they are still claiming a victory as covid numbers continue to decline across the country. communities will make their own decisions. there s never magical through science about 70%. 70% was a bold, ambitious goal we set to continue to drive to get more people vaccinated across the country. and moments ago, senate majority leader chuck schumer announcing he had come to an agreement with senator manchin to get him to vote yes to proceed on for the people act. senator manchin has informed me he ll vote yes on the motion to proceed to debate the legislation. i ve committed to him that if our republican colleagues don t obstruct and allow us to move forward on the debate, we ll take up his proposed substitute amendment as the first amendment we ll consider. and with that, we have all angles the story covered. joining me now political white house editor and political contributor sam stein and nbc news capitol hill correspondent leeann caldwell. it s an unusual silence from
comes as new unemployment claims fell to pandemic era lows for the second week in a row. republicans on capitol hill are continuing to fight the president s spending plans and each other, deciding whether liz cheney remain in leadership while standing up to former president donald trump s daily false claims about the election. we ll have more on that in a moment. starting us off this hour, monica alba in new orleans, the next up on the president s louisiana trip, as i just mentioned. also with us ali vitaly live on capitol hill. monica, the president hoping for a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. realistically how can the white house itten to negotiate with republicans when it seems republicans are opposed to almost everything he is doing. reporter: that s literally what nat minority leader mitch mcconnell stated. he said he s going to work essentially full time to try to oppose whatever the administration is doing. that s not really congruent with some of the repub
congressman matt gaetz who s represented his district since 2017, made a name for himself as one of the trumpiest members of the house of representatives. the new york times reporting the justice department is investigating gaetz over, quote, whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. the investigation was opened in the final months of the trump administration under attorney general william barr. katie benner, one of the times reports who broke this story is standing by to join us in a few minutes. no charges have been brought against the congressman. tonight he up and down denied the allegations during an interview with tucker carlson. it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. the new york times is running a story that i have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. people can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. what is happening is an extortion of me and my family i
the house of representatives. the new york times reporting the justice department is investigating gaetz over, quote, whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. the investigation was opened in the final months of the trump administration under attorney general william barr. katie benner, one of the times reports who broke this story is standing by to join us in a few minutes. no charges have been brought against the congressman. tonight he up and down denied the allegations during an interview with tucker carlson. it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. the new york times is running a story that i have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. people can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. what is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former department of justice official. as we mentioned, much more on all of this just ahead in the hour. tonig
carley shimkus, and host of lara logan has no agenda, lara logan. former wisconsin congressman, fox news contributor, sean duffy. good morning and welcome to you all. sean duffy, a former congressman, i am interested in your perspective because you really have the full national top-down viewpoint. share with us your thoughts on what is going on. sean: first off, it is the role of the government to keep their citizens they fear that is one of the primary goals. this is very simple, right? you get more violence, more criminals. more guns. more victims. so, what is happening in portland in minneapolis, that is an easy correlation. less police means more crime, and one of the problems we have is and just police officers. it is that we have really bad prosecutors right now, so prosecutors across the country who have been funded by people like george soros and others on prosecuting crimes, so you can have investigators prosecute the crimes, these defendants get off. they go bac