it's good to be with you. i'm geoff bennet. we have breaking news coming on the air. we are expecting president biden to speak at any moment from the white house just a short time ago the president stood side by side with senate democrats and republicans announcing they've reached a deal on infrastructure and he's on board. major developments and a lot of questions. we'll have the remarks from the president and an interview with a senator that made that deal happen coming up in moments. also following breaking news from south florida fearing the worst and hoping for a miracle at the scene of a beachfront condo building north of miami. you can see it there. a huge part of that tower gist

gone. the collapse described by witnesses and survivors as pancaking. the floors smashing within into another at 1:30 in the morning at surfside as people slept in the beds. i want to warp you the next video is hard to watch. this is the moment of that collapse. caught on a surveillance camera where the beachside began to crack and buckle before entirely giving way. the bushes in the forefront blowing in the breeze. the pools are lit up as the background falls away like sand. and then seconds later the right side of the tower goes with it. >> we heard a weird sound and could have been thunder but didn't really sound like thunder and felt the building shake and we knew something was up. it is overwhelming to see opening the door and saw that the building had collapsed.

surreal. >> a significantly search and rescue mission. at least one person died. about three dozen people have been pulled to safety including a young boy pulled from under the rubble. a witness to the collapse who was out walking his dog was the first person to find him. >> he was sticking his arm up through the rubble. trying to see if he could be seen. so he was saying can you see me? please help. the whole time the little boy just screaming don't leave me. 10 years old. i said we're here and won't leave you. >> as you can imagine this is a dangerous and delicate operation. the building clearly unstable as crews risk their lives searching for sir survivor. the biggest question for

investigators is what caused this collapse. joining me from the scene in florida is nbc's vaughn hillard. we got the two-minute warning to president biden's comments. what is the latest from there? return we know that president biden just spoke a few moments ago with the mayor of surfside. this is a community north of miami beach here. we are about 100 yards away from the -- >> i have to hop in and take you now to the white house to listen to the president's remarks on the infrastructure deal. >> good afternoon. if you hear noise in the background it's because i'm supposed to get on a helicopter to head to north carolina which i will be doing right after this. the vice president and i though want to lay out what we just settled, at least for the moment with our friends the bipartisan

group of senators. i said many times before there's nothing our nation can't do when we decide to do it together, do it as one nation. today is the latest example of that truth. i'm pleased to report a bipartisan group of senators, fiver democrats, five republicans part of a larger group has come together and forged an agreement to create millions of american jobs and modernize our american infrastructure. i want to thank them for working together and for raising the ideas and concerns with me and the vice president, as well as with the jobs cabinet. secretaries buttigieg here, secretary fudge and secretary granholm. there you are. i thought everybody was on this side.

secretary walsh. i also want to thank senators capito for earlier work on infrastructure agreement. we didn't reach agreement but tried the best to get something done and i'm sure it helped produce the final agreement. the fact is investing in jobs and infrastructure have had bipartisan support in the past. when i first got to the united states senate it was probably the least difficult thing to do. is pass infrastructure plans. but even so it's been a long time since the last time our country was able to strike a major bipartisan deal on american infrastructure. so badly needed i might add. we devoted far too much energy competing with one another and not with the rest of the world to within the 21st century. the investments of this deal are long overdue. they'll put americans to work repairing the roads and the

bridges. delivering high-speed internet to every home and close the american digital divide as has been driven home by every father and mother with a child at home during the covid crisis, that is thank god aabatting. can put plumbers to work. replace the lead water pipes so that every child and every american can turn on the faucet at home or the school and drink clean water and low income communities of color that have been disproportionately affected by lead pipes. this deal makes key investments to put people to work across the country building transmission lines, upgrading did power grid to be resilient and sustain in

the climate crisis. and builds on the coastlines to be more resilient. undertaking critical environmental cleanups. this bipartisan agreement is the largest investment in public transit in american history. i might add that the largest investment in rail since the creation of amtrak. i have nothing but affection for amtrak having traveled over a million miles on it but it's a big deal. this agreement will create new financing authority to leverage private capital and infrastructure and clean energy projects. it will provide folks with good paying jobs that can't be outsourced for a middle class life with a little bit of breathing room. for american families. my dad used to say being in the middle class is taking that extra breath. i mean it sincerely.

