sort of higher authority thinking they could have used this as a recourse to overturn the election. clearly that wasn't the case. the national archives rejected these alternate slates as did vice president pence. but the fact that they did this helps shed light on how exactly all of these efforts to overturn the election at the state level came into play at the time. >> ali vitali, nick wu, thank you for your reporting and introducing us to this infrastructure metaphor that we will continue when the president speaks later in pennsylvania. we will bring you his remarks when he starts speaking. later, we'll have new reporting also that trump allies are trying to recruit a controversial musician to run for congress. we'll talk about that after this. any minute now, president biden will be making remarks. the expected focus, a lot of these kitchen table issues. stay with us. these kitchen table issues stay with us ™ and subway's refreshing everything like the new baja turkey avocado with smashed avocado, oven-roasted turkey, and baja chipotle sauce. it's three great things together. wait! who else is known for nailing threes? 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bridges in poor condition. it's just simply unacceptable. that's why your governor and your members of congress, your mayor, have been saying for years we have to do something about this. i've talked about it every time i've come to pittsburgh. and we finally got it done. a bipartisan infrastructure law, including the largest investment in our nation's bridges since the eisenhower put together the interstate highway system. i might add -- [ applause ] -- this is the first time in the country's history that we dedicated a national program to repair and upgrade bridges. it's about time. the governor can tell you, we're giving state and local leaders historic funding to make national projects real. here in pennsylvania, that means at least $1.6 billion for bridges alone. $327 million in 2022 alone, just to repair bridges. we've got to get on with it, we've got to move. the next time we don't need headlines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapses. we also provide billions of roads and so much more. we saw today when a bridge is in disrepair, it literally can threaten lives. as soon as we heard about the bridge, we were immediately in contact with the mayor. mr. mayor, you're doing a hell of a job and the governor and other officials on the ground. we're going to rebuild that bridge, along with thousands of other bridges in pennsylvania and across the country because it's in our interests for our own safety's sake and it generates commerce in a way that we can't do now. that's part of how we're going to build a better america and that's what i want to talk to you about today. so thank you for the introduction, jo jo. mr. mayor, county executive rich fitzgerald, great to see you again, pal. it's good to be here with so many outstanding folks, particularly the governor, lieutenant governor john fetterman. john, i had you in front of where when i was playing at delaware, i could have been an all-american. connor lamb, it's great to see you, man. you're doing a hell of a job, all of you. my good friend and neighbor in scranton, bobby casey. his dad -- we were about the same spread. his dad is much older than me as i am of bobby. i lived on north -- did you see they changed the name of the road? it's the joe biden way now, did you see that? >> i shouldn't say this, i'm going to get in trouble in delaware. but the first thing i asked in the election results, i said how did i do in scranton? i won every precinct. and so i used to drive up route 81 all the time to get not just to get to scranton but to get up to syracuse when i was at syracuse law school. now the entrance to get to scranton off 81 is the joe biden expressway. so i'm coming home, i'm coming home. but all kidding aside, i want to thank our commerce secretary, former governor raimondo for joining us and congressman mike doyle who couldn't be here today but who's done so much for this district. nearly three years ago i began my campaign for president right here in pittsburgh, the first major stop i made. i said back -- i said back then i was running to restore the backbone of america, the middle class. it's time we begin to build this country from the middle up and the bottom out so that we -- i've never known when a wealthy person didn't do well when the middle class was doing well. we always do better when ordinary, hard-working people have a shot. when i accepted the nomination in august of 2020 i came to mill 19 for my first campaign stop. i laid out my vision to build a better america, with greater pay for the working people. i often hear about who built the country. guess what, the middle class built this country and unions built the middle class. folks, making it in america with american manufacturing and easing the financial burdens on millions of families, that's the same vision i laid out once again when i was here in pittsburgh the first stop i made after i was sworn in as president. after my first year, i wanted to come back to pittsburgh. this is my third time here in this facility, to take stock of what we've accomplished together and look forward to the extraordinary opportunities that lie ahead for pittsburgh and america if we continue to do our job. from