closer to getting what they and the president want. as progressives held the line, keeping the bipartisan bill known as the bif tied to the larger reconciliation bill and policies that are worth spending money on like child tax credits and free community college and action on climate change. the white house made it clear whose side they are on and it turns out it s team progressives. president biden himself made the trip down pennsylvania avenue to make the hard sell. following the meeting, he made clear that the timeline for a vote was irrelevant. i m telling you, we re going to get this done. it doesn t matter when. it doesn t matter whether it s in six minutes, six days or six weeks. we re going to get it done. there is no vote expected on the bipartisan infrastructure bill tonight but today s events are a death blow to the false narrative it was progressives blowing up the biden agenda. progressive caucus chair jie ya paul said the build back better plan might be scal
actually his first meeting with the caucus since taking office. if i had a whistle on, i would whistle for it. speaker pelosi insisted she would get a floor vote last night, but she didn t. liberals held firm on that vow to block any watered-down package that fails to expand the safety net. many of them touting this as a procedural win. that s one headline. the progressive economist paul krugman meanwhile saying he views the plan as something where liberals gave biden a tactical victory here, holding the line and smoking out new information from the conservative holdouts in the senate. pelosi for her part projecting cool confidence about the negotiating left to do. after hours of meetings, the two sides still seem trillions of dollars apart. how do you bridge did gap? we re not trillions. speaker pelosi, will there be a vote today? when we have the vote the votes require those liberals in the house, and one of their most prominent leaders, aoc, is channelling
volatility day after day. we ll try to mans sense of this. it s not for the feint of heart or those concerned about their stomach turning. i m neil cavuto. welcome. we start the first trading day of may with a lot of folks wanting this volatility to go away. i got a little rhyme going for you to try to put this in perspective. the dow finishing up 86 points. that was swinging hundreds of points down, hundreds of points up. something that they call the volatility index on wall street, it was trading in a range that i was super fearful and super optimistic and super what the heck, we re done, trading is over. what to make of this after the month we just got over and some wondering around a construction that has gotten into a bear market that can t dig out of its cave. connell mcshane with more on this crazy day. i was thinking the same thing that you re thinking, the investors will take it after everything that we ve been do. it was up and down and all over the place. to your
have brand new reporting right here only on msnbc. the man who sold james the exact items recovered at the crime scene and that sale was ten months ago. and new evidence of horrific attacks by russia and ukraine and the escalation in language coming out of the white house. president biden calling vladimir putin a dictator who committed genocide and making clear the use of the word genocide, that was on purpose. and the new ukraine military aid the administration could announce and our own al roker going one on one with somebody you may recognize, former president obama, talking about his recent return to the white house to tackling climate change. with climate change affecting everything, they are demanding action. nature is more resilient than we think if we are intentional about it. good to be with you on this wednesday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington. we re going to start in new york and the latest on that brooklyn subway shooting. nbc news reporter is live a
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage