democratic lawmakers are trying to find a way forward after a string of setbacks on capitol hill, this after all 50 senate republicans voted to block any debate on the for the people voting rights bill tuesday night, and the bipartisan infrastructure plan faces new headwinds now in the latest hill talks with the white house. we'll be tackling both issues with vermont senator bernie sanders in just a moment. this afternoon president biden will announce new proposals to stem a surge in deadly gun violence across the country by pouring federal money into local law enforcement and community outreach programs and we have breaking news from the supreme court today. a free speech victory for a high school cheerleader punished for posting profane language on snapchat after not making the varsity squad. eight of the nine justices in an opinion written by justice stephen breyer siding with her in a narrow ruling. let's begin with garrett haake and kimberly atkins, senior

opinion writer at the boston globe. welcome both. garrett, hit both big issues. where are we with the latest on infrastructure talks and what are the realistic options on democrats on voting rights. >> i'll do the voting rights bill because it is short. there are no realistic options to move that bill through the united states senate. 50 republican votes opposed and even the usual moderate republican senators who side with democrats and other key issues like lisa murkowski and susan collins spoke out against this bill yesterday. republicans say it's a federal takeover of elections and they don't like the changes that it makes at a federal level and things like voter i.d. laws and the fcc, you name it. they're not for it unless democrats can find votes to get rid of the filibuster which we talked about ad nauseam and know they do not presently have, that bill goes nowhere. on infrastructure it's a different story although with a similar refrain. the challenge there remains what

it has always been. how do you pay for up to a trillion dollars of hard infrastructure that will satisfy republicans' red line on not raising taxes on basically anyone and will satisfy the democratic red line to not do things like user fees, gas tax, fees for electric vehicles and so the groups that come together on what they want to spend money on, i think that's pretty much agreed to across the board and that's why we've seen the back and forth negotiations with the core leaders of the bipartisan group because democrats are pretty committed to this idea of two tracks. a bipartisan hard infrastructure bill and a democrat-only grab-bag of all these big legislative priorities, both being things that move in the senate in july and the calendar pages are turning on that, andrea? >> indeed, the calendar, of course. kim, let's talk about voting rights first. we've seen restrictions pass in

georgia and arizona. we see what's happening in texas. 43 states. more in july than texas now? how big a blow is this for democratic lawmakers running in these states and also across the country? >> well, it is a major blow, and it also shows that for all the talk that has been about senator joe manchin and senator krysten sinema is mitch mcconnell and the senate minorities showing us he always has the ability to hold his conference together to stop democratic priorities and that's his number one job and he's showing it here. i think it also spells exactly as garrett pointed out when it to things like infrastructure that if infrastructure will pass with democrats in control, it will be in a way that only democrats can do it. unfortunately with voting rights

they can't do that with the filibuster in place and that is one place where it is within the democratic party to have control. i thought it was interesting, that op ed that senator sinema wrote yesterday last night said one thing they found very interesting which is that although we talk a lot about manchin and sinema, they are not the only ones that are perhaps, uneasy at the very least with eliminating the filibuster and they're the ones that have the chutzpah to talk about it publicly. so perhaps the dissent there is deeper than we realize, but without changing that, that keeps the power in the hands of mitch mcconnell and just about anything else. >> just a very quick follow-up to both of you, is it dead, dead, dead voting rights? because schumer says it's coming back. what do you say kimberly? garrett? >> yes, yes, yes, it is dead, dead, dead. >> this bill -- this bill is dead, dead, dead.

>> all right. garrett haake, kimberly atkins, thanks to both of you. let's move over to the white house for a preview of the president's plan to reverse the deadly trend of gun violence in america's major cities. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins me now. what do we expect to hear this afternoon? >> this is an opportunity for the president to respond to what is happening in the country in many communities where they've seen a spike in violence and crime, a concern to law enforcement, to those communities and setting some anxieties among the public in those places and it is also an opportunity for the president to continue part of his agenda dealing with how to address some of these issues so it's a five-part plan the president will outline in his speech this afternoon and it includes things that also put him in the thorny position of needing to take steps, but not wanting to interfere with other issues that are going on on capitol hill like the longtime bipartisan talks to try to have some police reform.

