it is great to be with you. i'm geoff bennett, and at this hour the democrats are staring down a make or break week in washington. the senate gavels in one hour from now, and then the senators have one week of work before the july 4th recess. in the short window, the democrats are hoping to make progress on two major priorities for the biden agenda -- infrastructure and voting

rights. this week president biden's agenda put to the test. infrastructure and as early as today, a group of centrists are looking to put together the deal. >> this week, he is putting together to pledge to keep the infrastructure pledge, and working across the aisle to get something done. >> at least 31 republicans say they support the $1 trillion proposals that would not raise taxes on americans. it would revitalize roads and bridges and it would not meet the democrats' demands for meeting social demands, and many progressives say it is not going far enough, and disagree on how to pay for it. and then on tuesday, they are to vote on a sweeping law. and democrats are coalesing on a law offered up by senator joe manchin which would make election day a federal holiday

and ban partisan gerrymandering, and that laws should be expanded and that legislators in a dozen states have enacted laws to restrict access to the laws, and speaker mitch mcconnell says that it is a no-go. >> it is totally inappropriate, and all republicans will oppose that as well. >> all right. and joining us now to talk about all of this are the nbc news white house correspondents mike memoli and garrett headache and catherine stoddard. and garrett, we are going to start with you, because the group of centrists said that this is going to be the day, and the day they unveil the framework, and it is 2:02 eastern time, and where is the agreement? >> that is a great question,

geoff, and i ran into one of the aides who said he does not believe it is coming today, and this is one of the challenges of writing the legislation through the informal committee process, and we are not the legislative phase of it and how the pay for it, and that has been the case since the beginning of the infrastructure bit, and the last bit that is the most complicated piece. the white house is continuing to cross out the suggestions made by these more moderate senators from the two parties and preferring to see the taxes going up on corporations, and instead, it is not something of particular interest of the senators, and so back and forth we go. so much riding on the possibility of this compromise that the group is unlikely to put something out until they are sure they have the ducks in the row, and everybody who say they support the idea in theory, is they will support it on paper. >> and mike memoli, i know that i have been talking to the white

house officials and you have as well, and they are looking for multiple paths whether it is a bipartisan deal or the reconciliation or the transportation deals coming out of the relevant committees of the house and the senate, and to torture the metaphor that i have heard you say multiple roads to the chosen destination, it is not clear from where i am sitting that it is known yet which path is the most successful one. >> yes, that is right, geoff, and the white house press secretary jen psaki who is finishing up the briefing reiterating the urgency of the moment that the time line is not weeks, but days. and another official told me that the week of the gps needs to tell them which route to take or the destination. the president has made it clear he wants a bipartisan deal if at all possible. so two ways of looking at the delay of getting the framework put forward today. the optimists, and the president

has admonished us for being negative, so start with the optimistic view is that when you have to president back now, fully engaged with the process, and the focus was overseas for much of the tripsh and now that he is looking at the finalization of the deal, and now the pessimist, and now that there are a lot of them here in washington, and the red line that the white house is reiterating, and the caution flags of the thorny details speaks to the fact that the bipartisan deal may not ultimately be the way forward that is why you have to look at the reality. there is the trains that are already on the tracks, and some of them have left the station are those democratic go it alone vehicles, and the white house has been always looking at that as the fallback, so then the question becomes, do you the democrats on board in order to get it done. as the president is spending a lot of time, and that i have

cleared the schedule for the next few days to have the meetings, and the phone calls, and in-person meetings, and how much time lining up the democrats versus finding the way forward on the bipartisan basis, geoff. >> and mike, like you mentioned with the white house press secretary jen psaki and the briefing, we have the sound there. >> as we are looking to tomorrow, what is clear, and where we are measuring, i think, it is the democratic party, are you united? we weren't as of a couple of weeks ago. we weren't. so that is a step forward. as i acknowledge, we don't expect a magical 10 or more republican votes. >> so a.b. stoddard, i want the question to that, and the question that i am asking time and time again of the infrastructure bill, does the white house make the perfect the enemy of the good, and lindsey graham said on one of the sunday shows, that if president biden wants $10 billion infrastructure

