Results. And its what we mentioned first, because tomorrow begins a Twoweek Period that will be critical in determining if this can become a permanent thing. The house returns in the morning and lawmakers will begin a sprint to September 27th, which is the Date Speaker Nancy pelosi set for the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill the senate passed in august. What happens next on the house will set the tone for the rest of President Bidens agenda, as the president finds himself and his agenda between two ideological poles of his party, both of which hold significant sway, and without any help from republicans. When it comes to democrats, theres the Joe Manchins of the world, and now voting Rights Legislation unveiled by democrats last week. Manchin also says that the 3. 5 trillion cost of the reconciliation bill, too high, and in a Facetoface Meeting with the president on wednesday appears not to have changed his mind. In fact, axios reports that manchin wants to pause voting on bidens social
The president s national Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. But first for our ongoing coverage we are joined by helene cooper, Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times, an msnbc contributor, former top State Department Official Rick Stengel, now also an msnbc political Analyst And Paul rieckhoff is here, founder of veterans of America And Host of the podcast independent americans. Helene, i start with you. If theres any question as to whether or not this president and this White House cease the criticism of this decision, i think it was answered by the president going right at this very sort of specific line of attack that you hear frankly from the right and the left. He talked about this, quote, we shoulda, coulda maintained a small force and not taken on any casualties. They felt it was important to knock that down. What did you make of the specifics that he had and the attempt to knock back the critics . Hi, nicolle, thanks for having me. It was a clear effort to knock down criti
Desantis and local leaders as well as local and federal leaders put politics aside in the aftermath of last week s deadly condo collapse. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it s friday, july 2nd. Along with willie and me we have msnbc political analyst claire mckasskill, eugene robinson, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Mika has the morning off. That was a nice moment. We ve seen a few moments. We never want to overread into these moments and if we do, we certainly will hear about it, people suggesting that we re somehow hopelessly naive. But it is important for americans, it is important for the world to see the president and the governor of florida sitting down, being polite with each other, agreeing with each other that they re on the same team, that they re working together to alleviate the terrible pain, the terrible suffering that these families are going through in florida. We also saw it earlier this week when we saw mitch mcconnell, yes,
Sean: joe, please take the day off. The market the media they cover for joe. But there s something obviously clearly very wrong here. There s also something very wrong with joe s inability to stand up to china and russia and other hostile actors and regimes around the world. We have to ask the important question. Could this possibly have something to do with the corrupt biden family syndicate and zero experience hunter? is the family compromised? we have a lot more coming up. The former secretary of state mike pompeo. Also tonight, more acts of violence. This is heartbreaking. Caught on tape. In america s major cities. Videos showing a teenager setting a woman s hair on fire on a bus in san francisco. We got to ask the question, why does the media mob no longer seem to care about acts of violence against asian americans or any innocent americans? how is their plan to dismantle the police working at what we begin with the story of the big. That is the deception of dr. Fauci. Instead of
doing as voter fraud misinformation spread despite repeated requests from political professionals, and cnn has the receipts. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. any moment we re told president biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge in violent crime across the united states homicide rates are up. this year there have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 9,500 gun violence deaths, all higher than at this time last year. and 2020 had to have been the deadliest gun violence year in decades. making matters worse, local authorities are now warning of a brutal summer of killing, that it could lie ahead. now, president biden we re told will call on congress and use executive action to try to propose measures to curb gun violence. he says he has a five-point plan. let s get right to cnn s phil mattingly who is live for us from the white house. the president has failed to be able to get congress to act on gun legislation such as universal background checks before. wh