bites ali vitali nation turns its lonely eyes to you. remember please, your host is a bit slow, so without any acronyms or use of the word reconciliation, i'm begging you to explain what we're witnessing going on the house tonight, when it will result in now, and wet it will give to americans. >> well bryan, i will leave our beloved gift tag line on the hill here, is because we are seeing on our screen right now is the bipartisan infrastructure bill now working its way through the house after many hours and much frustration in anticipation of this moment. what we've seen in the last half hour, really, is the convalescing of moderate and progressive fashions that had been previously been ideas on how this evening was going to go. we saw a lot of stopping and starting on the part of house leadership because they're trying to bring all these disparate parts of their caucus together, who were at odds over the best way to move forward on this. moderates have been saying that they didn't want to move forward yet on the larger social spending p

ali vitali and dr.er win redlinger. he advises us on public health and professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine in his spare time, but, ali, nation turns its lonely eyes to you. remember please your host is a bit slow so without any acronyms or use of the word reconciliation, i'm begging you to explain what we're witnessing go on in the house tonight, what it will result in and what it will give to americans. >> well, brian, i'll leave our beloved biff tag line on the hill. it is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate now working its way through the house after many hours and much frustration in anticipation of this moment. what we've seen in the last half hour really is the coalescing of moderate and progressive factions that had previously been at odds over how this evening was going to go and saw a lot of stopping and starting on the part of house leadership because they were trying to bring all of these disparate parts together. moderates had been saying that they didn't want

. >> and i want to go right to ali vitali, our correspondent on capitol hill, who is with us for the last hour of live coverage. ali, is this a in a car going to the white house. because as you pointed out, the president having canceled his trip home to rehoboth beach delaware, he is in the residence, he is ready to sign this, a good number of democrats want to brag about being received goals about all the money in this, where it's going, and who will be helped. >> well, they did just call a lid at the white house, brian, so we're probably not going to see the white house tonight. but that's not going to say that we're not going to hear from other democrats who are championing this moment in a democratic majorities here in congress, as well as for the biden white house. my inbox immediately filled up with emailed applause from senators who had been wanting this to pass from other lawmakers and institutions who have been lobbying for different aspects of this bill, because this is a win for democrats. it shows that you heard on the floor there, come after hours and weeks of hard delibe

ali vitali, he says the house will pass it in a week. china chuck seemer is expecting that they will i do it together. people are coming back and forth. they expect to do this by the weekend, even saturday. the thing they're waiting for was the congressional office score. the thing they're hearing, they could have the cbo score by friday. they could set it up for wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. nancy pelosi has said they're not leaving town for thanksgiving before they build the house business largely finished by the time everyone goes home to their familile. it shows all the different senate procedures you need to have in order to make sure this bill is privileged and it meets the rules of salvation so the democrats do this this in a partisan fashion. it's weeks away, but it's not the only thing on their plate. they'd like to move forward on the build back better act, both of funding the government and the date x day. there's a lot of things on the senate's plate. as we head to the midterm, josh said it felt like a kickoff. it ju

ali vitali are women on the hill. don calloway remains with us tonight, democratic strategist, founder of the -- 's susan del percio political analyst and a veteran political strategist. susan, i'll start with you on these liberal democrats who have not voted for infrastructure. and maybe a tougher 60,000 foot question. what are we? are we a progressive country? are we have senator country? a rehab center right? center-left? what do you think we are? >> yes. we are all of that. >> that's all the time we have, good evening everybody. >> here is the thing, is this infrastructure bill is fantastic, it is great, it is bipartisan. but it could've been done three months ago, and the president would not have seen his poll numbers quite so low. because what else are we looking at tonight? what was the second vote? it was democrat said liberating that they negotiated with themselves. and they still had to sell that negotiate a bill to the senate, which will not get approved as it is. so, i think we're looking into way past tha

