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constructive the conversations were. he is going to have his sleeves rolled up and be very engaged moving forward. reporter: yet the president s schedule didn t indicate that today with all meetings being conducted at the staff level. the president will not be meeting with lawmakers today. we ll see. the president is always open to meeting with discussing and communicating with lawmakers. there is a lot of work that needs to continue that can happen with senior staff members. reporter: a lot of work indeed with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan up for a vote early next week. along with the broader $3.5 trillion plan to expand education and health care, address climate change, and more. on capitol hill, cnn s manu raju pressed speaker pelosi on the plan cost. have you settled on a price tag no, we didn t talk about that. this is not about price tag. this is what is in the bill. reporter: it is of course about both but pelosi remained optimistic democrats ....
9%. it is so bad that six former treasury secretaries wrote a letter imploring congress to extend the limit saying allowing an unprecedented default could cause serious economic harm. confronted with the reality republicans say of course the u.s. can t default on the loans. they refuse to help democrats in any way. just two years ago mitch mcconnell made it clear the consequences of default would be dire but now he s saying republicans actually have no role to play in seeing the country stay afloat. so you are expecting to raise the debt ceiling one again? of course. we ll never have america default. america can t default. that would be a disaster. the facts are indisputable. this is a totally democratic government. they have an obligation to raise the debt ceiling and they will do it. don t play russian roulette with our economy. step up and raise the debt ceiling. it s clear it s a straight up dereliction of duty. the thing is mitch mcconnell doesn t care what h ....
good morning to you, welcome to your new day, i m christi paul. hi, christi, i m boris sanchez. there are new details in that shooting that left a new york city police officer dead and another critically injured. what we re learning about that officer and what investigators know about the gun that was used during the shooting. and amid warnings that russia is planning to invade ukraine imminently there are new details to share with you this morning about the kremlin s alleged plot to install a pro-russian leader. and the winter olympics are just a few days away, why coverage of the games could look very different this year. it is sunday, january 23rd. thank you so much for waking up with us this morning. we re following breaking news out of the houston area. according to officials there a harris county deputy was shot and killed during an apparent traffic stop. one that officials have called a brutal murder. cnn s polo sandoval is with us live right now. this ....
and white house cleanup efforts, which is not to say that president biden s missteps are meani meaningless, they do matter, but do they matter as much as pocketbook issues? this brand-new nbc poll shows what matters most, only 22% of americans saying the country is on the right track. many feeling the pinch of inflation, one of the pollsters described america as divided, doubting democracy and tuning out. that last part is really interesting, tuning out. quoted nbc, interesting in the upcoming november midterms is down, not up. people aren t paying attention to what might happen ten months from now. they re tired, demoralized, some are just tuning out the news. with that in mind what was the most surprising story this week? well, i would nominate the successful launch of the government s website for ordering free covid tests. it s surprising partly because it took so long, two years into the pandemic now they re finally doing it and it s coming after the latest surge in ....
contained in a draft executive order which was obtained by politico and appears to be part of the massive batch of documents now in the hands of the house select committee on january 6th. the committee says it now has all the white house records that the former president tried in court to keep secret. according to court filing by the national archives, which handed them over last evening, they also include, among other items, working papers from then chief of staff mark meadows, who the press secretary as well, and a white house lawyer who had notes and memos about the former president s everyday to undermine the election. but it is that draft executive order which politico published which is so potentially telling in part because the day, which was december 16th, fits pretty neatly into a series of related events that we watched play out at the time. and in addition, it meshes neatly into other reporting about testimony other testimony as well about what was happ ....