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house with democratic leaders, at the house and senate as well as the moderates, and those on the left. this is a messy sausage making process. the president is bringing people of a range of viewpoints, on big important packages. this is going to be deeply engaged with getting bills and legislation across the finish line. biden doesn t have a whole lot of time to try and broker a truce with members of that home team. both pieces of his agenda, his trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, and that three and a half trillion dollar social safety net package, while they appear to be on a collision course. democrats are arguing among themselves, over which one to vote on. first speaker pelosi has promised to vote on the bipartisan bill monday. progressives say they won t know unless the larger bill is passed. when she returned from her meeting today with the president, pelosi who was mobbed by cameras, seemed to suggest that everything was on track. are you stil ....
is one they themselves created. speaker pelosi made a deal with moderates she would hold a vote on the president s infrastructure bill by this coming monday. the hope was that the bigger $3.5 trillion bill would be done at the same time, something progressives say has to happen so that they can both vote for both bills at the same time. but it doesn t look like that s going to happen. so that leaves democratic leaders with basically three ways to go here, they can try to pass the infrastructure bill on monday and risk angry progressives blocking it, they can delay the vote and break their promise to the moderates or they can grit their teeth and work like hell to get that reconciliation bill or something close enough to a deal to please progressives done by monday. i want to bring in monica alba at the white house, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from ....
release, gwynn said biden views the a, the on the capitol as a dark stain on our country s history and is deeply committed to ensuring something like that can never happen again. and he supports a thorough investigation. the legal showdown set to ensue between the expresident and president joe biden s white house, if if it proceeds in complying with the committee s document request comes as nbc news is learning that the select committee has just received documents from all seven government agencies from which they have requested information. that s according to a committee aide. the documents requested include a fast s.w.a.t. of records pertaining to the previous administration s plans to discredit the 2020 election result and dismiss the count on january 6th. all this as the committee prepares to dump subpoenas to many people in a matter of days. it could even ensnare republican members of congress believed to have knowledge of donald trump s actions and donald trump s ....
9%. it is so bad that six former treasury secretaries wrote a letter imploring congress to extend the limit saying allowing an unprecedented default could cause serious economic harm. confronted with the reality republicans say of course the u.s. can t default on the loans. they refuse to help democrats in any way. just two years ago mitch mcconnell made it clear the consequences of default would be dire but now he s saying republicans actually have no role to play in seeing the country stay afloat. so you are expecting to raise the debt ceiling one again? of course. we ll never have america default. america can t default. that would be a disaster. the facts are indisputable. this is a totally democratic government. they have an obligation to raise the debt ceiling and they will do it. don t play russian roulette with our economy. step up and raise the debt ceiling. it s clear it s a straight up dereliction of duty. the thing is mitch mcconnell doesn t care what h ....
colleagues like to see a change in the irish courts, having a closed border again. pakistan s prime minister, imran khan, has been speaking to the bbc about afghanistan, laying out what the taliban need to do before he ll recognise their government. and in the canary islands, another village on la palma is evacuated as the volcano destroys a new area. there is ash falling on my clothes, i can taste it in the air, and the rumble of the volcano in the background. first, let s bring you some breaking news. in the last half an hour or so, the australian state of victoria has been struck by a magnitude 6 earthquake. the epicentre was in the regional town of mansfield, north east of melbourne, with geoscience australia measuring the depth at 10 kilometres. just to give you some context, this is quite rare in australia according to authorities there, australia roughly sees only about 100 earthquakes a year above magnitude 3 neighbouring indonesia for instance sees more tha ....