results. and it s what we mentioned first, because tomorrow begins a two-week period that will be critical in determining if this can become a permanent thing. the house returns in the morning and lawmakers will begin a sprint to september 27th, which is the date speaker nancy pelosi set for the bipartisan infrastructure bill the senate passed in august. what happens next on the house will set the tone for the rest of president biden s agenda, as the president finds himself and his agenda between two ideological poles of his party, both of which hold significant sway, and without any help from republicans. when it comes to democrats, there s the joe manchins of the world, and now voting rights legislation unveiled by democrats last week. manchin also says that the $3.5 trillion cost of the reconciliation bill, too high, and in a face-to-face meeting with the president on wednesday appears not to have changed his mind. in fact, axios reports that manchin wants to pause voting
education committee looks at how to open schools safely in the fall during the pandemic. members will hear from the dallas school superintendent, the national pga president, and the pediatrics professor. watch live at 10:15 eastern on c-span three, online at c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states have managed to get their attention. landmark cases. c-span s special history series. produced in partnership with the national constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. mr. chief justice and may please the court, quite often in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. let s go through a few cases to illustrate very dramatically the visual of what it means for different people who have helped to stick together because they created a rule of law. good
adam keefe, thank you very much. president trump said yesterday he would be watching the hearings and he held open the possibility he might pull the kavanagh nomination yesterday depending on what he saw today. well, he did watch and apparently from what we re hearing he liked what he saw. weijia jiang is at the white house with more reaction from there. weija? reporter: jeff, i want to get right to president trump s tweet that he posted minutes ago. it is the first and only time he has chimed in about this hearing today, saying judge kavanagh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful, honest and riveting. democrats skpand destroy strat is disgraceful and this has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct and resist. the senate must vote. and you re right, all day white house officials say they were pleased with kavanagh s performance because he used such a defiant and strong tone, which is what they were waiting for after a reecent perfo
released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
this is overheard. (cheers and applause) dr. gates, welcome. - thank you. - so nice to see you sir. - it s an honour to be back in austin. - oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. i love it. - yeah? what do you like about it? - what i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. the experience of black america since martin luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. it just jumps off of the screen. the first couple of times i looked at clips of this series i though i wanna see the entire thing right this minute. - ah that s great. - it may be the best thing that i ve seen you associated with and i just cannot wait. - thank you. to see the entire thing. - well in a sense it s a documentary autobiography of our generation. so our conceit is