Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. We are so grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Nicolle, thanks so much. Welcome to The Beat. This general Election Clash between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has really come into full view today. Trump on defense over his own Running Mate Pick and other issues and rough outing at a black journalist conference. 10,000 People Uniting in a raucous display as the Washington Post put it, the Vice President On Offense as well taunting trump over running from his past battles to debate the democratic nominee. Donald, i do hope youll reconsider to meet me on the Debate Stage because as the saying goes, if you got something to say, Say It To My Face Say It To My Face. Fair. Harris showing some confidence, we also saw her there arriving today in texas for her campaign travels. And plenty of buzz still coming throughout the day and in coverage Last Night from that big rally. Shes now flipped
Whether saudi officials were complicit in the attacks. In shanksville, pennsylvania, former president george w. Bush equated the terrorists behind the 9 11 behind 9 11 to the domestic terrorists driving the news today. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But then there is disdain for pluralism and their disregard for human life, and their determination to defile national symbols. They are children of the same foul spirit. Meanwhile, Donald Trump did not attend any officials memorials, but he did stop by n. Y. P. D. And f. D. N. Y. Precincts close to Trump Tower where he decided to honor the 9 11 victims by bashing his political rivals, namely Joe Biden, who this week announced his new Sixprong Plan to defeat covid19 once and for all. On friday the President Struck a fiery tone when he announced a sweeping Vaccine Mandate requiring all Executive Branch federal employees to be vaccinated as well as ordering all u. S. Business
Were going to bring in latasha brown, cofounder of Black voters matter, who is right now at the Lincoln Memorial in washington, d. C. Latasha, are you with me . All right. Were going to stand by for latasha. She will be joining us as soon as shes micd. We want to check in. Are you with me yet . Can you hear me . I cant. Can you turn it down a little bit . Okay, we can hear you. Were going to see you in just a second. I want to make sure that you can hear me. Latasha, do i have you . I can hear you. Great. Well see you there you go. We see you. We see you, and we hear you. Okay. The peril of live tv. Were happy to have you. Hi. You look great. Lets get into it. I want to know what is the point of this march, and what exactly are you hoping to accomplish . You know, today were doing this make good Trouble March because what we rally because we need to make good trouble. You know, we are right now in 2021, we have less Voting Rights now than we had in 1965 when the voting Rights Act was s
Ms. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Its a wonderful morning. We had such a good day in the congress yesterday. I want to salute Micah Cuss for the commitment to values that they demonstrated my caucus for the commitment to values that they demonstrated in accepting the president s budget. The build back better initiative. Again, it was a Team Effort for to us win the vote. I want to salute steny hoyer, the distinguished majority leader, mr. Clyburn, our distinguished whip. Kathryn clarke, assistant clark, assistant speaker, and all the members of the leadership who worked so hard on this. It was not just about that vote. It was about how we proceed and make it law within the next couple of months, six weeks, whatever. Really the vision of the president , he had said i want to do what i can in a bipartisan way on infrastructure but it is not the totality of my vision. My vision is to build back better, not only with physical infrastructure but personal infrastructure. I am paraphrasing t
Politico. According to elite state department cable, [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its Caption Content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions copyright national Cable Satellite Corp. 2021] Washington Journal live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Watch all of this at cspan. Org. The u. S. House gaveling in next to take up three key pieces of legislation. Votes expected this afternoon. Now live coverage here on cspan. House resolution 601. Resolution providing for consideration of the Bill H. R. 4 to amend the voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the act and for other purposes. Provided for consideration of the snath Senate Amendment to the Bill H. R. 3684, to authorize funds for federalaid highways, Highway Safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. And providing for the adoption of concurrent resolution, senate co