progress on. and of course, we're going to get reconciliation done. it's just too important. blp >> she is also an msnbc political contributor. i am so excited to have both of you on with me this morning. ali, let me start with you speaker pelosi's level of

confidence, how is that? how is she feeling does shelf confidence that she can get these moderates and progressives to reach a consensus by thursday? >> that really is the question of the week, here, jose. because she's protecting optimism, but at the same time, it's tempered with reality on the ground you just mentioned what today should have been it should have been the day that we saw a vote in the house on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed the senate now that's being pushed to thursday again, an attempt to bide time, as progressives remain holding out their support on this bipartisan bill because they want to see more movement on reconciliation. we have not seen and we've been in this stalemate position for several weeks now on reconciliation not just on the policy items, but on the overall price tag it's really hard to see a reality in which we see those problems resolved in the legislative blink of an eye. it's going to be what we keep coming back to, which is what speaker pelosi said over the

weekend, this reality is her ultimate reality listen to what she said. >> let me just say, we'll pass for bill this week i promised that we'll bring the bill to the floor, but you have to go when you have the votes in a reasonable time. and we will. >> and right now, she doesn't have them. congressman pramila ji ayapal, h top progressive in the house saying that the votes simply aren't there dozens of members of her caucus saying that they're going to withhold their support from the bipartisan bill if they don't see the progress they need to see on reconciliation. and frankly, veteran lawmakers have said consistently over the course of the last few weeks, they've been in congress a long time this is certainly one of the most intense weeks, they say, they've ever faced certainly, a good time for you to be here on this program every morning, jose. because things are really heating up here on capitol hill. >> and it is my privilege to be here yam yamiche, are officials at the white house correspond that democrats simply won't be able to pull it together as far as this economic plan

>> well, that's the chief issue dominating the white house's agenda let's think about this week. this is a monumental week in president biden's agenda, in his legacy everything that he's worked for is sort of hanging in the balance, and it's all happening on capitol hill. and i've been talking to white house officials who have been stressing that the president himself is very involved over the weekend, he was making calls, doing zoom calls, really trying to make sure that he was, himself, engaged in the conversation, because democrats need to get on the same page, in order for him to have this sweeping infrastructure bill that he has been telling people, and telling americans across the country that he was going to get passed for them. let's remember that president biden, he ran on the idea that he was this elder statesman, who had so much experience in government, and that he was going to be able to pull democrats and republicans together in order to impact's people's lives let's also remember that not only do you have, of course, the infrastructure bill, but a government shutdown is sort of looming here this would be very, very hard for president biden, knowing that democrats have control of the house, the senate, and the white house for the government to shutdown.

of course, that means that they'll have to negotiate with republicans here but i've been told that white house top aides, cabinet members, they're all engaged in this and this really comes down to whether or not president biden can sort of shepherd his party through this intense week and really come out with a win and several wins, is what he really needs this week yamiche, is there a plan "b" at the white house if democrats can't pull it together on infrastructure >> that's the thing that i've been asking the white house. they continue to say they don't want to negotiate and talk about a plan "b," because they've been leaning into plan "a." there has to, of course, be these sober conversations that are happening in the white house. right now, the president is not expecting to be seen today he is in the middle of getting his daily brief along with the vice president but you can imagine that there is this intense -- this intense looking forward from this white house to say, okay, if our party cannot get on the same page as progressives, democrats, and moderates, who say that they trust each other who say they really want to get something done here. but if they cannot pull this off, they need to of course be thinking at some point about what comes next. but from my conversations with

white house officials, they're really focused on plan "a," with the president himself leaning in, calling lawmakers, trying to win votes himself. my process, from that understanding is in its early stages but you can imagine that the president will be very, very much personally involved, especially when we think about the president's challenges in the last week, in the last month, between the haitian migrant crisis, between afghanistan, between covid this is a president who has had tough times over the last few weeks, and this is a week where the president wants to be able to stand up and tell the american people, despite all of this, i am the president who can handle chaos and who can bring you sweeping legislative change. >> ya mitch alcindor and allison vitali, thank you very much for being with me this morning i so appreciate your time. turning now to the latest headlines out west, three people are dead and several are still hospitalized after an amtrak train traveling from chicago to seattle derailed in montana. investigators are looking into what caused the accident and the national transportation safety board is scheduled to give a briefing later today.

joining us now with the very latest is nbc's jacob ward jake, good morning it's good to see you, what are investigators telling you they've learned so far >> reporter: good morning, jose. investigators on the ground have basically very few, you know, outrageously obvious clues to go with this was a crash, as you know, that took eight cars off the tracks, but in perfectly clear weather and on a totally clear stretch of track that, in fact, bnsf, the company that operates the tracks, says it inspected just three days ago. we spoke to a former ntsb board member yesterday, who said that if anything she expects that investigators will be looking most closely at the connection between the train cars and the tracks themselves, that the external factors otherwise don't jump out as you know, three people unfortunately were killed at this time. fortunately, all passengers are now accounted for. that was up in the air for a

little while now we've got to figure out what happened and why those were hospitalized >> at this point, you have to remember, train crashes are incr incredibly violent, rescuers have to use jaws of life to open up the train cars and take away seats to get people out. you have everything, in train crashes, you tend to see broken bones and head injuries that are terrible it's a terrible thing when it happens. >> and you've, covering the california wildfires for us. there's been an arrest in connection with one of them? >> this is very unusual, typically wildfires out here are triggered by lightning, but in this case cal fire, the authors say they have arrested a 30-year-old palo alto woman who came out of the brush on the fire line while firefighters were battling the flames, complaining of dehydration, saying she needed medical

attention. she was interviewed by caall fie and they have arrested her on felony arson charges which are enhanced charges underthe current state of emergency, the drought we are in right now. >> and shifting to the coronavirus, this thursday is the deadline for health care workers in california to get vaccinated what are you hearing >> this is a very difficult thing for this state, not least because nursing staff, medical staff are already stretched to the limit. that may be the case when thursday arrives on thursday, the deadline hithi by which governor gavin newsom has insisted that all medical workers have to be vaccinated and there are thousands across the state. out of the 2.5 million health care workers here that are not yet vaccinated at that point, the hospital systems are probably going to have to put them on to administrative leave they're going to be at risk of

losing their jobs. and we will be at risk of losing their help at the very moment that we need it the most, jose >> jacob ward in oakland, california thank you so very much still ahead, the coronavirus vaccine and kids what pfizer is doing to get shots into little arms, coming up plus, the latest at least 30,000 migrants have gone through the border in del rio, texas, this month most of them haitian we'll hear from the migrants themselves and we'll talk to the congresswoman, shelia jackson lee, who just visited del rio, about what she saw on the ground you're watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc

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in guatemala this morning, 75 cuban and haitian migrants, including 14 children were abandoned on the side of the road by their drivers. they were on their way to the u.s./mexico border, where officials say the thousands of

migrants camped out under a bridge are now gone. last week, we saw those images of border patrol agents on horseback, suppressing crowds, lashing out with what appeared to be the horse reins. secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, doing the media rounds this weekend and standing by his department >> i'm intensely and immensely proud of the men and women of the u.s. customs and border protection in fact, in del rio, texas, i saw them act heroically. what those images suggest does not reflect who cdp is, who we are as a department, nor who we are as a country >> i want to bring in nbc correspondent, guad vanagas. tell me what you've seen and ways it like right now >> reporter: good morning, jose. well, thanks for going back to normal herein del rio. they opened the border over the

weekend. today, it has opened for commercial vehicles, which is a big deal the mayor of del rio says they were losing $35 million every day, during the time that the port of entry was closed and we also know that the migrants that were here were either allowed to remain in the u.s. while asking for asylum or some in processing centers. secretary mayorkas also said as many as 4,000 have been deported to miami on planes yesterday, we were outside one of these processing centers where congresswoman shelia jackson lee visited to see the conditions that they were in and we also met some family members who told us how they felt when they saw the images on tv >> i'm disgusted i'm disgusted. it is our job, it's our humanitarian duty to feed and shelter and clothe and we're supposed to give love. what i saw on tv -- that's the reason why i'm here. and then to find out whright

before i get on a plane that they're all gone you cannot just expect the world to see thousands of black migrants vanish like that and not come here and question it. >> reporter: she was very upset. she's waiting for a family member that spent days under the bridge and she hasn't been able to speak to her for at least a week so now she's trying to figure out where it is that she ended up and also, she also spoke about the images that everyone's been referencing to with the images of the horses. what people keep saying is that in the image, you would see a man that would cross back into mexico and bring food. that's why people were so upset because of the conditions at the migrant camp some of these individuals had to cross back into mexico and bring the food and these were the individuals being stopped in those images, which was very upsetting to these family members, jose. >> sure. and guad, you talk about 6,000 mostly haitian migrants returned to port-au-prince and to other cities in haiti by the u.s.

government it's interesting, because many, if not most of those haitian migrants that were in del rio, texas, didn't come from haiti. many of them left after the 2010 earthquake in haiti. they'd been in places like chile and other places in south america. and they've had a really difficult existence trying to get to the united states to ask for something. they're being returned to a country which they left 10, 15 years ago. >> jose, we spent two days on the mexican side speaking to migrants there were hundreds of them sleeping in a makeshift camp at a park and every single person we spoke to told us that they had left haiti years ago. a lot of them spent time in brazil others went to central america others went to mexico, some went to chile you are correct. they spent a lot of time in south america and eventually made their way to the united states or to the border in del rio. it will be very difficult for them to return to a country

years after having left haiti. this is the case, you know, this problem isn't just about the 15 to 30,000 that ended up in the border there are thousands more crossing from south america, central america, into mexico and then you also have the 8,000 that return to mexico, so there's a lot of uncertainty for these haitian migrants and another thing i would like to also point out is that not everyone in this group were haitian. there's also people from venezuela, there's people from cuba that's something that perhaps we haven't spoken about as much but there's a lot of migrants in there that, you know, just are living with an uncertain future. >> guad vanagas, thank you very much i want to bring in morgan radford. morgan, it's great to see you this morning this is the reality that we've been seeing on our screens for about a week, a week and a half now. but it's just because we've been seeing it on our screens but this has been going on for some time. >> yeah. we should be clear, jose haitian immigrants have been treated differently since the

'70s especially when you're given that classification and that distinction between being an economic refugee and pa political one. well, as of this morning, federal officials say that all 15,000 haitian migrants who were camped under that international bridge in del rio, where we saw those images, have been cleared out. dhs secretary, as you mentioned, mayorkas, mentioned that that of that 15,000, have been sent back to haiti and that another 12,400 will remain in the u.s. and have their asylum cases heard before a judge. but jose, whether they will actually be allowed to stay in the u.s., that's ultimately up to those individual immigration judges but the real question is what happens next just last week, i went to mcallen, texas, and from there, i crossed the border into mexico and based on our reporting there, we know that there are still many haitian migrants elsewhere along the border, still waiting to cross into the united states. now, we obtained these photos

and this video, we're looking at our screen, as an ngo worker on the mexican side of the border and they've said they've seen more haitians arrive by the day. and it's looking just like the images we're seeing on the screen, images that we saw we also spoke to one migrant there who said that conditions are so bad in mexico that they've experienced people just unwilling to even rent them apartments so they are stuck in these tenement camps or they unable to work and they can't even leave those camps, because they are threatened to be kidnapped if they should leave. even that one woman we spoke to says, this is still better than what was happening in haiti, where they have no jobs, no money, and no hope of things getting better and just before we go, jose, another new bit of information from dhs we've learned that although we saw the biggest number of migrants in that camp swell to 15,000, the actual number of migrants who have been processed at the border is much higher a total of 30,000 haitian migrants have arrived at the del

