Senate Is returnIng to sessIon after a whole month off. Summer vacatIon and all that. Theyre now tasked wIth addressIng the multIple natIonal crIsIs thIs natIon faces. The CoronavIrus PandemIc thats kIlled over 660,000 amerIcans. A clImate that Is rapIdly gettIng worse wIth massIve fIres burnIng out of control on the West Coast and the hurrIcane ravaged southeast and east coast. Regular vIewers of the show wIll know that democracy Itself Is also In crIsIs. Just thIs past week, texas gop Governor Greg Abbott sIgned new VotIng RestrIctIons Into law. They ban Ballot Drop boxes, 24 Hour VotIng and gIve now authorIty to partIes and poll watchers. WIth all of these urgent crIsIs demandIng theIr attentIon, do democrats get It . Do they understand what needs to be done . And get that tIme Is runnIng out . Well, tonIght, Ive got good news and bad news. For once, lets start wIth some good news. After months of NegotIatIons Led In part by Joe ManchIn, Nbc News Is reportIng tonIght that senate dem
That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here next weekend at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. My colleague, alicia menendez, picks up our News Coverage now. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. Im alicia menendez. We begin this sunday with the future of the president s build back better agenda. Because this week, expect movement in the senate. Committees expected to wrap the final drafts of a Budget Reconciliation Package that would expAnd medicare, kield care, And paid leave among other democratic priorities. The Washington Post frames the stakes, writing, quote, strategists in both parties believe democrats are likely to lose the house And possibly the senate next year. So this could be the partys only chance in years to enact an expansive domestic agenda. The finished product will become the clearest picture of what todays democrats stAnd for. Supplanting the countless speeches, platforms, And tenpoint plans they delivered when out of power. But the legislations 3. 5 trillion P
Houses most dangerous resident, but first the gogetters versus the Gloom Game is the focus of tonights angle. Over the past 24 hours we have been overwhelmed by your response to our red state Trailblazers Townhall in orlando last night, we had five gop governors who joined us for a wideranging conversation how they have grown their economies and protected individual freedoms and beaten back the radical leftists dominating the Democrat Party. None of them had waited for Washingtons Permission to open their businesses or lift their mask mandates, none are cowed by the woke mob, the gender fluidity crowd. One thing all the ceos told me, they could not operate in california. Great for their employees, great for the staff, great for their vision of what they want to achieve in their business. Encourage people to step up and Do The Right Thing and fight back. I am going to sign a bill that holds big Tech Accountable to send to you or platform you. And sensor political candidate speech. The d
Governors have cared for their constituents and preserved the godgiven freedoms and when they had to, restore them. Now while others what were eager to take them away joining you live in a free state of florida. Orlando. [cheers and applause] were as you can see most of the audience is masculine us because that governor of this state one of the first leaders to fight back against the socalled experts and never impose the state wide Mask Mandates on mandate. Governor desantis we are so delighted you are all here tonight. G to my left is governor at the second highest edp growth. [applause] because he put his constituents and economic wellbeing first. And Iowa Governor kim reynolds. Hers was one of the first to open schools for in person learning. Also nebraska governorrn ricket. His state tied for the lowest Unemployment Rate in the country at two. 9 percent. And of course mississippi any one Mississippi Governor one of the first to left the state wide Mask Mandate. Ladies and gentlemen