think about the people that can't take that breath with nomar gin for error. we're going to do it all without raising a cent from earners below $400,000. there's no gas tax increase. no fee on electric vehicles and the fact is we'll help ensure that we make sure that everybody in america is in a position to do what needs to be done. and so, what -- because -- let me be clear. we are in a race with china and the rest of the world for the 21st century. they're not waiting. they invest tens of billions of dollars across the board. i just came back from europe meeting with the g7 and nato and the eu and mr. putin separately. there's massive investment going on. an underlying question is can

democracies compete with autocratic enterprises. this is a big move toward that being able to compete. we have to move and move fast. this agreement signals to the world that we can function, deliver and do significant things. these investments represent the kind of national effort that throughout our history has literally transformed america and propelled us into the future. the transcontinental railway, highway system, investments made together that only the government was in a position to make. now we're poised to add a new chapter in that american tradition. let me be clear. neither side got everything they wanted in this deal. that's what it means to compromise. and it reflects something important. reflects consensus. the heart of democracy. requires consensus. and it is time a true -- this

time a true bipartisan effort breaking the ice that too often kept us frozen in place. prevented us from solving the real problems facing the american people. this deal means millions of good paying jobs and fewer burdens felt at the kitchen table and safer and healthier communities and also signals to ourselves and the world that american democracy can deliver and because of that it represents an important step forward for our country. i want to be clear about something else. today's a huge day for one half of my economic agenda. the american jobs plan. delivers clean transportation, clear water and clean water, universal broadband, clean power infrastructure and environmental resilience. in these areas invest two thirds of the resources that i propose in the american jobs plan.

but i'm getting to work with congress right away on the other half of the economic agenda. the american family plan. to finish the job on child care, education, the caring economy, clean energy tax cuts, clean energy and tax cuts for american families and much more. for more investment in the infrastructure make us better, often stronger. the case is clear. economists left, right and center, independent wall street forecasters all say that the investments mean more jobs, more workers participating in the labor force, higher productivity and higher growth for the economy over the long run. both need to get done. i will work with the leaders to make both mover through the legislative process promptly and

in tandem. let me emphasize that. and in tandem. we need physical infrastructure and the human infrastructure, as well. they're a part of the overall plan. what we agreed on today is what we can agree on. the physical infrastructure. we have to do the rest through the budget process and need a fair tax system to pay for it. i won't rest until both get to my desk. lastly there are some of my party who discourage me from seeking agreement with the republican colleagues who said that we should go bigger and go alone. to them i say this. i've already shown in my young presidency i'm prepared to do whatever needs to be done to mover the country forward. that's what i did with the american rescue plan. let me say this. when we can't -- we can find common ground working across

party lines that is what i will seek to do. the reason why is because broader support for proposal has -- the broader support of the proposal has in congress the stronger the prospects for pass and. working together when we can allows us to make bipartisan process whenever possible without foreclosing the right and necessity of moving forward on a majority basis when we are deep odds with one another. so-called reconciliation process. and for the deal being announced today there's plenty of work ahead to bring this home. it's going to require hard work and collaboration. the committee chairs and the raking members play a major part, there will be disagreements to resolve and compromise to be forged but this group of senators and all the american people can be proud

today because we have reaffirmed we are the united states of america. there's not a single thing beyond our capacity that we aren't able to do when we do it together. i know a lot of you in the press particularly doubt that unity is possible. that anything bipartisan is possible. it's hard but it's necessary. and it can get done. so i want to thank you all and god bless you and now i'll take a few questions before the helicopter leaves without me. >> mr. president? what assurances of support to move on this bipartisan deal and the reconciliation? >> always ask me those things. nobody knows for certain. it is not a reasonable question. and the reason i say that. the idea i'm telling you now what everyone senator, how they will vote i don't know. i do know among the roughly

