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 correct ahead
Beat. We have a lot of news tonight. Senator durbin is here as the trump s doj is prepping for witnesses. We ll explain with the evidence. Governor cuomo with an investigation with a new report. The president urging the unvaccinated to go ahead and do it, get the shots. Everyone sees how this delta variant of covid is surging in different parts of the country. President biden is calling out governors who are standsing in the way of what he calls an urgent fright to save lives. Some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. As of now, seven states banned mask mandates. I say to these states, please help, if you are not going to help but there s get out of the way. He s literally telling people, desantis, get out of the way, let me handle it. Don t make it worse for the least of the request of the federal government may make. Desantis, a trump s favorite in florida continuing to vow to fight the safety measures, his state is hitting
Republicans will say what they will say. Our select committee will seek the truth. It s our patriotic duty to do so, and we do not come into our work worried about what the other side, who has been afraid of this, maybe the republicans can t handle the truth. But we have a responsibility to seek it, to find it, and in a way that maintains the confidence of the american people. Today speaker pelosi added republican representative adam kinzinger to the committee. He joins liz cheney on the panel. This was after pelosi rejected two picks from minority leader kevin mccarthy. Those two selections, jim banks of indiana and jim jordan of ohio, had openly expressed hostility to the mission of the committee and trafficked in revisionist history about the siege. Due to the rules of the united states capitol, the power structure of the capitol, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the capitol police than anyone else in th
Republicans will say what they will say. Our select committee will seek the truth. It s our patriotic duty to do so, and we do not come into our work worried about what the other side, who has been afraid of this, maybe the republicans can t handle the truth. But we have a responsibility to seek it, to find it, and in a way that maintains the confidence of the american people. Today speaker pelosi added republican representative adam kinzinger to the committee. He joins liz cheney on the panel. This was after pelosi rejected two picks from minority leader kevin mccarthy. Those two selections, jim banks of indiana and jim jordan of ohio, had openly expressed hostility to the mission of the committee and trafficked in revisionist history about the siege. Due to the rules of the united states capitol, the power structure of the capitol, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the capitol police than anyone else in th
All attacks of the party. All of this is happening as the fight of voting rights erupted today, protest at kplil. This is important stuff. We want to show you here and what it looked like inside, you can see what it feels like a peaceful protest, a group of protesters working arm s length singing protest songs. Much of that would look like democracy in action. We can report nine people arrested, they were demonstrated in areas that was prohibited according to authorities on capitol hill. It also including the chair of the black caucus. The white house s attempt to say they care about it without getting deep into changing the filibuster yet. Everything is on the table when it comes to democracy. The push to action is ratcheting it up. Texas democrats the to stop some of these things. They fled to washington, what democrats say is a vicious voter suppression bill in that state. So you have the state and the national stories here intertwining. A group of those democrats met today with sen