of the democrats case. what do we expect today? do we expect new snefd what will be their closing argument? they have eight hours today to make this case. we don t expect them necessarily to use all of that time but essentially you can expect more of this compelling discussion about what transpired on january 6th. and how the former president was directly involved. i think that was really the thrust of their argument yesterday as they showed some of that compelling video evidence. many of those clips never seen before. two u.s. senators who i think maybe didn t recognize how close they came to being confronted by a mob. senator mitt romney was shown in one of those videos being redirected to turn around so that he would not confront that mob. when we talked to him yesterday, after seeing that footage, he said he had no idea just how close he had come. that gives you a sense of just how startling this new footage was for u.s. senators sitting in that chamber yesterday. jim
apologize for the united states, the last administration. a key piece of the hundred of billions to fighting climate change in biden two signature legislative packages back home. those bills are far from finalized but a potential breakthrough is creating new optimism. house progressives signal that they support the latest framework for the build back better package and while there are still a number of sticking points an agreement could free up the smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill for a house vote potentially even this week so let s go right to phil factually live in scott lapd and lauren fox on capitol hill. few people doubt that the president s personal dedication to this summit, it is quite a change from his predecessor s but in terms of tangible results what has he been able to commit to in front of his international counterparts without that passed legislation? reporter: you know, i think, biona, when you talk to white house officials there s two pieces of this r
prisons? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in our politics lead. moments ago president joe biden arriving on capitol hill and now meeting with house democrats hoping to mend the interparty skirmish. one member of democratic leadership, hakeem jeffries of new york, expressed optimism this afternoon that the delayed infrastructure vote will happen today. and he says it will pass. the speaker has indicated we re going to vote today. i expect a vote today. i expect that the bill will pass today. whether or not that happens depends on if progressives in the house democratic caucus are happy with the progress made on a separate piece of legislation, the much larger build back better act. a bill that would expand social safety net programs such as medicare or child care. we know a compromise has been floated by the white house and by democratic leaders. a topline number of $2.1 trillion but there is no indication yet if moderate democrats, such as joe manch
we ve been working very closely to make sure she understands where we are, to be transparent. listen, nobody should be surprises that we are where we are, because we ve been telling you that for three and a half months. we ve said the same thing, and we re still in the same place. can i add something. i think the other piece that, you know, i know the chairwoman has repeated and and it keeps getting lost is that this is not a progressive agenda. we are fighting for the build back better agenda which is the president s agenda, so if the senator thinks electing more democrats is how you get it done, then that is something he should state to the president because this is the president s agenda. this is oddly the progressives who are holding up his agenda and trying to make sure that the president has a success in fulfilling that many agenda. if we pass the infrastructure bill alone, we are not even accomplishing 10% of his age dark right? the majority of the agenda that the
tapper with the linux on this breaking news from atlanta these cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead arm, abby phillip in for jake tapper. we come on the air this afternoon with huge breaking stories. first in atlanta, video from just moments ago, showing that orange suv right there that rammed into the gate of an fbi office we re told at least one person is now in custody and we ll bring you everything that we know about that incident in just a few moments, but also breaking this our brand new images showing the aftermath of a deadly air strike. iran says that it is a consulate building in syria that was hit and it blames israel for the attack we have brand new reporting from the region in coming up and back here in the united states, a news conference just wrapped up in baltimore. authorities there detailing plans to reopen that major shipping port after last week s catastrophic bridge collapse. but first let s begin with cnn s evan threats, evan what is unfolding rig