deal, it is right here for the taking. >> it is very tempting for the president to go along with this, and do a bipartisan deal which is the physical infrastructure deal, and largely the transportation projects, but it does not begin to confront the climate crisis that you heard senator markey talk about with kasie in the last hour, and this is the main opposition of the progressives, and also taking the wind out of the sails in terms of the social welfare programs that the progressives want to push next. how can you ensure that senator manchin and senator sinama are going to come along and are you going to be in a reconciliation deal, and are you going to get the two hold out senators for

the transportation bill, and that is not clear. so the pressure from the left that mike is talking about is going to be this offer. mr. president, can't you just do one tough vote and get everyone on board, and instead of trying to jam this thing through with the republicans that leaves out all of the priorities from the more liberals and in the party to dampen the enthusiasm for the midterm in the second tranche, and plus time runs out. so the argument of looking at fiscal cliff of september, and the spending bills and the government shutdown to make sure that you don't reach the fiscal ceiling, and jam it through now, and it is very difficult for biden to walk away from the bipartisan win, and those are the cross currents between the party right now. come on, just do a kitchen sink,

and we will take one tough vote versus him getting this big win on a bipartisan transportation bill which in this environment would be a remarkable accomplishment. >> that is a good way to put it. a.b., pivoting and talking about the voting rights, because in a new column, you summing it up in this way. before the people's act was written years before an american president tried to steal an election, the s-1 bill in the senate knew it would not pass and it does not address one fantastic but newly realistic threats to democracy. they have squandered precious time, and now they have to hope that joe manchin can still rescue them. unpack that for us. >> so hr-1 and the version in the senate, s-1 is not a well constructed bill. they did not consult with the key stakeholders and the people who run the elections on the ground, and all sorts of problems, but the headline and the most important thing is that

it does not address the fact that republicans and the state legislatures around the country are creating new rules to inject partisan rules that make it much easier to corrupt in the counting. sot the democrats are very much concerned on the vote and casting access to the ballot versus what is going to happen if everybody gets to vote and those counts can be nullified and an election can be stolen. there is a chance for senator manchin to go back to the table not only fixing as one, but to restart a bill about preserving the future of democracy in terms of pinning this directly, can you have this much partisan control, and have trust in the process instead of talking about the water bottles, and the absentee voter windows and the driver ballots, and the 24-hour

ballots, but get to the meat of the matter, and force the republicans who he is working with on all of the issues to confront the fact that this is likely the end of the electoral democracy if we don't get in the path of all of these new, new laws being passed by republicans that really position it to corrupt the process on the next time around. >> and garrett, i want to double-barrel a question to you in the time that we have left, and one is on the voting rights, and what is senator schumer trying to do here with this vote that is likely to fail, and with tim scott saying that policing reform which is about to go bust. what is the state of play there? >> schumer is hoping to present democratic unity, and the s-1 failing with 50 democratic votes, and 49 democratic votes

is a very favorable one. and so if they stood in line and said, this is unacceptable what these gop senators are doing, and maybe it is going to raise the pressure of those opposed to get rid of the filibuster, and they need to do so. with the other negotiation reform, you can read it in a positive way, and the negotiators are in it, and it is how you can charge the police officers on different offense, and it is thorny, but it is what you have to do to get done. and the june deadline may sharpen and focus the mind, and they ran through the white house deadline, and the key knee goschiators say they have to get it done before the summer break. >> and congress needs a strong deadline to get anything done. thank you all three. we are following breakk news from the supreme court, and decision involving money,

sports, power, and game-changer for student athletes across the country. the justices issued a unanimous decision, and stinging rebuke to the ncaa. let's bring in joe nocera the author of "indentured, the battle to end exploitation of college athletes." just the title of the booklets us know how you stand. and now, this ruling with big implications, and tell us about the big changes that are set to come. >> well, it is a narrow ruling in the sense that it is only going to deal with a certain kind of benefit. benefits that have some educational value, and that is what the case was about and the ncaa was appealing and trying to get it taken back so that the ncaa could run things the way they always have, but unfortunately for them, the justices ruled 9-0 against them. the big part of it is the

