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are saying about the speaker s gamble. and the last-minute negotiating behind closed doors. plus, what about that bipartisan infrastructure bill? new details on a timeline for a vote on that. spoiler hope you don t have weekend plans. i m hallie jackson in washington. i definitely don t have plans this weekend. along with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, olivia beavers is joining us, as well, congressional reporter for politico. and pete, let me start with you and this hearing related to the documents on january 6th from the trump white house. you say the judge seemed skeptical about the arguments that were being made by those trump attorneys who were looking to keep those documents out of the hands of the january 6th committee. why? well, the trump lawyers are making two arguments here. first of all, they say that the january 6th committee has no legislative purpose that congressional committees don t have a freestanding authority to investigate, t ....
annual all-star tribute as we announce the hero of the year and celebrate all of this year s honorees live sunday, december 12th. all right. we always look forward to that. join anderson cooper and special guest kelly ripa as they host the 15th annual cnn heroes all-star tribute live on sunday, december 12th. all right. hello again, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we re following breaking news on capitol hill. sources telling cnn that house democratic leaders are pushing to hold votes on both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the president s larger spending plan as soon as tuesday. for the latest, let s bring in daniella diaz on capitol hill. tell us what you re learning. reporter: fred, my colleague, manu raju, is reporting that house democratic leaders are now eyeing tuesday as the day they will bring both of these bills, the bipartisan infrastructure bill that s already passed the senate, and the separate massive economic bil ....
the framework of the actual bill released today. they went from the framework to the real bill, legislative language 1680 pages i believe. almost the last 200 of those pages are the tax provisions where i spent my day and so the billionaires tax is out. it did not make the cut. but the tax on short stops and quarterbacks, that s in there. they have created these new tax brackets that i have been begging for for decades now. a new tax bracket that kicks in at $10 million of income. that s going to get a lot of short stops. and then the tom brady tax kicks in at $20 million of income. it s an additional, basically 5% at $10 million of income and then over $20 million of income another 3%. so they re getting at some of the super rich that way, movie stars, people who get this money through salaries. they re going to get hit but the investment banker class and others who managed to get their income in something other than direct salary income, they may find ways around thi ....
they went from the framework to the real bill, legislative 1680 pages i believe. almost the last 200 of those pieces are the tax provision that i spent monday. so the billionaire s tax is out, it did not make the cut. but the tax on short stops and quarterbacks that s in there. they have created these new tax brackets that i have been begging for for decades now. a new tax bracket that kicks in at $10 million of income. that is going to get a lot of shortstop s. and then the tom brady tax kicks in at $20 million of income. it s an additional 5% at $10 million of income, and then over $20 million of income another 3%. so, they are getting at some of these superrich that way, movie star people who get these money through salary. they are going to get hit. but the investment banker class, and others who managed to get their income in something other than direct salary income, they may find ways around this. right, the people who still have are sitting on billions of do ....
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 committee schedule a session for tomorrow. when she requested it, she asked them to consider half a dozen different things, which meant, what on this list do you really mean? and it sounds like what she wanted them to do was be ready to move on that senate-passed ....