inventive justification for war. and secretary blinken has now taken off for munich and president biden is in ohio in cleveland to refocus on the economy. hoping to stop his can cline in the polls as he sets his stage for the first state of the union speech. at the same time stealmate has stalled tookz keep the government open. only 36 hours away from the threat of a shutdown. and another olympic champion joining us today. the first black american woman to take gold in 500 meter speed skating four years after being the first black woman in american history to make the olympic speed skating team. she ll tell us her remarkable story. we begin with chief correspondent, richard engel and kristen welker, cohost of weekend today. i want to play what we just heard from secretary aursen today about the shelling of the
and ow much washington effects the race for governor. that s the dynamic we re watching with the virginia situation and stealmate among democratsen the infrastructure bills that a lot of blame being aimed at washington for why don t you have this done? so you can guarantee that win for terry mcallf in virginia. i don t know what the dynamics of that really is. i think stacey abrams has a good perspective on it. first of all, she can send us all to school on the dynamics. but she s lived that in a real way. we have reporting thank president biden will go up to the house of representatives at 9:00 a.m., for their meeting at 9:00 a.m., delaying his flight to scotland, a little bit. she s requested the rules
i can t stay too long because i have to deal with step by step with this but i m envisioning taking it up and winning it. let me tell you about negotiating at the end, that is when you really have to weigh in, you cannot tire, you cannot concede. it is this is the fun part. this is the fun part, she says. the speaker and no one knows this better. she is taking these negotiations one hour at a time and leaning in to get some extra innings with the president at the annual congressional baseball game last night. three democratic lawmakers will be joining us here on capitol hill to talk about how to break the current stealmate. and we re going to talk about cuba s response to protests and the pandemic. let s start with garrett haake
both parties said it s time to end this stealmate. i had recommended that it if it becomes what we think it is, i do recommend he sign it. the president should not make the same mistake he made when there was a bipartisan agreement and hes withant sign it and caused the shut dnch. please, mr. president trump, no one got everything they wanted in this bill, but sign it and don t cause a shutdown. i m joined by a democrat from california, robert kosta, national political reporter from the washington post. and correspondent for the pbs news hour and politic news editor at the root.com. could more defeats to come? depends on the audience. senator shelby said this is the best you re going to get. people on the right don t like it, members of the freedom
it s too gentle on democrats. but according to people briefed on the matter and he already violated the proposed truce, mocking minority leader chuck schumer in a tweet this morning. he tweeted i see schumer is already criticizing my state of the union speech, even though he hasn t seen it yet. he s just upset he didn t win the senate after spending a fortune, like he thought he would. too bad, we won t even give him credit for the win by the media. together we can break decades of political stealmate, we can bridge old divisions, forge new solutions, new coalitions and unlock the extraordinary promise of america s future. but kicked off tweeting tremendous numbers of people are coming up through mexico, adding we will build a human wall if necessary. and joined by chris murphy of