There was a Word Peter used when he didnt think Something Or Someone was thoughtful enough or imaginative enough or pushed the envelope hard enough. The word was ordinary. It was the worst thing he could say about your work and it was the worst thing he could say about his work. Do not be ordinary was a mandate. We figured if we could create a weekend it would have engaged peter and we would have asked that and we would have succeeded. Peter was a canadian who chose to become an american. The documents he came to love. I think he embraced it. He wasnt relearning it, he was discovering at. I would like to think the project is an opportunity for the fellows to experience that. For the international journalist to discover the constitution like peter did. This is my only chance to thank some folks publicly so bear with me. I would like to thank the constitution center. The project would not exist at all if it was not for leanne. Im so grateful to her. Thank you to our enthusiastic fellows,
This is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the afacts attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former president trump. Our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. Let s start on capitol hill. What more do we know about the opening statements? the opening statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four police officers, two capitol police officers, two d. C. Police officers who defended the building that day throughout the day s testimony will be neverbeforeseen footage, body camera footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. Pushed back on the conspiracies about we re hearing from a lot of folks on t
Deal with isis as it arrives. But we re not going to be in any combat mission. Meantime, the white house says the number of people getting vaccinated is on the rise after weeks of slowing down. But there is concern that the increasing number of covid19 cases has led the veterans affairs department, new york city and now california to require their employees to get vaccinated. California governor gavin newsome joins us live in a few minutes to talk about why he made that decision. And some of the democratic members of the texas legislator that are pushing congress to act on voting rights will testify before a house committee later this week. We ll check in on their progress with texas state representative jasmine crockett. But we begin this hour and kick off our coverage with abc news national political reporter, new york times national political correspondent end lisa layer. They added adam kinsinger to the committee. He joins liz cheney. Can we expect more republicans to be added to t
A major league team leading to swift reaction this weekend. Plus, next hour, some trump bombshells. I will talk to one of the authors of the new book i alone can fix it about his interview with donald trump and what it says about the former president s plans for, yep, 2024. We are going to begin though in washington where despite failing a test vote earlier this week senate democrats and republicans say they hope to release and push ahead with their bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as monday. We ve heard that before. Let s bring in sahil kapur. There are so many deadlines that have come and gone before but here we are wondering if it will be pushed across the finish like. You have senate negotiators not necessarily releasing details. Talk to us about what we know about any final sticking points being worked on to get it past the finish line hopefully, or begin to get past the finish line i should say on monday. Reporter: yasmin, infrastructure week increasingly feels like infrast
Look, i respect the importance of masks, but if we want to make a comparison, a mask is a pea shooter and the vaccine is a cannon. Let s be clear. The thing that will make a difference is the vaccine. As we speak, the first lady is on her way to tokyo for the olympics as another team usa athlete tests positive and cases spike in japan. We start with the new mandate from new york city. The mayor says disinformation about covid and vaccines has, quote, poisoned this country. Now hoe e wants his city to up ante to protect the most vulnerable among us. Elizabeth cohen joins us. A lot of cities and municipalities around the country are all grappling with what to do about masks and this delta variant. Right. The reason why there s such grappling about what do we do, require masks, require vaccination, is that for the vaccine for several months you could say, let s give people time to get vaccinated, let s give them time to get the right information. As mayor de blasio of new york city said,