Good afternoon from Msnbc World headquarters in new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin this hour with new reporting from nbc news. Senate democrats close to an agreement on updating voting Rights Legislation. Three sources telling compromised legislation that can get the support of all 50 democrats could be released tomorrow of tuesday. Weve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. But an agreement on reconciliation and infrastructure, not so close. Manchin insisting the democrats need to pump the brakes on spending. Need for this, the emergency to do something in the next week is not there. Weve done 5. 4 trillion, george, over the last year and about a year and a half. 5. 4 trillion. A lot of that money is still going out the door. Theres No One going to be left behind for the rest of this year and most of next year. So the urgency, i cant understand why we cant take time to deliberate on this and work. B
donate your small talk manu raju you re on capitol hill in this is cnn it s friday, march 1, right now on cnn this morning, a funeral for alexey navalny s set to begin next hour russian dissidents still rattling vladimir putin, even in death. plus a critical hearing today in the mar-a-lago documents case, donald trump s lawyers now saying they would step two trial, three months before the election and congress doing what it seems to do best these days, kicking the can down the road. yet again to head off a government shutdown arrived 05:00 a.m. i m here in washington a live look down the national mall, the washington monument, the lincoln memorial behind it. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s great to be with you. happy friday. we made all right. even in death, alexey navalny is haunting vladimir putin just an hour from now, funeral services are scheduled to begin in moscow for the late opposition leader. hundreds of mourners and a heavy police presenc