break, secretary general stoltenberg proved him wrong. under his stewardship, nato has become stronger and more united than ever and americans for generations to come will benefit from the safer world he helped create. he demonstrates that the core truth of the alliance is as powerful now as it was 75 years ago. together, we are stronger. president biden with a rather soaring speech there, the news bestowing the presidential medal of freedom on nato secretary general, jens stoltenberg. let me bring in mike and michael crowley. michael crowley, your thoughts. well, you know, i thought it was a strong and smooth performance by president biden. on substance, he articulated why nato is riding high right now. why the alliance is feeling strength and confidence on its 75th anniversary. and kind of a nice little piece of stage craft there, i think that people are very grateful for the work that the outgoing secretary general has done so i think that was a nice touch. it proba
well, i think he can save it ultimately. there are two separate tracks we re talking about. obviously, you have the whole negotiation between the left and the center of the democratic party over the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation, which is the broader social spending package. and, look, they are arguing about a number on reconciliation. one thing politicians can do is find a midpoint between two different numbers, between the progressives and centrist and ultimately they ll get there. the other track, though, is more significant in some ways. not in terms of the long-term impact but the immediate crisis which is that mitch mcconnell, you know, at the moment, is behaving like a terrorist. and he is holding a gun to the head of democrats and indeed to the whole global economy in threatening to have the u.s. default on its debt by refusing to vote for any expansion of the debt ceiling. the important point to remember is that even though he is the one, you know, mak
constructive the conversations were. he is going to have his sleeves rolled up and be very engaged moving forward. reporter: yet the president s schedule didn t indicate that today with all meetings being conducted at the staff level. the president will not be meeting with lawmakers today. we ll see. the president is always open to meeting with discussing and communicating with lawmakers. there is a lot of work that needs to continue that can happen with senior staff members. reporter: a lot of work indeed with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan up for a vote early next week. along with the broader $3.5 trillion plan to expand education and health care, address climate change, and more. on capitol hill, cnn s manu raju pressed speaker pelosi on the plan cost. have you settled on a price tag no, we didn t talk about that. this is not about price tag. this is what is in the bill. reporter: it is of course about both but pelosi remained optimistic democrats would
s of now brian laundrie is not charged with a crime and is not named as a suspect in petito s death. legal analyst joe jackson says laundrie s behavior is raising suspicions. the bottom line here is you look at everything there. you look and assess his conduct. and what you find when you have the conduct is a lot of circumstantial evidence. a critical fact in this case is the fact that he ran. why? it evidences consciousness of guilt. you could explain the hitch hiking. he went somewhere. he was gone for a brief period of time. you could explain he was hiking alone, at least he said to miss baker. they separated for a little while. he was hiking alone. what you can t explain is where the guy is, why did he run, and why did he really feel that he needed to evade authorities. those are going to be questions in the event he s brought back safely that everyone is going to want to know. if there is an innocent explanation, you stay and explain. you don t run and hide. and s
eastman documented the scheme in a stunning memo obtained by the authors and shared with msnbc. and what that memo proposed was nothing short of a coup. it called for pence to site on going disputes over the slate of electors from seven states which pence would declare invalid and toss out. by cancelling the votes trump would be left for majority and pence could gavel him in with pence himself as having been reelected. if democrats object, eastman proposed sending the matter to the house where republican whose control the majority of states would have voted to reelect trump anyway. their theory it was a win, win for trump either way of course, that s not how the process is supposed to work. for one thing, eastman falsely asserted pence as vice president was the ultimate arbiter of any elections that arise. if the shoe was on the other foot, it s hard to believe any republican would be as enthusiastic about kamala harris wielding that power in 2024. while he rejected eastman s