ali vitali's going to join us momentarily. we have developments. l you about another story. the university of florida is being sued by three of its own professors tonight. at controversy is academic freedom and possibly republican ron desantos. today they reversed their is decision. the miami herald reports, quote, university officials told professors that because it's a state institution their participation in a case against governor ran desantis's administration would be adverse to the university's interests. manage that, telling professors not to testify in a court because it might be adverse to university's interests. joining us now are two of the three professors suing the university of florida. sharon austin and michael mcdonald are professors of political science. thank you for being here. development in the story. this was something that the university had sort of backtracked on but in the end there's an issue, a fundamental issue that because you work for somebody you can't testify against them. that wouldn't fly anywhere, or it shouldn't f

joining us now, nbc correspondent ali vitali. thanks for being here this morning.ratic negotiations continued over the weekend. we heard from the president yesterday saying he thinks that a vote can happen this week. i know tuesday had been signaled. there's thought maybe that will slip. why don't you set the time line? what can we expect over the coming days about both of these bills? >> yeah, jon. it sounds like tuesday is going to slip because they are doing some last-minute negotiations around things we thought were previously out of the bill but now may be coming back in, looking at prescription drug pricing. i know there were some people hopeful they might revive paid leave. it doesn't seem like it's going happen. when it comes to thinks like prescription drug pricing, that's not in the text of the bill they released last week, so what's happening now, we e saw the rules committee meet on friday going through hours of meeting, and in that bill text, really digging in and debating the finer points. that's a procedual thing that has to happen before it gets to

joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. id his staff did this and when he learned of it he took it down. so now he's retweeting it. i saw kevin mccarthy speak to reporters today. did he say anything about the fact that gosar put it right back out there? >> reporter: no. but this also speaks to the larger theme of the republican caucus in the house right now. our colleague garrett haake asked something i thought was really smart during that kevin mccarthy presser where he said that the only time that republicans seem to be rebuked and punished by their own caucus is when they do something against former president donald trump. in this instance, with paul gosar, he effectively threatened to kill a colleague, that's what the censure and stripping of his committees was all about. but in terms of the way that other republicans except for kinzinger and cheney reacted to this, they didn't act like it was a problem. leader kevin mccarthy has his eyes on the potential to become speaker should republicans retake the house. this is the

joining me now with more on this is nbc's ali vitali. what more can you tell us about this investment? >> reporter: yeah, jose, this is an historic increase to the s.n.a.p. program and one that comes at a critical moment for the millions of families who access the program, including eric tucker's. >> get some cereal you want. >> reporter: the later it gets in the month -- >> we can afford them now. >> reporter: the further eric tucker's grocery budget has to stretch. >> if i can feed my family for 10, 12 bucks a night, that works. >> reporter: what happens when you get towards the end of the month? >> less snacks. >> reporter: the father of two boys in orange county, california, lost his home and job during the pandemic and joined s.n.a.p. to help feed his family. >> you want any noodles? >> reporter: it's forced some tough choices in the checkout line. what's that been like? >> humiliating. you've got to pick and choose your battle, who am i going to upset? myself, my kid, what kid? it's got going to be the fulfillment of a meal. >> rep

joining me, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. and punchbowl news founder and msnbc contributor jake sherman. great to see all of you. another slow day on capitol hill. ali, how are we looking right now when it comes to potential votes tonight? >> yeah, it's looking like infrastructure day is like infrastructure era, because we're not exactly sure what's going to happen at this point. we did hear from one of the congressmen who is meeting with speaker pelosi on the idea they could vote on the bipartisan infrastructure vote tonight and do a procedural vote on build back better. that puts speaker pelosi on the seesaw, balancing the moderates and progressives in her party. the moderates may hold out and that puts the question to whether progressives are okay with voting on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we've actually even heard just in the last few minutes from one of those, congresswoman cori bush, one of the progressives, who said she wouldn't be on board for that plan. this is t