implication in the decision that they would love to have another case before them that is about all compensation, not just come pentation related to educational benefits. and then justice brett kavanaugh has a concurrent opinion where he expresses this really quite explicitly. he basically says, give us another case, because we think that all of their compensation is an anti-trust violation, but we didn't have it in front of us in this particular case. >> and let me actually read from that concurring opinion from justice kavanaugh, because it is quite clear, and he says this, the bottom line is that the ncaa and the member colleges are suppressing the pay of the student athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars of revenues for colleges every year, and the enormous sums of money is flowing to everybody but the college athletes. commissioners, coaches, college executives and they are taking,

six and seven-figure salaries, but those who generate those salaries, many of whom are african-americans, and end up with little to nothing. so this is going to end up the case for compensation across the board some >> that is right. we have two forms of compensation now, and the name, image and likeness copensation is going to start july 1st, and many of the other states are going to sign up with the name, image and likeness bills to stop athletes from making money on the autographs and endorsements, and that sort of thing. that is coming, and they cannot stop that. and now we have an educational endorsement which could be computers and internships and postgraduate stuff ark and million of things, and they will get game, but what is left is playing the players for football

or basketball. and, and, you know, it is possible though it is unlikely that it could be overturned even without the supreme court, and the society will come the their senses and start to pay the players. more likely, someone is going to be filing a lawsuit tomorrow, and it is going to be getting to supreme court in a couple of years, and we have the result that we expect, and the players will be finally paid. >> let me ask you about the one unintended consequence, because for every one big player who has companies lined up for the endorsement deals, there are a number of other players who do not. so you have a system of haves and have nots, and how do you deal with it? >> you don't deal at all with it. tom brady makes a whole lot more money than whoever plays his center. that seems to work just fine. and the marquee players are going to get more, however, i will say this, the fact that the

marquee players are going to get endorsements and autographs is going to put extra pressure on the ncaa and on the universities to pay everybody, you know, some money, so that the center, and the left tackle feels compensated as well as the quarterback and the wide receiver. that is an inevitable outcome of the image and likeness. >> you have been writing about this for years, and thank you for coming on this afternoon. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. >> sure. the covid issue, a call from two senators to have a 9/11 panel to investigate. and now, the return to the air by millions and why one airline is canceling hundreds of flights. first, wild weather. storms wreak havoc from the midwest to the southeast.

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this afternoon, a tropical storm is roaring off of the coast of south carolina. claudette is regaining tropical storm status crossing alabama and this is after killing nine

people in alabama. and the governor is declaring a state of emergency after the damage there. and this is after a tornado destroyed part of chicago. we have a report starting in alabama with kathy park. >> this part here in east bruton, alabama. we are told that the degree was ripped through in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: there were reports of power outages and extensive damage from downed trees and flooding in o'hare airport, and the storm also hitting indiana, and down south, another path of destruction left a path of destruction of claudette, and ten children were killed. treacherous conditions with a

hydroplaning car set off a train reaction on an interstate. children were traveling in a small bus when it was caught in a pileup, and only the ranch's director survived. she lost two of her own children in the crash. the multi car crash killing cody fox and his 9-month-old daughter ariana in a separate veeck. >> i have never seen anything like it. it was horrific. >> reporter: the storm spurned tornadoes, too, and one touching down in bruton, alabama, destroying homes for miles. >> the trees this way, and the houses this way, it was kind of like they imploded. >> reporter: high winds and life-threatening flooding also leading to rescues. dauphin island's mayor saying they are feeling the effects from past storms. >> we are in a situation where the storm line is so decimated

at that point, it takes very little, again, high tides wave action to push the water into the interior of the island. >> reporter: and in louisiana, washing the streets out, and pushing the water into the home. >> we had four inches throughout the entire house, and that happened within about an hour. >> reporter: along the florida panhandle, strong winds and flash floods bring rough seas and and in ta ga, they rescued a woman inside of her car after a tree had fallen and fallen powerlines. earlier today, we spoke with destiny ward who said that she was inside of her mobile home with her three young children when the intense winds literally picked up her tossed it right behind me here. >> incredible damage there.