bipartisan groups of senators and senators that i met with only ten here today but that group that we had an agreement. for example, you know, talk about why would biden compromise? when's the first time if you asked me whether or not i could get passenger rail at $66 billion worth largest investment ever since amtrak came about, i asked for 90. got 66 billion. talk about public transit. 49 billion. $49 billion for public transit. some of you looked at me where have you been, biden? you've been to china too much. i haven't. i asked for 15. i couldn't get it all but i compromised. electric infrastructure. that is charging stations along the roads. i asked for 15.

i got 7 1/2. these are instant down payments on things we finally got after the skillful negotiation, a part of the cabinet and my team. and so, when you ask me what guarantee do i have that i have the votes that i need i don't have any guarantee. but what i do have is a good read over the years of how the congress and the senate works and the idea that we're not going because somebody can't getter single thing they want they vote against the things i named with nothing in here that's quote bad for the environment, bad for the economy, bad for the transportation is unlikely but i can't guarantee it. you know that. yes? >> mr. president, talk a little more about the interactions with republicans specifically. you said earlier given me their

word. where i come from that's good enough for me why the skeptdices in your own party, what is it about the conversations with republicans to give you so much hope? you said you might have more about south beach, miami. >> i'll end the south beach question at the end. number one, i work with these people in the room. i know them. everybody knows and you guys know when certain senators say it you mean it and others you discount. where i come from and the years in the senate the single greatest currency is your word. mitt romney's never broken his word to me. the senator from alaska and new hampshire -- i mean maine. they're friends. the people i was with today are people that i trust. i don't agree with them on a lot

of things but i trust them when they say this is a deal, we'll stick to the deal. just like i deal with -- find them that say they don't trust me. this is the deal on these issues, stick with. but for example, i made it clear today. there's other things in the environment to get done. i think we should have $300 billion tax credit for dealing with the environment. won't be giant tax cut for corporations but a giant move toward weatherizing every building in america. so when i said we agree i'm not going to go back and negotiate the amtrak piece but i will fight for trying to get $300 billion more for tax credits for the environment. that's about the best i can answer the question. yes, ma'am? >> what about miami?

>> my question involves the timeline. families are wondering when the help is coming. we thought promptly. what about the signal for future deal? there's policing refortunately that are not able to get a bipartisan deal. what have you learned in talking to republicans about the future? >> let me take -- three essay questions. legitimate questions. three of them. the first one related to what again? >> on the timeline. >> timeline. you said the people are waiting for relief. >> yes. >> i got them $1.9 trillion relief so far. they're going to be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week for child care. a lot has been happening already. number one. number two, i will fight like heck to get them the rest of what i think has to be done. on education, for example.

my proposal was in the family plan, early education and free community college. i will fight like the devil to get that done but it is not with republican help. i will have to get every democrat and through reconciliation if it gets done. that's number one. i think based on my being out on the street and polling data i think the people who need the help the most trust me to be fighting do get them the help they need. they know who i am and my record. with regard to the issue of -- what about voting rights? voting rights is maybe the most consequential thing. i think what i'm going to be going around the country spending time making the case to the american people that this is just about showing an identification that this is who i am when i vote. this isn't just about whether or not -- excuse me -- you can provide water for someone standing in line while they wait to vote.