ali vitali, john bresnahan is here with us as well. ali, if we have you, what is the deal and when -- we don't have ali vitali. bres, do we have you? because we're juggling a lot here as we're coming on the air with this live breaking coverage. you're with us, right? >> i'm with you. you can hear me? >> i sure can. bring me up to speed because i know that we've been seeing a number of speeches here including alexandria ocasio-cortez herself. speaker pelosi and others. what has stood out to you? >> well, alexandria ocasio-cortez spoke, gosar spoke, he down played the significance of the video. and you talked about this anime video that where he kills ocasio-cortez in the video and threatens the president of the united states, president biden. he did not apologize. he tried to downplay it. his comments with are basically i'm sorry that you were offended. that won't cut it for democrats. ocasio-cortez gave a very impassioned speech where they talked about, you know, is this behavior acceptable to anyone in this chamber. that is literally w

. >>> joining us now, known winner, ali vitali. this has been a long time in the making.ets to have the signing ceremony for the bill, and certainly this will give democrats and a few republicans something to tout the public left. 's hear how will the president sell this bill and what are democrats going to do in the days and weeks ahead? >> well, the selling is the critical part at this point, jon, because they've gone through a lot of process here in washington, and, of course, all of us have focused on how this bill finally entered into this moment where it gets its rose garden signing ceremony. but now the president takes to the road. we've seen him touting the better points of both this bipartisan infrastructure plan as well as the larger social spending package, but now he actually gets a chance to tell people what's going to happen now that this is a bill that's become law or is about to. we're going to see him on the road in new hampshire talking about strengthening bridges that have fallen into disrepair. we're going to see him go to detroit where he's going to g

joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and "washington post" carol leonnig. when does this go to a vote, ali? >> next. they're going to continue on this debate and then move to the next phase which is the censure and stripping him of his two committee assignments here. but really, katy, what you're talking about is, this is a clear snapshot of the moment we're in in politics in 2021. all these disparate conversations about mainstreaming political violence, whether it's average folks being energized by lawmakers who have told them the big lie about the 2020 election, many of the democrats who spoke during this debate period connected this moment back to the january 6th insurrection that happened in the very halls that i am standing in right now, and where they go to work every day. that day is inextricably linked with this moment right now, this censure on the floor. that's what you heard from congresswoman ocasio-cortez, saying basically, this isn't about me, this didn't about paul gosar, this is about whether or not you think that colleagues in the house can

nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill, ken dilanian has followed the charlottesville trial closely.n this day before thanksgiving. on top additional subpoenas yesterday was the deadline for the is a people to hand over documents to the committee. do we know if they complied? >> chris, those are some key 15 people, and yes, their documents deadlines were yesterday, but i think the day that we've seen whether or not people are cooperating or not actually comes once they hit their deposition deadlines because, remember, the way that these subpoenas have been working is the documents deadlines and the physical deposition deadlines have been different days. for a lot of these 15 people that you showed on the screen, their depositions come at some point in the next two to three weeks. as much as the committee is not commenting when people are cooperating and complying with their subpoenas, we do know when people are not. for example, of course we know what's going on with steve bannon, the house committee moved to them criminally refer him, the doj now prosecuting that referral, and of co

with me now, nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and mike memoli. thank you for being with me. mike, the president's got this celebration, a huge bipartisan win yesterday, but low approval ratings complicate efforts to sell his agenda. >> reporter: yeah, jose. there's no doubt this white house is facing quite a few political head winds, but you saw in that grand ceremony on the south lawn yesterday, i was outside on a brisk washington afternoon, an effort to try to turn those winds back into their favor. you saw the president expend so much political capital on those difficult negotiations within the democratic party, with republicans on the infrastructure plan, and finally, a chance to celebrate that. and it was interesting watching this ceremony, you heard sort of the makings of the case going forward. you had house speaker nancy pelosi, vice president harris talking about really what an historic accomplishment this is in their view, linking it to the transcontinental railroad under president lincoln. the interstate highway system. but in the pres

