Okay. America, its biden versus trump again, but will 2024 look anything like 2020 . The lead starts right now the time has now come to suspend my campaign nikki haley exits and clears the way for a biden trump rematch. The president is making a play for her voters while donald trump is racking up some new gop endorsements, including a big one from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell who hasnt even talked to trump in more than a year. And the chances of a thirdparty candidate jumping into this race. This hour, ill speak with the chiefs for no labels plus facing the hard truths about the Fentanyl Crisis when states Change Of Heart after becoming the first in the nation to decriminalize possession of certain alleles this of drugs and welcome to the lead. Im abby phillip in for jake tapper today, we start with our 2020 24 lead. The rematch is officially set. Joe biden and donald trump are almost guaranteed to be their partys nominees for president. After nikki haley officially dropped
the big day on capitol hill turning to a big night on capitol hill. democratic leaders as of this hour promise plowing forward on the infrastructure bill. it could come after 9:00 p.m. eastern. there will be full coverage on msnbc, including right now on the reidout with joy reid. hey, joy. hey, ari. thank you very much. the plot thickens. have great evening. we begin the reidout tonight, waiting as you just heard to see if speaker pelosi will bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill to the house floor for a vote tonight, which per her history, pelosi would like i will only do if it will pass. right now members are bracing for a late night with no votes scheduled before 9:00 p.m. but top aides to the president, speaker pelosi, and majority leader chuck schumer have been huddling to figure out a path forward. now, if you have been paying attention to the beltway media
we will get into that in a bit. though she is supposed to have the night off, laura will be joining us in a few moments over the phone to give her thoughts on what transpired tonight. you will not want to miss that. but first we go live to capitol hill. where we have details on how all of this went down. david? tammy, good evening. big night on capitol hill. before president trump signs the legislation in the morning which we re told he will as you mentioned. house speaker nancy pelosi just signed it on capitol hill. now it s on the way to the white house. 300 yeas for the bill, spending bill. 128 neighs on that. it was comprised between republicans and democrats. majority of democrats. the senate passed the majority 83-1 earlier today. spent most of the day speaking. senators had mixed feelings on the president getting ready to declare a national emergency. majority leader mitch mcconnell made it clear he had assurances from president trump the bill would be
can tap into, to get that wall. we ll get into that. laura will be joining us in just a few moments over the phone to give her thoughts on what transpired tonight. first we go live to capitol hill where david spunt has the details on how all of this went down good evening tammy. big night on capitol hill before president trump signs that legislation in the morning which we re told he will as you just mentioned, house speaker nancy pelosi just actually signed it on capitol hill. now it s on its way to the white house. the vote totals, 300 yays for the spending bill, 128 nays on. that it was comprised between republicans and democrats, the majority of democrats. the senate passed the measure 83-16 earlier today. spent most of the day in the senate. on the president getting ready to declare a national emergency, majority leader mitch mcconnell made it clear he had assurances from president trump that the
that he doesn t know that the truth is important, his word is important, goes right along with the fact that he doesn t understand that the dignity and the rights of americans is importance, that he doesn t understand that respecting the press is important, that he doesn t understand right from wrong, the law matters. you can say he s incompetent, and that happens to be true, be the relevant issue we re being asked to look at ourselves in the mirror, do we as a people know the difference between right and wrong and he doesn t. i want to thank each of you on your analysis of what is shaping up to be a big night on capitol hill. and i turn to the democratic senator from hawaii, senator, you were in that meeting with the president negotiating earlier, there are people who look at this and question, is this another bout of washington theatrics or do you view this and this potential shutdown as something that can affect everyday americans, what do you