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multi-trillion-dollar "human" infrastructure plan, just out overnight in president biden headed down pennsylvania avenue soon to make sure they will, with that in-person pitch, just an hour and a half or so from now, a couple hours or so from now in washington. we're live with one lawmakers who will be in that meeting, all as the texas state democrats wake up here in d.c., missing work back home for a second day, trying to convince lawmakers to do something on voting rights, getting ready for talks with the senator who seems to be holding things up for them they say, talking to one of the democrats live on the show, plus first here on msnbc, exclusive details in the new push for pot breaking this morning. the federal bill dropping today to legalize cannabis. you'll see the details here. our gabe gutierrez why this time might be different. i'm hallie jackson. we have a lot going on to say the least here in wash wash. mike memolia the white house,

president biden is throwing his weight behind the recognize silg recognize silg bill. democrats looking to go it alone. it is a huge amount of money in the eyes of moderate democrats. you have the president going for his first in-person lunch with senate dems since he got into office. what is the pitch? what are you hearing from sources? >> reporter: that's right, hallie. the. the according to white house officials is going up there not just to make the case for what's in the $3.5 trillion agreement among senate democrats, at least most for now but also to make the case for the bipartisan plan that he continues to push for. the white house saying this is still a very much dual track strategy and we're seeing that in the president's schedule today. he's going up to meet just with democrats behind closed doors on capitol hill and he's going to be back at the white house for a bipartisan meeting not with senators or members of congress but with governors and with local mayors who have expressed

their support for what's in this bipartisan infrastructure package, the republican governors of vermont as well. it's important to go back to the $3.5 trillion breakthrough because it's not as big perhaps as some progressives want but who is article ublly one the most name brand progressives in the senate. bernie sanders. he was there with the leadership last night celebrating this agreement, come down from what he had originally proposed $6 trillion. a lot of collaboration between the white house and bernie sanders. when you have the question about how it's going to be sold to the rest of the progressives in the ranks of both the house and senate, that's an early indication of the white house feeling good about this. the question is as it often always is, where is joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, some of the other moderates. can they get on board? the president is making the case

democrats need to be behind this. >> joe manchin is in the halls of the capitol, i believe he just as you were talking was speaking with reporters. i actually don't know if we have his sound or garrett haake live from capitol hill. let me bring you into the conversation, garrett haake our capitol hill correspondette. joe manchin might be talking as we speak. what is he saying on this? as mike points out he's one of the people that democrats will be focusing on as they look to get the big package through. >> reporter: that's right. he is speaking now and i don't think his answer will be satisfactorily but not in the negative. he's telling the reporters he wants to make sure this $3.5 trillion package is credibly paid for. we don't have the sound to turn around. i can tell you this is going to be an ongoing discussion for democrats.

mamplgin has concerns about the white house raising taxes on the wealthy, on corporations to pay for this reconciliation package whatever size it turns out to be. those concerns remain. likewise, kyrsten sinema, the other moderate squeaky wheel on some of these issues that progressives in particular the biden administration tried to push, her office came out with a statement said she's going to look deeper beyond the top line number, wants to see the priorities and what money goes to arizona before she commits to anything related to a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. nobody is off the train yet but the two most likely people potentially to cause a problem with that top line number aren't yet committing to support it, which shouldn't be surprising. it is a number. it's not even a list of priorities. >> right. >> reporter: exactly. >> there is some stuff garrett, the lawmakers put this together are talking about that will be in this. we do not have anything on paper

right now. from what leadership and others laid out overnight this would be a fairly historic very much in social programs, a big expansion of medicare, a climate change investment. you've got corporate taxes involved as well according to senator sanders. this is not little stuff. we're talking about sweeping changes. >> exactly right and part of the reason why it will be hard for any democratic senator to oppose the whole thing. you're looking at essentially every domestic priority that joe biden and a host of other democrats ran on in 2020 that can be done through reconciliation. the stuff that's getting left out of of here are basically only the things that the parliamentarian the referee in this case would likely throw out, so if there is a way to spend money on it, or to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for it, it's going to be in this package. i think as the details come out, as we learn more and more about the priorities, i think it will

