colleagues voting to advance the deal, he will continue to try to slow walk it. seems because he wants to. on the senate floor last night hagerty said no need to speed up consideration of this package. the country s deteriorating roads, bridges and pipes on the other hand might beg to differ with him. one good reason to get it done and that s the senate s scheduled recess is set to begin in 24 hours. however, majority leader chuck schumer said he ll keep the lawmakers in session as long as it takes to get this bill passed. we can get this done the easy way or the hard way. it s in either case the senate will stay in session until i finish my work. up to my republican colleagues how long it takes. new details of the failed coup attempt continue to unfold. now one of the former officials that he repeatedly tried to pressure undermine the election and overturn the results is reportedly telling investigators how far the ex president and his cronies were willing to go to stay
tropical storm elsa ames were cities along the states west coast and it could complicate the search for those survivors in the condo collapse in surfside. hello, everyone. this is america reports on a tuesday afternoon. i m sandra smith. i m benjamin hall in for john roberts. already dropping heavy rain in the florida keys is that storm moves north, forecasters warning it could be done might bring potentially life-threatening storm surges and tornadoes to most of the peninsula. sandra: we are watching all of it coming as tropical storm conditions continue over parts of cuba after making landfall there. tearing through the caribbean. benjamin: steve harrigan is on the ground in clearwater beach, florida, with all the latest. families are trying to squeeze in one day before that storm hits, approaching 60 miles an hour, heavy rain as well, the storm is heading this way, could threaten the entire western coast of florida, could strengthen into hurricane force wind, there
infrastructure. it includes $400 billion to increase caregiving for the aging and disabled population in america. it has $25 billion to eliminate racial and gender inequities in science. $12 billion for community colleges. $174 billion to boost the electric vehicle market. and then $5 billion to prevent community violence. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is slamming the plan saying americans would ultimately be crushed by what is going to amount to a whole slough of new taxes. take a listen. it s like a trojan horse. it is called infrastructure but inside the trojan horse will be more borrowed money and massive tax increases on all of productive parts of our economy. in other words, they want to reverse the tax reform bill we did in 2017 which produced in february of 2020 the best economy in 50 years. gillian: ordinary americans are speaking out, too. a laid off coal worker is sounding the alarm over the plan. take a listen. the trump administration lowered that
it always happens the same way. the bluster and who s there and there? at the end of the day we will be unified for the american people. in just a few moments i ll get reaction to the speaker s comments from the leader of the large progressive caucus. she met with the president on wednesday. meanwhile the fda green lighted a pfizer booster for tens of millions of americans over 65 or with high risk health issues or younger pfizer recipients with moderna or johnson & johnson wait for word on when to get their boosters. joining me now is leeann caldwell and peter alexander. first what were the big takeaways from the big conference last hour? reporter: there were a couple. some confusing and more clear. she remains confident that she s going to pull everything together, that the party in the end is going to remain united on not only this bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill, but this partisan human infrastructure bill that is far from complete. she also says that she s
stepien, trump campaign communications chief, jason miller, the disgraced former new york city police commissioner, exconvict bernie caric, john eastman who devised the strategy that was the reason trump summoned his supporters to washington on january 6th. he s the one that basically wrote the strategy that said vice president mike pence magically had the power to overturn the election on january 6th. also a trump campaign staffer named angela mccallum, she was according to the committee subpoenaed because she apparently called state lawmakers in at least one state and told them on behalf of the trump campaign that they should appoint trump electors, even though trump had lost in that state, lost in michigan. all six of these trump world officials have been subpoenaed today, and along with the subpoenas, they got letters providing supporting documentation about what their alleged roles were laying the groundwork for the january 6th attack. these six people are being asked to