good afternoon from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new reporting from nbc news. senate democrats close to an agreement on updating voting rights legislation. three sources telling compromised legislation that can get the support of all 50 democrats could be released tomorrow of tuesday. we ve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. but an agreement on reconciliation and infrastructure, not so close. manchin insisting the democrats need to pump the brakes on spending. need for this, the emergency to do something in the next week is not there. we ve done 5.4 trillion, george, over the last year and about a year and a half. 5.4 trillion. a lot of that money is still going out the door. there s no one going to be left behind for the rest of this year and most of next year. so the urgency, i can t understand why we can t take time to deliberate
these new state laws. beto o rourke is rallying for voters in texas and joins me live tonight. plus how many holidays do we want? what s the magic number? this would put it to 11. do we want 20? barely a day old and the attacks against the juneteenth national holiday have already begun when all in starts right now. 33. there is breaking news tonight out of the district court in washington, d.c. we now know that at least one suspect in the january 6th riot is being questioned by the fbi about potential ties to any right-wing extremist groups or members of congress. nbc news has obtained a transcript of the interview the fbi conducted back in february with a former nypd officer named thomas webster. he s facing multiple charges in connection with his actions at the capitol that day. and take a look at this line of questioning. quote, have you heard or seen anything in the area about any of the militia groups that have been on the news, proud boys, the three percen
a new video emerges of throat trump wires inside the senate chamber as the u.s. capitol was being stored and it comes just a day before the outgoing president prepares to unleash a wave of presidential card. i m burnt off our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome to we start tonight in russia where the kremlin supposed vocal critic alexina of all me has been put in jail for the next 30 days of all he was detained immediately upon return to russia on sunday russian prosecutors say that he violated the parole terms of a suspended sentence for embezzle mut now he says the charges are politically motivated germany has joined many other countries in calling for an of all these immediate release. oh god i will not let him go chanted supporters outside the police station in him the facility holding a volley doubles as a makeshift courthouse in order to quickly process his case after learning he d soon be jailed of all he took aim at vladimir putin a
for girl welcome to the program hundreds of supporters of us of president donald trump of stole the u.s. capitol in a bid to overturn his election defeat lawmakers had been meeting to certify joe biden s election victory but were forced to 1st vote in the session some protesters reportedly broke windows and police deployed tear gas in an effort to clear the building the mass of washington d.c. has issued a citywide curfew that begins at 6 pm local time. let s go straight to washington d.c. where we join d.w. so bureau chief minister welcome back what s the situation there now. well obviously this is in front of the capital has calmed down a little bit the police with the support of the feds have cleared. the location we don t know when the lawmakers will come together to as you just said phil to confirm the election will vote kind of to put an end to these ongoing election process to finally make joe biden the president elect but we don t really know what is going on in other
coursing. through it say it s a day for democracy pakistan which also claims the territory condemns the move illegal. and the general strike in hong kong brings chaos as police fired tear gas of pro-democracy demonstrators the record number of activists detained in the chief executive of the territory is on the verge of a dangerous situation. i m phil gale welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has urged his country to condemn white supremacy and his 1st national address following 2 mass shootings at the weekend was the trump describe it taxes barbaric and crimes against all humanity the number of victims in saturday s racially motivated attack in el paso is now 229 others lost their lives in a separate shooting in dayton ohio early on sunday bringing the total death toll to $31.00 my fellow i m an unemotional speech trump described 2 shooters who carried out separate massacres in texas and ohio as mentally ill the us president called for a speedy death penalties