rio section of the border since mid-september. and of those, secretary mayorkas said that 8,000 returned to mexico on their own rather than face deportation back to haiti, jose >> morganed radford, nbc news nw thank you. >> congratulations on your new show >> appreciate that i want to bring in democratic congresswoman shelia jackson lee who just traveled to del rio, texas, to see the situation for herself. congresswoman, it is a pleasure to see you this morning. i would like your opinion on what you saw in del rio. >> jose, thank you so very much for having me. but first of all, congratulations on your new show >> thank you >> i wanted to see for myself. i walked the same pathway on the u.s. side. went to the boat slip where we saw something that we wish we had never seen before in our

lifetime in the years of being a united states congress but i did see that there was no presence under the bridge and that the bridge had opened but i also saw migrants from venezuelans, cuba, and haiti in the border patrol retention area others had already been moved out as of friday and saturday, but i wanted to see for myself i wanted to listen to a haitian who said that his wife was raped, he was burglarized, and he simply couldn't take it anymore. or a mother that was in my district in one of the migrant transfer centers whose son was murdered, who left their children in south america and came because of desperation. and my conclusion is that. one, the haitian migrants are no security threat, as evidenced by the department of homeland security they were compliant. they turned themselves in. it was a disastrous circumstance under the bridge, but the border patrol agents, many of them,

wanted to do better. and we have to do better so i agree that if this is going to happen, we have the capacity to be humane we have the capacity to put in systems and processing centers that can give them access to asylum, to be able to petition, and also to have an i-94 and have a date in court we can do better >> congresswoman, you've advocated for a moratorium on title 42, the trump-era policy that allows for the expulsion of any asylum seekers on the basis of public health secretary mayorkas has said that policy is up to the cdc. do you think that halting title 42 is actually possible? >> i do and i continue to be optimistic first of all, we saw the president of the united states take responsibility and express his horrors about what happened with simply people trying to get food, seemingly being chased after by horses, reminiscent of some very bad times in our country. so i thank the president i think his commitment is to be

humane the title 47, title 42 is a relic. a trump relic. sffs it was used abusively to find a convenient way to throw people out. not just deport them, but throw them out and the dhs have come back on the expert basis on which it was designed is faulty at best so if they don't want to eliminate it, let's suspend it so that we can process people with children and those who have come from dastardly conditions, who have no place else to go jose, stateless. they cannot go back to their home, which is the nation of haiti. and there are many countries who will not have them back, as well this is a moment for the state department to engage with south and central america, but it is also a moment for americans to understand how immigrants have boosted the economic engine of this country up to $1.5 trillion over ten years, if we were to

provide access to essential workers, tps, daca we could sustain, and they would not be dependent on the united states >> congresswoman shelia jackson lee, i can't thank you enough for being with me this morning i so appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me and again, congratulations to you. >> thank you so much >> thank you still ahead, a covid success story in texas, as el paso reaches herd immunity. how did they do it you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. i've spent centuries evolving with the world. that's the nature of being the economy. observing investors choose assets to balance risk and reward. with one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold.

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doctor, this news from pfizer. how significant is it to get this younger age group vaccinated >> thank you for having me, jose it's incredibly important. there are millions -- there are almost 45 million 5 to 11-year-olds in this country so if we can get them vaccinated, that is a sizable percentage of the population many of them actually live in the south, many are children of color. many live in poverty and so we'll have to be very strategic about how we target those vaccinations we have to work with pediatricians and their offices, but also schools and involve school nurses in this effort, as well >> cdc director dr. rochelle walensky addressed the approval of pfizer's covid-19 booster shot here's part of what she had to say. >> there is no urgency here to go and get your booster immediately. you know, walk, don't run to your booster appointment and we will come and look at the data

