Passage of americans and our allies. My guests this morning, national Security Adivsor Jake sullivan and republican congresswoman Liz Cheney of wyoming. Plus, our numb Nbc News Poll. New numbers on President Bidens Approval Rating, his handling of covid, the economy in a deeply divided country. Also, kids, schools, and covid. Cases rising nationwide. The situation is dire, and we are simply out of time. With more and more children now falling in critically, critically ill children. Local School Districts are pushing back against statewide bans on Mask Mandates. These School Boards are having to essentially protect kids from their own governors. Ill talk to Education Secretary Miguel cardona about the fight over masking children. Joining me for Insight And Analysis are, Nbc News national Washington Correspondent andrea mitchell, stephen hayes, founder of the dispatch, helene cooper, Pentagon Correspondent from The New York Times and leo shane, Deputy Editor of the military times. Welcom
Held on wednesday ready or not. Schumer has already set wednesday as the deadline for senate democrats to finalize their separate larger 3. 5 Trillion plan which they plan to pass through budget reconciliation. It means that they dont need 10 republican votes. That is a lot of priorities to get in to that bill including extending the Child Tax Credit under the american Rescue Plan, more funding for clean Energy And Addition of a new dental, Vision And Hearing benefit to medicare to name a few things. Here is why senate democrats are in a time crunch. Their goal is to get both bills passed before congress scheduled month long August Recess. And so this is shaping up to be a very busy week capitol hill. Joining me now, Anna Palmer from punch bowl news, and she is the best Selling Author of The Hill to die on, the battle for Congress And Future of Trans America which may be the best Book Name ever. This is really a very, very busy week on capitol hill. Some argue too busy because we have
Another thing he continues to deny the results of the 2020 election. Hours after reports surfaced of his Exs Willingness to comply, yesterdays stop Ground Zero for false claims of Election Fraud where conservativeled audit of the countys 2020 ballots from the election is set to resume. They just think, oh, these are a bunch of resentful people. They cant take the truth. Theyre just in a state of de denial. You know what, we are working to make elections better if we ensure that the people who are taking the oath of office are actually who the people elected, then our elections will have more integrity. Gaetz is making it clear that he will continue to pay it forward for President Trumps lies and Inyourface Defiance as prosecutors decide whether to bring charges. Paula reader senior legal affairs correspondent. Paula, give us the latest on this case. It does feel like, it does look like things are getting much more serious for the congressman. Yeah, theyve been serious, jim. They are ge
Inside the lobby of a d. C. Hotel. That aide telling us here at cnn, quote, it didnt sit well with me. I could have sworn i heard were going to storm the fbi building. It just seemed off for a peaceful protest. He then contacted the Fbi And Capitol police. With me is republican Carlos Jimenez of florida. When you first encounter people inta in tactical gear in the Hotel Lobby January 6th i know your Chief Of Staff witnessed most of this. Did you have the sinking feeling then this was perhaps shaping up to be something very different than a peaceful protest . Well, look, there was a number of people in the lobby. Most of them looked like normal people. But this guy really was out of the ordinary, and he spoke to two other people that were not quite the same. This guy had a helmet on, looked like tactical gear. I didnt hear what he said. My Chief Of Staff was walking ahead of me. And he said, hey, this is what he said. Im going to call the Capitol Police, and he called the Capitol Police
i think america s parents have had enough. this is not a partisan issue. bill: vaccines are included in this. testing is included in this. certain guidelines for safety in the classroom and they project it will be the month of march return for most. this whole question yesterday about whether it is all teachers, a few teachers, some teachers will be determined. dana: president biden saying the official cdc guidance on reopening schools could come as soon as today. kristin fisher is live at the white house from the north lawn. kristin, we ve been dealing with coronavirus for over a year and now we re going to finally get some guidance on how to reopen schools? we ll see. that could come down as early as today. remember, dana, back in december president biden promised that he was going to do everything he could to try to reopen most k-8 schools by the end of his first 100 days. but now the very definition of what it means to reopen is up for debate. yesterday the white ho