Engagements this week will be all about the domestic diplomacy and the range of challenges he faces at home. He will confront complications on much of his priorities from Election Reform to his economic proposals. A pivotal week ahead with a major Test Set for tuesday on voting rights. Though republicans have said theyll sink the Measure Holdout Joe Manchin now open to a compromise, uniting his party behind a bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday, ban gerrymandering, and require voter i. D. And in a significant endorsement from a leading voice in this Battle Stacy abrams said she would support the proposal. It is only through federal legislation we can mitigate the harms. Reporter theres no clear path forward, a problem the president is hoping to avoid on another key priority, infrastructure. A bipartisan group will unveil a new framework with a 1 Trillion price tag. Democrats are preparing to use Budget Reconciliation and others on their own. President biden optimistic a
Will both be Center Stage with a potential decision on the for the people act. But tomorrow, were going to learn details of a bipartisan infrastructure proposal. Both democrats and Republicans Signaling there could be compromise. The clear signal they could send is to say yes, lets do it. Lets sit down and begin negotiations. We think that just as in the case one of the concerns that i do have about the bipartisan bill is how they are going to pay for their proposals. And theyre not clear yet. I dont know that they even know yet, but some of the speculation is raising a gas tax, which i dont support. A fee on electric vehicles, privatization of infrastructure. Those are proposals that i would not support. A lot of interest in having a bipartisan proposal. New Reaction Today from the biden administration over news that North Korean leader kim jongun has vowed to be ready for Confrontation And Dialogue with President Biden. The remarks are the first directed at biden since the White Hous
Industrial action. Tv and film crews across the us vote to go on strike for the first time in the industrys history, in a move that would halt almost all production. Hello and welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. First, Facebook Says an outage that took down its Social Media Site as well as instagram and whatsapp is slowly returning to normal. Facebook has apologised for what it called networking issues. The company was forced to send a message to its millions of users on twitter. The ceo of facebook, marks orocobre, issued this statement, saying things are slowly coming back to normal and thanking users for their patients. Shows in the Company Closed down almost 5 in new york. I asked Chris Wysopal from veracode what went wrong. It does seem that there was a catastrophic network failure. That all the different facebook properties, instagram, even oculus, and whatsapp used, it was a catastrophic failure that basically took down and made it seem like none of th