this is about who gets to judge whether your vote counted after it's been cast. think about it. up to now every state and the federal government assumed that there would be officials appointed and or elected bound by an oath to uphold certain requirements to make sure the vote is honest and fair. these guys are trying to do now in rough approximation is say we control the state legislature and say the vote didn't count and recount. that's never happened before. it's wrong. who in god's name as my mother would say died and left them boss? the vote has to count when you cast it. there's parts i strongly support. the idea that there's no -- if i

had my way no private contributions to see who gets elected, how much money you raise. every election day would be a day off. because people can't go to -- people who work certain shifts can't make it to the election. i would make sure there's automatic registration when you turn 18. that's what i think everybody thinks this fight is about. it's a worthy fight but much measure profound than that. it's about saying that the legislature in georgia could decide if it's a republican legislature, you know, on reflection we don't think that election was fair and we'll vote to say it didn't count. simply wrong. it's wrong. and in my view borders on immoral. this is the sacred right to vote. as john lewis said, it is the, the, the most important right you have. so i'm going to be making the

case across the country. and as best i can see -- >> mr. president? >> do you support -- you said you want both measures to come to you in tandem. did you receive any assurances that that will happen? what will you do -- >> i control that. if they don't come i'm not signing. real simple. but i expect, i expect that in the coming months this summer before the fiscal year is over that we will have voted on this bill as well as -- the infrastructure bill as well as voted on the budget resolution. and that's when -- but if only one comes to me i'm not -- this is the only one i'm not signing it. it is in tandem. >> mr. president? >> mr. president? >> do you support speaker

pelosi's plan to hold the bipartisan plan in the house until -- do you support that? >> yes. >> mr. president? >> the same page of reconciliation package and by moving forward are you putting the bipartisan bill in jeopardy? >> sure. the bipartisan bill was -- look. the bipartisan bill from the very beginning is understood there's the second part of it. i won't forget about the rest that i proposed. i propose a significant piece of legislation in three parts. and all three parts are equally important. by the way, my party -- everybody tells me what my party is. the party is divided. my party is divided. but my party is also rational. and if they can't get every single thing they want but the bill is goodwill they vote no?

i don't think so. >> mr. president? >> yes? >> are you -- 48 hours ago seemed like the deal in a rough place. what changed the dynamic that you saw and also would you be willing to -- >> whether it's included in either bill is not relevant. depends on what the leadership in the house and the senate thinks how they should proceed, number one. number two, you notice i didn't have that bleak view you all had? you said 48 hours didn't look good. it looked good to me 48 hours ago. looked good to the team. 72 hours, too. wasn't there yet. but you know me too well. i'll drive you crazy for four years because i will tell you the truth as i see it. i know the senate and the house better than most of you know it.

my whole life that's what i have done. i won't be right all the time but i won't negotiate with the press while i'm negotiating with the -- privately with my colleagues. and these are really tough decisions. i don't dismiss what senator murphy says about the environment. not at all. i wrote the bill. on the environment. why would i not be for it? the question is, how much can we get done? the bottom line is when all is said and done does what you agree to preclude forever you getting the things you really want? i'm not for that. i won't vote for one of those deals. do you get all of what you wanted and fight another day? i've been president about 150

days. done fairly well so far. not because of me. but because the way the system works. so it's not -- i mean, i know that that doesn't answer your questions about can you tell me when? how will you do it? i just feel that the best way to get a senator or congress person who supports the essence of what's already there but says they don't have enough of what's there, the best way to get that message across is go to the con -- constituents and say here's what's on the table. do you think your senator or congressman should vote for that? you campaign. the bipartisan piece stops against charlie smith or hay ri

wilson. but that doesn't stop. that stops but what doesn't stop is saying -- it is like on a last example i'll give ji promise i won't do this to you again. but remember in 2018 esch said we'll lose. the democrats will lose. the house and the senate. they won't make -- the house. not going to make gains. and i went in to over 60 congressional districts. i didn't go against those making sure we kept the affordable care act but i said it's really important to the constituents. that's why if i were you i would look at what they say. he's for it. she's not. she's for it. he's not. guess what. we won what? 40-some seats. so it's not just convincing this

particular congress person. it's making a rational case if you can in their communities why this is important to get done. i think the fact that i didn't get everything now at this moment. for example, a lot of housing pieces didn't get passed. we are coming back at it though. we are coming back at it. we'll make the case. and if i make the case to the public at large the one thing i can say for you, you do accurately report what i say. problem is disappoint you because i can't negotiate with you before i negotiate with my colleagues but i really think the public understands and they're seeing the proof is in what's happening. it's not projected our economy will grow above 7% this year. projections from wall street to

