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democracy. >> glad to welcome back scott to this desk at the "washington journal". now a senior congressional reported nbc news. congratulations on the new gig by the way for. >> thank you appreciated. >> joining us for a look ahead at congress. also a month ahead look the sprint to the expected break before the midterm elections. top of the l list of legislative priorities and keeping the government o open, keeping the government funded. reminded viewers where we are on a government funding bill. >> as you know, jon, funding runs off of the government on september 30. we are weeks away from a potential government shutdown. this time around things looked to be a little bit easier than perhaps the pastt moments. but again, it is a difficult time for lawmakers. they are thinking ahead to the election. nobody wants a government shutdown right before the election. but at the same time,ec these

things are never easy. there are a number of challenges that lie ahead. the top challenge i would say is joe manchin was able to get a deal with chuck schumer and congressional leadership in the white house when they pass the inflation reduction act. he was able, she probably discussed of this program before, to secure a bill, one of his bills that would reform and ease of permitting for domestic energy projects around the country. things like oil and natural gas pipelines. well, progresses in his own party as you can imagine, are pretty upset with any possibility that permitting proposal wouldld be attached to the government funding bill. self-management and schumer have this agreement. any part schumer has allowed but now progressives are up in arms. they're not threatening a

shutdown but they are very upset. seventy south house democrats have sent the letter to pelosi saying separate these two items. do noton package it altogether. this is one of the potentialmi hiccups that are coming down the road too. >> the answer to the wall street journal picking up on that topic. the manchin permitting is that headlight with the lead editorials democratic critics cannot block it canda they make them shrink it? that's one of the pieces of legislation being looked at here. the reason why are the continuing resolutions are must passio legislation. if you want to keep the government open yet the passes bill but i want to attach their legislation to that it's a great vehicle to move things through congress. what else could be possibly attached to a continuing resolution to keep the government funded? >> the white house has her own set a priority spread

$47 billionn package that would cover things like additional aid from military aid, economic aid for ukraine. an issue we have seen come upe time and time again. the divided administration wants to send them an additional $11.7 billion. things like coed relief, monkeypox relief. this is a big portion of that $47 billion. republicans say we don't need so much money right now for covid relief. billions and billionsse of dolls during this past congress. that is an area of contention. finally $6.5 billion things like help helping folks explain the flooding in the past year. in places like kentucky and around the country. wild flowers out and in the

west. this would be natural disaster relief money. it is uncertain whether any of that will be eventually attached. but, mitch mcconnell is representing kentucky got to know his people are hurting. i'm sure that's one of his priorities were able help his people in kentucky. >> let's do a little bit of how a bill becomes a law. people may be confused. we've done budget reconciliation process alternative on how a bill can become a law. for continuing resolution to the past by the government's state funding, what needs to happen is to congress? >> we have the filibuster. for any major piece of legislation, barring reconciliation 50 democratic votes. most pieces of legislation need 60.

what that means this particular united states senate is you need all the democrats to hold together. you need at least a tent join hothose democrats. if someone like bernie sanders peels off and said i do not want to support this because you have attached theat joe manchin enery legislation to that, then you r will need additional republicans to join in. that is where the chuck schumer's job becomes quite a difficult task. and cobbling the coalition, which sets of lawmakers can come together and join hands? it gets sent over to the house of representatives. were you need a simple majority. should be an easier for nancy pelosi. agains. nothing is easy in this congress. hill e taking ahead a few weeks,

cheating a little bit. if you want to join the conversation you can do so for lines are open democrats (202) 748-8000. republicans it is (202) 748-8001 . independents (202) 748-8002. 748-8002. a stepping away from the continuing resolution in government funding another item on the to do list as you note in the great wrap up recently the protecting legal same-sex marriage effort in congress and explain what that is and where the democrats are on that effort. >> this is a response to the roe v wade decision by the court to overturn the long-standing decision and so senators, democrats and a handful of republicans said if the united states supreme court can step in and overturn a precedent like

roe v wade perhaps they can overturn others like marriage and the protection for the use of contraception. this bill sponsored teaming up with susan u collins the republican from maine what basically and trying and protect same-sex marriage as well as interracial marriage as a right. this is a priority of course the first senator to be elected and so right now things are a little in limbo. there was discussion about maybe they would attach that bill to the cr and use that as a vehicle to move it forward, but what baldwin and chuck schumer have said in recent days they thinknk the best chance for that is to hold a

