cities in illinois. an overnight tornado leaving a path of destruction. down south, a tropical system causing massive flooding, leaving at least 12 people dead. we are following the aftermath of another violent weekend across this country. at least a dozen killed and 90 injured in separate shootings across the u.s. travel is back in a big way. one of the biggest cruise lines becoming the first to test run its ships with lots of new safety measures in place. some are struggling, ready for this, to keep up with the massive demand. one airline cancelling 400 flights this weekend due to staffing shortages. we have a team of reporters and experts spread across the country to bring you all the latest. but we have got to start this morning in washington, d.c. the battle for two of president biden s key legislative goals coming to a decisive head. today, we expect to learn details of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal. 11 republican senators are on board, which is crucial to ov
as we come on the air, we re live in brussels. but the focus is on his next stop with 48 hours to go before the president sits down face to face with vladimir putin. before he does we did. keir simmons with a brand new peace. you will only see it on this show. president putin getting testy when being pressed. will you commit to sending no more troops into ukraiian soviet territory? wait until you hear what he had to say about that. we have keir simmons live in moscow with more of his exchew sieve interview. we also have make memoli. keir, good morning to you and boy this was a ride ranging interview, significant on a number of fronts including this issue that you ask i d him about ukraine. yes, we were trying to understand what his strategy is. his strategy is to attack, negotiate, attack, negotiate. arrest americans and then try to negotiate a trade. what it appears to be is talking about troops and then i want to talk about nato. he also talks about history and resent
let s dig deeper. carol lee is covering the white house, our brand new political respondent alivitali on capitol hill. how is this supposed to move the ball forward and get covid relief done? it s lawmakers that make the decisions but it s voters that actually influence those lawmakers. reporter: what you re going to see tonight is the president taking questions from americans about coronavirus relief, about the economy, really about anything they want to ask, but his focus is on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and the economy, which really goes the two things actually go together, there s a number of economic initiatives within the coronavirus relief plan as well as money for vaccine distribution and other things that people are eager to see happen. so what we re going to see is this is the outside game, where the president hits the road, making his first official trip outside of washington, trying to pitch his plan to the country, to try to put pressure inside
and two of cuomo s accusers speak out. grappling with the most recent fallout from the governor s conduct. welcome to thursday, it is meet the press daily and i m chuck todd. there is an uncomfortable sense of uncertainty in washington right now. so far all has been quiet and calm at the capitol. police have beefed up security and the house has cancelled its session after the fbi and dhs warned of a potential second attack on the capitol for march 4th, which is today. it s a day which far right extremists delusionally believe will mark some kind of overthrow of the government revealing itself as the true inauguration day of donald trump as president. so the precautions being taken today may be overkill but they may not be. the warnings were serious enough to cancel activity on the house floor. speaker pelosi attempted to downplay the significance of the move today saying they were also hurrying things up to let house republicans get to their retreat today but the senate i
here s another. quote, his wife jill is looking lovely tonight in a beautiful purple dress. now if you don t know who said this, don t worry about. the answer is really very unlikely. those were both reviews from former president donald trump. and as much as trump also ranted about biden s speech, even he had to admit that last night was a strong night for president biden. not only did biden lay out a vision for how democrats want to change the country but he managed to sort of trick republicans into agreeing with him. there were a few of those moments, but the most notable one was this. instead of making the wealthy pay all pay their fe fair share, some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you. anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn t vote as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is also off the books n