ever to assure this could pass a 40-year inspection that the town required. buildings every 40 years, they need to be recertified for saved, so they had commissioned an engineer to do this inspection report to reveal what needs to be done so they can pass. that s where they learned there were these i don t want to say catastrophic, because that s a specific term, but there were major failures in the actual construction of the building, specifically how it came to waterproofs were underneath the pool deck and entrance ramps, so this was build flat instead of on a slope, so water could just sit on tap until it evaporates,
buildings be secure, our infrastructure secure, even though this is a building that people lived in, it doesn t really have much to do with the government, but it sort of brings home what can happen if you let these things, possibly, in this case, go too long without being recertified and so forth. let s turn now to that bipartisan breakthrough for the biden administration on infrastructure and police reform as well. jon afvlon and alice stewart, i ll say from the onset, our prayers are with the folks and the families of people who may be trapped there, so let s discuss this as we re thinking about the folks in florida. good evening. jon, a bipartisan deal for infrastructure and a framework for a deal on bipartisan police reform. there s a long way to go before this crosses the finish line, but is biden s bet on
infrastructure secure even though this is a building that people lived in. it doesn t really have much to do with the government, but it really sort of brings home what can happen if you let these things, possibly in this case, go too long without being recertified and so forth. let s turn now to that bipartisan breakthrough for the biden administration on infrastructure and also on police reform as well. joining me now, cnn political analyst john avlon and political commentator alice stewart. good evening to both of you. i ll say from the onset as i know you our prayers are with the folks that may be trapped there. let s discuss this as we re thinking about the folks in florida. good evening. john, a bipartisan deal on infrastructure and an agreement on a framework for bipartisan police reform. there s still a long way to go to get this all across the finish line, but is biden s bet on bipartisanship paying off at this point, it seems? i don t know. looks like it.
i made the call to my wife, told her i loved her, i didn t know whether i would be able to make it out of that chamber like dozens or other members, like journalists, police officers there. over 140 beaten, one was killed, one later took his life. it was a terrible brutal and violent day. let s not forget the hours and the days after where my gop colleagues, the way they were talking, the way they were acting. i remember specifically hours after we had retaken the capitol and gone in and recertified the election, kevin mccarthy gets up on the house floor. we were all sitting there on the house floor. there was still the smell of teargas and broken glass all over, and he gave this speech about how people held the breach against the mob and made sure the house chamber hadn t been taken. he called me out by name and several other members. you fast forward a couple months, it really wasn t a big deal, it s all about politics.
trump on january 6th. the problem with that is trump is talking about what happened in the election. he s not letting it go. he s still leading the republican party. you re still going to have, regardless of whether they have this bipartisan commission, you are going to have to talk about this and republicans aren t going to be able to escape it. sara fagen, you rightly said many republicans want to put trump in the rear view mirror, but trump is almost in some ways looks to be more empowered by the fact that republicans are going along with his demands. well, i think to some degree, perhaps that s true. but i think the notion that you re going to do a commission with live televised hearings, weeks or days before elections is probably what gives people pause. i think for something like this to pass, there would need to be a lot of things worked out from committee members to chairmen, to staff, to timing.