Congresswoman Joyce Beatty about her experience today. Well, rachel, its stunning to see how many minutes and were talking singledigit number of minutes it took for her to get arrested when you compare that with January 6th. It has taken months to arrest some of those people, in fact most of the people who were in the capitol on January 6th have not been arrested. Yeah. So this Juxtaposition Today and your coverage of it was brilliant earlier in the hour coming into this. Its just i mean i understand it theoretically, like what that arrest was about today, but stacking it against January 6th is just stunning. Yeah. I mean and on its own terms, its stunning even as a standalone thing. She and those other leaders today, those africanamerican leaders standing there in the atrium, singing and preparing to be arrested and comporting themselves with, you know, putting themselves at risk getting handcuffed and taken away, but comforting themselves with such dignity and calling the moral quest
Were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to Senator Tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. Democrats. Its quite something. It really is. I saw your interview with john tHroughout the problem and hes very realistic about what the possibilities are. Hes not someone who tHrows around a lot of false optimism. He is one of the keys to watch it get this far. Its not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. Looking forward to your show. Have a good one. Thank you, ali. As i say, the senate delivered a huge Vote Tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for Joe Biden in the senate tonight. It was also a huge win for Chuck Schumers legislative strategy in the senate passing a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill followed by a larger Democratsonly Bill, and at the very same time, this part was completely unnecessary and he brought it on himself but at the very sam
Today those African American leaders standing there in the a trans singing, and preparing to be arrested, putting themselves at risk, getting handcuffed and taken away, we but calling the moral question with such glaring dignity. Its a moving thing. And effective thing. Its the kind of moral sledgehammer thats going to be needed to knock down these stores that are otherwise shut. Yes and one of the theories of this arrest is that your some way obstructing whats going on. In this case in the hard Senate Office Building where that atrium is close to the size of grand central station. It is impossible for them to have created any sort of Traffic Situation in that gigantic space. All they did was make people choke up and think twice about their priorities and that was the traffic the cause. Theyre exactly. Thank you rachel. Well the two Infrastructure Bills moving on to legislative tracks in congress now have a timetable on those tracks. Senate Majority Leader Chuck schumer says the first
Federal holiday to further the liberal agenda about critical race theory. His Colleague Representative Ralph norman who voted against it said are we going to do one for the nativeamerican indians . Where does it stop . Reporter for the record its a day to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved people in the u. S. Perhaps what they should be pondering is why did it take 156 years to make it a national holiday . Coming in at number 4, 21 house republicans, some of them said they didnt like the Word Insurrection in the legislation, but apparently there wasnt a dictionary nearby. Insurrection described as a violent up rising against an authority or government. Sound familiar . Just this week one of the rioters was charged with bringing a gun onto capitol grounds. This is the same guy who according to what his family told the fbi said hed kill them if they turned him in. Coming in at number 3, freshman republican Andrew Cline who already downplayed the whole thing, conceding there was an un
says it s removing all of its boeing triple 7200s from service. i think this aircraft is going to stay on the ground for a while. president biden will be laser focused on covid relief this week, as the house is set to vote later in the week on that $1.9 trillion package. merrick garland will likely face intense questions from republicans and he ll have to walk a fine line, since he s still technically a sitting judge. i m very confident he will look at every case on the merits. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is monday, february 22nd. it is 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off. erica hill with me this morning. good morning. so we have breaking news. boeing telling airlines telling airlines to stop flying 128 777 jets, all aircraft with the same engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over the weekend. look at this video. united airlines have