so this is not an easy issue. there aren't easy answers and it deals with gun violence. so you know politically how difficult that can be. among the ideas the president's going to lay out is trying to use what federal powers he has with respect to licenses that weapons sellers have. if they violate rules to strip them of their licenses, a way to try to bring enforcement there. also providing more resources to police departments and then supporting kind of community-based interventions that have scientific basis to them. so trying to look for ways to improve safety in communities that would certainly appeal to the more progressive side of his party and not getting into the defund police movement that is in the idea and also talking about the economic issues of summertime employment to try to keep young people who might possibly get into trouble to give them constructive ways to spend their time and have money in their pocket.

so this is a thorny set of issue, but an important one. it also, of course, has echos from then-senator biden and his involvement with a 1994 crime bill which had some pieces that were effective and others that have become a political sort of ball and chain for the president because they have not borne out over time. today is a big moment for the president to continue this conversation and it comes with certain potential for moving forward and thorny problem, as well. >> to that last point, kelly, as you know very well, having covered him on the hill, it goes all of the way back to the 1994 crime bill, as you point out. the assault weapon ban which he brought dianne feinstein which expired, of course, after ten years, but after newtown. he and president obama, a tearful president obama unable to do anything about the gun lobby. so for all the difficulties this was for him in the campaign, the

downside, the upside is it's very, very popular, background check, some of the other easy things that haven't even been accomplished by president obama as you saw children, 20 kindergarten children killed. >> the record of comments and policy ideas goes back years and years and years on these issues that are at the heart of tragedy and also at the intersection of politics between the two parties and so for the president there is opportunity here, but it is always challenging because of the limits of what can get done without legislation. so that piece dealing with gun dealers is one of the ways the president can use the levers of the federal government without congress and some of the other ideas are support to communities and some of which will be very popular and there's also the response to the reality that many are seeing in their home communities and the spike in crime in many places across country. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so

much. joining us for reaction to the white house and vermont independent senator and budget committee chairman bernie sanders. it's great to see you. thank you very much for being with us. >> i want to start with infrastructure. it also should be accompanied by a larger, more progressive, and a much more expensive bill. do you think the more moderate members in that caucus will go for that two-step approach? >> i do, andrea. every american of the caucus and today we are living in a society with a very, very rich, phenomenally richer, jeff bezos is worth $200 billion. one person. meanwhile, the working class of this country is struggling. you've got 600,000 people who are homeless. you have parents who cannot afford child care and on top of all of that, we have to deal

with the climate crisis which i think every scientist is telling us is going to be devastating for this country and the entire manet. we have to invest in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable injure and injure efficiency. so we have an enormous amount of work to be done and at a time when the very rich and large corporations are often not paying anything or very little in taxes, they'll have to pay their fair share so that we can protect working families in this country and deal with climate change. >> can we do it without a gas tax? a fossil fuel tax that it has ruled out. >> of course, we can. >> how do we do it? is it just through the changes in the tax law and how do you make changes in the tax law and bring moderates along. >> if there's anybody in america that thinks it is a good idea that multibillionaires do not pay a nickel in federal income

tax i'd love to hear from them. is it okay that large, profitable corporations making billions a year in profit don't pay anything in taxes. what we need is a progressive tax system that says to the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share. we'll invest in roads and bridges and invest in the system and we'll invest in expanding medicare. right now, unbelievably, you have medicare not covering dental care, vision or hearing aids and we have to do that, as well. all that i'm saying and i think the american people agree, after years and years and years about worrying about billionaires and the rich now there's a budget that speaks to the needs of families that we face. that's what i'll do. >> i want to ask you about voting rights, abrams opened voter i.d. and urging voters.

