participate. house republicans take their ball and go home over the january 6th investigation. plus we ve got two epidemics go on right now. one of those biological caused by a virus. the other is informational. the head of the national institutes of health on how to fight covid misinformation. then there are very few businessmen that ever survive in the political part of washington. the latest on the arrest of trump s inaugural chairman and what it can tell us about the ex-president s actions in the middle east when, all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. for the last two days, much of the northeast and midwest look like this. the haze of the sun, a thick smog over an entire region of this country that is very much not used to it. unlike the mountain west which lives with forest fires, this kind of smoke settling over the eastern seaboard has felt dystopian and new. in fact, it s not just your imagination if it feels that way
we ve talked about that old washington joke about infrastructure week. it s going to be infrastructure week. sometimes it feels like every week is infrastructure week. but this week really might be different. two major infrastructure bills are working their way through the senate. there s the bipartisan bill which is worth about $579 billion. then there s a $3.5 trillion package that democrats hope to pass through reconciliation. this week will be critical. by friday we could know whether congress can pass either/or neither or both. house and senate democrats seem unified if their approach to the two-bill strategy. much of that unity may depend on good-faith negotiations with republicans on the bipartisan bill. it may not hold if the gop walks away from this framework. so far, congressional republicans have not been unified by many things as strongly as their opposition to president biden s agenda. this morning, rob portman said no to a democratic proposal in the bipartisan b
held on wednesday ready or not. schumer has already set wednesday as the deadline for senate democrats to finalize their separate larger $3.5 trillion plan which they plan to pass through budget reconciliation. it means that they don t need 10 republican votes. that is a lot of priorities to get in to that bill including extending the child tax credit under the american rescue plan, more funding for clean energy and addition of a new dental, vision and hearing benefit to medicare to name a few things. here is why senate democrats are in a time crunch. their goal is to get both bills passed before congress scheduled month long august recess. and so this is shaping up to be a very busy week capitol hill. joining me now, anna palmer from punch bowl news, and she is the best selling author of the hill to die on, the battle for congress and future of trans america which may be the best book name ever. this is really a very, very busy week on capitol hill. some argue too busy beca
jim jordan. both ardent trump loyalists who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. as pelosi explained, the unprecedented nature of january 6th demands this unprecedented decision. but she also said she had raised up her objections with mccarthy, asking him to recommend two other members in their place. instead mccarthy threw a tantrum and pulled all of his proposed appointees, including the three that pelosi had already approved. as he made clear in a hastily arranged press conference, republicans are literally taking their ball an going home. it s an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. mccarthy claims pelosi is somehow abusing her power, but her authority was literally spelled out in the resolution the house passed to create the select committee. in fact, it was the exact same language that republicans u
an intelligence agent hired an american private investigator by falsely claiming they were looking for someone who owed debts, prosecutors say. the team who are each facing a number of conspiracy-related charges instructed the investigator to track her, her family, even strangers and take, quote, quality pictures so that we can see license plate on car and send two pictures and one video every hour, adding, he wants pictures of faces of everyone visiting the address, even if they are marketers and salespeople. when i saw the picture of myself, i got goosebumps because i was watering my son s flowers. they took pictures of my stepchildren. reporter: they are also accused of researching how to rent a military-style speed boat that could bring her to venezuela, then ultimately iran. the u.s. attorney noting in her statement where the victim s fate would ve been uncertain at best. a woman from california who allegedly funneled money in the scheme was arrested. she posted this