apparatus. get walked through some polls, walked through some data. all of it, again, meant to be part of the reassuring process. we are now squarely in week two of this, though. there are senators who say they wish all this happened sooner. there are senators who badly want to be reassured. i think that s the thing here. everyone wants to be reassured. they d like to come down on the point where they can say president biden is the nominee. we re just not there yet. significant day. the lunch with senators and top biden advisors, nato, and then the 5:30 p.m. news conference. correspondent ali vaal tee, vitali, thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. while congressional democrats are conflicted, we got a clear message today from our nation s most powerful democratic leader, george clooney. [ laughter ] george wrote a new york times op-ed titled, i love joe biden. but we need a new nominee. ad
good day everyone. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with president biden s big week ahead. a short time ago he was seen on a bike ride in rehoboth beach before he takes on another brewing crisis a fallout with french president macron which is angered by a secret deal to sell submarines to australia. he ignored some questions there. but this week he will also deliver an address to the u.s. general assembly, host a vaccine summit and then friday will be hosting the quad leaders summit. and then on capitol hill, the battle over reconciliation is heating up among democrats are senator manchin renewing debate over whether the $3.5 trillion price tag is too high. here is bernie sanders response. we re taking on the pharmaceutical industry, we re spending millions and millions of dollars trying to make sure that they could charge us ten times more than the people of other countries for drugs. we re taking on the health care industry. does not want to expand medicare. we re
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: try doing that at 6:00 a.m. good morning and welcome to fox & friends. that was the u.s. air force brass quintet performing our nation s anthem and that is the u.s. honor guard performing live in front of the u.s. s up trend here in new york city because we are intrepid because we are celebrating the air force s 74th birthday all morning long. look how impressive that is. will: can t do it at 6:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. or 9: 30 a.m. pete: there is a huge bayonet on the end of every one of those rifles. a long knife on the end of the rifles that they are throwing at each other. rachel: when they train, do people get hurt? pete: my guess is that they usually look at that they usually train with nonlethal. rachel: shield over it. pete: when they do it for real they are doing for real. impressive. happy birthday to the air force 74 years young. rachel: 74 years. i m going to sa
about 700 people. images from that january 6th riot will be burned in the minds of americans for years to come, that s why we see these massive preparations for whatever is going to happen today. on the political side republican congressional candidates are scheduled to appear, sitting members of congress who made an effort to brush aside january 6th haven t said much about today s rally. we haven t heard if any plan to attend. live to capitol hill, ellison barber is at the capitol, julie is inside. ellison, you were there for january 6th, i was following your reporting as things were getting scary. from your vantage point you didn t know everything that was happening. how are things looking there with less than five hours to go? reporter: it is quiet. it is fencing, fencing, fences, as far as the eye can see. there were bicycle racks january 6th. the heavyduty came after the insurrection took place. closer to the capitol an area to the left that was breached by insurrectio
its version of the 3.5 trillion reconciliation bill expanding the social safety net and fighting climate change. we re going to talk about where thing goes from here with chris van hollen. a short time ago, president biden outlined the plan to make big corporations and the wealthy pay more in taxes to boost the economy and strengthen the middle class in this country. saying that it is the right thing to do. it s not to punish anyone. i m a capitalist. if you can make a million or a billion dollars, that s great. god bless you. all i m asking is you pay your fair share. as the f.d.a. s vaccine advisory committee prepares to decide whether to recommend vaccine booster shots, we ll look at how leaders are working to overcome vaccine hesitancy. and while many fled or sought to flee taliban rule in afghanistan, we re going to talk live to one of the leaders who stayed behind to make sure that the taliban uphold their promise to respect women s rights. but we begin this hour in