welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. putting covid relief on the fast track with 23 days until benefits run out. the president s $1.9 trillion plan has strong support as republicans struggle to upend that momentum. i m going to ask congressman dan kildee whether that hefty price tag, including more checks and a minimum wage hike, is actually going to survive. also, major disaster, the president making that declaration official for texas a short time ago after this week s freeze. for residents, that help cannot come soon enough. we ve been hunting. we ve gone different places looking for it and can t find it. it s pretty tough to find bottled water. we are having to boil, you know, to wash dishes or do anything. i m trying so hard not to cry because we have to pay to be able to survive. pay light, pay rent, pay the car. i m very stressed too with everything going on. it s hard. but i m trying. it s hard, but i m trying. the absurdity, though, in all of th
understanding of the distant planet. whatever the ultimate outcome, it represents an achievement of man. that s what s behind curtain number one at this very hour. behind curtain number two, the catastrophic failures of man to plan and prepare and embrace science, to guide policy making and disaster response. the crisis in texas enters the third day with at least 37 lives lost and untold others in danger of going hungry, cold and without safe drinking water for days. the texas tribune describes the crisis this way, kwoelt, as millions of texans continue struggling through a dayslong winter storm without power or water. governor greg abbott provided few details wednesday when they can expect the situations to improve. as of wednesday 2.7 million households didn t have power. the nearly 12 million texans are facing water strupgss as after multiple days of freezing temperatures. texans running low on food are finding empty grocery store shelves. food pantries running out of sp
hill with the latest from the january 6th committee. now moving very quickly against former trump adviser steve bannon. the panel is set to vote tuesday night to recommend criminal contempt charges against bannon after he refused to comply with congress s subpoena. he s one of four former trump aides to get one of those subpoenas. cash patel and mark meadows are apparently engaging with the committee. their depositions along with the one for dan scavino have been postponed but could still happen. this is interesting. president biden is out with his strongest statement yet on all of this. nbc s julie tsirkin is on capitol hill and we begin with you. this is a lengthy process. how confident are committee members about making it through tuesday? reporter: good morning, guys, they re very confident. they see this as their only shot to gather all of the facts and find out what the former president knew and did on january 6th and they want to get this look at what he did throug
stay tuned. the bookings are fantastic throughout the hour and thank you all for joining us this hour. tonight, yes, in just moments, we will be joined live by the white house chief of staff ron klain, and we will ask him about president biden s campaign trail return tonight, the new burst of democratic momentum heading into the midterms and donald trump s legal woes. plus a judge says that by tomorrow, he will release a redacted version of the affidavit used to get that mar-a-lago search warrant. as the d.a. investigating trump in georgia calls on more of his associates to testify. former federal prosecutor and senior member of the mueller investigation, andrew wiseman is our guest. and as conservatives take over the nation s school boards new reporting on who is funding the efforts and opening up a new front in the culture war. we start tonight with the president on a hot streak. president biden at a rally tonight in rockville, maryland, is jumping back on the campa
maxwell frost, later on in the show. i m looking forward to hear what he says. ayman, have a good weekend. thank you, my friend. we ll be watching. all right. it was the wrong decision. that s what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he drove past the shooter, according to officials. at 11:33 am, the shooter enters the school, and fires more than 100 rounds in four minutes. two minutes after that, three officers arrived, and enter the school, exchanging gunfire with the shooter. by 12:03 pm, as many as 19 officers are in a h