ali vitali joins us and john bresnahan, co-founder of purple bowl use.sten, talk to us about the message the president will be taking on the road because bipartisanship is really important. but when it comes to what people care about, which is how do our life get better and stronger today? >> reporter: that's right, steph. it's going to be the president's bipartisan infrastructure bill and now the work begins. so, he's going to be appearing at a bridge in woodstock, new hampshire, later today. a bridge that has been on the red zone list since 2013. of the bridges that need attention. that need to be rebuilt. and so the president will argue that with this new infrastructure package, the largest investment in the nation's infrastructure, in a generation, that projects like that will get under way. this is just one in a series of stops that you'll see from the president, his top advisers, the first lady, as well as the vice president, and the second gentleman, they're going to be crisscrossing the country, steph, highlighting the projects they hope will be

we don't know what that means. >> yeah. >> ali vitali and mike memoli, thank you very much for beingh me. both of you, mucho cafe correspondents. >>> time now for a look at the headlines out west as we start with some sad news this morning. 9-year-old ezra blunt has died from injuries he sustained during the crowd surge at the astroworld music festival last week. we had been in a medically induced coma. ezra is now the tenth and youngest person to die from the disaster. here with more is nbc's emilie ikeda. what more, emilie, can you tell us about what happened to ezra? >> reporter: jose, an incredibly tragic development. as you mentioned, ezra blunt is the tenth victim since the astroworld disaster and at 9 years old, also the youngest. the boy was on his father's shoulders at the concert when the crowd began to surge, causing truston blunt to pass out, ezra then falling to the ground. ezra was put into a medically induced coma after he suffered brain, liver, kidney trauma, but ultimately did not make it. his family releasing a statement reading in part, this should not have been th

. >> joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. should note president biden who we saw there, he was briefed by the tragedy in wisconsin, so we may get updates from the white house as the day goes on as well. >>> let's go back to the bill. obviously a real triumph for president biden, for democrats in the house. a lot of twists and turns that got us to this point. talk to us about how democrats feel about passing it, about what's in it, and about what was left out. >> yeah, jonathan. many months in the making here on capitol hill, especially a lot of shuttling back and forth between the senate side of the building and the house side of the building if you're a reporter like me, because for many weeks there, it felt like we were trying to understand where everyone stood. at least in the last few days what we've seen is the house to come together finally passing the build back better act after the moderates held back. they finally got that last week. they were able to move forward with their piece of it. when you look at some of the t

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joining us now, i think, is ali vitali. i thought so before and i was wrong. t. >> very good. what is happening tonight? what do you expect to happen over the course of tonight? >> well, look, rachel. we haven't heard anything official at this poip. the plan that the speaker laid out several hours ago seems to be what we're operating under which is to say we're going to see the house vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and then vote on the rule to the build back better agenda. when the speaker walked by me just now to get to the floor where we see her pitching the finer points of the bill and underscoring that she says the bill is paid for, which is important for those moderate holdouts, who want to see a budget office score, who say they have concerns about the cost. it's important now she's laying that out again. when she walked by me, i asked if she thought there was consensus in her party. she said, yes, and then went into the floor and went into her pitch here. that's what we're operating under right now. i will say in talking to moderates, one of t

. >> well, joining me now on capitol hill ali vitali and betsy woodruf want and also an msnbc political analyst. ali, i guess i tried to figure out why this is not more bipartisan. right. paul gosar is republicans roll their eyes about him. he's considered a clown by some who others would say, yeah, the whole thing is a clown show, but that guy is extra clownish. but there seems to be a line that some republicans think the democrats went too far. that the censuring is one thing and stripping of assignment is another. is that the reason why this isn't more bipartisan? >> chuck, you could really ask the same question why isn't this more bipartisan when you talk about the january 6th committee, too. because many if not all of these lawmakers were here for this day of main streamed political violence that stemmed from lies about the 2020 election and they still are not supporting the inquiries that the committee is doing into it and even talking about it as something that truly really happened as an example of main stream political violence. so, i don't necessarily even think it is about ce

