answer reporters questions in del rio, texas moments from now amid the scramble to to handle the people. welcome to meet the press daily. i m garrett haake in for chuck todd on a busy monday. we expect to hear from homeland security secretary on the influx of haitian migrants on the southern border. we ll wring it live it happens. this morning the first step in the news so many people have been waiting for. pfizer says the covid-19 is safe and isketive for children ages 5 to 11 and says it will submit the data of the fda by tend of the month. this is welcome, welcome news for parents. and we ll have much more on that in just a moment. it s also a development that the white house and democrats in congress would love to be celebrating today. but they find themselves in a web of interwoven standoffs where nobody is blinking. i m thinking like reservoir dogs. and if they don t figure a way out, the entire biden legislative agenda could fall apart. because deadlines to avoid
at the white house and on capitol hill, folks are trying to navigate crises all of them coming to head in the next few days and weeks. there s covid, where president biden is planning to lay out a new plan tomorrow to get through the delta variant. there s afghanistan, where the secretary of state is preparing for a grilling on capitol hill in multiple hearings. there s the threat of a government shutdown at month s end unless congress acts and the potential for a debt default just a few weeks after that. all as democrats continue to spar over the size, scope, timing and political strategy surrounding the president s overall agenda and what s referred to as that massive reconciliation package which has been tied to biden trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill. the latest drama comes after joe manchin reiterated he will not support a $3.5 trillion deal. nowhere close to it. he s reportedly signaling he might only back a bill that s less than half that size or half at b
now this comes at a terrible time for donald trump in the courts battling these separate indictments of his own entire company of the trump organization and the cfo. that probe is ongoing. we have more on how this exec intersects for you over night. all of this dates back to the 2016 campaign. prosecutors say this is about far more than failing to register as a lobbyist. handed off to this foreign government and its intermediaries. barack is accused of shaping trump s policy. the candidate donald trump would pledge to work together with supportive allies in the gulf. that s from the filing or the tapes suggest the plan worked. we ll work with our gulf allies to develop a positive energy relationship as part of our antiterrorism strategy. we have to knock out terrorism. the feds have trump s official e-mails and texts and some encrypted messages that he thought was secret which he lied. the evidence tells story with foreign officials paving the amazing success at shaping c
anti-racists protesting police violence. but fast forward to this week, to yesterday when the senate gop voted near unanimously to block the commission to investigate the insurrection that desecrated our capitol and brutalized its police force. because it would anger donald trump and implicate too many of his allies, and yes, his voters. it s a lot to think about when many americans just want to tune out over the holiday. but the coming weeks will determine whether president biden and congressional democrats can effectively push back with their agendas. for biden, it s his infrastructure plan and his newly released budget, already declared doa by congressional republicans. for the democrats, it s their stalled, if not sabotaged, legislation to reform our law enforcement and restore our border protections. for both, it starts with determining whether the filibuster that republicans invoked to kill the commission will continue imperil everything else, starting with infrastructu
on this memorial day weekend. tonight s lede, a monument to traitors. right now, as we enjoy this unofficial beginning to summer, half the country is vaccinated and economists predict a boom coming for the nation. it s the inverse of our last memorial day when covid seemed uncontrollable. our cities were shuttered and republican lawmakers were calling for every punishment for anti-racists protesting police violence. but fast forward to this week, to yesterday when the senate gop voted near unanimously to block the commission to investigate the insurrection that desecrated our capitol and brutalized its police force. because it would anger donald trump and implicate too many of his allies and, yes, his voters. it s a lot to think about when many americans just want to tune out over the holiday. but the coming weeks will determine whether president biden and congressional democrats can effectively push back with their agendas. for biden, it s his infrastructure plan and his new