beginning. the summer of 2020. at the root of this entire case is the shooting of jacob blake the media told us blake was an innocent unarmed man gunned down why by racist cops. they even aired incomplete footage to fit the narrative and aided and abetted by joe biden who called on the officers involved in the blake shooting to be charged. but it turns out it was all a lie. he was a dangerous criminal with a knife and an immediate threat to the officer and his own family. but the misinformation was enough to start a riot in kenosha. the town was torched. violence was breaking out on the streets and cnn continued the lie. mostly peaceful protest, they told us. in case you couldn t tell by the burning buildings, that was not a very peaceful protest, which is why kyle rittenhouse went to kenosha that night. he was asked to come and try to help the situation. but then the media twisted the story again. without gathering any facts at all, they came up with a narrative that he was
54% believe it s concentrating on the wrong things. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight from the north lawn with what else the poles are telling us and what the administration is focused on today. good evening, peter. there is a correlation the more the president pushes this new progressive spending package the lower his approval rating falls. when he got elected, biden said he was going to work with his whole heart to win the confidence of the whole people and right now he doesn t have it. i see all my senate colleagues i m so unaccustomeds to them standing up for me. [laughter] joe biden has been around a long time 53% say age is interfering with job including 28% of democrats. biden s policies are too liberal. right now his big push is for the build back better plan. the cost of the build back better bill in terms of adding to the deficit, zero. it will not increase one single penny of the deficit. as a matter of fact, it reduced the defic
remaining disagreementing over president biden s social spending and climate package. democratic sources saying she wants a framework on that plan by the end of the week and hopes they can then approve the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan by the end of the month. this renewed sense of urgency on capitol hill follows president biden informing democrats that to get moderates on board in the senate, there will need to be major cuts to both the spending bill s price tag and programs. more on that in a moment. major horse trading under way. also this morning, the white house releasing plans to roll out covid-19 vaccine for children age 5 to 11 years old. that s as soon as those shots get emergency use authorization from the fda. it relies a lot on doctors. let s get cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. they re happening as we speak, manu. you, i, america have been here many times before. do you get the sense things are coming together now among democ