be very challenging for any one democrat to say it doesn't have thing "x" i want in it or spends too much but it's got these 30 other things that are enormous priorities for all of their other colleagues on capitol hill. that is will be a big part of the message joe biden will give to senate democrats today when he comes, hold together on this. it has too much of what democrats ran on and what they want. >> because we talked about what we heard seconds ago from senator manchin we turned the sound around not too far from where you are, garrett. >> is it too high? >> depends who can pay for it. i'm looking at everything they provide. they have to provide all the information that's going to be needed. they've worked hard. they should have a proposal. the president's going to come today and explain. we'll listen to that, look at the proposal, look at the priorities they have for our country and basically look at how we're going to pay for it. >> mike, how do you think the white house hears that? >> reporter: i think they hear

that there's an opportunity still and i think the point that garrett made is so important, because as i'm standing here on the north lawn of the white house, it was exactly a year ago at this time, i was standing just a few miles from joe biden's home in wilmington, delaware, he was rolling out plank after plank after plank of the build back better campaign blueprint that he campaigned entirely on in the fall. obviously the pandemic was a huge part about this, but this was the core of joe biden's message to democratic voters so as he heads to capitol hill today, that's part of the pitch, not only is the substance of what's in this reconciliation at least what we expect to be in it a lot of priorities democrats have been talking about, making real progress on for years, but it's what they told voters they were going to deliver on and i think that's more than anything part of the message they're going to send to these wavering democrats. it's much better to head into the midterm election talking about progress on things we campaigned on than some of the differences on the margins we didn't 100% agree on. expect that to be a big part of this.

>> mike memoli, garrett haake, thanks to both of you for your reporting. you'll be all over your beats as the afternoon unfolds. thank you. also happening in washington today the fight to protect voting rights and news on that front this morning, with that battle getting a big boost from corporate america, just in the last hour. you've got some of the biggest names in business coming out to back federal voting rights legislation, pepsi, nestle, best buy, some of the more than 150 companies that are getting involved in this. of course there's a question, right? does corporate america getting involved move where congress is on this, and specifically where senate democrats are on this, or senate republicans at all? all of it is happening as texas, state democrats are back at it this morning, trying to do the same thing, get some movement from congress. they've already met with the vice president and majority leader and getting ready for a big meeting tomorrow with senator joe manchin to convince him and others to support a rules change, not a big one,

just a carve-out specifically when it comes to voting rights issues an exception to the filibuster on that front. one texas democrat told me this. watch. >> reporter: you're saying only change the rules for this specific instance. not wholesale change. >> we don't need a shotgun. we need a laser in and put that tool in the bucket and we have to use it. >> not a shotgun but a laser. i bring in somebody involved in this fight, texas state rep. gina hinojosa. >> thank you, my pleasure to be here. >> what is on your agenda today? are you meeting with lawmakers? anything set up so far? >> well we have several meetings with senators today, different delegations of our texas house members are meeting with members on the hill today and so those are happening, those are the

words. we came here really urgently and so we're setting up those meetings as we speak for every day we're here. we've been well received and we're working hand in hand with congress on this, at this point. >> let me just ask, which senators is kyrsten sinema among them or what other names are involved in some of the discussions today, only because i don't know that we know. we just know about manchin tomorrow. >> i do not believe sinema is one of those. i don't have the list in front of me today, but we can get those to you. >> great. any plans in the works to meet with president biden? has there been outreach to the white house to set that up? >> well, yesterday we met with the vice president, that's the second meeting we've had with the vice president in about a month. last time we sent a delegation of house democrats to meet with her. this time she met with the whole lot of us, and there are a whole lot of us. unfortunately, there's not a

majority and so while we're not a majority in texas, democrats in washington are a majority and we need them urgently to pass federal voting rights legislation and we're looking to the senate to get that done to protect voting rights of texans and the voting rights of all americans. >> as you know, this is unlikely to happen, almost certainly not going to happen in the senate unless there is a rules change in order to allow democrats to pass that expansion of voting rights along party lines. you and your colleagues have been asking as we heard from one of your colleagues just a moment ago for something very specific, a laser and not a shotgun. are you disappointed then, given that, that president biden in his speech yesterday did not specifically call for in a full-throated way a change to those filibuster rules, as some of his allies had hoped? >> well, we urge him to do that, and we urge the u.s. senate to act, so we don't come here with the cynicism that we hear in

washington about it not being likely. we broke quor numb texas, which hasn't happened in years. it's a historical that it's really hard to do. it's only ever happened three times in the history of our whole texas legislature. we're a minority. we stopped voting rights -- we stopped our voter, the voter suppression bill in texas with a minority of democrats, and so what we see in washington is just possibility. when you hold a majority, you have a democratic president, a democratic congress, and we have the numbers in the senate to pass this legislation, all we see is possibility and we're here to work on that to make it happen. >> very quickly before i let you go, the big news out of corporate america this morning with the companies getting involved now in backing this voting rights push. do you think businesses, any of them, should leave texas if, in fact, these new voting bills in your state do become law?