is it time to do something smaller and is there any way to get past the objection after mitch mcconnell? >> chuck schumer made a point in yesterday's remarks. it is disgraceful and i don't mean to be overly partisan and it is disgraceful that we did not have one republican vote in helping us deal with the real they in states all over this country there is a concerted effort to deny african-americans, low-income people, young people the right to vote. it's going on all over this country. that is not what america is supposed to be about. we can disagree on education, on health care on any other damn thing you want to disagree with, but you cannot disagree about whether or not all americans have the right to vote and that right is being taken away from them. that's what we're trying to deal with right now. we have one republican vote. so to answer your question, in

my view, should we end the filibuster on this issue? absolutely. this is an enormously important issue. democracy is the same. remember, we're dealing with a party where many of the leaders still are claiming in the most fraudulent manner that donald trump won the election. that's the kind of outrageous activity we're dealing with. we have to stand up to that. >> what do you do about the objection to ending the filibuster, manchin and sinema. >> andrea, i'm tired of talking about mr. manchin and miss sinema. the american people all over this country understand that now is the time to act and i will also tell you, we are constrained because we have 50 democrats and it's whether the american people want us to have

a government that believes in all people that believe in democracy or not and we need more democrats in the senate than we have right now. >> i want to ask you about another aspect of this. people have focused a lot on access to voting, but isn't it an even more important issue, the nullification of voting? the aspects of the local bills, state bills that have been pursued by republican legislatures that actually take the rights away from state-elected voting experts including some republicans. arizona, georgia and gives it to carefully selected partisans who know nothing about the law and are going to nullify voting. >> and gives power to the legislature. we can see, i mean, you know, the writing is on the wall. we're seeing how the trump people behaved after the presidential election. i can see a situation where in a given state someone says, you know what?

i have a problem. i have a real problem, i don't have any evidence, but i have the problem with the votes that came in in this country and we'll take away the responsiblity to determine whether the results of that election were legal or not and we'll transfer it to the legislature and by the way, the republican legislature votes to say that those that count was not proper and that's what we're looking at. taking away the power of local elected officials and they've done a good job in that respect and given it to partisan legislatures. >> is there a com proo promyself. a bipartisan compromise. there's anything that might be okay with you? >> no. there's no bipartisan. look, you tell me, if you know any republican that is for voting rights there aren't any. that's the sad reality. you have a former president going around the country today saying he won the election by a landslide.

you have candidates running all over the country that are touting that absurd position, and you do not have one republican in the united states senate who is prepared to vote to preserve american democrat see and prevent these states from doing the terrible undemocratic things that they are doing. so no, unfortunately, and i say this with great sadness, this is not going to be bisart an. unfortunately, democrats will have to do it by themselves. >> can you get the white house to go along? >> i believe that the white house is deeply concerned about this issue and will do the right thing. >> i want to ask you about gun violence. as you know joe biden was criticized during the primary for some of the things that happened in the '94 bill. are we at a point when there is some kind of gun -- gun reform, gun control, whatever you want to call it that can get through the senate? >> once again, i think the question is whether republicans

who are intimidated by donald trump, who are becoming a more and more frightened authoritarian party and have the courage to stand up to the nra and other gun lobby organizations. we do appoint, as i understand what you're saying and there is a growing consensus and not radical that people who have criminal backgrounds and people who have histories of violence should not own guns and we need thorough any strong gun background checks. we need to do away with the so-called gun show loophole and the strong man provision. there are things that the overwhelming majority of the american people including gun owners agree with. the question is whether the republicans in the congress have the courage to support those positions. >> and before i let you go, senator, i do want to ask you about from the hill team on the cap and local state tax deductions and you'll have to go through your committee. would you support that? >> what i would support is the

understanding that there are middle-class families in states where property taxes are very high and are paying a whole lot in state and local taxes, and i think we have to support them. on the other hand, if you have some billionaires who own a massive mansion, should they be able to write off their state and local taxes? >> no. it is not, and it makes it clear that very wealthy will pay their fair share. >> our thanks to you, senator bernie sanders, the chairman of the senate budget committee. thank you sir. >> a school says a pennsylvania cheerleader went on a social media rant. the first sentence of the indiana grandmother will be the first to learn her fate after being convicted for her role in the january 6th riots. this is "andrea mitchell