from moderna and j&j in very short order. >> walk, don't run what's your take on that, doctor >> right so i can understand if the public is a little bit confused, because there's been so much attention paid to the boosters and people should know what the data has shown is that really, we're seeing breakthrough disease in people who are elderly. so over 60, over 65. that's the population pier more concerned about. so everyone else, if you're in one of the other categories, high-risk occupation or an adult with an underlying medical condition, you can take your time getting your booster shot a few weeks is not going to make a difference or even probably a few months >> doctor, i want to go back to something you just mentioned in the beginning of our conversation it's so important that our communities, the african-american community, the latino community, are often the ones that are getting their shot less than other communities. and that, yet, we have been so

disproportionately hit by covid. how do we get our people to get vaccinated and to realize that, you know, the kids are an important part of reaching a solution to fight covid. >> right and jose, that is such a valid concern, because what we've seen is, you know, parents' preferences for getting vaccinated usually reflects in whether or not they get their children vaccinated. so the concern is that black and hispanic children will not be vaccinated at the rate that they should be. and so, two things i think that we really need to involve community-based efforts, organizations that are already embedded in the community, that are known to community members, to be doing outreach in education. and i also think that we need a misinformation, an anti-misinformation campaign there is so much misinformation in our communities that's preventing people from getting vaccinated and thus their children from getting vaccinated as well. >> and cal, el paso just reached a milestone in their vaccination effort by getting 75% of their

eligible residents vaccinated. what's el paso's secret? >> you know, i think one of the secrets here is that this is a bi-national city this is a city that has had to deal with what we call the border crisis on a daily basis and has had to do so for decades. they have that community outreach they have those community organizations that can get into the community and can then vaccinate 75% of people, as you said, over the age of 12 those numbers are hugely impressive and what it has done, it has flattened the curve here in el paso last winter, we saw those refrigerated trucks that were filling with bodies. we saw hospitals like the one i'm in front of overflowing. and now, we are not seeing that. the other thing that has made a big difference was that very dark time that this city went through. take a listen to what dr. aluzi told me yesterday. >> there was some data that actually showed if people were worried about covid or were planning to get a vaccine, it has because they knew someone who had either been sick or died so this community is a very tight community,

multigenerational homes, so people knew people who got sick and knew people who died, so that was a catalyst for them to go get it. >> reporter: in the name of vaccinations, i'll give you the stats. 75% of people in el paso county over the age of 12 have been vaccinated compare that to just over 50% in the state of texas in the state of texas, you have a positivity rate of 18% here, it's 6%. in the state of texas, 20% of hospital beds are at capacity because of covid here, it's 7%. so the vaccine is making a difference officials here hope that booster will make all the more difference in keep el paso safe. >> el paso strong. thank you so much. and gabe, kentucky now has meanwhile one of the highest highest covid hospitalization rates in the country how were health care workers there balancing delivering care and delivering booster shots >> hi, there, jose good to be with you. kentucky is the second highest hospitalization rate in the country behind neighboring west virginia and here at this hospital, st. claire regional medical center, its vaccine clinic is now offering the third pfizer dose,

only those who are immunocompromised, not those 65 and older as of yet. although discussions are on the way. i want to show what's behind me. this tent is being set up outside the hospital to administer monoclonal antibodies i want my colleague, paul rigby to show you here, inside this tent -- now, we should point out, there are no patients in there right now. they're expected here this afternoon. but this is one of the ways that this hospital, jose, is trying to limit the patient load. we were just in the covid unit and actually looked inside the icu. they are dealing with more covid patients right now than they ever have. now, new covid cases are dropping in many parts of the country, but as you mentioned, the hospitalization rate here in kentucky is still very high. right in this hospital, a small hospital, relatively, they have 11 patients on ventilators right now. and jose, one of the things they are trying to do is they're trying to get some of their medical staff to make house calls. that's what they're doing, so that they treat these patients at home to prevent them from coming inside the hospital and

ending up in the icu and that's what this is about, as well. now, across some states, including parts of the south, there is a monoclonal antibody shortage shaping up. that's why the federal government, as you know, is trying to limit the supply that is sent to states with these monoclonal antibodies. but right now, this hospital is one of the ways that it is trying to limit the number of patients that end up in this hospital, which serves a very rural area jose >> gabe gutierrez, cal perry, and dr. uche blackstock, thank you all very much for your time. appreciate it. still ahead, the end of an era. after 16 years in power, german chancellor angela merkel prepares to step down. we're live in berlin next. you're watching jose diaz-balart rertpos. what happens when we welcome change? we can transform our workforce overnight out of convenience, or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and not only make new discoveries, but get there faster,