is that something you think should happen? yes or no? >> no, i don't think they should leave texas but should have serious conversations with the governor and the majority about democracy being good for the economy. >> texas state representative gina hinojosa thank you for carving time out of your busy schedule. we'll follow up later on the names. when we talk to senator ed markey coming up later in the show and most aggressive of russian ransom groups targeting americans suddenly offline. the mystery, who made that ohappen? we're live in moscow. one state stopping all vaccine outreach to younger people, why? politics. pressure from state republicans they say. we'll talk to the romper who broke that explosive story coming up, with more on the fallout. ow how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪

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m.i.a. this error message is right now all that's left of the russian linked revil, the ransom group, its blog, payment processing pages. this is the same group behind one of the biggest and most recent ransomware attacks in history targeting more than 360 companies successfully in 2020 alone, including the meat supplier jbs and kaseya earl whier this month. matt is in moscow. did revil go offline by themselves, did they get a taste of their own medicine from a counter cyber breach? what do we know? >> reporter: hallie, good morning. well this is the big question now. the problem with the stories they're always so very murky. this came up at the daily kremlin press briefing with the spokesperson saying he didn't know, didn't know anything about it. he wasn't sure what happened, what he was being asked about but he reiterated this line that we keep hearing in russia. at the same time, he is willing

to cooperate with the united states on cyber security, against cyber criminals. i don't know how much we can read into that, because like i said it's a standard russian talking point, we've been hearing it for a while, came up at the summits but it does kind of raise an intriguing third option that russia might have taken action against this group themselves. we have as i said even heard president putin suggest he's willing to take action against cyber criminals in russia. >> matt bodner live in moscow. more covid concerns in the classroom over cdc guidelines for schools, we're talking about that and the politicization of the pandemic, coming up after the break. this isn't just a walk up the stairs.

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university center for emerging infectious diseases join us. chad, you are in a place where they have devastatingly doubled their new cases in the past week. there is no way to cut it. that's not good. that's not the direction that doctors want to see things trending at, right? what are experts and leaders telling you there about things that people come into the hospital for covid have in common? >> reporter: well, the easy answer, hallie, many of them are unvaccinated. let's go back to the trend that you're seeing in terms of the rise of cases, because last week, we were in missouri, where we were springfield, missouri, doctors were saying it was the worst that it has ever been. over the weekend they added a new covid ward, more wings in the hospital than they have ever had since the start of this pandemic, and while they're not seeing that here in kansas just yet, the concern is that there's that spillover effect in places where you have counties in this area that have lower vaccination rates than they do over the border in missouri. so that is the concern that

you're hearing from doctors who say they're seeing patients who are no longer as old as they used to be, not the vulnerable patients one doctor told me who are in their 60s and 70s and 80s. he's now seeing younger patients, people in their 20s and 30s, sometimes ending up in their icus, sometimes needing that oxygen support so that is the concern they're seeing and you hear that frustration this is largely preventable. the idea the vaccines are out there, that they're widely available and new incentives, including vaccination site here in kansas, there's a new spin wheel that people can go in, starting today, they can get their vaccine, spin the wheel and get a prize. you had officials laying out as many incentives as they can to avoid the surge that you're seeing.ical officials saying you're seeing a rise in cases. >> doctor, i'm not asking to be

in any way alarmist but i want to know from your expert professional opinion here, how concerning should this be to parents, to people who live with those who are immunocompromised not able to get the vaccine in in your view could this be hugely problematic or a little problematic? >> i think you've heard this a couple of sometimes over the last months. in areas where you have low amounts of vaccination where the case transmissions are high it's going to lead to increased hospitalizations, that is the concern for everybody, a concern for the parents, kids, immunocompromised. in places highly vaccinated you may see an increase in cases that hopefully doesn't meet the same increase in hospitalizations or increase in cases because you have this fire wall of people who are vaccinated. if i were to advise states the best way to make schools safer is vaccinate everybody qualified to get vaccinated because that's how you bring the case numbers down. >> like make it mandatory?