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breaking news from the supreme court in a major free speech case. the high courtsiding with a pennsylvania cheerleader whose school punished her for a profane snapchat post. pete williams is joining us now. this 8 to 1 ruling is a big win for the cheerleader brandy levy, but it doesn't protect all off-campus expression, so,

explain. >> right, it doesn't, but it is a free speech victory for all of the nation's public school students because what the court says here is we're not going to go as far as the lower court which is to say the school can never punish students for what they say on campus. there may be exceptions to that said justice stephen breyer who wrote the majority opinion, but the school's ability and the general power of the schools to regulate students' speech or to take action or punish students for what they say off campus is greatly diminished. he suggested in the majority opinion that the exceptions might be things like expressions of bullying or threats to students and teachers and that kind of thing and they wire very much at the margin, but it is a very strong expression of support for free speech rights and it extends, andrea, what the court said during the vietnam era when the students were allowed to wear black arm bands

at school and they do not shed their rights at the gate and only if it's disruptive to the school and the supreme court basically extended that with some little room at the margins to off-campus speech, as well. >> and off-campus speech and the online context which is certainly updating that ruling and 8 to 1, steve breyer writing the majority opinion. the supreme court handing down a labor union access in a california case involving farmworkers. can you tell us about that? >> right. so this has been a big issue for conservatives when the government asserts control over someone's private property, does that violate the constitution provision that says the government cannot take private property without compensation. this allowed a california regulation that allowed unions for up to 120 days a year. they being only do it in the

morning, evening or during lunch break, but still 120 days, that amounts to a taking and today by a 6 to 3 vote, a decision written by the chief justice john roberts with basically conservatives and liberals say yes, there is a taking and breyer in the dissent says it's not a taking and it is a regulation, but this is an issue that's very dear to conservatives' hearts. >> pete williams, thank you so much in the closing days of the supreme court term. and today an indiana grant mother of five will be the first defendant sentenced in the attack on the u.s. capitol. 49-year-old anna morgan lloyd telling a federal judge she now regrets being at the capitol on january 6th after calling it the best day ever on facebook. investigative reporter scott mcfarland joins us. what do we know about this grandmother and the sentencing coming up this afternoon? >> reporter: this is a mild post of the january 6th prosecutions,

our first sentencing happens at about 2:30 d.c. time. it's our first chance to read some tea leaves an anna morgan lloyd is a lower-level case and not accused of assaulting anyone. the defense said they will seek three years' probation and three years' supervision. anna morgan will have 40 days community service. where does the george go on this? does he meet in the middle and leaning toward the prosecutor's side or ms. morgan lloyd's side. it's our first indication whether the defendant will say she is sorry, say something about donald trump or say something about what happened january 6th. it will be interesting to hear. >> and tell us there is another case involving two rioters who were making court appearances today including oath keeping member young. >> first reported by pete williams.

this is the second accused oath keeper to plead guilty. there are high octane, graydon young of florida faces an assault charge and conspiracy charge accused of using encrypted communication bringing gear as you see in that image and using a military stack to breach the capitol line as you're seeing here. graydon line appears later this afternoon and does he agree to cooperate with investigators and does he get witness protection as the first oathkeeper to plead guilty, john schaeffer of indiana did. >> scott mcfarland all over that issue. thanks so much to both you and pete and the surge strategy, president biden setting to announce his plan to take on the recent rise in violent crime. the perspective and analysis for someone leading the police departments in the nation. bill brattin is coming up next.

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surge in shootings has prompting the white house to address violent crime today. just last week, two children, a brother and a sister toddlers -- one a toddler barely escaping injury when caught in a brazen shooting in the bronx in broad daylight. the shooter opened fire just inches away from the kids targeting a 24-year-old man. monday in st. louis, three people were shot and killed and several others injured and while on saturday, two shootings in philadelphia left two people dead and many others injured. joining us now is bill brattin who led six police departments around the country including new york city and also l.a. commissioner brattin, thank you very much. "the professor, the arc of policing in america." according to a recent survey homicide rose 22% in 2020. during the belong of may crime was up 22%, shootings were up

