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good afternoon from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new reporting from nbc news. senate democrats close to an agreement on updating voting rights legislation. three sources telling compromised legislation that can get the support of all 50 democrats could be released tomorrow of tuesday. we ve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. but an agreement on reconciliation and infrastructure, not so close. manchin insisting the democrats need to pump the brakes on spending. need for this, the emergency to do something in the next week is not there. we ve done 5.4 trillion, george, over the last year and about a year and a half. 5.4 trillion. a lot of that money is still going out the door. there s no one going to be left behind for the rest of this year and most of next year. so the urgency, i can t understand why we can t take time to delib ....
whether saudi officials were complicit in the attacks. in shanksville, pennsylvania, former president george w. bush equated the terrorists behind the 9/11 behind 9/11 to the domestic terrorists driving the news today. there is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. but then there is disdain for pluralism and their disregard for human life, and their determination to defile national symbols. they are children of the same foul spirit. meanwhile, donald trump did not attend any officials memorials, but he did stop by n.y.p.d. and f.d.n.y. precincts close to trump tower where he decided to honor the 9/11 victims by bashing his political rivals, namely joe biden, who this week announced his new six-prong plan to defeat covid-19 once and for all. on friday the president struck a fiery tone when he announced a sweeping vaccine mandate requiring all executive branch federal employees to be vaccinated as well as ordering ....
plan, including vaccine mandates impacting millions. in our next hour, a sign of the depths that we have gotten to when it comes to pandemic politics. this time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the rutherford county school system died of covid, because someone wasn t wearing a mask. this is a very shut up. that is a teenager in tennessee debt laughed at and mocked while talking about his grandmother s death and need for mask. that teen will join me coming up. we begin this hour with tension within the democratic party. he s dug his heels in saying $5.35 trillion plan will be passed by the deadline and proposes slowing down the vote, a proposition bernie sanders is calling unacceptable. it s absolutely not acceptable to me. i don t think it s acceptable to the president, to the american people, where the overwhelming majority of the people of 9 democrat you can caucus. i believe we all need to sit down and come together with a reconcilia ....
scientists, and the economists, and the national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in peril. right now, i fear for the world. my 3-year-old just about 3-year-old grandchild will inherit. by that, i mean the planet itself. in ten days, the hottest summer in recorded history for much of the world will come to an end. but not after thousands have died from extreme heat, or the effects of extreme weather. america has certainly not been spared. the federal announcement coming this weekend that this past summer was our hottest ever documented between the two coasts. as more record-setting wildfires in california have fed so much smoke into the air that neighboring states have been debilitated. many of which are suffering under yet another brutal heat wave, the kind that ignited the pacific northwest in ways unthought of a year ago. and new york and new orleans both remain scarred by the same fatal storm. president biden tour ....
rights act into law that had been filibustered by segregationists for 54 straight days. but in the end their efforts to stop it failed. lbj signed it. the civil rights act of 1964, of course, banned segregation in public facilities. also in private facilities to which the public had access. the segregationists at the time screamed bloody murder. it s unconstitutional. you can t tell private entities what to do. actually, yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law of the land. then the following summer, july 1965, lbj actually went out on the road this time for an unusual signing ceremony. he went to missouri to president truman s presidential library to sign into law the bill that created medicare and medicaid. he went to truman s library because it was truman who proposed the u.s. government should commit to providing health coverage to all the elderly peep in the country. truman couldn t get it done, but in 1965, lbj got it done. he signe ....