the fed is going to continue to grow. we're going to increase more. guess what. remember you're asking me -- i'm not being critical. i mean this. legitimate questions you ire asking me. guess what. employers can't find workers. yeah i said, yeah, pay them more. this is an employees, employees bargaining chip now. what's happening? they're going to have to compete and paying hard working people a decent wage. by the way, talking inflation. overwhelming consensus is popping up a little bit and then go back down. no one's talking about this great, great, you know? so again, if it turns out that what i've done so far, what we have done so far is a mistake it will show.

it's going to show. the economy's not going to grow like it wasn't before. people aren't going to have jobs with increased pay like it was before. people will be out of work with no options. unemployment will continue to climb instead of continuing to go down. if that happens, my policies didn't make a lot of sense. but i'm counting on it not. i have to get to the helicopter. >> will you travel to florida? >> what you have learned. >> oh yes. i apologize. thank you. vice president. i have spoken with the mayor of miami-dade was in my office yesterday and talked to her not about that obviously and talked with her today and been in contact with the congresswoman who has that district.

we have gotten in touch with fema. they're ready to go. the governor will have to -- they're down inspecting what they think is needed. but i'm waiting for the governor to ask to declare an emergency and especially as we learn more of what might happen to the rest of the buildinging. we are ready to mover from the federal resoushss immediately. immediately. if in fact we're asked for it. we can't do it now but the fema is down there. taking a look at what's needed and including from everything from if the rest of the buildings have to be evacuated, finding housing for the people, having the capacity to both have a place to shelter and food, et cetera. that's under way now and the chief of staff is deeply involved in this from the very beginning. we got the cab net involved in

it now in terms of dealing with fema. working on it and i made it clear. i say to the people of florida. whatever help you want of the federal government to provide we're waiting. just ask us. we'll be there. we'll be there. so thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> what are you hoping the vice president can do at the border tomorrow? >> we have been listening to president biden. from the east room. will go down and set up the criteria and -- [ inaudible zblchld thank you very mump. >> do you know about the reports of moving afghan nationals? >> we have begun the process. those that helped us will not be left behind. >> do you know what country they'll move to first? >> i don't know that. i'll be meeting with ghani tomorrow coming to my office and

a discussion and welcomed here just like anyone else who risk their lives to help us. >> all right. so president biden making news on the way out of the east room asked about the u.s. troop withdrawal and the president said that those that helped us will not be left behind, i believe talking about some of the afghan civilians helping u.s. troops throughout the 20-plus years of that war and then the response to the building collapse in florida and the bulk of the comments is that bipartisan infrastructure deal presented to him by a group of ten democratic republican -- democratic and republican senators today. a deal that the president accepted. we'll unpack it with nbc news capitol hill correspondent and white house correspondent and from north carolina where the president will be this and and senior "the washington post" "the washington post" correspondent and analyst phillip rucker.

before another word about the politics of this infrastructure deal, let's talk about what's in it. itch two pages of a framework. is this it? >> reporter: that's right. there is no legislative text yet. of course the legislative text means that the devil is in the details. so it will depend on how it's written. it is being pretty well received up here on capitol hill. there are no taxes, tax increases to pay for it. the tax increases that the republicans put off the table are off the table. the ones that the biden administration put off the table are off the table. they have a few other ways to pay for it to including having to do with this infrastructure bank. reallocating unused unemployment funds, irs enforcement but this is a traditional infrastructure package that deals with roads

