committee and other former cabinet members. they are in negotiations to do the same. yet, there are some things that neither the justice department nor the january six committee may ever find out. the washington post reported this week that even more testimony and text messages sent and received by federal employees around the time of the insurrection were deleted. they may be gone forever. this latest news involves the phone records of former acting homeland security secretary, chad wulf, and his acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. the situation closely resembles the recent revelations of the secret service may have also deleted and failed to preserve text messages that may be relevant to the january six investigation. including, from the phones of agents who were signed to donald trump on the day of the insurrection. for more on this, i am joined now by his betsy who is a national correspondent for politico. she is also an msnbc contributor. so, betsy, let s start with
we learned that biden has accepted an invitation from the israeli prime minister to travel to israel as the white house put it within the next month. so that is an indication of some of the international travel we might be seeing from biden. we also expect him to travel to asia next month, at the end of may, that would be his first trip to asia as president. okay given how you are a shout out for joe biden thank you for doing this from the white house rather than golfing greens. appreciate that, have a good one. we have a new study number to tell you about being more than 5 million people having fled ukraine, since the start of the russian ukraine invasion. the majority being women and children. unicef says two thirds of ukraine seven and a half million children, have been forced to leave their homes. nearly half of them remain in their homes, may not have enough food. joining me now msnbc, news doctor irwin red liner. he is the founder from the national center of disaster at
bipartisan infrastructure bill. and at this, point democrats have done it officially. all right, ali vitali, our reporter on the hill, with the call of the victory for the democrats. they are going to tracey chapman in this bill, put it in a fast, car drive down pennsylvania avenue, and get it before the president a sleepy so they can talk about a victory and deliverables to the american people. quick, final question that doctor irwin red liner, with our thanks for hanging out with us. doc, we have a story of this later on in the hour but i wanna get you on the record on the aaron rodgers matter, he is of course, an icon to football fans and packers fans chief among them. today, of course, was in the news for not being vaccinated and added bonus, he s covid positive. this is not like you or me
are essentially still ineligible to get vaccinated. so we are very limited in the tools we have to protect, kids and the people there in contact with, and there is just a new study pointing out that even infants, as well as young children can carry high viral loads in their nasal pharynx, and they are susceptible. you know, we have no 25% of reported cases are in children, and it s just unconscionable that there are people resisting mask wearing, giving all the data in favor of using masks, and certainly using masks if you can t get vaccinated, brian. such as the life we re living and, our politics presently in 2021. how to put, this is a journalist a, lawyer and, dr. walk into a bar. and we re so happy they all didn t. great thanks to our starting law tonight, doctor irwin red liner thanks for spending part of our friday night with us.
50,000 souls today. 50,000 in just florida alone after officials reported another 1554 new deaths. finally, we have an update on the presidents effort to convince a fellow democrat, west virginia senator joe manchin, to get on board with his sweeping budget plan, the two men met at the white house yesterday. tonight axios is reporting the president failed to convince manchin to agree to spending the 3.5 trillion dollars in his budget proposal, and so it goes. with that we bring in our starting line on this thursday night shannon penny piece veteran journalist, our senior white house correspondent at nbc news digital, clint watts, west point former fbi special agent, a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute, and doctor irwin red liner, founding director of columbia s national center for