constructive the conversations were. he is going to have his sleeves rolled up and be very engaged moving forward. reporter: yet the president s schedule didn t indicate that today with all meetings being conducted at the staff level. the president will not be meeting with lawmakers today. we ll see. the president is always open to meeting with discussing and communicating with lawmakers. there is a lot of work that needs to continue that can happen with senior staff members. reporter: a lot of work indeed with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan up for a vote early next week. along with the broader $3.5 trillion plan to expand education and health care, address climate change, and more. on capitol hill, cnn s manu raju pressed speaker pelosi on the plan cost. have you settled on a price tag no, we didn t talk about that. this is not about price tag. this is what is in the bill. reporter: it is of course about both but pelosi remained optimistic democrats would
hospital started crisis standard of care before the whole state sees tonight. and groups news reporting a triage team. using a specific formula to prioritize patients most likely to recover. has been asked to help with patient care decision, one decision we there were four patients were required a special kind of dialysis which was a replacement therapy. for patients but only two of the four could get it of the two patients who did not receive the therapy, one of them died. the other one survived but remains hospitalized now in a politics care care we setting. another decision at the hospital involve deciding which patient got incubated because they were not enough beds in the icu. another patient died in a world alaska hospital because they needed cardiac catheterization. they were quote waiting for a bid to free up so we could transfer them said the hospital chief steph. and that patient died. providence alaska, the hospital that previously set of crisis tentative care th
6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in household wealth. nearly doubling the unemployment rate to 9%, and increase borrowing costs for all americans. it would be a catastrophe, and that s don t take it from me. let me quote mitch mcconnell when this came up during the donald trump years. mitch mcconnell said the following. he said much mcconnell stated that not supporting a debt limit suspension this is what he said. assures that congress will not throw this kind of unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth and thriving economy. when trump was president, they didn t want to throw a wrench, a wrench, unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth. today he s threatening to do just that. we are to stop holding the debt and the economy hostage. we ll do ndaa on the floor today. strengthening our security, honoring our service members, upholding our values and today we will have legislation on the security interests that we have in the middle east by putting ad
done. cnn politics reporter chris cillizza joining us now. if this fails if the president fails this week, his entire domestic agenda is essentially done for at least 15 months. yeah, erica. the stakes it s hard to overstate the stakes hiere. so between the trillion dollar hard infrastructure bill, as they call it, that passed the senate but not the house, and the $3.5 trillion budget agenda, you have everything joe biden is trying to do on the domestic front from immigration to climate to education to coronavirus and dealing with it, all wrapped up in these two bills. it s not that surprising it s almost $5 trillion in government spending. but if it doesn t go, if this agreement between democrats doesn t come together, there s a real issue here. there s no plan b. there s no other bill that they can go to. they could maybe try to break it into parts, but this is the bill. this is the effort, and the issue is that, once we turn the page to 2022, now you start talking
leader. always the charmer. there is news. we re not going to lose this. will you commit to making sure there is a peaceful transfer of power after the election? we have to see what happens. oh, a cliffhanger. will the president of the united states let democracy run its course? we ll find out on the next depressing episode of this week in covid history. seems like last year. good morning. welcome to morning joe. wednesday, september 22nd. things look different. history being made this morning. this is the first well, this is the second time that we ve been in this studio since willie, i guess moon landing. it looks a little well, third time. the suez crisis, number one. yeah. the moon landing, number two. then we were allowed back into this studio when news broke that bianca jagger rode the horse through studio 54. that was the third event. right. we put it above the moon landing and the suez crisis, right? we rushed into the bureau. w