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if you can time the shot right. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a very busy september tuesday. this is going to be a september to remember politically, that s for sure. president biden wrapped up his first address to the u.n. general assembly this morning, questions about america s credibility and leadership on the world stage, at least trying to answer some of those questions. we will bring you more on his address, the reaction to it in just a moment. we want to start here in washington. the president and his democratic allies are facing a tangled web of legislation, urgent deadlines and there s inter party divisions to navigate. it s not hyperbole, it s just a fact that the biden agenda, the progressive vision, infrastructure, future of the democratic party, health of the economy, fate of a government shutdown they have all been intertwined. if you re joe pesci from my cousin vinnie what do you do you want to put on this truck. seems like l ....
we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., ....
over a key piece of the president s domestic agenda. and plus what a member of the january 6 committee is saying about the s word, subpoenas. why lawmakers might skip asking people to testify and instead try to require them. and just who might be on that list. we have a lot to get to with you. good to be with you. i m hallie jackson in washington and we re joined by our newly minted nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake, tony sporting a new title, congressional economic policy reporter for the washington post. he is also an msnbc cribber. and shannon pettypiece is at the white house. so here is the deal. you have the house possibly as soon as tonight ready to pass a bill that would avoid a shutdown by keeping the government open and running through early december. suspend the debt limit through the end of next year. which means the u.s. wouldn t default on its debts, money that has already been spent, not new spending. and it would provide about $3 ....
now, according to the trump campaign s assis claims, dominion voting election company worked with a an election firm smartmatic, george soros and the government to steal the election from donald trump. of course, none that is even true. days before the infamous press conference, probably airing the baseless claims and there are internal records that prove it. there s the details from the new york times reporting, quote, according to emails contained in the court documents, zack parkinson, then the campaign director s director of communications reached out to subordinates in november 13th asking them to debunk several matters concerning dominion. the next day, it shows mr. parkinson got a copy of a memo, cobbled together by his staff which largely appeared to be news articles. and the times has a list of rebutted allegations, photo, that dominion did not use voting technology that dominion had no ties to venezuela or mr. soros. and there s no evidence that dominion l ....
chairman schiff introducing formally new sweeping legislation to deal with exactly this. my reason for being here is as simple as the title: protecting our democracy act. it shouldn t matter who the president of the united states is. we should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves. we should want them to maintain independence from the justice department, not use it as their own private law firm, not use it to go after their adversaries. the plan here is not partisan as emphasized. the legislation would have rules to limit how presidents use or, again, potentially abuse pardon power. deal with the deadlines that might prevent otherwise prosecution of rogue presidents. that s obviously a look at the legal presidency of trump. and to enforce the ban on presidents who aren t allowed to enrich themselves. also ideas to better protect doj independence. this is all part of congress broader efforts at accountability, deal with what ....