Congresswoman Barbara Lee from california helped lead the charge and joins us just ahead. From Msnbc World headquarters in New York im Joshua Johnson. Welcome to the week. So President Biden returned this week from his trip abroad. It was a very busy tour of europe, featuring high Wire Diplomacy with world leaders, but he came home to find washington as divided as ever despite efforts to be diplomatic across party lines. An Infrastructure Deal remains one of the biggest issues, but that might be moving forward. A new bipartisan proposal emerged while the president was abroad. It costs just under a trillion dollars. The president initially proposed a 2 Trillion plan. But it has the support of at least 21 senators, 11 republicans and 10 democrats. One of the lead negotiators republican Rob Portman of ohio discussed it today on Meet The Press. There is a lot of interest in having a bipartisan proposal. This helps President Biden keep that pledge of having an Infrastructure Package but als
Late. Leadcontaminated water in flint. Failed levees in new orleans. Collapsed bridge in minneapolis. Reporting for nbc news, ive seen it myself. Driving over the troubled Rent Spence Bridge between cincinnati and kentucky, in this 18wheeler. Roads getting better or worse . Id say getting worse. That is wild. Reporter and in the air, above this highway in arkansas, it goes nowhere. Thats it. Thats the end of it right there . Yeah. Reporter after decades of talk and our infrastructure still in peril, this spring, President Biden proposed a gigantic bill. The calls it the american Jobs Plan, with a promise to create goodpaying Blue Collar jobs under the banner of buy american. What the biden administration says theyre trying to rebuild is the american Middle Class. This hour, well show you that you dont have to wait for the president s plan to see what he wants to rebuild and why. And at street level, well see who can benefit and who risks getting left behind. One of the principles of th
world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won t say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she s signaling an openness to finding legislative solutions because her office has been flooded with calls from constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. let s bring in cnn s pamela brown about some of the latest reporting we re hearing on these negotiations and where this discussion goes from here. what are you learning, pam? so i m learning, me and my colleague manu raju have learned that the senate minority leader mitch mcco