agreed on a frame work, and we re going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. the white house confirmed tomorrow s meeting taking place just before senators leave town for their two-week recess. there s more on this glimmer of partisan process just ahead. biden also putting his weight behind fighting a surge in violent crimes. homicides up 24%. gun assaults, 22%. over the same period last year. late today the president and attorney general outline a new anti-crime strategy focused on getting more money to police departments and violence intervention programs while cracking down on so-called rogue gun dealers. zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate existing laws. if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the request or inspections, we ll find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. we ll make sure you can t sell death and mayhem on our streets. biden also noted c
Waiting for word of any injuries. It s on collins avenue in surf side, outside of miami beach, a large unit built in 1981 called champagne towers south condo. The collapse was first reported at 2:00 in the morning. Undoubtedly people asleep in the building at that time. No word on casualties but we ll have a live report in a moment. Let s turn to potential break through on infrastructure talks. A group of senators has agreed to a framework and will head to the white house to meet with president biden today. Specifics of the deal, including how it will be paid for have not been released. Lawmakers did seem optimistic when they left a closed door meeting with white house officials last night. Republicans and democrats have come together, along with the white house, and we ve agreed on a framework. And we re going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. Let s bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of way too early, kasie hunt. Also with us, mike barnicle, jonathan lemire, t
military response while startingsyrian s soils it was a message sent to iran. it is a message president biden sends straight to iran. negotiations does not mean it is open for u.s. personnel. of course amid all this the president is trying to convince congress to pass his almost $2 trillion covid relief bill which the house is set to vote tomorrow. the senate parliamentary biden s increase $15 could not be granted. it will be stripped out the bill when it goes the the senate side. president biden meeting with the governors virtually trying to build support for the bill. despite public support for it, republican senate opposition to the measure seems to be holding together. this is on a coronavirus spill. the senate majority leader offered this in response. to the left, money for schools, vaccines and direct checks to struggling american families, checks nearly every member supported a few months ago and now to the left of lennon? there was one more bet of surprisi
department did not follow protocols largely because officers were simply overwhelmed. she also warned that militia groups involved in the insurrection want to, quote, blow up the capitol. and president biden addresses a joints session of congress. also tonight, the annual conservative political action congress begins in orlando with the false claims about the 2020 election playing a prominent role on the agenda and those lies are still backed up by a sizable number of house and senate republicans. cnn spoke to some who are simply refusing to debunk those lies. let s begin with the disturbing new details emerging from today s hearing on capitol hill. the hearing on the siege. jessica schneider is working the story for us. today marks as i said 50 days since that horrible attack. update our viewers on what we re learning. reporter: well the acting chief of capitol police acknowledging today that there were major communications and preparation failures but still insisting that
me. can we thank though, i think kevin felt bad about the gosar thing because he s kind of him. he did? to lay all of these out so democrats are going to pass this historic bill when the whole world is watching. kevin, i am sure maybe a little coffee. as joe mentioned, we have our senior capital hill garrett haec garrett haake is with us. eugene robinson is with us and a.j. alrod and david drucker, the author of in trump s show. and also the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. of course does it have a future? you actually can write about three minutes and you are in a state that s selected a former governor and cabinet overwhelmingly. and 24 hours a day and we saw over night of kevin mccarthy s speech. yesterday on pennsylvania avenue, democrats were so distressed. they just seemed to be this is a general feeling on the hill, we are lost and we don t know what they are doing. i went away from it and i thought this is how democrats felt in 1981 wh