headquarters in new york. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the senate is working. it is infrastructure weekend on capitol hill. we heard from kirsten sinema and rob portman. had he gave short speeches on the senate floor. they ve been among those leading the negotiations on this bill. now, we still don t have the final text, but the plan is to file that bill as a substitute amendment tonight. the current bill is just over 2700 pages long, so far. the senate will then move to the amendment process and we re told this should be completed in a matter of days. but the bipartisan bill is only half the story. majority leader chuck schumer promised once that legislation has passed, he ll immediately move to the budget reconciliation instructions. those blueprints would let the senate begin working on a $3.5 trillion social, health and environmental bill. sometimes we ve called it the human infrastructure bill. now, using reconciliation to pass that one would allow
coverage right now. $550 billion infrastructure plan after a group of senators from both parties reach an agreement months in the making. it is not a done deal. here at home, a major announcement to combat covid-19 as the delta variant intensifies its furious grip on unvaccinated communities. in hours, president biden set to announce additional efforts aimed at ramping up the pace of vaccinations, specifically in areas with very low vaccination rates. that s in addition to him declaring a new vaccine requirement for all federal workers. it is not just the government beginning to implement vaccine mandates. netflix is the first major hollywood studio to require the shot for all cast and crew. google and facebook and lyft say they require them for all employees returning to the office. also new, growing number of states with high infection rates say they will not follow the cdc guidance on wearing masks indoors again. it is erupting into an all-out battle guess where, capitol
. who . a [inaudible] [inaudible] . . a. who in terms of leading the vote but the pot but the rear guard was asian and latino voters. and in texas we know texas is a latino state that is increasingly going to be repeated by the way i m looking at pennsylvania as the next state that is really the latino in many ways and this is only going to increase. so i agree with everyone in the panel but we need to get to work. they only think that this isn t happening in the back rooms. wear used to. we re seeing this happen in realtime and at least in this moment you have this group of women who were saying we re not gonna take this sitting down. and one of the things that we saw is that a g paxton is right now under investigation in texas because he filed lawsuits of unfair elections and uncertified elections in states that he doesn t belong to and we re talking about heat that pennsylvania. he tried to undo it in georgia and the list goes on. can you talk a little bit ab
seated a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. remember, a few years later kim watergate a scandal that forced the president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. and now along with republican assault on voting rights we re learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on congressional democrats and others at donald trump s department of justice. the current chief doj s inspector general is now in the ordeal. but today this breaking news in the new york times revealing that in february 2018 trump s doj subpoenaed apple for information about an account that belong to former white house counsel don mcgahn. according to two of the new york times sources apple was barred from telling mcgahn about. it the doj declined to comment. the senate majority leader wants answers. what has happened here are fingerprints of a dictatorship, not as democracy. no one likes the idea that if the president s mad, he can just go forth with setting personal phon
k-pop a vicious cancer. dude, really? we ll dive into all of that happening. that s happening in the world of popular culture and media with a panel of experts. also, inhumane coaching. unrealistic pressures. some gymnasts are blowing up everything we know about the world of gymnastics. chelsea, the seventh most decorated gymnast in the entire united states joins me ahead. welcome to the week. president biden s european vacation continued today in the u.k. today was day two of the g-7. the focus was on global infrastructure. come batting china s growing influence and pandemic recovery and prevention. president biden continued his one-on-one meetings with world leaders. during his sitdown with french president emmanuel macron, the message was clear. we re back. the united states has said, we re back. we feel very, very strongly about the cohesion of nato and i for one think that the european union is an incredibly strong and vibrant entity. we have to deal with th