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what s at stake in the days and weeks ahead. biden s entire presidential agenda rests on expansive spending bill. and, indeed, president biden continues to try to rally democrats around his $3.5 trillion spending package, especially senator joe manchin who remains opposed in addition to the separate bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to hold a bill on biden s larger spending package until the end of the month although it is widely expected to be altered and revised in the senate. without manchin s vote, democrats can t pass the package for budget reconciliation. they are threatening to hold up a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal which is expected to happen this week and has passed the senate until the larger package has a vote. in washington right now it is the season of competing leverage. another reported sticking point in the interparty negotiations has to do with the future of the affordable care act and wheth ....
ana geardadas filling in for the one and only ali velshi. we re live in new york where members of the u.n. are arriing in a few hours. in a little over 24 hours, president biden is set to travel here for the first united nations assembly of his president. could be a contentious few days. in addition to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, which is once again taking the lives of more than 2,000 americans per day, this year s general assembly comes just weeks after the calamitous u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. and days after the biden administration admitted, calling it a, quote, mistake, that a recent drone strike in afghanistan intended for isis-k members killed zero terrorists, but instead, ten innocent civilians, including seven children. things also remain contentious on capitol hill. if you want to get a sense of what s at stake in the days and weeks ahead, the new york times sums it up pretty well with this headline this morning. quote, biden s entire presidential a ....
good day everyone. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with president biden s big week ahead. a short time ago he was seen on a bike ride in rehoboth beach before he takes on another brewing crisis a fallout with french president macron which is angered by a secret deal to sell submarines to australia. he ignored some questions there. but this week he will also deliver an address to the u.s. general assembly, host a vaccine summit and then friday will be hosting the quad leaders summit. and then on capitol hill, the battle over reconciliation is heating up among democrats are senator manchin renewing debate over whether the $3.5 trillion price tag is too high. here is bernie sanders response. we re taking on the pharmaceutical industry, we re spending millions and millions of dollars trying to make sure that they could charge us ten times more than the people of other countries for drugs. we re taking on the health care industry. does not want to expand medicare. ....
welcome, everybody. good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover. breaking news out of texas. a military aircraft crashing into homes in a resident sh area. we will have the latest on that. new developments in the case of a missing woman and the now vanished fiancee as a person of interest in the case. a crucial week about to begin on capitol hill with a shutdown looming over the size and scope of the reconciliation bill. all sides making the case today. fallout from the much smaller than expected capitol hill rally. what the turnout says about the extremist movement in the gop. next hour, an extraordinary act of civil disobediences and the facts of restrictive abortion bill in texas. that is why on the morning of september 6 i provided an abortion to a woman who though still in her first trimester was beyond the state s new limit. a doctor going public there with his challenge to the texas law daring anti-abortion rights to sue him. we ll ....
[swords clashing] - had enough? - no. arthritis. here. new aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don t thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. welcome back. i m yasmin vossoughian. an extraordinary act of civil disobedience by a texas doctor facing a law that all but eliminated abortions in the state. that is why, on the morning of september 6, i provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state s new limit. what that public revelation in the papers of the washington post means for the fight over the law and for that doctor personally. that discussion coming up in a moment. also this hour, how much are progressive democrats willing do give up in the reconciliation bill to make senator manchin happy? we are 50 votes. we have to work it out as we did with the american rescue plan but i have made and my colleagues have made a major compromise going from 6 tr ....