saying he will not support the legislation if it goes up for a vote. he will not have my vote on 3.5. and chuck knows that. we talked about this. what s the urgency? what s the urgency that we have? it is not the same urgency we have with the american rescue plan. we got that out of the door quickly. that was $2 trillion. on top of that, the c.a.r.e.s. package and everything leading up to that. we have done an awful lot. there are an awful lot of people who still need help. we have 11 million jobs needing to be filled right now. 80 million americans are out of work. something doesn t match up. don t you think we ought to hit pause. and more on the voting rights bill in just a moment. still ahead, police plan to reinstall fencing around the capitol hill building and speaker pelosi will hold a security meeting tomorrow. and congressman murphy called on his republican colleagues to speak up. i m confident they will be prepared. but i am concerned about what is going to h
last month the legislation could create close to a half million jobs by 2024. it s no wonder 65% of americans support the infrastructure bill according to a recent poll. much of president biden s agenda is equally as popular. the same poll found 62% of americans support the 3.5 trillion dollar democrats only reconciliation bill. despite the broad popularity of the biden economic agenda, the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, new york congressman sean patrick meloni, he is warning democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that the party is in trouble. political reports at a closed door lunch he warned democrats that they would lose the majority if the midterms were held today. he followed that leak forecast which was confirmed by multiple people familiar with the conversation, with new polling that showed democrats falling behind republicans by a half dozen points on a generic ballot in battleground districts. baloney advised the party to course corr
that. and welcome everyone to alex witt reports developing this hour the biden administration ramping up its coronavirus response as it works to contain the delta variant. today the national institute of health director dr. francis collins making clear why the cdc issued new mask guidance as health officials seek to reassure vaccinated americans and encourage more unvaccinated people to get the shot. it s mostly about protecting the unvaccinated. that is where the real serious risks of illness are. if you are vaccinated right now your likelihood of getting severely sick is 25 fold reduced. the vaccines work extremely well. but the new news and much of this comes from the outbreak in barnstable county, massachusetts, is that vaccinated people are capable of getting the virus in their nose and throat and they do seem to have high enough levels of virus that they might be contagious. meanwhile, infrastructure taking center stage on capitol hill this weekend. the senate i
just six months or a year. we ve seen the chinese attack us. we should be ahead of the game, and we have to be both in attacks on our governmental systems and on our infrastructure that delivers important and necessary energy. also new today, the battle over gop leadership intensifies. the vote expected in a matter of days, on wednesday, to determine whether liz cheney will stay in her leadership position as number three. those efforts prompting strong reaction today from one republican congressman who had this to say about his own party. right now it s based on the titanic. we re in this in the middle of this slow sink. we ve got a band on deck telling everybody it s all fine and donald trump is trying to find women s clothing and get on the first life boat. not as a cross dresser but just to get on the first life boat. that s what he was implying there. also new reaction to the april job numbers. congressman jim clyburn slamming republicans messaging and claiming
accelerated timetable for making a decision. and then at least this new publicly released audio of the former president talking about january 6th. a taped interview with abc s jonathan karl, recorded at march a maralago. his own vice president ran from the insurrectionists as they closed in. were you worried about him during that siege? no, i knew he was well-protected and i heard that he was in good shape, because, uh, i had heard he was in very good shape. because you heard those chants. that was terrible. he could have well, the people were very angry. they were saying hang mike pence. it s common sense. it s common sense that you re supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? which raises yet another question. if that s what the former president is willing to say publicly, what could be in the documents he s trying to keep secret? documents, of course, are just one piece