Sense. Wel welcome, this is early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In new york. Laura has the day off. We again with a residential Building Collapse theyre miami beach, dozens of rescue units are on the scene. Were heading there right now, this happened just in the past few hours. We know Something Like 100 units from miami rescue are on the scene there trying to dig through this partial Building Collapse. If you know miami, this is 88th and collins, the village is called surfside. Again, well bring you live details as we get them this morning. Next 24 hours hugely critical to the biden agenda, senators will heat with the president today after shake hands on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, they are also staring at a fast approaching deadline on Police Reform. And democrats under pressure to actafter Voting Rights failed in the senate. Daniella diaz is live for us. What are they doing as the clock ticks down . Reporter it is pretty critical that they actually reached a dea
But i think that the idea now is that we have to hit back hard, we have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and the economic pain that is engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong, which is that our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. Weve constantly argued that the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to finally put this virus behind us. Second, i want to quote fed chair Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day, i think it was just a week or so ago, that inflationary risks are also asymmetric right now. Im much more afraid of people losing their careers and life that they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about what that will do not just to their lives but to the American Economy. Im more concerned about that than which exists with higher inflation. In our
Controversies admitting the School Shootings and 9 11 Terror Attacks are, in fact, real. Also breaking, a lawyer for former President Trump saying he will not testify under oath at his Impeachment Trial on the senate floor next week after a dramatic move by House Democratic Impeachment Managers calling on him to take part in the proceeding. Meanwhile, we just heard President Biden make his first Foreign Policy address since taking office and declaring, im quoting him now, america is back, diplomacy is back as he announced some major Policy Shifts in a rebuke of his predecessor. Lets start our coverage this hour up on capitol hill. Our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju is joining us right now. Were standing by for an extraordinary vote to begin. Tell our viewers whats going on. House democrats are pushing forward a truly unprecedented measure to strip Marjorie Taylor greene from two of her Committee Assignments punishing her for views that she expressed before she was a member
A, quote, cancer to the Republican Party. Question is, will we see action against her in the house . And a key day in the second impeachment of donald trump. Today is the deadline for his formal response to the charge against him. Question is, whats his defense . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has some fond memories of bayside high. Weve really missed you, screech. Im kasie hunt on this tuesday, february 2nd. Well start with the news. Its looking more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hours in the oval Office Yesterday to pitch their much smaller 600 billion package. But the message from the white house is that it doesnt meet the moment. Senator Susan Collins said the meeting was very productive and cordial, but when it comes to striking a compromise, the s
House correspondent, Weekend Today cohost Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former Maryland Democratic congresswoman Debra Everets and former senator claire mccaskill. Peter first to you. Lets start with the covid Relief Package. The white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. So where do we stand . Are democrats on the Progressive Side getting nervous hell compromise too much, or are all saying hell go big even if it means going it alone . Reporter when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear President Biden, this white house wasnt really giving much ground here. They say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. The decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this