and now, let's go megan fitzgerald. we have that tropical storm off of the coast, and that situation in alabama and what is the scene there in chicago where you are? >> geoff, the damage is extensive, and when you walk around or drive around, and you will see things like this, and roofs completely blown off. the sisd of homes gone. and trees that have toppled on top of homes and on top of cars, but i want to bring your attention to the area where we are standing in front of now, and this is a house that is completely leveled. you can see it, ripped to shreds, and looking at the aerial footage that we shot today, it is what drives home the destruction of the neighborhood. it shredded this property, and two people were inside of the home at the time of the storm, and they have been taken to the hospital with three other people, and their condition has improved from fair to good condition now. but i want to bring your

attention to what you see here on the property. and these are complete strangers come out here to help sift through the rubble for this family trying to locate the belongings, and salvage as much as they can so that the family will have something here before the property is condemned. on the ground here is the national weather service, and they are surveying the damage here, and trying to understand what type of tornado rolled through here, and the veracity. if it was an ef-2, the national weather service says it is the strongest this area has seen since 2015. geoff. >> it is good to see the people pulling together in extraordinary tough times. thank you for that report, megan fitzgerald. and now, why experts warn that we may never be free of covid-19. and now, higher prices, and fewer workers and housing shortage, and how the pandemic has transformed the u.s. economy and what it means for you. s fo.

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air travel has come roaring back and not everybody was ready. on sunday more than 2 million people passed through tsa check points and the highest volume since the pandemic, and the

airlines are scrambling to keep up. american airlines canceled hundreds of flights this weekend blaming staffing shortage and mechanical issues. they plan to trim the schedule by nearly 1,000 flights by mid-july. our correspondent tom costello has more. >> geoff, airports all over the country are packed. we had over 2 million people traveling through the tsa checkpoints sunday more. and sunday is the heaviest day, but the bottom line is that airports never expected that many people to surge back into the travel system after the pandemic, and they are struggling to keep up. so american airlines canceling 400 flights over the weekend and more today, and american says that it now expects to cancel 50 per day until mid july and 1% of the total flights. as a result of that, you may see that your flight has been moved to earlier or later flight or through a hub that you were not

expecting. this is what american airlines is saying about the thing. not enough employees and bad weather over the weekend led us to build in additional resilience and certainty of the operation by a fractionf our airlines, and we made cuts, and targeted changes with the goal of impacting the fewest number of customers, and the bottom line for american airlines, they had go in to furlough the employees when it went into the fall, and some people took the voluntary lay offs and some decided to retire. all that meant is that they are trying to catch up, and it is going to take time, and maybe weeks to months to get back to operational staffing. for example, if you have furloughed a pilot, you can't simply call up the pilot, and say, you are in the air next week, no, because in some cases they have to go back through the certification to get back into the cockpit again. this could mean that your flights will be impacted the

summer, and not a lot of flights, but american and some united flights could be impacted this summer, so watch your reservation emails coming in to see if the flight status leaves at a different time than what you plan to leave at. geoff, back to you. >> so check the flights if you are booked on american this summer. thank you, tom costello. president biden is meeting with the treasury secretary janet yellen and fed chair jerome powell. and it is hard to ignore that this meeting is happening when the country is watching what is happening post pandemic. what americans is encountering is almost unrecognizable 16 months ago. housing is scarce, and everything is pricing up, and there is a great dislocation between millions of unemployed

workers and millions of vacant jobs. all right. joining us now is our friend robin farzad, from npr forecast, and this is the meeting that is going to mark biden's first face-to-face with the federal regulators of the banking industry and the markets and the fed chairman, and explain what this means like i am a fifth grader, because that is the understanding i have of all of this works. >> the federal reserve of the united states is the biggest banker of the united states. it has a big spigot, and by opening it it makes lending cheap, and out there further buying all sorts of securities to smoke people into taking the risks, and yet look at the savings account yield, and what the mortgage costs these days, and it is at pretty much call it free money policy ever since this pandemic took hold.