>> well, i think that it would be -- i think to reach the level that we need, you're going to have to see some states take that step and i would support that, because we've done that with other vaccinations in schools. >> right. >> we have taken that step for me seeless, mumps, rubella and other immunizations and this is a life-threatening disease not just for individuals but the entire community. >> thanks to the both of you. you heard dr. bedelia say it, there are two americas when it comes to the pandemic. there's politics behind the cases. with more red states seeing spikes and an example in tennessee, new reporting says that state's department of health will stop all outreach to adolescents, not just for the covid vaccine, but everything, all diseases. why? apparently because of pressure from republican state lawmakers, and now you've got that state's top vaccine expert saying she was fired for "doing her job" and encouraging eligible teens

to get vaccinated. >> -- that politicization of public health and in people's choosing not to protect themselves that has been the biggest challenge for us to overcome. >> i want to bring in the reporter who broke this story, brett kelman, who covers health care for "the tennesseean." thanks for being with us. good morning. >> thank you very much for having me. >> i will out the facts what have has happened here. has tennessee really stopped outreach to minors on covid and everything else? >> tennessee has at least told all of its public health staff to stop that outreach. what that will translate to in reality i think we have yet to see, but what we've had over the last month is sort of a cascade of response to political pressure that has led the health department to start taking down a few twitter posts and now they

are removing their logo from any public information about vaccines. it's been a waterfall effect of impacts. >> talk about the political pressure, where is it coming from? >> so in mid-june, there was a legislative hearing in tennessee, where the top public health officials and the tennessee legislature which is very conservative and chastised for gently recommending that teenagers get vaccinated if they're eligible. lawmakers were also very upset about this longstanding tennessee legal doctrine that allowed some teenagers to get vaccinated without their parents' consent. this is established case law, it's been in place since '87, but people became very angry about it in light of coronavirus, despite the fact it had only been used for eight children across the entire state

and they chastised the public health officials, threatened to dissolve the entire public health department, and they ordered the health officials to come back later this month for more questioning and said dissolving the department will basically still be on the agenda. so since then, the agency deleted twitter posts, it stopped all outreach to teens on coronavirus vaccines. it then announced it would stop, instruct its employees to stop outreach to teens on vaccines, cancel coronavirus vaccine events on school property. it has told its employees not to do any planning for flu shot drives in the fall. the ratcheting back of the routine vaccine efforts has been incrediby dramatic. >> brett kelman, it is

incredible reporting and we're grateful to you for sharing it with us. please come back. thank you. >> thank you. when we come back on the show, exclusive new details about a new push to make pot legal, what senators are doing this morning that you will only see right here on msnbc and why things might be different this time. we've got that exclusive sitdown with top senator democrats in a second. but first, temperatures out west dangerously high again today. the first megafire of the year in oregon zero percent contained. look at this, burning another thousand acres in the last 24 hours. nbc's jake ward is out west for us in reno, nevada. hey, jake. >> reporter: good morning, hallie. the sun is just rising here in reno and you can already feel the heat. this city has suffered triple-digit temperatures every day this month so far, the first day where they will see some relief and as jpl scientists tell us from nasa that in fact

the american west has seen increased temperatures from climate change of at least five degrees. it has a tremendous effect. it creates the conditions that give rise to that incredible fire footage you saw a moment ago. it makes it such that you cannot work in a field for a full eight-hour day. standing in a place like reno, we've been traveling across california and nevada the last couple of days and just to see the effects in lower drought, sorry, lower lake levels, seeing drought everywhere, seeing just incredible heat, the kind of heat you can feel through the soles of your shoes, all of that happening here. being in reno, you sort of think about all of this stuff so clearly because you see big air conditioned buildings everywhere. is that our future? that is the question. that's the story from the american west. time.

