Comes as new Unemployment Claims fell to Pandemic Era lows for the second week in a row. Republicans on Capitol Hill are continuing to fight the president s spending plans and Each Other, deciding whether Liz Cheney remain in leadership while standing up to former president Donald Trumps daily false claims about the election. Well have more on that in a moment. Starting us off this hour, Monica Alba in new orleans, the next up on the president s louisiana trip, as i just mentioned. Also with us Ali Vitaly live on Capitol Hill. Monica, the president hoping for a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. Realistically how can the white House Itten to negotiate with republicans when it seems republicans are opposed to almost everything he is doing. Reporter thats literally what Nat Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell stated. He said hes going to work essentially full time to try to oppose whatever the administration is doing. Thats not really congruent with some of the republican lawmakers said
Post. Taking us inside cheneys monthslong effort to get her party back to reality. The post reports that recent gop retreats, staffers with the National Republican Congressional Committee left out key findings about trumps weakness, his unfavorable ratings, which continue to grow in District Republicans need in order to win back the house. Congresswoman cheney claims nrcc leadership willfully hid that bad polling from its members to avoid telling the truth about trump. The nrcc denies that, but we do know that Cheney And Trump loyalists have long battles over whether or not The Party should directly confront the Damage Trump caused. But its clear this party is choosing instead to defend trumps actions and parrot his lies which is the only way republicans can win if you ask lindsey graham. I would just say to my republican colleagues, can we move forward without President Trump . The answer is no. Ive always liked Liz Cheney, but shes made a determination that the republican Party Cant
separation program. i specifically asked secretary mayorkas about accountability for members of the trump administration. you remember president biden in the debate with kristin welker called the policy criminal. he promised a thorough investigation. this is the part of the conversation, when i asked him about that exact thing. the attorney general is a member of the task force, or when he is confirmed will be a member of the task force. will his role be to look into potential criminality of members of the trump administration? i think we are focused right now, jacob, on reuniting families and restoring them to the best of our abilities. this is an all of government effort. it s not just the department of homeland security and the department of justice. it s also the department of state working with our international partners, the department of health and human services to bring whatever health relief we can to the families. and we re going to work, as i mentioned, with int
biden s desk with just days to spare before the default deadline. and breaking this morning, the latest monthly jobs report is out and the news is beating expectations. we ll break this down with senior biden adviser jean sperling. new video of the moment an apartment building partially collapsed in iowa. engineers warned the building could crumble days before it actually fell. and the death of an 8-year-old girl in border patrol custody now being called unacceptable by the acting cvp commissioner, an internal review showing multiple failures leading up to the child s death. and we begin with breaking news. the justice department has closed its investigation into classified documents found at the home of former vice president mike pence, according to a letter obtained by nbc news. this comes days before the former vice president is expected to announce his run for president. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and msn
Separations? yeah, that might make your head spin there for a second. what this case is about is a series of cases or tort claims from the families that were separated by the trump administration under the zero tolerance policy in 2018. they say they re owed compensation for the stress, the emotional duress they went through during the separation. the biden justice department is fighting it saying they shouldn t owe these claims because it wasn t an unlawful policy. they even pointed to the fact that it was adopted, they said, for perceived humanitarian considerations, meaning that the trump administration put in the policy of family separations in order to try to alleviate humanitarian strife. that s a completely different take than we would have heard for president biden on the campaign trail when he called that policy criminal. but this is the justice department trying to make an argument here that the policy was not unlawful, perhaps they re not set up in a poorer position if the