day one every action i've taken to rebuild the economy has been guided by one principle, make it in america. like we used to. no one knows that better than all the folks here in pittsburgh. and that's why it matters so much. making it in america is what built this city. the steel city. the arsenal democracy during world war ii, when pennsylvania generated as much steel as germany, japan and italy combined right here in the city of pittsburgh. pittsburgh also knows the consequences when we ignore the backbone and fail to invest in ourselves, fail to invest in our people. some of you have been around long enough to remember how this city lost 100,000 steel jobs between 1970 and 1990. i was raised when i moved from scranton, my dad didn't have any work and we moved to claymont, delaware. the town was a company town. there's not a single steel worker there now. by the 1980s, more than three-quarters of pittsburgh steel capacity had been shuttered. you or your parents remember what you felt like in your neighborhood. it didn't feel good. the painful ripple effect it had. jobs lost, families ripped apart. so you know that to build a truly strong economy, we need a future that's made in america. that means using products, parts, materials built right here in the united states of america. it means bringing manufacturing back, jobs back, building the supply chains here at home, not outsourcing abroad so we have better jobs and lower prices here. it means betting on america's workers. it takes the federal government that doesn't just give lip service to buy in america but actually takes action. that's the approach i've taken from day one. and now we're beginning to see the results. we learned this week after my first year as president, the united states had the fastest economic growth in nearly four decades along with -- [ applause ] along with the greatest year of job growth in american history, 6.4 million jobs created in one year. and instead of losing manufacturing jobs, since i've been in office, america has actually added an additional 367,000 manufacturing jobs in america. good-paying jobs. the highest increase in u.s. manufacturing jobs in 30 years. last week the ceo of intel, pat kelsinger, came to the white house because he wanted to support the build back better initiative and to also let me know two of your neighboring senators were there, portman and brown, a democrat and republican from ohio. he came to announce the new $20 billion semiconductor campus outside of columbus, ohio. that's going to create 10,000 jobs, 7,000 constructing the facility and 3,000 permanent jobs. and by the way, i was joking, i said i may need a job. he said it's not bad. the average salary is $135,000 a year. folk -- and the key is these jobs are manufacturing essential products. stamped made in america. semiconductors, you know, they're small computer chips that power virtually everything in everyday life. they were originated here in the united states of america. we used to own not only the patent but the technology and the production. your phone, your car, your refrigerator, your washing machine, hospital equipment, the internet, the electric grid and so much more depend on these chips. so this is going to create thousands of additional jobs helping build more american products. for example, you know, inflation is a problem which i'll speak to in a second. it's real. a lot of people are being hurt by it. but guess what, one-third of the inflation in america is a consequence of the cost of automobiles. one-third. you know why? because of the shortage of semiconductors. they can't build them, and, therefore, the ones that aren't being built cause the price of those that are being built to go much higher. this announcement helps fix that problem. three days ago i called a meeting in the white house of ceos from general motors, ford, microsoft, hewlett-packard and others. mary barra, general motors ceo, announced to the white house an initial $7 billion investment in michigan to manufacture electric vehicles, creating 4,000 new quality jobs. that's on top of the announcement made by the ceo of ford, jim farley, last year investing $11 billion in electric vehicles, creating 11,000 new jobs. and today right here in western pennsylvania, the union pacific railroad is announcing the largest purchase of american-made battery electric locomotives in all of history. [ applause ] by the way, guess who's supplying those batteries? general motors. folks, i want to tell you, it matters. it matters a lot. the company that will build these locomotives was called wab tech. they grew out of the old westinghouse air brake company. it is based here in pittsburgh and these locomotives will be built up in erie where thomas edison built the general electric a century ago. not only will they power our economy and reduce pollution, they will export them to canada, australia and all around the world creating more good-paying jobs. folks, in the process, reducing climate change, creating jobs here in western pennsylvania. as i said, good-paying jobs you can raise a family on. my dad said, a family needs just a little bit of breathing room. a little bit of breathing room. so many people don't have it now. but it also means something else. it means that right here in pittsburgh, the future is being built on the foundation of this city's storied past. an announcement like this doesn't happen in a vacuum. the manufacturing resurgence we're seeing today is no accident. it takes local leaders, federal leaders, foundations, businesses, unions, universities, all pulling together. it requires a mindset like you have here in mill 19. here's what i mean by that. generations ago, mill 19 used to roll out 10-inch steel bars. today it rolls out the latest innovation in advanced manufacturing of robotics, 3-d printing and artificial intelligence. it's simply rolling out the future. that's what it's going to be doing. that success is the result of a partnership. the federal government provides funding for everything from basic research to great universities like carnegie-melon to supporting businesses to get into the game in the first place, like the businesses here at mill 19. organizations like one called catalyst, they work with small business to adapt to the latest technologies they need and grow, and grow and compete globally. the work, the work is made possible by funding from the commerce department and they partner with engineers and researchers from carnegie-melon university who designed the next generation of advanced manufacturing equipment, creating technologies who work alongside of workers instead of replacing the workers. in fact carnegie-melon and the afl-cio are teaming up to make sure these technologies are designed to support workers. another organization at mill 19 called arm institute. arm institute is a public/private partnership funded in part by the federal government to help robotics technology move into the marketplace and to help train workers to build, operate and repair robots so that working folks right here can take on good-paying jobs at companies like wab tech are helping to create. and by the way, thanks to the american rescue plan, the first major bill we got passed in march, my commerce department is investing an additional $1 billion in local efforts to strengthen regional economies throughout the country. some of that money is coming right here to western pennsylvania in support of efforts that include partners here at mill 19. helping spread new robotics, artificial intelligence, manufacturing technology, and create more jobs across the nation. look, you all get it. the bottom line is this, it takes all of us working together. all of us working together to get this done. that's finally beginning to happen. when the federal government invests in innovation, it powers up the private sector to do what it does best, creating incredible new technologies, new industries, and most importantly new jobs, good-paying jobs. these are the kinds of investments and partnerships that help us build a made in america future. we can't slow down now. we can't slow down now. we know what happens when we stop investing in the future in places like pittsburgh. decades ago we used to invest 2% of our gross domestic product in research and development here in america. let me emphasize that, research and development. today we invest less than 1%. the united states of america used to be ranked number one in the world in investing in the future. now we rank number nine in research and development. china was number eight three decades ago. today it's number two. other countries are catching up fast. but we can and we must change that trajectory. we have an opportunity ahead of us right now. the house and senate, the united states congress and the united states senate are working out a bill that's going to provide an extra $90 billion for research and development, manufacturing all the elements of the supply chain needed to produce the end products. this has helped create more partnerships like the ones you have right here at mill 19. second raimondo has been helping lead this effort. she knows what it takes. my expectation is this will continue to be a bipartisan effort, god willing, just like the infrastructure law. and by the way, regarding the infrastructure law, we brought together democrats and republicans, led by senator casey, senator lamb and other members of your delegation, along with republicans to do something about infrastructure. now just 74 days after signing that law, we're already making tangible differences for highways, ports, airports, rail, high-speed internet, clean air, clean water. that includes $1.6 billion over the next five years for pennsylvania to repair its bridges. as i said earlier, there are more than 3,300 bridges across pennsylvania and over 7,500 miles of highway in poor condition. it also means jobs replacing lead water pipes so families in 10 million homes and in 400,000 schools and child care centers can drink clean water, not lead-based. jobs. [ applause ] jobs providing the labor and infrastructure, making high-speed internet affordable and available everywhere in america. cities, suburban and rural areas. so that nobody is left behind. nobody is left behind. you know, when you pause for a second and if you think about it, how many times during the period when covid was so bad, it's still not good but we're getting there, covid was so bad and schools or closed, you'd drive my mcdonald's and see a family sitting in the parking lot so a kid could use his computer or her computer to tie into the internet out of the mcdonald's or any other fast food restaurant. this is the united states of america, for god sake. what are we