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. a new york federal court unsealed an indictment against four iranians, involves stunning allegation of a a kidnapping plot. the target a brooklyn journalist. pete williams, bring us up to speed. >> her name is masi al inijad, brooklyn, iranian-born and outspoken critic of the iranian regime. four operatives of the iranian intelligence service hired investigators in the u.s. to keep an eye on her brooklyn apartment falsely telling them that they were representing clients to whom she owed money and they did surveillance of her apartment for two years, the iranians looked atble luring her to ven way la, which has good relations with iran so she could be kidnapped and brought back to iran. the fbi says these four men continued this effort and she became ultimately aware of it because the iranian regime had been outspoke been her. she's well-known, written books,

done speeches and youtube videos and social media, but the justice department says this is no isolated event, that the iranian reseem has been doing this trying to in some cases successfully kidnapping people from around the world to get them back to iran to stand trial and in some cases execute them, a fifth person was charged, a woman in california accused of financially supporting this effort giving them roughly half a million dollars, hallie. >> pete will comes live for us there with the startling details, thank you. first on nbc news this morning, exclusive new details on a plan that would do something folks are calling for years, legalize marijuana on the federal level. all of that ahead of senate democrats introducing this piece of legislation later today. you have 36 states and washington here in the district of columbia legalizing cannabis in some form but using it, possessing it, selling it, all of it against federal law. nbc's gabe gutierrez spoke

exclusively with some of the bill sponsors as part of our series, red, white and green on msnbc. gabe, nice to see you in d.c. with this exclusive sitdown. good morning. >> good morning, as you know, new yorkers this year voted to legalize recreational pot sales but the regulatory framework for that is still being worked out but hallie, now top senate democrats are hoping to capitalize on this green rush. for years, state after state after state has given the green light to the cannabis industry, but now perhaps the biggest pot push yet >> there is an urgency to this. people all over our country seeing their lives destroyed, hurt. >> reporter: senate democrats are rolling out a draft of their plan to legalize marijuana at the federal level, first obtained exclusively by nbc news, it calls for removing cannabis from the controlled substances act, expunging federal records of non-violent cannabis offenders and setting

up regulations to tax pot products. so do you have the votes? >> well, we're working on it. >> reporter: working on weed senate ma jord liter chuck schumer, new jersey senator cory booker and oregon senator ron wyden. >> we legalized adult use in 2014 and oh my goodness, the skeptics said that western civilization was going to pretty much end. what we have seen in terms of the actual facts is we've generated more than six times the predicted revenue. >> reporter: is this one of the top prioriies for democrats? >> it's one of the high priorities. we have a lot. >> reporter: at the same time you haven't gotten infrastructure done yet. why bring this up now? >> we have to move forward on a lot of things. >> reporter: the marijuana industry is growing too fast critics say and marketing hypotently pot to kids. >> i think we can expunge records, not prosecute low-level use, not give someone a criminal recovered but we don't have to go to the other extreme of pot

gummi bears and 99% thc dabs. >> reporter: supporters argue communities of color are disproportionately incarcerated for a drug already legal in many states. 18 states plus d.c. allow recreational pot use. 37 plus d.c. allow medical marijuana. >> the war on drugs has not worked. >> reporter: stephanie shep pafrd spent nine years in prison for a non-violent marijuana related charge, even now job and rental applications are brutal. this legislation would change that. what has a drug conviction done to your life? >> changed it completely. my life will never be the same. >> reporter: what's also changed dramatically is americans views on weed. back in 1969, only 12% backed american legalization. now 68% do. >> more and more people across the political spectrum want it, and so it's going to roll. it's going to roll.

>> reporter: hallie, as you know, democrats would need ten republican votes to break a filibuster and some in their own party haven't even signed on yet. it will be a while likely before the smoke clears. >> oh, did you it. >> i did. >> you had to do it. >> sorry, i did. >> sorry for all of us, gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. i appreciate you. later this week, see our special reporting as part of our "red, white and green" week. this is a look inside our road trip to hawaii, to a medical marijuana farm run by veterans. those who served havement so of the highest rates of ptsd in addition to physical injuries from deployments but they cannot get medical marijuana from the va because of those federal laws gabe was just talking about. so some in washington are hoping to change that. hear from one of the senators behind that push and from an air force vet and 9/11 first responder who says this is a miracle plant everyone should have access to. that's this week here on "hallie jackson reports."

