bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s role in
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i
join you tomorrow at 8:00. rachel, imagine it is the mid 1990s, and you are with your elementary school on a tour of washington, d.c. and at the capitol. you are 30 is, 33 is rounding to the near 30 is? you are at an elementary school in the 1990s, and you are walking through one of the congressional office buildings. you see over there, a low traffic area, on a stun bench, there is the famous colonists and pundit mark shields, and he is sitting beside a guy in a t-shirt and jeans, who is actually me, and i am counting $10,000 in cash. what do you think, and who do you reported to? i think while they have drug dealers in the east coast here to, mom. that s probably why i think. it was it was a strange moment. it s all going to be explained at the end of the show why mark shields was with me when i was counting $10,000 in cash and congressional office building. can i ask you in advance how big $10,000 in cash is? it was hundreds, so i have never seen it before.
you see over there, a low traffic area, on a stun bench, there is the famous colonists and pundit mark shields, and he is sitting beside a guy in a t-shirt and jeans, who is actually me, and i am counting $10,000 in cash. what do you think, and who do you reported to? i think while they have drug dealers in the east coast here to, mom. that s probably why i think. it was it was a strange moment. it s all going to be explained at the end of the show why mark shields was with me when i was counting $10,000 in cash and congressional office building. can i ask you in advance how big $10,000 in cash is? it was hundreds, so i have never seen it before. it was quite a stack. you have to count them, you know, i just picked them up, here s a hint. i picked them up in the garage downstairs. you ve got me, lawrence. you hooked me. that was where i was handed them. you got your hooks in me. mark shields took it instead completely in stride. it was another day in office.
phoenix. jesse: pools are open, baseball is on and families are together. it reminds us of all the things we love about america. but, most importantly, it reminds us of the great sacrifice that was made to give us all the freedoms we enjoy today. so, on this day, we honor and remember those brave young men and women. we wear our red, white, and blue. we fly the american flag and, of course, we attend memorial day parades. as you can see jesse jr. is a big fan of the parade and is he a huge patriot. and stick around, because later we are sending johnny to the beach to find out just how patriotic this younger generation is. it really was an all-american weekend. for the first time in a long time, we were able to celebrate like we always have. no masks, no social distancing, and no doctor fauci wagging his finger and barking orders. just pure patriotism and the feeling of normalcy. americans were loving it we re ready to enjoy the summer. we are ready to get back to normal. su