and bridges and ports and waertsways and broadband. amtrak as the president said multiple times will be a huge boost of funding and democrats and republicans are saying that this is the biggest infrastructure package that's ever been proposed but we will see if it can get the support of 60 senators because that is what is needed and going to be the challenge moving forward. >> to bring along those democrats, the progressive democrats saying that this agreement doesn't go far enough that is why you have the house speaker and the senate majority leader saying at the same time to push this bipartisan agreement they use reconciliation to pass the stuff that the democrats want. all the social safety net spending. explain that for us in a way that people who aren't familiar with this stuff and the way washington works and how this

will happen. >> reporter: let me try and one thing that president biden said is he is not going to sign a bipartisan bill if that's the only reason that -- only one that reaches his desk so that was another commitment. now you have pelosi and schumer and biden telling essentially the progressive members of his conference that the only way that they will move this bipartisan package forward is if they also get the partisan package. this works through the complicated process of reconciliation which enables the senate to pass budget related legislation with just a simple majority vote and it would just need democratic senators to pass it and that is all of the infrastructure, the human infrastructure that the democrats think is necessary to get the economy back on track, especially to get women back in

the workforce so it's child care, paid family leave, elder kay and a whole list of things that democrats do not think is infrastructure. how do they pass the things at the exact same time when they are two separate pieces of legislation? it is going to be very complicated legislative mastery to get this done. the details are still forthcoming but that is the broad outline and the reason is because that is the commitment from members to get all of their democrat from the leaders to get the democratic members on board, geoff. >> it is a highly choreographed dance. monica alba, president biden spoke to this and described the deal as settled and then said at least for the moment and came out later on in the q&a where the president saying he doesn't -- can't describe it as

a guarantee and said it doesn't mean you don't try to get something done in a bipartisan way. >> reporter: of course initially when the president came out and uttered the four words he is earning to for as long as the noirkss are going on, we have a deal and didn't add the asterisk surrounded by the senators but did just now and that was quite telling and that commitment that was just spoken about saying this is what he wants to see go forward, this $1.2 trillion framework and not signing it without the much larger piece and made the case of the link between the traditional infrastructure and the human infrastructure and the care economy and so that's an important strategic move that the president is making by saying he does want to see the two things happen together but of course he is thrilled for a president who campaigned on

bipartisanship and compromise to say he did come to the table and strike agreement after 30 minutes of negotiations earlier in the oval office and the west wing so we'll really watch this unfold but the other thing that stood out to me is his original proposal for this about $2.3 trillion and the fact he's come down so significantly is something he can point to but a lot of the original things he wanted of new spending did remain intact and peter alexander earlier today said maybe this is finally infrastructure week but by the comments just there from the president this could really stretch on more to infrastructure month or infrastructure summer i think, geoff. >> there you go. phil i think that this validates a foundational principle of the biden presidency and the biden candidacy of president biden a guy who has a half century's expirns in public life and

scorched earth politics and if anybody is able to do a deal it is going to be him. >> i think that's exactly right, geoff. it is not done yet and feels like a moment of triumph for president biden gambling on seeking this bipartisan deal. waited for mofts to get republicans to the table to find common ground as progressive democrats urged him to do this through reconciliation and fast. biden had faith in the system working. it is a system that he mastered so many years as a senator on capitol hill and he believed that if he were president he could eventually bring at least some members of the two parties together and appears to have done that today and one thing he said to underscore that point is that he thinks today's breakthrough sends a message to the world that democracy works. america is fighting for democracy against authoritarian

regimes around the world. democracy is under threat everywhere including here at home and biden is saying the fact that we can bring the parties together on the deal right now is a sign that our system of government, that our democracy is functioning and can deliver for the american people. >> yeah. you're right. autocracies can work faster because they don't have to build consensus. strikes me that this agreement such that it exists for right now also provides cover for senators on the filibuster because they get to say and in fact sinema said today that bipartisanship is still a thing. democrats and republicans can still work together and worth it to try to find consensus where you can. >> there's some truth to that statement and there's not a lot of truth in that statement. bipartisanship in washington is not thriving for a decade. it is a toxic partisan environment and very few examples of the breakthrough to

see today on infrastructure but sinema and manchin and republican colleagues at the white house come together on this and perhaps hope down the road on other mushes. certainly president biden is banking on that and needs that to deliver on the overall agenda with voting rights, civil rights, as well. >> yeah. my thanks to you all. phil, you are also the author of "i alone can fix it." i don't know where you find time to write the books but congrats on that. a senator at the center of the negotiations joins me now. democrat mark warner of virginia. thank you for being with us again. >> thank you. >> for bipartisan group of senators to agree is lightning speed in two to three weeks time. how did you do it? >> i got to take a little exception to your former panel.