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morning as the democratic party narrowly o ly defeats angela mes christian union party. it won with an advantage of fewer than 2 percentage points joining me now is nbc's matt bradley and molly hunter so glad to see both of you this morning. the social democratic partner will need at least one other partner to form a new government, right? >> reporter: yeah, jose, probably two other partners. you know,when we're talking about these coalitions, last time we did this in 2017, those coalition negotiations lasted for nearly six months. and throughout that time, angela merkel will remain in office she's probably going to be meeting with joe biden no one else next month -- no one else will be doing that. this is -- she remains the chancellor and you know, jose, i'm glad you laid it out the way that you did. a lot of the coverage has said that the social democrats seem to have a victory over angela merkel's party that's not really the case here. there's only one way to read this these election results are a love letter to the outgoing

chancellor the two main parties that were competing, olaf schultz, who was the head of the social democrats, he's the man who has the best chance of becoming the chancellor he and his opponent had been competing the entire campaign to show just how close, how similar they are to angela merkel, the outgoing chancellor. so really, this was all about continuity germans voted to remain with angela merkel, to keep someone who is at least as similar as possible to the outgoing chancellor, who has been chancellor for the past 16 years. so, again, this just goes to show, germans are content. there were no barbarians at the gate in this election. there were no far-left or far-right parties who made massive gains. there were no promises of bold change germans voted to remain with merkelism. jose >> and it was kind of like a beautiful show of democracy. >> in a way, yeah. you could look at it that way. the fact is that when you're

talking about these coalitions that are going to have to form, olaf schultz, who is the first one, his party won that narrow lead he's going to have to try to get a coalition with three different -- or two other parties. one of them is going to be on the left the greens the other one is going to be on the right. there's going to be an independent. so the fact is that they're going to be spanning this entire ideological spectrum >> and molly, turning to you in london, lines of cars continue to wrap around gas stations in the uk, as they face a fuel shortage there what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, jose, or at gas stations like the one i'm at, there are no cars waiting, because there are big signs that say "no fuel." to be clear, there's not a fuel shortage in the country. there's a fuel shortage at gas stations, and it's because there's a huge shortage of truck drivers. now, jose, over the last two years, an estimated 15 to 20,000 truck drivers went back to europe the government is saying that is because of covid, it's not just brexit and they are saying that really,

not to replace those drivers, the pandemic has put a backlog of applications, there's a backlog of kind of the licensing tests that they need to replace those drivers. the industry is saying, we need more drivers and over the weekend, the government approved 5,000 temporary visas. and no one thinks that's enough. take a listen to what the environment secretary said earlier today about what he blames for the current crisis. >> we have plenty of petrol, both in refineries output is at normal levels and we have plenty of petrol in stores the most important thing is that people just buy petrol as they normally would there isn't a shortage the cause of these current problems is that panic buying episode. and the most important thing is for people to start, you know, buying petrol as they normally would. >> reporter: now, he's really encouraging people just to get back to their normal behavior. lots of people driving in, rolling out, looking for gas stations with fuel in central london and jose, the truck driver shortage, not just affecting gas. supermarkets, furniture

deliveries, fast food, you name it there are going to be delays up until christmas. jose >> and you've been covering the volcanic eruption in la palma, spain. what's the latest there? >> reporter: yeah, over the weekend, really active weekend eruptions really intensified so that eruption, that volcano started on september 19th, jose. and since then, a number of different events or fissures have opened up that's what happened on saturday a new vent, a new eruption and this morning, authorities have locked down three new villages the big fear, jose, over the last couple of weeks is that as that lava moves down the hillside towards the more populated coastline, not only would it hit a lot more houses, but eventually, that lava would hit the ocean. and experts are warning that when that happens, if that happens, we're going to see explosions and clouds of toxic gas. but right now, more than 7,000 people, jose, have fled their homes. 350 homes have been destroyed. and experts are warning, they could see eruptions for the next three months back to you. >> molly hunter in london. matt bradley in berlin