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for the first time as president joe biden is returning to a place he knows very well, the senate. today he joins the democrats caucus meeting with his party's agenda and own presidential agenda on the line. the prime focus of the lunch meeting the two-track approach to infrastructure and spending. the president needing to convince democrats to pass their bipartisan and partisan packages, but there are a lot of questions on whether they can keep republicans on board with a bipartisan deal and moderates and progressives both on board with both packages. we bring in somebody who will be in that meeting in a little bit, massachusetts democratic senator ed markey. good morning and thanks for making the time for us today. >> good morning, thank you. >> let's start on the $3.5 trillion plan details coming out overnight on that. what is your confidence level that 50 democrat also stay you nighted to pass that right now? >> well, obviously our country is faced with multiple crisis,

economic crisis, climate crisis, home health care crisis, access to health care for everyone in our country. this deals with issues not a number as large as i would have liked to have seen it but it's a great first step in dealing with all of these issues, and i have every confidence that ultimately we can bring all democrats together, and have their support because we're going to need their support because it's highly unlikely that we're going to get the support from the republican party, which this kind of a package does deserve. >> if this package top line number goes below $3.5 trillion, is that something you could still support? in in your view is something better than nothing? >> this is an historic package. i give all the credit to understand bernie sanders and

chuck schumer for putting it together. it does include the elements which we need in order to begin to deal with these crisis, there is a climate crisis in our country, in this package, there are the solutions, the beginning of the solutions that are necessary, the same thing is true for many of the other areas that have gone unattended to, and by the way, very importantly, there is also going to be taxation on the wealthiest in our country, multinational corporations who have been escaping paying their fair share of the dues to run our paying their fair of the dues. there is something fundamentally wrong when three billionaires have more money than the bottom 50% of the population combined. >> it's interesting you brought up the climate piece of this. whether or not you're satisfied with what you're seeing in this legislation. we don't know the next yet, it sounds like you are president

biden put this front and center. they're calling for a carve out on the phil buster. you have called for abolishing the filibuster. what does that look like specifically? is that too vague for you? how do you define that and do you see getting eventually joe manchin on board. >> president biden laid out of the case. that republicans are contracting this out to state legislatures to carve out the voting rights of especially black and brown americans. it's a crisis in democracy that is unfolding before our kwies. it is imperative that the united states congress act to restore and strengthen access to the ballot. and so if that requires a repeal

of the filibuster, we have to repeal the filibuster. we cannot allow for the republican party to use the 60 vote margin that has to be released to strengthen this, and the obstacle to block the erosion of rights going on in texas, arizona, florida, georgia, red state after red state. they are paranoid that what happened in georgia, when they won, is the prediction of what will happen in state after state across red state america. and if that is what the republicans are going to do then the phil filibuster must go so we can strengthen voting rights. next up here on the show,

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one of her songs. "that is how we do." jill freier is here with more. i think she is at the white house now. this is what i'm hearing from the team. this is a big deal for people who are on tick took or listen to pop radio. she has a ton of influence with people in that generation. i was born in 2001, so i get it. >> me yeah, just the year before you. she is meeting with president biden and as you eluded to here. a lot of people in the white house think who is olivia rodrigo. today, olivia rodrigo is focused

on vaccination cards and getting them in the hands of young people. >> we want trusted messengers as opposed to just federal officials. >> confirmation came on instagram where president biden posted a photo of his younger self-. who is willing to help? >> i'm in rodrigo replied, see you tomorrow at the white house. it's just the latest headline for this rocketing star. the series. >> hi, i'm mimi. >> last year she signed a record deal and in jan released the megahit "driver's license."

>> before long the zonk was the subject of an "snl" sketch. now as she promotes a tiled called sour, they think it would be weet if she could promote vaccines, too. she has a pretty large reach. >> yeah, no kidding. and that is exactly the idea that the trusted messenger is pushing as she says vaccinations are good for you. thank you, i appreciate you. thank you all for watching this hour of hallie jackson reports. find us on twitter. right now more coverage coming up on this network with craig

melvin. >> good wednesday morning to you. we f we have an action packed hour ahead with new developments. first on the hill, $3.5 trillion. that is the price tag on the new spending deal that the new democrats finally reached. two big priorities? medicare expansion and climate change. they want to has this alongside an infrastructure plan. president biden going to talk it over. he will be joining the senate democrats lunch in the next hour. also a new urgency this morning. 13,000 miles apart on voting rights. texas democrats are in dc on day two