standalone vote on the bills so there are negotiations happening. there arear concerns raised abot protections for religious freedom whether or not it would be infringed by the tammy baldwin bill so there are a lot of bipartisan negotiations and they've been looking for sort of that middle ground. >> does she say that there's nine of her republican colleagues who will join to get to that threshold? >> they are not saying that yet. they are hopeful that it can pass. rob portman and tom tillis is yes but that doesn't get you to ten republicans as we discussed to overcome the republican filibuster. there's a number of republicans to doing anything they just don't feel like it's necessary. they don't feel like there's any sortrt of movement by the supree court on that issue and so they

are not quite there yet. there's a lot of behind the scenes happening in regards to this religious freedom concern but we should know in the coming days and see perhaps language on the religious freedom. >> the legislation as time runs short, explain. >> guest: election reform, we are talking about this in the context of january 6th. the attack on the capital. the attempt to try to encourage or pressure with members of congress to overturn the election of joe biden so there's been a discussion happening again involving these folks in the middle, susan collins by the

same number of individuals, joe manchin and other one, joe manchin and susan collins on thk election reform. they've got two bills. one dealing with reforming the electoral archaic law from 87 that sort of walks you through the process how the vice president and the congress certify an account electoral count electoral votessent from . they want to make sure that it's airtight, that there's no room for any sort of funny business that we saw after the 2020 election. that is one of the bills, the other deals with election security, enhancing penalties for people who are pressuring, intimidating and also enhancing security for any sort of electronic voting systems so that was a big focus of the 2020

election. these are responses to what we saw on the run up to january 6th. right now it looks like these issues are going to be into the lame-duck session. there simply not enough time in the calendar as well as election reform. >> let's bring in some callers. we've got a senior congressional reporter with nbc news. robert, democrat. good morning. >> caller: what we really need to do in this session is passed that bill, the voting rights bill. without that voting rights bill we aren't going to get anything done in this country because we've got the progressive party separating themselves from the democratic party promising all these kids college, read this,

read that. then we have the tea party. he would have ran back into told donald trump and bernie sanders. [inaudible] we had elizabeth warren and scott brown i think his name was. what we did we look at the same ticket as obama. we put elizabeth warren on the campaign trail.

i think he meant the january 6 committee when he was referring to the committee work expected to meet again, meet publicly, televise hearings. where are we on that? >> miexactly. the committee has said that they are going to hold additional hearings. they've held eight hearings during the course of june and july and said when they return from the summer recess, which is this week they will begin to hold additional hearings. we expect at least one of those to happen later this month. some of the members of the january 6 committee have said they want to focus on some key issues heading into the fall one of those being what happened in the wake of the january 6 attack on the capital in the days that follow all the way leading up to

the inauguration of joe biden aunt january 20 so that window of what was happening, some of the discussions the cabinet members were discussing invoking the 25th amendment to forcibly remove then president trump from office. at the same time we know there were discussions aboutea impeachment but when the vice president and the cabinet decided not to, we saw how the representatives then moved to impeach donald trump but what we could be looking at these additional hearings. >> a good question on a topic that we mentioned back in our first segment this morning and we got a lot of attention. as the guest know why donald trump is in dc, is it a depositn time, health scare, what do you know h or have you heard anythig on this photo that was taken

last night by an independent journalist of former president donald trump landing? >> i did see that photo and i know that reporters are aware of it especially at nbc. i have not looked into it so i do not have any definitive answer why the president might be here. it could be fundraising. it could be something more serious than that but certainly raised eyebrows. the president was back in dc this week. >> the headline from the daily beast. something up? we will see if there's more to come. david in south carolina. your next. >> good morning. listen, they are owned by corporate america. people have got to understand this they are not going to do anything that's going to benefit

anyone except for corporate america. they've taken money from them, they are in league with of the military-industrial complex to get money into their states for ridiculously bloated pentagon budgets. it's bankrupting us all. we have put off social advances in the country for the last 50 years fighting the communists in russia and are we still don't have proper healthcare for our citizens. we just past the law that a senior doesn't have to payse moe than a certain amount for a indiabetic medicine. what about the babies that have diabetes, no one talks about that. that doesn't matter, does it. what matters is corporate america's bottom line. wall street's bottom line. good day, sir. >> south carolina at the white house this week president biden expected to talk about achievements that democrats are

claiming for people when it comes to healthcare like claimant to change as well. the ceremony for the inflation reduction act. that's happening this week as well. >> and what is interesting, i've been doing a lot of thinking about this and how toxic it's become. we have seen threats against members of congress, against their lives, whether it's through phone calls or people moving around their homes, back at the home state. at the same time, i think it's been pretty remarkable how this congress has been one of the productive's that we have seen in our career starting from last year, the bipartisan infrastructure act. this year we saw the passage of the chips and science bill which you heard the president talk about for the semi conductor production. you mentioned the inflation reduction act that's going to be

