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to stay out of it at all costs. when he ran for reelection in 2014, he ran with the slogan he kept us out of war. that was true. he had kept us out of a war at that point. that was a popular enough sentiment in the united states at that time that wilson got reelected as president, in part thanks to those bragging rights along those lines, by keeping us out of the great war. he was reelected in 1916, but world war i was nevertheless dragging on, right, and expanding. it started in 1914, it dragged on into 1915, into 1916, into 1917. it involved dozens of countries, a huge swath all over the world that really was reshaping the world in all the alliances that various countries were in all over the world. ultimately the germans started sinking our ships in the atlantic even though we technically weren t part of the war yet. other countries in our hemisphere started getting dragged into it. by the spring of 1917, not even six months after wilson had been reelected on that ....
thursday. it passed on a party line vote 220 to 211. all the democrats voted yes, all the republicans voted now. senate republicans have also vowed not to vote on the bill which also provides money for disaster relief, afghanistan evacuees, the pandemic response. without ten senate republicans crossing the aisle to vote for it, the bill will die. california democratic congresswoman jackie spear offered this prediction of the consequences for republicans and indeed for our country. there s going to be blood on their hands. you re going to see the stock market plummet. you re going to see the increase in interest rates. you re going to see social security recipients not receiving their checks, and we re going to point to the republicans and say this is the reckless behavior of republicans. the house will was also the subject of sharp divisions within the democratic caucus. some members objected to the inclusion of a billion dollars for israel s iron domed defense syst ....
security recipients not receiving the check. i want to point to the republicans and say this is the reckless behavior of republicans. the house bill is also the subject of sharp divisions within the democratic caucus, some members objective of the inclusion of a billion dollars for israel s iron dome defense system which as you, know shoots down incoming rockets fired at israel. the funding was removed and will be voted on in a later bill. but republicans criticize the change and vowed to stand as allies with israel. that brings up the democrats deep divide. which is threatening biden sweeping domestic agenda. progressives and moderates, the left in the middle, artist and off over went to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which is already passed in the senate. and the much larger and more expensive bill which expands the social safety net. right now moderates want to vote on the infrastructure bill on monday as promised, progressives have threatened not to s ....
world in all the alliances that various countries were in all over the world. ultimately the germans started sinking our ships in the atlantic even though we technically weren t part of the war yet. other countries in our hemisphere started getting dragged into it. by the spring of 1917, not even six months after wilson had been reelected on that slogan, he kept us out of war. six months after that election, the u.s. congress, in fact, voted to declare war. and we jumped in. but the political wrangling over that decision in our country was really something back in 1917. and it turns out that political wrangling back then in 1917 over the decision to turn america around and abandon our previous isolationist pose and get ourselves involved in world war i, all the political wrangling around that hard decision in 1917 left us a little parting gift that we re still enjoying today. a little parting gift, in fact, that is still totally screwing us up today. because one of the ....
son in the pfizer trial. and major developments in the gabby petito case. the coroner officially declaring her death a homicide, and her fiancee still missing. no one has seen him since last week. plus, the new york times revealing that the trump campaign was well aware that their claims about dominion voting machines were categorically false, but they kept making those claims for weeks. we ll be asking georgia s secretary of state about that when he joins us later this hour. and did we mention donald trump is now suing his niece? great way to get himself in the headlines. we re going to get to all of that shortly, but i want to start this morning in d.c. where president biden is set to meet with democratic leaders to try and keep his massive multitrillion dollars agenda from completely falling apart. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill and shannon pettypiece at the white house. unless i m mistaken here, this is the same fight democrats have b ....