with me now was nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali. great seeing you.the mood among democrats in the wake of the election, and does it change anything? >> jose, i think this changes everything and it changes nothing. because the mood here does range from democrats who think that if they had acted sooner on these two infrastructure bills, that things could have been different for terry mcauliffe and other democrats in virginia. then there are others who say this emphasizes the need to actually double down on the issues that are still on the negotiating table for that larger social spending package. things like prescription drug prices, which we saw senate democrats come to agreement on last night. but really, i think what this means in terms of not changing anything is we still think, and we heard from speaker pelosi this morning, who underscored this, that they are still writing the bill text, we still believe that the rules committee is going to meet tonight. it's still entirely possible for the house to try to vote on these bills by the end of the wee

a short time ago ali vitali asked her is there going to be a vote tonight and she responded we'll see. democrats are under immense pressure to deliver on president biden's agenda after the brutal election day losses on tuesday >>> it looks like a lawsuit could be coming over the deadly shooting on the set of the movie "rust. "the los angeles times" and tmz reporting the husband of halyna hutchins has hired a lawsuit that the specializes in wrongful death lawsuits investigators say somehow there was a live round in alec baldwin's revolver when it fired and killed hutchins during a rehearsal. attorneys for the movie's armorer claims somebody may have -- they're clarifying they said baldwin's gun was unattended for two hours now they're telling "the new york times" they were mistaken it was unattended for only five to ten minutes >>> a nearly all-white jury seated in the killing of a black man. tonight why the judge says he allowed it to happen and what the family of ahmaud arbery is saying. >>> the kyle rittenhouse murder trial. the key witness testimony heard today and the joke that go

joining us kristen welker and our capitol hill correspondent ali vitali.sten, let me start with you. let's focus on the acceleration of trying to get something passed. what role is the white house playing? or are they basically right now, waiting to see what pelosi can pull off? >> reporter: well, i think that the president is trying to twist the arms behind the scenes while letting house speaker nancy pelosi take the lead on this, chuck, he's here at the white house, he has no events on the public schedule at this point in time that we're aware of. no plans to either go to capitol hill or have lawmakers come here. so the action is really on capitol hill. i think what you are seeing from this president, from this white house, is an attempt to try to ramp-up the pressure on dong get something passed. you saw him yesterday when i pressed him about eat election results and i asked him what responsibility he bears for what happened in virginia and beyond those losses, that very close race in new jersey. and he essentially deflected and blamed and said, look, i

. >> joining me is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc correspondent monica alba, and ashley parker, an msnbc political analyst. love having all of you here. these are interesting times to say the least. ali, there was some sense kind of that we were headed for a vote today. speaker pelosi seems to be tamping down those expectations now. where does this new sense of urgency, if that's what it is, leave democrats today? >> it's an existing urgency, chris. even at the beginning of the week, before we saw the virginia and new jersey results, there was a sense that progressives have been ready to move on this and certainly moderates are ready to move on this. publicly we didn't hear speaker pelosi set any timeline, but privately to her caucus, in talking to lawmakers in the last little while, they're still under the impression that a vote could come as early as this evening, first on the larger social spending package, then tomorrow morning on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed in the senate. but really what this comes down to is a bunch of finger p

straight to ali vitali, congress' correspondent standing by. deadlines for congress is december 15th when the treasury secretary suggested that's when it's going to be tough to deal with the debt limit. that's the date she put on it. not do or die. i understand senate lieders are meeting? talk us through it. >> reporter: the x date you talk about here on capitol hill. when the u.s. line of credit could run out. it's not hard and fast but does mean there's a lot of pressure for the middle of december at least that's the deadline for these congressional leaders to figure out how they will overt this debt crisis. to be clear, the u.s. has never defaulted on its debt. we just learned from a source familiar, though, that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell met with senate majority leader chuck schumer on this talking about a range of year-end issues. certainly the dead limit came up. remember, this is something mcconnell previously went to democrats on and folded. they made a move to temporarily push this debt ceiling battle off into the middle o

