joining me now is pennsylvania senator bob casey, a democrat. senator casey, thank you for joining us tonight. first, i'd like to get your reaction to something that house minority leader kevin mccarthy said last night at a fund raiser in tennessee. watch this. >> i will make this one promise to you. if we win the majority, which i know we're going to, you're all invited. i want to you watch nancy pelosi hand me that gavel. it will be hard not to hit her with it, but -- [ inaudible ] thanks. >> a spokesman for mccarthy claimed the minority leader was, quote, obviously joking. but what's your reaction to this kind of violent rhetoric from one of the top figures in the republican party, the minority leader of the house? >> reverend al, thanks, great to be with you. first and foremost, it indicates that leader mccarthy, who has been following donald trump in ways that no one thought was possible for a man to kinds of prostraight themselves in front of another official. now he seems to be adopting his language as well. that's not the language of a le

senate democrat bob casey of pennsylvania joins me now. senator, thank you for joining us. so where are you now? and are you happy with today's progress sph. >> well, it's a very slow process because you've got a split in the republican party. even though today's vote indicated there is bipartisan support to move forward and i think ultimately to pass this bill, republicans are split. and until they work that out, this process is going to be delayed. but i think most americans by now have some -- some sense of what's in this bill. and i think they support it strongly, and i hope we can get this done because we have a lot of work to do as soon as this bill is passed to work on other issues like home and community based services and child care and prekindergarten education just to name a few. >> just to be clear you're not confident right now there are enough republican votes to pas this. how much longer do you see this dragging out? >> well, pamela, it's my sense that there is enough republican votes to pass it, but there are a couple of republicans holding it up. >> okay, s

neil: senator, now democratic pennsylvania senator bob casey.ably heard they're convening a special session to decide, and i think you are a yes vote on this and criticism from some republicans, like senator braun you just heard, it's not paid for. >> neil, thank you. i think there's been a strong effort from the beginning in terms of putting together a bipartisan bill that will invest the kind of dollars we've never invested in repairing roads and bridges just to use one example and to do that they've come up with a list of paid fors. some may not like the list and may cast doubt on some of the pay-fors. but i think it's a legitimate bipartisan effort to come up with pay-fors for very important investments and i just don't agree with the assessment that somehow this is going to be driving up debt. it's an investment that will create a lot of jobs and for me, neil, you know that our state is a rural state. we've got a lot of small towns that need bridges to be repaired and roads to be repaired as well, and we're going to be able to benefit just

also, senator bob casey will join us to talk about the prospect for the democrats' apgd now moderates agenda if they don't get what they want. another hour of "velshi" begins right now. of "velshi" begins right now. >>> good morning, it's saturday, august 14th. i'm ali velshi. and we begin with breaking news in afghanistan. . the taliban undertakes taken an extremist offense every and regained control of the brass vast majority of the country with surprising speed. taking over every major city except kabul that city could fall in the next couple weeks or days. joining me live in kabul afghanistan, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella. what's the latest with you, kelly? >> reporter: well, ali reports of heavy fighting just 20 miles from the capitol, kabul. taliban threatening to take more territory today. overnight, the first of 3,000 u.s. forces landing at kabul's airport for what the pentagon says is a limited mission. to get embassy workers out. >> i expect that by the end of the weekend, the bulk of the 3,000 that we talked about yesterday will be in place. >> the u.s. embassy is

massachusetts senator ed markey and pennsylvania senator bob casey, see, there is no reason for people to doubt the vaccine now. but if there were some lingering doubts that have because of this question. >> they should now be the result and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell agrees year ago. >> we didn't have a vaccine. now we do. we know works. >> we need to get shots in arms reporting in washington. i'm basil john. >> now governor newsome responded to the fda's announcement giving his full approval of the pfizer vaccine. earlier today he issued the following statement saying, quote, the fda's full approval further confirms that the pfizer vaccine needs a rigorous scientific standard for safety and efficacy protecting against serious illness, hospitalization and death with covid-19 cases rising across the nation due to the delta variant. i encourage all californians to trust the science and protect themselves and their community by getting vaccinated. in the south. we now a new mandate for thousands of city employees is now in effect for san jose city workers. they either have

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we have senators mike lee, mike braun, bob casey to pick apart what's on tap here and how this all might

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