Companies are welcoming that corporate tax rate and about the upcoming meeting. Take a listen. The reality is that they knew increased corporate taxes were coming, and i have been very pleased by how many ceos have come out to support the president s plan. So, listen, there will be room for compromise for sure, and the president will be meeting with members of congress hoping to find compromise but businesses need these investments to be competitive and that s why there s no time to waste. Reporter: the president has been engaging directly with lawmakers. There have been conversations on the staff level as well as members on that socalled jobs cabinet. One big question going forward is whether the biden administration would be willing to break up their initial proposal into smaller components to try to get some republican support on things like roads, rail and bridges and in these next two weeks, being incredibly critical to the president s push for infrastructure. Fred? arlette saenz
to return to the classroom. thomas carol is superintendent of schools for the catholic archdiocese of boston, more than 30,000 students in 100 schools have been attending in person classes since full. welcome. appreciate you coming on. tell us about your experience in boston. new students have been in classes since the fall, is a full week in class or a hybrid system where there s student trade-off? the elementary schools are in full week and high schools, some are doing a hybrid scenario. all the children are expected every week to be in person instruction. we do allow parents who have medically optimized people in their household to watch classes live streamed but we give in person option to everyone. when we started, as soon as the governor announced we could open schools, we never made the decision to provide in person, we just try to figure out how. one of the public school districts were focused on meeting with the union to figure out whether they would open. in our m
democracy. there is fraud 2.0. the humanitarian crisis at the border. threats to voting rights and attacks on reproductive rights. two texans tell us how to fight back. and then there is florida where new reporting reveals a big lie by the state s gop used to sell an election bill that helped them win. concerning news with the year and the change to the midterms. plus, high stakes on the hill. we are just hours away for critical votes for the biden agenda. the senator is here to tell us. more confusion surrounding boosters. let s begin this hour with the future of elections in our democracy and a concerning piece out tonight in political magazine going in depth about what the republican party has been doing nationwide since the 2020 election. political experts argue it is a dress rehearsal for undermining next year s midterms and beyond writing, quote, for the first time in american history the losing candidate refused to concede the election. and rather than dismissing him a
if republicans take congress, a compliant speaker could easily decide it s simply not in his interest to let the party s leader lose. when you live in a democracy that is a truly terrifying scenario. it is death to democracy by a thousand cuts and as of now, the republican party is getting away with it. texas now pushing forward with an election review in four counties, thanks to the wishes of donald trump. it remains unclear why the former president wants answers about results in a state he won. not only because it makes trump and his flock sore losers and sore winners. but this tactic didn t work out too well for them in arizona. that maricopa county fraudit, despite lacking integrity, still resulted in joe biden being named winner in 2020. and by an even larger margin than first thought. and then, there s last night where trump held a rally in georgia bringing election conspiracy theories to the stage with him. some of the other speakers last night in perry were extreme ca
this is a very dangerous time. leaders are not acting responsibly. ..i want to find out what s brought us from oppenheimer s invention to this point. now i am become death, the destroyer of worlds. nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation. right now, it sjust going in the wrong direction. translation: i m ordering the strategic nuclear- forces on special alert. explosion. in britain, our own weapons are on high alert. there s always one out at 15 minutes notice to fire. somewhere out there? somewhere out there. and american nukes could soon be back on british soil. if we get trump in there next time, and he may press the button, because he s got a bigger button than putin, then we are a target. on computer: this is one unseasonably bleak scene which has profoundly moved many people during 1982. well, here s the greenham peace camp. a0 years ago now. their peaceful protest against the siting of cruise missiles here is into its second winter. when i was a yo