doing? what in god's name are we doing? we've announced a major investment of $858 million to modernize the montgomery lock in northwest pittsburgh. so water levels stay high enough for barges to pass through on the upper ohio river. we move about a half a trillion dollars worth of goods through these locks across the country every single year. when they're not working, it creates choke points. barges break up, goods don't get to where they need to go. bob casey has been on my back about this for so long. as we get this montgomery lock project done, i think we should call it the casey lock. bobby, i didn't know anyone in scranton who knew what a lock was, you know what i mean? but all kidding aside, it's going to happen. it's going to happen. i've also announced after consulting with my friend, cecil roberts, president of the united mine workers, a plan to cap and plug orphan gas wells and oil wells spewing methane into the air. over 100,000 of them. clean up abandoned mines. i come from coal country, scranton. thousands of these wells helped generate economic growth here in pennsylvania. but now it's time to create good-paying union jobs capping those wells. they're abandoned. they get the same salary as those who dug them in the first place. look, this also delivers $7.5 billion to build a network of electric vehicle charging stations. a good friend of mine, lonnie stephenson, head of the ibw, they're going to have a good time, man. 500,000 of these charging stations on our highways. by the way, when you build these stations, what happens, it's just like when you build a gas station on a highway, other things grow up around it. you're going to see communities grow as a consequence, making us more globally competitive in the future of electric vehicles while helping fight climate change. here in pennsylvania you know the cost of inaction when it comes to climate. extreme weather cost this state $10 billion over the last decade, $10 billion. y'all remember last fall when hurricane ida made landfall and the former mayor of louisiana, when it hit louisiana. winds hit 178 miles an hour. guess what happened here? it flooded businesses in oakdale and homes in millvale. last year extreme weather nationally cost us $145 billion. that's what it cost the american public. extreme weather is not going to ease up on its own. we have to be ready. that's why we're investing in our resilience, building roads higher, our levees stronger, our power grids more durable so they don't get blown down and cause massive, massive, massive wildfires. to withstand the increasing ferocity of extreme weather. you know, i went all over the country last year visiting these sites. flying over vast, vast stretches of land in the west and oregon, washington, idaho, looking down from that helicopter and seeing nothing but barren, barren landing. you know, more timber, more housing, more businesses burned to the ground last year in the united states than the entire physical size of the state of new jersey, from the new york state line down to the delaware bay. that's how much burned in this last year. all of these investments, making it in america, research and development and infrastructure are really about one thing. powering more cities and more towns to do what you're doing right here in pittsburgh, transforming yourself. i'm being told you're a city without a future to becoming the city of the future. think what your kids are going to have with this leadership you have in front of you. 15 years from now here in pittsburgh. you're going to lead the world again. it's not hyperbole, it's a fact. where instead of shuttering factories along the allegheny river, we're going to talk about not steel row, but robotics row. three-mile run with some of the world's most innovative businesses. a place where the future is being written, families can have good paychecks, good home, a future. a little bit of breathing room. the story we have kept right here in pittsburgh, keep writing in communities all across the country. this is the one you've begun. but we can't slow down, folks. we need to ease the burden on working families, making everything, everything more affordable and accessible for hard-working people. that's why my build back better plan is all about. that's why those major corporations came to the white house asking to see me, to tell me they supported build back better even though it was going to increase their taxes. going to increase their taxes. this plan will not cost the american people a single penny -- no one making less than $400,000 will pay a single additional penny in their taxes, and it reduces the deficit. 