Good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Developing this hour, President Bidens 1. 9 trillion plan is one step closer to becoming a reality. In a new excerpt from cbs news, the president giving a new insight into where key provisions like Minimum Wage Hike Stand as lawmakers work to get the bill to his desk. Its somewhere between an individual making up to 75 and phasing out and a couple making up to 150 and phasing out. But im wide open on what that is. You also want to raise the minimum wage to 15. Is that something you would be willing to negotiate on to get republican support . Apparently thats not going to occur because of the roles in the senate. Youre saying it will not be in it . My guess is it will not be in it. Today marks one month since the attack on the u. S. Capitol left five people dead. The Impeachment Trial will start just days from now. Trumps defense team confirming he will not testify under oath. Congressman
Country. That is a question, manu, that cannot be left unsaid, that Kevin Mccarthy went to maralago to Kiss The Ring of the former president. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted out a day or so after the meeting that she was on trumps side. Wearing a mask that said free speech, she said she wants to work with everybody about keeping america first, using the language of donald trump, essentially sending a message she expects to survive this. The party still talks badly about her and about the embrace of Conspiracy Theorists or at least not expunging the party of Conspiracy Theorists. A number of Senate Republicans dont like the way republicans handled this last night in which they took action on their own to make clear there is just no room for someone in the party like Marjorie Tyler green. Tom thune told he am morning that a party is, well he had raised caioncerns that the part was focused on qanon, so there is a concern here from a number of republicans about the way forward, and we heard
the final hours of title 42 and the border crisis could get even worse. desperate migrants lining streets. thousands have already crossed the border. tens of thousands ready to try to follow them. end of an era as the covid public health emergency wraps today, more than three years after life drastically changed for all of us. what does it mean for you, your family and your job? we ll dig into the new reality for post-pandemic america. plus, a long-awaited extradition. joran van der sloot, one of the last people to see natalee holloway alive will soon be on u.s. soil as her family is still hoping for answers nearly 18 years after she disappeared. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. any minute now we will hear from america s top homeland security official on the critical change that will take effect in less than 11 hours. the lapse of title 42. that policy that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants based
lies. donald trump lays out a platform for his re-election run, but can he get voters to focus on 2024 if he s still clinging to his lies about 2020? and the u.s. military going to war with a republican senator whose actions they say is putting u.s. national security at risk. we ll explain that coming up. but we start a little more than ten hours away from the 11:59 p.m. deadline, that s when title 42 expires and with it the ability for dhs to swiftly expel migrants at the border under that covid era health policy. we are keeping a close eye on the white house because any minute now secretary mayorkas will take that podium and outline the administration plans for the road ahead. already, though, hundreds of active duty u.s. troops are monitoring the situation at the border with more expected to come later this month. this policy shift exposing the broken immigration system and the deepened political divisions that continue to block reform on capitol hill. this influx of m
Beyond simply modelling. Yes a steam train reaches 100mph on britains Mainline Rail Network for the first time in 50 years. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, an historic night for leicester in spain, and a big challenge too they face Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. In the space ofjust over a year and a half, at least seven babies died during or shortly after birth at one nhs trust in shropshire. And the cluster of deaths was avoidable. Five of the babies died simply because their heart rate wasnt being monitored properly during labour. Their deaths have prompted such concern that the Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, has now ordered a review of the shrewsbury and Telford Hospital trust. But it says its Mortality Levels are in line with the national average. Our correspondent Michael Buchanan has this exclusive report. Basic errors at this trust have caused healthy babies to die. I dont want ano