>> okay. >> i'm proud of what we have come up with. president biden was great in the oval office today. his team has been intimate in the negotiations over the last couple of weeks, and god knows there are things like voting rights to make my heart sick that we have not gotten the bipartisan support but most of the same group came together under equally challenging circumstances under president trump with a second largest investment ever in late november, early december on covid relief that many of us who were standing at the white house today came together on a bill that didn't get a lot of atense but 68 votes that made $250 billion investment in technology and concerns about china and i was working with jon cornyn with $250 billion in real money for

the semiconductor industry to have that supply chain in america. yes there are places where we are darn dysfunctional but the idea that there have not been a moment in time. this is not finding that once in a lifetime four leaf clover and i do think and hope and pray that this will be a bit of a sign to come. this one took a lot of work. there were times yesterday when i pretty optimistic guy didn't think we would get there. i actually -- i know most of the viewing audience doesn't remember my predecessor john warner from virginia. we had his funeral yesterday. the president spoke. i spoke. and there was a moment yesterday when i almost got frustrated and stood up and said i would be done but what would john warner do? i reopened my documents and pages and went back at it and ended up at 7:00 with a deal. >> so what's the plan to bring

all 50 democratic senators and at least 10 republicans on board for the bipartisan bill? >> let's again -- i want to question a bit of the premise. one is, i will be shocked if we don't end up with much closer to 20 and maybe more republican supporting this legislation. we have all been talking about infrastructure for years on years. it was a joke under the last administration. every week was infrastructure week. i think the republicans know and we have got $579 billion that doesn't include any tax increases and doesn't include close to another $200 billion that will come out of the infrastructure bank. so this is a largest investment in infrastructure in our lifetime and it frankly met a lot of credentials. 579 is underestimating the

amount of roads, broadband, frankly smart grid that will be needed. point one. point two, there's an awful lot in this piece of legislation that will start to address making our energy sector a heck of a lot cleaner why there's record invest. s in electric vehicle infrastructure, resiliency, capping a lot of abandoned wells that produce methane. but all that being said i know and my -- a lot of democratic colleagues have been straight up with me is, mark, this is great but you got to give us visibility on what comes out of reconciliation. i get a day to take a bit of a victory lap today but tomorrow i got to roll up my sleeves and get into this reconciliation conversation and senator sanders

has got a very, very aggressive plan. there's a lot of categories i agree with but some of the numbers are a stretch for me so if we bring the same spirit we brought to the infrastructure plan, to the reconciliation process, i think we can get there and one of the earlier comments that was made and i want to underline it in the oval office with the president and i say this as chairman of the intelligence commit tee. there's a lot of countries around the world particularly like russia and china that are preaching to other world leaders, democracy can't work. america can no longer lead. their system is broken. today record investment in infrastructure. bipartisan. not only good on a domestic basis but really good as president biden has often said america's leadership is back. >> senator warner of virginia,

appreciate your time this amp. >> thank you so much. coming up next, going back to the breaking news in florida. an operation under way after a building partially collapsed. i'll speak about the dangerous and delicate operation. on when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ you're clearly someone who takes care of yourself. so why wait to screen for colon cancer? because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers

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building to come down. >> reporter: yes, geoff, to be frank the last 40 minutes since you and i last spoke have been a regrettable last 40 minutes here. i think were you able to see some news shots one of our cameras is rolling in of the smoke coming from where that rubble is. we know for the local fire department, the miami-dade county fire department, for the last 45 minutes now have been trying to put out a fire at the site of that rubble, and it's regrettable and somber here this last hour because of the reality that there is potential individuals are still trying to hold on to life underneath that rubble and situations like earthquakes, officials tell us, that people are sometimes found hours but days after if they're able to find a pocket of oxygen to survive. what you've seen is essentially a search effort come to a halt. you see the smoke that has been billowing up here. we have in the last half hour,

geoff, a new number from the miami-dade county police director over at the center where they're encouraging family and friends to seek out their family members. the police director announcing there are up to 99 individuals that are now unaccounted for. again, 99 individuals potentially unaccounted for. there may be fewer than that missing under the rubble. that number is based off the calculations of the champlain tower. there's the potential, hopefully, that a large number of those individuals were potentially snowbirds or outside of town here, and that is why they are encouraging individuals to please call if they have one of those units under their name because there's still a search for potentially up to 99 individuals unaccounted for this hour.

>> vaughn hillyard on the scene. joining me is dave downey and the president and ceo of the florida chapter of the associated builders and contractors. thanks to you both for joining us this afternoon. dave, i'll start with you. give us a sense of what the search and rescue efforts look like at this hour and how do teams even prepare for something like this, preparing unimaginable, a building collapse and a fire right next to it. >> well this is what we prepare for, what we train for. this is an unfortunate change in events the last 45 minutes. i don't know the extent of the fire, but it's not uncommon to have these smoldering types of fires in collapsed structures. the team that is working there, my former department, has tremendous amounts of training and experience. they're part of the urban search and rescue in the united states, one of 28 teams.

and they're going to continue to press on. what they've been doing is void searches, looking for those that could be in collapsed voids and performing any rescues for those that they encounter. they've removed those that are lightly trapped and removed those that were on top of the rubble. so this is an arduous, long time process to methodically go through this structure and search any of these voids. >> and, peter, our team on the scene there says there's no evidence of a sinkhole, authorities say, no evidence of a natural gas explosion. in your experience, what could have caused a building collapse of this magnitude? >> well, in our experience, this just doesn't happen. it's important to emphasize that there are literally thousands of buildings of this height or higher in south florida, millions perhaps, in the world,

and buildings are not designed or engineered or constructed to just collapse spontaneously. it just doesn't happen. it's important to understand just how out of the ordinary this is and for people who understandably will be asking, am i safe? are the buildings i live in and work in safe? i would say absolutely with no reason to fear that. more than likely there's probably going to be a conflation of different things contributing to this. and it's, unfortunately, going to take a long time to probably figure it out. i mean, we're going to have to go back -- it's good that some early things seem to be ruled out. there are some other things that have been reported such as work being done on the roof and even some studies recently based on 1990s data that show there might have been a small degree of shrinking in the ground of 2 millimeters a year. so a lot of that stuff will lead right away to where you want to

look. but the truth is you're going to have to look at the design of the building, at the structural work, the engineering calculations and the building construction itself and the maintenance over the years. so there's a lot that's going to have to be looked at. >> peter dyga and dave downey, my apologies our time was short this afternoon. my friend and colleague ayman mohyeldin right after the break. what do we want for dinner? burger... i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. (vo) jack was one of six million pets in animal shelters in need of a home. he found it in a boy with special needs,

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couldn't say for sure if everyone in his party or the republicans was onboard. >> the idea of my telling you now that i know what every senator, how they're going to vote, is just not -- i don't know that. >> the president is about to head to north carolina to encourage people to get vaccinated as vaccination rates there and elsewhere in the country keep falling. the infrastructure deal comes as house speaker nancy pelosi says that the house will appoint a select committee to investigate the january 6 riot. after the senate failed to approve a bill that would have established an independent commission on it. >> the select committee is about our democracy, of ensuring the capitol dome remains a symbol of freedom of preserving an emblem of resilience, determination, and hope. and we learned today that a new york state court suspended rudy giuliani's law license