Reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlan collins in today for abby. We start with breaking news out of afghanistan. Taliban representatives are inside the presidential palace in kabul negotiating a peaceful surrender of the capital according to the taliban spokesman. The group s fighters are on stand by on the edge of the city. Meanwhile, 5,000 u. S. Troops are in or on the way to kabul to assist in a complete evacuation of the u. S. Embassy. Cnn s chief international correspondent is in kabul. What is going on given the conflicting reports we re hearing? is the afghan government still standing? reporter: well, define still standing, kaitlan. Technically speaking i guess they are but the fact that you now have eight or nine according to our source taliban representatives from the doha contingency in the presidential palace hammering out a deal to come up with a sort of interim government if you will, some kind of peaceful power sharing agreement, tells you that thi
$100 for any new yorker who goes to a cityrun site to get vaccinated. Plus, the january 6th committee sets the stage for a giant confrontation. A fulurry of subpoenas includin for everyone who talked to donald trump on insurrection day. Up next, the urgent covid white house reboot. President biden will announce tomorrow all federal employees and contractors must be vaccinated or get regularly tested for covid. That mandate comes after the cdc changed mask guidance for vaccinated americans, urging more caution because of a surge in covid cases tied to the more transmissible delta variant. Phil mattingly is traveling with the president. A mandate is a big deal. Reporter: no question about it. I think it underscores a really dramatic shift we ve seen from the white house when it comes to the pandemic. It s a shift the white house officials say bluntly is driven by the data tied to the delta variant. It s one that basically reverses all of their policy and messaging positions they ve held
house is finally voting on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. this has been back and forth all day. remember, the original plan was that the house was going to vote on the build back better act on thursday. and the bipartisan infrastructure bill today. that all got scrapped. there s been a lot of push and pull, and the way this all landed was just moments ago, the moderates that had been holdouts on the build back better act issued a statement committing to vote on that by november 15th. in return, shortly after that statement went out, we heard from the chair of the progressive caucus, who said that after that assurance, they will move forward on voting. now, we do expect some democrats to vote no. not all progressives will likely vote for this. so we re keeping an eye on that, and who that might be. we re also keeping an eye on if democrats get some republican support on this. remember, house speaker nancy pelosi is working with a three-vote margin here. she does not like
the votes to pass a bipartisan trillion dollar infrastructure bill tomorrow as promised, but pelosi says she is confident democrats will pass that bill sometime this week along with the president s massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget bill. we have a team of correspondents covering this for us. arlette saenz of the white house and let s start with melanie zanona on capitol hill. this could be a consequential week for the democrats. what are they doing today? not just a consequential week for the democrats politically but also a consequential week for the economy. speaker nancy pelosi said in a letter over the weekend that the house must pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the massive economic package as well as a bill to fund the government because government funding runs out at midnight on thursday but it s not clear that democrats have the vote to pass either of their priorities. just take a listen to what some of the key players had to say this morning about