joining us now to discuss, justice correspondent pete williams and also have us ali vitali and formerce vance. >> the trump lawyers will say don't be the committee has a legitimate need for these documents, the real goal is just to embarrass the president. they will also say the president even though he is the former president does have some residual executive privilege and his concern is that if this is the way the archives are going to handle this, it could make it harder for people in the future to give president candid advice. both the archives and the house will argue that they do need these documents, that this is one the most important thing that congress has ever looked in to and that while the president yes has some executive privilege, the person best in the position to decide when documents should be withheld or handed over is the current president, that is what the supreme court said in 1977. the court also will ask both sides to address a question that it thought up on its own, which is does it even have jurisdiction to hear this case. is this even reviewable by a federal

let's go straight to ali vitali on capitol hill and also with us, jake sherman, former democratic senatortkamp and robert gibbs from the obama administration. ally, government funds and raising the debt ceiling are more surgent. so what could we expect today. >> this is once again a situation where there are things that lawmakers can change and the things that they can't. and in terms of the deadlines that they're dealing with, the things that they could change are the build back better agenda. yes, senator chuck schumer wants to see this passed before christmas. political there might be a cost to not getting that done. but if they push past that deadline, it is sort of no harm no foul. they could finish that up when they finish that up. on the other two fronts, the debt ceiling and government funding, those are deadlines that cannot be moved. you see it there on the your screen. on friday at midnight the government shuts down on then in mid-december, the debt ceiling and they could act on that tomorrow making that move and trying to avert a government shutdown. and on the debt ceiling pi

i need to break this down and straight to ali vitali on capitol hill.so with us, punchbowl news co-founder. not happy when when he spoke yesterday, manchin, progressives and the white house say he's going to get onboard. why on earth do they believe that and where do things stand now? >> reporter: a lot of talk now, steph, having faith and trust in the president when he told broadly democratic lawmakers he can bring the key senators along. i even caught um with congress congresswoman jayapal who echoed that this morning. a seemingly frustrated joe manchin spoke to the press. a lot of what he said technically wasn't new, but certainly timing at this 11th hour in these negotiations as the house is trying to push forward on both of these bills is notable. he made two key points here. reiterating concerns about an insolvent system people are trying to expand upon in this bill and urging the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill with no mention of the larger social spending package. listen. >> i worked in good faith three months. for the past three mont

representative thompson told ali vitaly he doesn't think it's before thanksgiving. there is the investigative fact-finding phase. >> leeann caldwell, kelly o'donnell, pete williams, chuck rosenberg. thank you. >>> new details about the investigation into the deadly astroworld festival, with the fbi, the feds now stepping in to help in the criminal investigation as on the civil side, you have lawsuits piling up and the county judge calls for an independent investigation. houston's fire chief is talking with nbc news about questions over the roll of travis scott, who you know was on stage at the time, suggesting he could have stopped, he could have paused the concert when he started seeing signs that something was wrong. watch. >> at one point, there was an ambulance that was trying to make its way through the crowd, and he's got the artist has command of that crowd. >> is there any evidence that you've collected that suggests in any way he initiated this? >> no, not at this point. i'm not prepared to say that. i'm not prepared to say that he was fully aware of what w

i want to bring in nbc's alley i have tall -- ali vitaly, and msnbc contributor joining us, too. where are we when it comes to a vote on the bigger spending bill? do you read this move by speaker pelosi as a signal that releasing this analysis is going to be enough to move the needle and get this done? >> well, she hopes so, and hallie, just as a caution, i'm outside the house chamber right now where they're voting. so you're going to hear beeping, people talking to me. the speaker is on the floor. if for some reason she comes behind me, we'll be watching. in terms of what this joint tax proposal gives us, there are members who wanted to see what this would look like from the jct or from the congressional budget office. there's still people who want to see those analyses. but pelosi tried to blunt that criticism today and trying to push this thing along. behind closed doors what our sources are telling us is she told her caucus that she want to see a vote on the larger social spending package, potentially as early as this evening, and moving to the bipartisan infrastructure bill