And right now those protests in cuba are expanding. U. S. Officials are warning cubans not to try to make that treacherous journey to the united states. We re going talk to the mayor where they have taken to the streets in sol darety. Nbc garrett haake is at his host on the hill. Garrett, i will start with you. Spending and infrastructure negotiations seem to really splinter off. We re hearing about so many different plans. Make it plain for us. What plan is this and what is in it? there is two bills. The bipartisan one. Roads, bridges, set that aside now. What we re talking about now is a bill that costs $3. 5 trillion that includes all of these other priorities. This new reconciliation bill that is not a bill yet, just a top line number, will include numbers for early childhood education. It will address climate change, it will expand medicare benefits, and it is a huge investment all of these other priorities that democrats ran on and they will need to do it with only democratic vot
Congress on to the desk of the president to rack up a big legislative win before the august recess and september and how can they get both at the same time with different coalitions. Andrea, exactly right. That is what the president and the white house is facing at this time. The president within the next hour will be going behind this effort after going to meet with the senate democratic caucus on capitol hill to focus these $4 trillion in new spending as it relates to the first infrastructure package and that bipartisan deal that has $600 billion in traditional infrastructure roads, bridges and other items beyond that and also this $3. 5 million and while we don t have specifics on $3. 5 trillion and what exactly would be in there, this is what the president has referred to as items that would address child care and elder care and climate change, universal prek, two years of free community college as well here. Fundamentally the challenge for the president here is in order to pass th
Moments. Plus, monster inferno, wildfires in the west harming air quality from coast to coast. It is literally climate change playing out before our ey eyes. How much worse could this get? i ll speak exclusively to oregon governor kate brown ahead. Hello. I m jake tapper in washington, d. C. , where the state of our union is sad and confused, as the u. S. Suffers through yet another covid surge, one that did not have to happen. The highly contagious delta variant is fueling a rise in coronavirus cases in every state with cases at their highest level since may. And one clear demographic group causing the spike. Those who are not vaccinated. Only 49% of the united states is fully vaccinated. For those eligible for the vaccine, those 12 and old er, it s only 57%. The most severe outbreaks, not surprisingly, are happening where vaccination rates are the lowest. Just three states, just three, florida, texas and missouri, accounted for 40% of all the new cases this week. We ve heard some hea
One of the top senators going to be speaking with us on mtp daily coming up. There s a lot we don t know about the new framework which democrats announced last night besides the size that it will be fully paid for by lots of money. Consequently, we don t know if everybody on the caucus is on board with it. Republicans, of course will not back it. And democrats have zero margin for error because they have 50 seats in the senate and the sheer signs are pausing for a moment to take a look at it when combining it with a bipartisan infrastructure deal also working its way through the senate we re talking 4 trillion on spending on physical and human infrastructure. It would touch virtually all areas of our everyday lives. The roads we drive on, bridges, broadband, health care, child care, climate change and more. The 3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill is expected to get zero support from republicans still democrats and president biden are pushing the bill along on a somewhat precarious dualtr
second-degree manslaughter in the death of george floyd. state prosecutors are asking for a 30-year prison sentence while chauvin s attorneys are requesting time served. vice president kamala harris taking a visit to the border to stem the migration crisis three months ago. former president trump is planning to go to the texas border with members of congress next week. we begin with the breaking news. announcing a new lawsuit over the state s restricted voting law weeks after promising action to protect voting rights nationwide. the complaint alleges that the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or bridging the right to vote on account of race or color. this lawsuit is the first of many steps we are taking to ensure that all eligible voters can cast a vote, that all lawful votes are counted and that every vote are has access to accurate information. we believe the civil rights of americans have been violated. we will not hesitate to act. joining me