sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, which he denies doing. we ll talk to a new york state assemblyman about what comes next for the governor. protesters took to the streets of beirut to mark one year since that massive explosion ripped through the city killing more than 200 people and exacerbating the economic, political and health crisis facing lebanon. we re going to have a live report on the ground from beirut later this hour. also at this hour, president biden visiting a plummer s union training facility in maryland just outside of washington, d.c. the visit comes as the senate makes progress on the bipartisan infrastructure bill in hopes of finishing work on the legislation in the coming days. the democratic senator leading the debate says that he s pleased with how the debate is going so far. the debate is in good spirit and i think we re getting a good project, a large project for the infrastructure bill. we re actually making it better and doing it in a bipart
icloud account in 2019, and they used a filter then because it was a covert operation. thank you so much for the latest from new york. now to the bipartisan commission to examine the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. it s looking not good at the moment. moments ago we learned of another move by senate republicans to keep this commission from ever happening. in this case even blocking debate on it. the house did approve the bill setting up the commission. 35 republicans voted for it, defying their leader, kevin mccarthy. former president trump is weighing in predictably calling them weak and ineffective. ten republican senators are needed to pass the bill whether it goes over to that chamber, and six have announced their opposition to the commission. you have seven on your screen now, the addition of north carolina senator richard burr, and cnn s ryan noble s is joinig us from capitol hill. reporter: this does not come as a surprise, this is the procedural move r
the president doesn t resolve the voting rights battle first. in the middle of all this comes another big push from the president. minutes from now he will speak on a new gun crime prevention and public safety plan. but will politics get in the way of this too? cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. an infrastructure meeting is about to kick off with white house officials 30 minutes from now. where do those talks stand? reporter: the white house meeting is with the bipartisan group of senators. they re trying to figure out exactly whether they can reach an agreement on how to finance this package. the democrats who were involved in these talks told me today that they believe it is essential today to try to figure out a way to get an agreement on how to pay for a $1.2 trillion package over eight years. there are still disagreements about how to do that. at the same time there is pressure from the left, particularly from progressives l
inauguration. about eight days before the 100-day mark, but i think what you heard from the president there, which i think is far more important than the 200 million number, is the idea the u.s. is entering a new phase. it underscores what i m hearing a lot from administration officials, that the supply issue, the issue that the administration has been try to go confront and combat for the entirety of their first 90-some-odd days is no longer the key problem. there s enough supply for people to get shots. obviously every single state in america has opened up eligibility. there s 28 million doses going out ever week from the federal side. the bigger issue is people s willingness to get vaccinated. that was the big point of what you were hearing the president talk about. yes, vaccine hesitancy is an issue. it s one the white house has been work to go combat over the last several weeks. we ve heard all about it in their efforts to deploy vaccines into rural areas or underserved
as a precautionary measure, national guard troops have been deployed in downtown minneapolis, and the twin cities are not alone. chicago, philadelphia, washington, d.c., many cities across the u.s. are preparing for any and all reactions. and president biden called the family of george floyd last night. he weighed in with his hopes for the verdict now that the jury has been sequestered. let s get right to minneapolis where 12 of chauvin s peers, five men, seven women, four black, six white, two multiracial, are considering three weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses, hours of evidence, and their decisions must be unanimous. cnn s sara sidner joins us live from outside the courthouse. sara, we ve not heard much about the jurors. what do we know about their process so far? reporter: so, they ve been very quiet but that is likely because they are looking over evidence and trying to come to a decision. they started last night, actually, between 4:00 and 8:00, they delib