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is one they themselves created. speaker pelosi made a deal with moderates she would hold a vote on the president s infrastructure bill by this coming monday. the hope was that the bigger $3.5 trillion bill would be done at the same time, something progressives say has to happen so that they can both vote for both bills at the same time. but it doesn t look like that s going to happen. so that leaves democratic leaders with basically three ways to go here, they can try to pass the infrastructure bill on monday and risk angry progressives blocking it, they can delay the vote and break their promise to the moderates or they can grit their teeth and work like hell to get that reconciliation bill or something close enough to a deal to please progressives done by monday. i want to bring in monica alba at the white house, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from ....
if you take climate change into consideration, that s the kind of money we need. we ve already made a significant compromise. we ll also get a look inside at where things stand with wisconsin democratic congressman mark pocan who met with the president yesterday. also the fda could finally authorize a booster shot for those under 65. but we don t know yet. there s a special u.s. envoy for haiti who has resigned over sending haitians back to their homeland, and we ll talk with dateline s keith morrison about what the intense interest of gabby petito s disappearance tells us about america s obsession with crime. let s start this hour with the fight against the pandemic. right now it s up to a cdc panel to decide who falls with the risk category to be eligible for a booster shot. that decision could come as early as today. jeff last night the fda authorized the booster shot of pfizer s covid shot to those 65 and older and those other adults with compromised immun ....
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually he ....
new pressure coming from the january 6th maga riot probe and that pressure is coming directly onto the biden white house which may release information on trump s actions leading up to january 6th. now, for all the talk about norms over those past four years that we lived through what you see here is something a little different. this new congress may push this new president, joe biden, into breaking sort of a norm here. presidents are very protective of their secrecy including the secrecy of other presidents, many presidents know someday if they go on and live normal lives they will end up being ex-presidents and so there s kind of a secrecy pact. but i want to tell you why this is our top story. this is a change and many in washington say it s long overdue and necessary because as with so many things related to donald trump, this feels different. congress has subpoena power to probe an actual insurrection and few presidents would actually seriously argue, indeed maybe ....
democratic leaders, plus progressives and moderate democrats. the two wings of the party tonight still at serious odds. so far, neither budging. ats issue is a vote in just five days on a bipartisan infrastructure bill. the moderates support that bill. they want to get it passed, stat. it s a bipartisan bill. the progressives, though, want action on a separate, triple the size, $3.5 trillion tax and spending plan that touches on everything from immigration to climate change to healthcare. and they say they will not support the much smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill without that spending bill, first. even as moderates say no way. that price tag is way too high. they re far apart and the stakes could not be higher for president biden. not only is his first term agenda on the line, his party which let s just be clear here, they got the white house. they got the senate. and they got the house. and they still aren t able to pass legislation. failed to make headway on ke ....