and this is something that is both exhilarating if you are someone who wants to buy a house, and take risks in the market, and buy a lawnmower or get a car. but then, what is going to happen when this stimulus comes a away. this is unprecedented cheap money, and how much can the economy stand on its own two feet. >> got it. so because everything is so richly valued the stock market, and the housing market, and when the fed does some hand wringing, and says, i don't know about the inflation thing, the analysts get nervous, and that is where we are right now? >> yes, that is right. the fed in addition to taking the monetary value down, it has more items in the quiver. jerome powell, and other governors can say things like, we don't see ourselves taking rates back up to 2023, but when

you see the prevarication like last week, the inflationary measures are looking higher than we thought, then the markets start to second-guess that iou, and maybe we took too much for granted. >> lastly, may i ask you about the american airlines and strikes me whether it is american airlines or the taco bell or the summer camp, and that is what we are about to talk about in a moment, but there is a labor shortage across the board, and what is the deal? >> it is unprecedented hangover. and remember that we had to shut everything down within a week back in the haze of the spring of 2020, and bringing those things back, and you can't do it overnight, and you saw what tom costello said about the furloughed workers and the restaurant employees who are surviving on the enhanced

monetary sustenance. and now they want to say, we're back. but it takes time. and now, looking back at the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, and looking at a fbi document, leading up to the day users in multiple platforms they discussed traveling to the capitol armed or looking at plans to start a revolution on that day. joining us now is nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and help us to understand why this is significant, because you and others have said that there were explicit threats to the capitol leading up to the january 6th attack. >> yes. and the reason that is this is significant is that the fbi since january 6th has been downplaying the intelligence value of the threats that we have all seen on social media, but here is fbi in this court

document in the case of the nypd officer who is charged with assaulting a capitol police officer, and saying that we have done a review of the social media posts, and they were vowing to bring violence to the capitol, and they would not tell me whether they did it before january 6th or after, but what is interesting is the language contrasted how secretary wray vastly was in contrast to the trove. the fbi called it a massive communication failure, and wray said well, it is hard to discern, and we didn't have any actionable intelligence, but yet, here is an fbi report filed in court that there is plenty of evidence that people were sort of telegraphing what they wanted

to do that day. >> so it is not so much an intelligence failure, but it is a failure to act on the intelligence. so, is there a reason that it is a failure to act on the intelligence? >> well, this is the reason that it is so frustrating that chris wray have not answered and lawmakers can not get to the bottom of it, and that is why they want a commission. and there are failures on the capitol police and others, but they would not get the information from the fbi. they have not opened up the books here, and what they knew, and why they did not consider it actionable. it is a fair point that a lot of people say things on social media that they don't mean, but looking at collectively all of the postings about the capitol and violence and people say that was a signal that they should have at least used to beef up the security around the capitol, geoff. >> thank you, ken dilanian. appreciate you as always. and coming up, the covid

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proof of vaccination was required for every ticket holder and long lines made it feel like a return to normal with the crowds shoulder to shoulder, and unmasked faces singing loudly, and the music industry watched it closely hoping it is going to pave the way for more full capacity shows and venues across the country. now calls today for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the covid pandemic. senator menendez said that the 600,000 people who were killed by the virus deserved the commission. >> how could such a staggering loss of life happen here on the most powerful place on earth, and how could america be sure not to be caught flat footed with a deadly and contagious virus. we owe it to the 600,000 people

who lost their lives to covid to get answers just as we did to the families of the nearly 300,000 people who perished on september 11, 2001. >> and joining us is the obama white house contributor dr. patel. you have worked with the covid survivors ahead of the bipartisan bill presented, so what is the goal? help us to understand. >> yeah, geoff, it is good to be with you, and number one, it is to call attention to the fact that we have people who are dying, and they are getting diagnosed with covid-19, and the challenges are remaining from not just when senator menendez and collins introduced it in the fall, but still thousands of cases, and survivors are desperate for some of the short term financial and health care relief, and some of the regulatory flexibility that we saw and still have right now as a public health emergency.

