Covid and mandates. A lot of the patients on this floor wont make it out of this floor. With cases and deaths spiking again, are democrats and the Biden Administration doing enough to push for Vaccine Mandates . Know this. Everybody in North America is either going to get vaccinated or get covid. Joining me is governor Roger Marshall of kansas who opposes mandates. President biden says hes warned Vladimir Putin against any invasion of ukraine. There will be severe consequences, economic consequences like hes never seen or ever have been seen. How much is the u. S. Willing to stop another russian invasion . Ill ask Secretary Of State anthony blinker. Joining me for insight and analysis, Executive Editor of the recount john heilemann, Kimberly Atkins stohr, Senior Writer for the boston globe, republican Strategist Brendan Buck and Marianna Sotomayor of the washington post. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television
Reports a harrowing new reality in american and civic life. The only question Gehlman Leave force the rest of us is this, can we handle the truth about january 6th . Namely if a the deadly insurrection on that day was practiced . In explanation of the piece and the issue, atlantic editors Jeffrey Goldberg frames the issue this way n atlantic across its long history has held true to the belief that the american experiment is a worthy won, which why we are devoting this issue and so much of our journalism in the coming years to its possible demise. The atlantic lays out in painstaking detail how the insurrection was a Dress Rehearsal for the next election and explains and reports out how the Disgraced Expresident is in position if the next election doesnt go his way. Trumps next coup has already begun, he says, in it, he says, given opportunity, they will act, they are acting already. Allies the Disgraced Expresident are working to set up what gehlman describes as a apparatus of election
Also today, a federal Appeals Court in d. C. Has taken on the case, meaning trumps effort to block the committee from seeing any and all records in the National Archives that they back to what was going on in the white house on january 6th. Federal judges have now slowed everything down, they have scheduled arguments in the case for November 30th which means it will be weeks now before the committee might see trumps records, and they wont be turned over tomorrow as the committee and so many other democrats at. Hoped i actually dont think its a huge step back, i think that obviously champs folks will spin this as a wind because theres a lack of winds on any of their legal side. This is not unexpected i think we expected, frankly, there would be a stay issue by the Appeals Court. We also see a very accelerated timeline to hear this case. It is not going to slow down, our investigation, and i expect that keeping the Supreme Court potentially aside, will have these documents fairly soon. M
Be served as they say and weve said this many times before, trump attorney john eastman. He is the trump friendly lawyer who argued Vice President , mike pence, indeed had the authority to overturn the 2020 president ial election and then blamed them for the attack on the capitol when he didnt. Vice chair of the Committee List cheney also confirmed to nbc news that the committee is already interviewed over 150 people. Not among them however is close trump ally steve bannon, who the house found in contempt two weeks ago for defying the subpoena, it is now up to the attorney general, merrick garland, to decide what happens next and so far he is not saying, also tonight nbc news confirming a story first reported by the Washington Post that the manhattan da a has convened a second grand jury to investigate the trump organization. The post puts it this way, one person familiar with the matter said that the second country was expected to examine how former president Donald Trumps Company Val
The Infrastructure Bill on tuesday. President biden has expressed confidence and other democrats are starting to see the light as well. Nbc news reports House Progressives and the moderate new democratic progression are on target with the bills. However, some democratic officials are negotiating hoping to salvage the change. As of yesterday new york senator Kyrsten Gillibrand and others havent given up all hope on paid family leave. The bill is being finalized amid the back drop of the wide ranging january 6th investigation. 650 people have now been charged with breaching the capitol on that day and at least one of them is actually now cooperating with the select committee that is tasked with ininvestigating the january 6th insurrection. One person who is not cooperating is the Famouslily Continuing Gous twice impeached former president and his team are headed back to court this week. Its a setting with which they are very familiar for a hearing on their request to block 750 pages of d