14 nobel laureates in economics wrote to me telling me that it also will diminish the impact of inflation. take child care. how many families in this town can continue to afford to pay $14,000 per kid for child care? well, the plan i have cuts that in half for most families, helping them with their budgets, helping millions of parents, especially women, go back to work. how many of you know anybody who has type 1 diabetes? they need insulin. you know how much it costs to make that insulin? less than $10. you know how much it costs on average nationwide for a monthly supply of insulin, which you need it every single month? $656, as high as $1,000. imagine being the parent making the minimum wage or twice the minimum wage and having a child with type 1 diabetes knowing that if you can't and had no insurance, knowing that you cannot get that money for the insulin, the child might die. it strips you of your dignity, dammit. can you imagine looking at your child and you know what they need. and not be able to do it? able . many of you have lost children. many of you have seen -- imagine! it's outrageous! we have an answer. at the time same, same is true for home based community services for seniors and people with disabilities. [ applause ] folks, look. what's the one thing if you -- a lot of you are part of the so-called sandwich generation. you have a child and you need to get to day care so you can go out and work as well as you got a mom or a dad who's elderly living at home and don't want to move out of their house and move into a nursing home. but you know the data shows 800,000 people qualify under medicare to get that help but it's not available. sometimes it's as little as someone there to pick up the prescription. put a handrail in the shower. making sure someone can show up and help the meal. it's cheaper for everybody. it's a decent thing to do. it's the parents deserve to have a little bit of dignity. it will not increase the deficit and will not cost anybody making less than 400,000 bucks a penny. i'm a capitalist. you can make a billion dollars? go at it. at least pay a little bit. fortune 500 companies -- [ applause ] fortune 500 companies last two years who made over $40 billion, didn't pay a cent in taxes. i'm not talking about anybody paying more than they did ten years ago. look. we see the -- we know how to ease the pressure on families. we're increasing productivity and the potential for the economy. we can afford the investments making sure that the wealthy pay a little bit. no one earning -- i guarantee you. i told you about the impact of the 17 nobel laurates saying it will decrease deficit why the united states is in the position to outcompete the rest of the world again. this is a real inflection point. technology, society's changing. and we've always been ahead of the curve. we have an opportunity ahead of us. we still face tremendous challenges. we can keep coming together and invest in the backbone of this country there's no limit to what we could achieve. so let's continue, continue to give working families a fighting chance. let's keep investing in the future of every city and town in this country. let's face the challenges head on. let's keep building a better america because this is totally, completely within our power. i promise you. i promise you. it's about time we stop fighting and it is about time we start working together again. thank you for your consideration for what we're talking about. thank you, thank you, thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. we have been listening to some -- oh. >> a guy whose help on the vets coming back is the head of the va. raise your hand, pal. let them know who you are. he's back there. anyway. we'll get them. there's a lot going on, folks. god bless you all. may god protect our troops. thank you. >> i should have known better. joe biden speech is never really done getting from the microphones. there is always someone else in the room to talk to, shake hands with, shout out. today starting off on infrastructure in the bipartisan infrastructure law and touching on a host of topics. i'm joined by my white house correspondent mike memoli and colleague in the room along with bridget bowman. mike, we have been hearing about the white house preparing to pivot to a midterm messaging to take the president out of washington an entalk about the achievements. >> reporter: absolutely right? when you see pittsburgh on the schedule you pay attention. he kicked off the 2020 campaign in 2019. the year before gearing up the campaigning for democrats in the midterm elections it started in pittsburgh. it is who joe biden thinks the democrat party is and middle of america and this is for the white house a chance to talk what they have been doing for so long and parts of the agenda they want democrats to run on in the midterm election and spent time talking about build back better and don't know if there's a legislative path forward but made the case for it today. we really haven't talked about the innovation and competition act that's working the way through the congress and has a chance to be quietly enacted very soon. a big part of the message today. a steel mill at cutting edge of technology. >> bridget, we have been talking about whether joe biden can help democratic candidates or not in the midterm elections. he had the lieutenant governor and representative connor. is this the kind of speech the president bragging about the congress accomplished to help one of these men win an open senate seat in pennsylvania. >> i think democrats believe it can. they have been saying they have a lot to run on and need to tell voters about it. are voters receptive to the message and how much do they want to appear with president biden? fetterman wasn't going to be there and with congressman lamb. a senator and governor's race. biden narrowly in 2020. it is a top opportunity for democrats looking to hold on to the majority in the senate. >> all right. as the president leaves the room, that does it for our coverage. thank you. 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