73% compared to may 2020. it certainly affected the voting so far in the new york mayoral, what do you attribute this to? >> well, to the causes, the influences are still being debated and clearly, the prevalence of guns in the hands of too many young people that have no control in their lives. a lot of these killings and shootings are gang related in new york city and over foolishness, basically. the idea of the coronavirus influence also cannot be underestimated and the criminal justice system and the united states shut down and the trials, people arrested and released on bail and back out on the streets again. there are so many factors involved and it does require more study going forward. i celebrate the president's announcement later today and i have the press announcement this morning and there's a lot in that and probably the most

comprehensive initiative since the 1994 crime bill. >> and do you think that the bail release system in new york city has a lot to do with the crime surge that you mentioned. >> the police commissioner, one of my successors certainly feels that's the case. he has 5,000 people arrested on gun charges who are awaiting trial. almost all of them are out on bail or without bail out on the streets of new york because they're not having any trials and they've been arraigned and so his concern is that the bail system, judges in new york state are not allowed to keep a lot of these people in jail because they feel they are a danger to the public. the bail reform system in new york is controversial and the police commissioner has the ability to understand it intimately, feels that it's been problematic and a causal factor in new york city.

>> on cnbc, you were warning of a potentially deadly summer ahead. what more can be done to try to keep people safe? >> i think that's what the president's going to attempt to do with his initiative, and i fairly believe we're going into several months of increasing violence and the good news is we'll come out of it at some point and i am so pleased by this initial announcement by the president and it will help to bring that crime surge, if not to an end, at least reduce it dramatically in the near-term instead of the five-term. >> one of the aspects of the president is to take $350 billion from state and local money from the american rescue plan, covid related to hire more police officers. is this the first step? a good first step and what about the training of those police officers given all that we learned from the george floyd trial, among others? >> thank you for raising those

two issues. the refunding of police is desperately needed. so many departments have lost, 20%, 30% of their personnel and the training of new personnel and the continued training of existing personnel is going to be vitally necessary to deal with the criminal justice reform issues that everybody is clamoring for. so that's great news because that's more money that they put into the 1994 crime bill and had the assault weapons ban and created the cop's office and community policing. the bill is attacked frequently, but i'll tell you, the 40% reduction that lasted well into the 21st century, tens of thousands of lives saved. it has the potential without some of the negatives that came out of the first crime bill understanding what those were. his new initiatives should be very intent on addressing the unintended consequences of the first bill. so good news, i think, for

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bring you more as it comes into us. a big situation there in d.c. today a cdc advisory committee is meeting about a higher than expected number of reported cases of heart inflammation among teens and young adults who have received a covid-19 vaccine. this comes as getting shots into the arms of younger americans is now one of the biggest challenges to increasing vaccination rights. rates, rather, nationwide. joining me now is doctor patel, a primary care physician and former health policy director in the obama white house. what do we know about the relative risks of this heart condition? what are you hoping that the cdc recommends? >> literally, as you mentioned, the cdc's advisory committee is meeting about it now. myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle and there is a higher number and a higher risk ratio of cases seen in younger people and this is in the 16 to

30-year-old age group seems to be higher in boys and men, and so what i make out of this, andrea is that i think there are still so many more benefits and risks to the vaccine of any age group and just a fact that the majority of new cases now are in that younger age group, particularly unvaccinated individuals and with the more infectious variant, andrea. despite these cases, i do believe that there's benefit that outweigh the risk. what this means for individuals is that if you had a previous covid infection because we do think that this is a dose response after the second dose of the mrna vaccine that your pediatrician or your primary care physician might recommend the first dose and then to maybe space out or drop off the second dose, and i think that's what's going to come out of this advisory meeting and a strong vaccination in this age group and individual cases that clinicians can be aware about to consider alternatives.

>> could one of the alternatives -- i'm not a doctor nor do i play one on television, but the johnson and johnson single dose? >> that's a great question. your instinks are correct. we don't have that availability for under 18 and that is an authorized vaccine for over age 18. keep in mind, for women we have seen those higher incidents in clots. recall we were talking about that a couple of months ago and this is becoming an individual issue and one they hope does play out in conversation versus saying no, i am not going to vaccinate my adolescent or i'm a young adult and i don't want to get vaccinated. that's the wrong direction. we have to encourage vaccination as more and more unvaccinated people are likely to get infected. >> and as we've all been pointing out, you've been pointing out that age to 26 or