thank you very much for being with me this morning well, the rolling stones kicked off the u.s. leg of their no filter tour last night, a month after the death of founding member and drummer, charlie watts. ♪ it's the veteran british band's first tour since 1963, without watts, as the crowd of some 60,000 shouted charlie, charlie. mick jagger, keith richards, and ron wood took the stage for their opening number, "street fighting man." jagger told the crowd, quote, we'll miss charlie so much, on and off the stage. they're still at it, the rolling stone. still ahead, they're undocumented, but they're as american as the rest of us we'll talk to a dreamer about the recent blow to immigration reform and what meit means to hundreds of thousands whose lives are now hanging in the balance. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

it's 10:25 as we cover the ins and outs in congress, it's so important to remember the real world impact of the lawmaker's decisions. in the senate they plan to create a path to citizenship and the social policy bill it hit a roadblock and the parliamentarian in charge of enforcing rules in the chamber said it couldn't be done

but it's written that senators should ignore the rule and push forward. this can't be the end of the fight for dreamers whose fate is otherwise held up in court with me is someone directly impacted by policy decisions a daca recipient, and activist and extraordinary young man i'm privileged to call friend. what does it mean for you and so many others if a path to citizenship is forgotten, blocked, or just left along the wayside? >> well, you know, here in washington d.c. it cannot be understated how important this week is given the infrastructure vote, making sure the government does not shut down, and, of course, in the house of representatives, also a vote on reconciliation we have seen from democrats time and time again specifically from senate democrats and house democrats, their commitment to go back to the parliamentarian

with a plan b, and we're hopeful that this time the parliamentarian will hear the arguments and realize that a path to citizenship is not just crucial to our country but it will also help families like mine >> it seems as though putting everything on the parliamentarian's decision one way or another really leaves very little space for a possibility of something on immigration reform to be achieved maybe even in a bipartisan way >> well, that is -- our hope right now is that the parliamentarian will hear the new arguments presented by the senators and others in leadership who have essentially pledged to take back a plan b to make sure that the path to citizenship is included. we are obviously confident, and we remain confident that this time around the parliamentarian will essentially hear the arguments and be decisive in her support for this type of policy to be included now, i have to say obviously we

have to continue to call our senators and we need to continue to put the pressure on congress because at the end of the day we know time is running out and this needs to get done by the end of the year. >> it's a flash to see you, my friend thank you for being with me this morning. >> thank you, jose as we wrap up this hour, my first hour, we want to tell you a little bit about me. i am the florida-born son of cuban exiles been a journalist for 38 hours in both english and spanish. i think in two languages i dream in two languages i live in two languages. and the opportunity to report to you, the opportunity to share life experiences with you is truly a privilege. a conversation between us that we start today

you can reach me on twitter and instagram. my handle is jdballart thank you for the privilege of your time. my friend, and wonderful journalist friend craig melvin picks up with more after this. i'll see you tomorrow. thanks

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it is september 27th craig melvin here from the new msnbc world head quarters in new york city. check out our new digs welcome to our new studio space. lots to show you here. but for now buckle up for what could be a make or break week for president biden's agenda the house back in session today with a debate. we'll kick off on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a vote planned for thursday and nancy pelosi says democrats will get it done. >> let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week i promise that we would bring the bill to the floor, but you know, i'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes. you have to go when you have the votes. in a reasonable time and we will. >> but it's not just infrastructure speaker pelosi calls this week a time of intensity. the multitrillion dollar bill that's coupled with that infrastructure plan hangs in the balance. government funding is set to run out. and the debt ceiling needs to be

raised