part. reporter: just to clarify your intentions on this vote today, are you planning on delaying this vote if you do not have enough votes to pass this on the floor? i do not plan on not doing anything. as i ve said, we had a great morning. lots of conversations, as we come to the end. let me just tell you about negotiating. at the end is when you really have to weigh in. you cannot tire. you cannot concede. this is the fun part. i just told members of my leadership that the reconciliation bill was a culmination of my service in congress, because it was about the children. the children, the children, the children. reporter: to follow up on manny s question, are you committed to having a vote on infrastructure today? yes. reporter: regardless of whether you have the votes? i intend to we re on a path to win the vote. i don t want to even consider any options other than that. reporter: is he saying something privately to you or to the president that gives you mo
telling congress they recommended a small amount of troops be kept until afghanistan. the question is why is that advice not followed? and nba star said heot the vaccination, despite others. it s y too early for this. good morning, welcome to way too early that links lebron might get more applause for than than space jams. i m jonathan lemire. on chicago, a democratic infighting appears to be threatening president biden s schedule. the president was scheduled for chicago today, but that is postponed. now, he ll remain in washington to pass forward the $3.5 trillion reconciliation act. and the build back better. and this comes as pressure is growing on theresident to be more personally involved and define the mistakes and try to bridge the gap between prressives and moderates who until now not only find themselves far apart and find themselves notble to trust. and that s wre nancy pelosi finds herself dling with, calling between the progressives who want to enact and
was originally set for today that s now been pushed to thursday. but now somewhere between today and then democrats are going to have to resolve their internal battle that has been holding things up for months. the question of how to advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill and that $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and get them done at the same time. because if one goes down, they could both go down, and if that was not enough, congress has only four days to reup government funding to avoid a complete shutdown. the senate will vote on that today, but get this, that vote is expected to fail. why? because the bill would also raise the debt limit and republicans want to force democrats to get that done on their own. in their mind that is a political win for them. even if it means risking economic disaster for our entire country in the process, shutting down the government serves no one. i want to bring in nbc s white house correspondent michael memory, nbc s capitol hill corr
kelly, 20 years ago, also joins us and a long road to a verdict. first i have to start with breaking news in arizona and texas. in arizona maricopa county officials revealed that a draft report from the group running that so called audit of that county s ballots, cyber ninjas, that was the company they brought in, well, now cyber ninjas has confirmed president biden won. and by an even wider margin than originally predicted. but that has not deterred officials down in texas, now they are on board. 325 days after the presidential election governor greg abbott announced they would do an audit in four separate counties, three of those counties won by president biden and won by former president trump. keep in mind this is a state that former president trump won by 600,000 votes. we are all over this story. also with us political strategist and someone who knows texas politics better than anyone, matthew dowd. jane, this audit in arizona cost their taxpayers over 400,000 bucks.
we re going to get an update as the markets close out a roller coaster week. i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday afternoon with our nbc news team, carole lee covering the white house, matt bradley in ukraine, courtney at the pentagon, also joined by jason beardsley, national executive director of the advocacy group the association of the u.s. navy. carole, start with you, with the first lady s first day in east europe, it s a busy and significant stretch for her overseas now. it is. the first of a four-day trip and she started in romania where she visited with u.s. troops serving them dinner and bringing them ketchup, learning there was a ketchup shortage there and so she brought gallons of ketchup to them, apparently very well received, and she also read to some children of service members there. there was a moment where she was reading with a service member and her son. i think we have that if we can take a listen. the end. and nathan, thank you for your ser