so is the key area of young people who are ducking and not getting vaccinated at all. >> right. >> and that's been the real problem in catching up to the july 4th, you know, hope of the administration which they've acknowledged that they're not going to reach. let me point out that dr. fauci was talking about the delta variant and the increasing problem with savannah on the "today" show. let me play part of that. >> you would expect just the doubling time, you know, in several weeks to a month or so it will be quite dominant. wooe doing very well with a vaccine that does well against the variant. it's the unvaccinated people that we're concerned about. that's another reason to get vaccinated, delta variant. >> absolutely. this delta variant, by the way, is presenting with slightly different symptoms. we've seen patients that don't have the classis loss of smell, taste or fevers and they might

have a runny nose or mild headache or something that they think is a common cold which we're also seeing now that less and less people are masked. we do have a lot of good reasons, if you're unvaccinated and walk into a clinic or a pharmacy. almost every one of us are ready to give shots on a 24/7 basis if we need to and that's what we can do to decrease the effect of this variant and andrea, any potential future variant? >> dr. patel as always, thank you very much. nbc news has just confirmed vice president kamala harris will viz visit the u.s.-mexico border and expected to go to el paso, texas. this comes after a flurry of criticism from republicans and her interview with lester holt when he pressed the vice president why she had not gone to the border since the election. that trip is now friday.

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i'd like to begin with a list of complaints. people are mean to me. joe is very mean. chris wallace is mean. the economy is mean, it keeps losing jobs which is mean to me. the china virus has been very mean to me. and being a hoax. and that statement is something that i will -- it will probably come back to haunt me later this week. former president trump reaching his breaking point with "saturday night live" in march of 2019. that is according to a new report from the daily beast. mr. trump reportedly grew angry while watching an "snl" rerun. and began to huddle with advisers and lawyers to see if the fcc or potentially the

justice department can intervene with rough jokes. joining me is phil rucker. with the book that's out, congratulations on the new book with carol lenning. he calls the news fake. and for years with attacks. what do we know about his history of "snl." >> andrea, let's keep in mind, first of all, donald trump while president and certainly as president he did not have thick skin. and that was apparent to anybody who watched at a news conference or read his tweets. so it's entirely consistent with his character and his m.o., this

reporting, that is, that he would pressure the justice department to try to take some legal action against "saturday night live." of course, "saturday night live" is entitled to make jokes about any public figure they choose. they've been doing it for decades. there's nothing illegal or wrong about that, but it did get under former president trump's skin. he's also -- he would try to jail reporters who reported stories that he thought were negative. he just was always trying to retaliate against people he thought contributed to a bad image of himself to the public. >> and broadening this out to the big patriot trump world, he's getting back on the road, including with a trip to the border with republicans. governors like ron desantis, beginning to gain track in 2024. ron desantis in an online poll, i guess it was, doing better than the president with

hard-core supporters. >> yeah, look, andrea, donald trump wants to remain the beating heart of the republican party. he wants to be the king. and so, you know, all through the spring, he was down at mar-a-lago in florida, having all of these republicans come kiss the ring. but as the potential 2024 presidential candidates get out there and bolster their images nationally, it's a bit of a competitive threat to former president trump. so, we're seeing him resume some style of campaigning. he's doing a number of rallies over the course of the summer. as you mentioned on wednesday of next week, he'll be traveling down to the u.s./mexico border. he's going to be at the border with texas governor greg abbott who has had a hard line anti-immigration stance. and republicans who are going to accompany him on the trip. it's all about trump promoting portions of the border wall during the administration and of course, finding a way to attack

the biden/harris administration for some of the issues that have taken place down at the border. >> phil rucker, great to see you. can't wait for the new book next month. thanks. >> you, too, thank you so much. >> you bet. on a sad note, president biden and first lady jill biden were among the mourners today in the national cathedral. they're bidding a fawn farewell to the late former republican senator john warner from virginia. a statesman greatly admired from both sides of the aisles, he was eulogized by mark warner, no relation, and he was also

eulogized and then the president of the united states. >> i can say without hesitation, john was a man of conscience, character and honor. with a deep commitment to god and country. a member of the greatest generation, and as that, he understood that democracy is more than a form of government. democracy is a way of being, john warner gave his best to america. and to the best of my knowledge, everybody he had a relationship with. may god bless him. he was a good man. a great american. it was an honor to have known him and worked with him. >> and he, of course, was also briefly known as someone who married elizabeth taylor. john warner was a virginia

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