we begin with breaking news from the white house. president biden has tested positive for covid-19, again. after about the position to the president says we re four consecutive days of negative tests. president biden tweeted, quote, i have got no symptoms but i am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me. and the physicians update said, this development represents what he is calling rebound positivity. but for now, there is no reason to bring in a sheet treatment. we are going to bring you any updates as we get them. but first, let s get caught up on a busy week, y all. big moves by the january six committee, and the justice department. we are going to break those down in just a few minutes. but first, something you probably thought would never happen. i know i was skeptical. democrats finally agreed on legislation to curb climate change. and to get the economy a boost. the inflation protection act came about after intense negotiations with senator chuck schumer
states to allow early and mail-in voting andmaker i want harder for states to pass voter i.d. laws. without all 50 democrats voting, there s no path forward. president obama tried to nudge the holdouts saying america s longstanding experiment in democracy is being sorely tested. there are limits on ballot boxes and tougher restrictions on voter i.d.s. we missed this time and the the state legislative bodies continue to change the law not as to who can vote but who gets to count the vote, count the vote, count the vote! he s running scared. the left believes he s failed on multiple fronts and they don t believe he s fought hard enough to bring about voting rights. reporter: cbs news learned the two holdout senators are meeting at the white house tonight, but there s no indication of any spark to jump start his stalled political
meet with several of the top candidates. ketanji brown jackson, the president already met with her last february, actually, when he nominated her to that d.c. circuit court of appeals. but the other candidates, those meetings will be crucial, of course, crucial step in this nomination and confirmation process. justice breyer will have served 28 years on the court by the time he formally steps down. we should note he was approved by 87 votes, quite a different change in the landscape in washington today. jessica schneider and jeremy diamond, thank you. well, while president biden has dealt with interparty politics with its legislative agenda, holdout senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema always voted with party for biden s lower court nominees. and not inconsequential fact, but like all votes in the senate, a slight margin, biden s first challenge to a nominee will likely come from the senate judiciary committee. melanie zanona with us now. melanie, the republicans have a
hunger strike to pressure holdout senators like joe manchin. by the end, they had to be carted around on wheelchairs. their bodies were so weak, several were eventually hospitalized after not eating anything for two straight weeks. that action by those young members of the sunrise movement was just one part of a much larger series of protests that we have seen, not just from climate activists, but from all sorts of different people urging lawmakers to pass the president s agenda, specifically to pass this build back better bill. when democratic senator joe manchin is in washington, he lives on a yacht, which he likes to call a houseboat. you might remember our coverage from september, a group of activists from his home state of west virginia paddled up to senator manchin s yacht in their own kayaks. they called they must kay-activists. they said support build back better and don t sink our bill. they caused enough of a stir they eventually got senator
changes, these commitments that leaders are being asked to make, and how they understand the stakes about. them i say that because tonight we are seeing the results of, among other things, what has been a long and relentless campaign to direct action from all different kinds of groups and individuals urging congress to pass president biden s agenda, the sunrise movement is a group that you may have heard of. they are national camp cain of young activists pushing for solutions to the climate crisis. ever since biden proposed major climate action as part of his presidential agenda that they have just been docket in the pressure to try and get congress to see it through. that is included, this remarkable thing that have been, over the past few weeks. for 14 days, young activists from the sunrise movement staged a hunger strike. to try and press their holdout senators like, again, joe