president biden's signature achievement much like obamacare for president obama. we have seen the passage just this summer of gun reform for the first time in a generation as well as the pact act to help veterans that are exposed. when you lift those pieces of legislation, it is quite consequential and at the terms of being able to get things done for the american people. republicans probably would say there's too much money and that's why we need a change in the course of direction in the midterm election. >> i think they did start at about the same time back in 2003. scott with the newspaper out of california and then to the arizona republic politico, the hill for a long time, now senior congressional reporter at nbc

news. always been a good friend of this network and we appreciate that. about ten minutes left if you have questions as we talk about the week ahead in washington. catherine in west orange, new jersey. good morning. i think we lost catherine. gary in massachusetts. good morning. >> caller: i have three things i would like to ask. it's interesting that i heard as was yesterday. the muslim extremists were bad and they said that is too broad but it was okay to say extremist, i guess that's okay. from 99% oil and gas and also if we do exactly what california wants to do from now right now allal across the country every state until 2100 would reduce the temperature 31 hundredths of a degree so i'm not sure.

anybody they could but the insurrection was january 1st andthe worst day we ever had. >> that scary in massachusetts. a couple topics. which one do you want to tackle? >> those are some challenging topics. in terms of the george floyd protest of 2020 that has been a republican concern whenever they do talk about january 6. they could quickly turn to the protest many of which. many of which had property that was destroyed. january 6th for many of us who work in washington it was horrible to see. it was horrible to experience. i was one of the reporters in the capital that day.

we were allll focused on what ws going to happen on the floor and wasn't really paying attention about what was happening outside and hadn't realized that there were literally thousands of people who had descended on the capital and then who were tryiny to break in and did succeed in breaking into the capital so again i do think, i don't think the two things are on equal footing. s one had to do with an electio, certification which the people had duly elected so this was the democratic process in action and something that was attacked on that day. >> talking about election 2022 in the next segment but right now the republican favor to take

over the house and the senate more of a question especially in the past two months. what happens to january 6th kennedy if republicans do take over the house and or senate, what hearings have they promised, what sorthe of special committees are they going to form? >> a lot of reporters are looking ahead to the next congress. largely because of the roe v wade that's energized democrats and gas prices. some food prices are coming down

and that has been a republican winning argument in terms of giving them back power. but the january 6 kennedy, jamie raskin a member had a great quote he said were like cinderella we sort of expire at midnight and so at the end of the year, that committee does dissolve if you will unless democrats are able to hold onto power so they need to wrap up their work pretty quickly and write that full comprehensive report that they've been working on all summer. they are still juggling a few things but the report is their iomain priority. is there going to be a select committee on hunter biden, what areid they saying? >> they've promised to investigate not only hunter biden and some of his business dealings. they have said that they are going to investigate the

investigation of january 6th. they believed that it was purely for political purposes. democrats would disagree, but that is certainly one of the areas. members on the far right have talked already about impeaching joe biden so there's going to be pressure foror that leadership team to move towards impeachment. i'm sure that isn't exactly the direction he wants to go right off the bat but he is going to be hearing from some of the members on the far right of his conference. >> let me throw another issue at you from david in south carolina. can the guest explain how the college loan transfer proposal is being paid for? >> that is probably beyond what i can speak to.

>> caller: i just want to know with the election season coming along could anyone answer the question if donald trump was in office and the voting rights act that came up which most presidents fine would black people have the right to vote at the time if h he hadn't signed d said wait until after the election? i would like to know the answer to that. >> what do you think would happen? >> in my scenario, i believe donald trump would have said no i'm not going to sign this until after. but my question if he said something like that would black

people have the rightme to votet that time? >> that is a tough hypothetical. a couple of calls now have brought up voting rights. that is something that isn't part of the proposals in the senate, but members of the house of representatives who have passed protections for the voting rights would likee to see some of those reforms be much broader. so we will see recommendations coming out. we will see recommendations coming out from the january 6 committee about what they view as proper legislation to address whatat happened on january 6 and what happened in the run up to protect our democratic process. >> then a quick question at the end. how long has the house been away, it's been about a month?

>> it was cut short just. a little bit because they had to come back in for one day to pass the inflation reduction act that passedd the senate. we don't see a a lot of activity during the critical midterm election but to go back to my earlier point this has been a particularly productive congress when you look back at the past election years. >> nice vacation congress gave. they shouldn't get a campaign paycheck. scott with nbc news senior seniorcongressional reporter yon find him on twitter his work ato nbc news.com and we do always appreciate your time.

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