but geoff, there is a real and looming threat that it is going to evaporate when the public health emergency is declared over, and as you pointed out and the images of the airport that people are thinking that it is behind us, and survivors want to say, no, we are still here. >> and what do you think is the most helpful in preventing another mass casualty pandemic event when you are talking about the fact that we are not out of the woods with this one just yet. >> number one, look, there was a pandemic playbook that the obama administration worked hard over to series of threats, and ebola and h1n1 and that needs to be not just put into the actual use and action for future administrations, but we need to look back, and see what are the improvements and make the cd fully staffed to have a ready response if we need to, and surveillance systems. money is important, but money alone, it does not give you a public health infrastructure,

and geoff, we have delegated what we needed to do to the local authorities thesh and looking back, and looking forward, we need to have a centralized data system, and centralized testing strategy, and much of that was embodied in the vaccination strategies, but still, a lot of it is left to the local officials, and that is why there is uneven vaccination rates. >> yes, and the president has articulated this goal of 70% of american adults getting at least one shot by july 4th. if we plateaued of 60 to 70%, what is difference look like, like a 6% definite looking like across the country with a group not being vaccinated? yes, geoff, think of that playing out in orders of magnitude when those who are unvaccinated gather? we know it is more to happen when the weather gets cool.

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so dasha, thinking of all the risks that come with sleep away camp, broken bones, sun burn, poison ivy and covid-19, finding p em to work at these places was never a concern until now. so how are the camps adjusting? >> jeff, you know, for a lot of us it is starting to feel like things are getting back to normal. but i'll tell you, for the folks tasked with creating that experience of normalcy for us again, they are still facing enormous challenges. typically, 25,000 camp workers a year come from abroad on j-1 visas, international workers critical to the camp p experience, places like camp ihc here. this year though, the numbers are down to just a few thousand. and it's putting camps across the country in a tough spot. watch. >> reporter: for camp director, preparing to open her sleep away camp in rural pennsylvania is always a challenge. but this year it's been exceptionally difficult. >> all over our industry, people

are struggling for staff. >> camps across the country rely on international staffers who come on j-1 visas. camp ihc typically employs 200 counsellors from overseas. but this year the vud travel ban forced a number of embassies to stop granting visas, leaving camps like lauren's struggling to fill vital positions. >> how big a portion of your counsellors are from overseas? >> so typically anywhere from 30% to 40% will be international. >> how does that compare to what you have this year? >> so we probably cut it in it half. >> according to scott brodie, national board chair of the american camp association, the visa issue has contributed to a national camp crisis. . >> it's caused some camps to close completely. other camps are cutting sessions, cutting numbers. >> especially in demand, camp

lifeguards and boating and climbing instructors. and the number of college students applying for camp positions is way down, too. >> after a year of confinement, they want to spread their wings and, you know, coming to camp and giving up some of that really wasn't that attractive for some. >> some international camp workers are finding their way into the u.s. by way of mexico. that's where eye rush native and head camp counsellor got his visa. the. >> it was 15, 16 days. >> but others like this roxy bradley weren't so lucky. the uk native was at camp ihc counsellor before the pandemic. but this summer she was unable to get a visa to return. >> i'm upset. i'm frustrated. i wish i could be there. >> lauren said to reopen this summer, she launched a website and social media campaign aimed at recruiting american college students to fill positions. it worked.

she found enough workers for now. >> the kids are going to come here and they're going to feel that everything is normal. but it was an absolute beast of a job getting to that point. >> and, jeff, camp directors say the staffing shortage could not come at a worse time. the phones are ringing nonstop with parents so eager to help their kids reconnect after a year of lockdown. jeff? >> yeah. parents and kids desperate to get back to normal. dasha, i have to say the kayaks and canoes behind you look inviting. enjoy your time there. >> not the worst office to have for the day. >> absolutely. all right. that will do it for us today. thank you for spending the hour with me. we pick up the coverage coming up next. we pick up the covere agcoming up next. centrum multigummies aren't just great tasting... they're power-packed vitamins... that help unleash your energy. loaded with b vitamins... ...and other key essential nutrients... ...it's a tasty way to conquer your day. try centrum multi gummies. now with a new look. lately, it's been hard to think about the future.

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at this hour, the senate is back in session for the start of a make or break week for the democratic agenda. we'll find out whether congress will be able t act on police reform or even voting rights this week. and if an infrastructure package negotiated by bipartisan group of senators has a realistic chance of moving forward. now president biden is trying to get the ball rolling on that infrastructure plan. he is holding meetings with senators involved in that deal. white house press secretary says that president will do all he can to get a plan across the fish line. watch.