i'm hallie jackson with josh letterman at the white house. leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and an msnbc contributor. good morning to all of you. josh, let me start with you. the president returns home from overseas. then the sales job begins. frankly, there's a pretty long list of unresolved issues here. >> reporter: what the white house is saying, hallie, is the president achieved what he cement out to do, not some grand d'etat or where moscow becomes a u.s. alley, but instead trying to keep the bottom falling out from this relationship which has been spiraling over the last few years and have a more common ground so they have a more predictable relationship going forward, so the white house touting the fact as deliverable they're going to return them. >> josh, i have to interrupt you. the obamacare decision is in. this is the biggest case of the term. it is significant. i'm being told in my ear it's a 7-2 decision. remember, this was looking at the individual mandate. here's pete williams. >> the supreme court took on the case. what's the

let's bring in josh letterman. josh, good to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. what more are you hearing from congress today, after the president's clarified comments on the infrastructure bill yesterday? and any reaction so far to what aoc said. >> so far, a sense of relief both from democratic and republican senators, that president biden appears to have stopped the bleeding, gotten this thing back on track, both through his private conversations with lawmakers, and also through that very carefully worded statement at the end of the week, making clear the president did not plan to hold this pi partisan deal hostage for the sake of the democrats-only bill. there's still plenty that could go wrong with lawmakers back in their home districts. it has to be put into a piece of legislation. we heard from senator bill cassidy from louisiana, who says he thinking mitch mcconnell will support this, and we heard from mitt romney and others. >> do you buy his explanation? >> i do take the president at his word. i aim totally confident the president will sign it if it com

josh letterman is in austin, texas, following this story for us. thank for joining us i understand you spoke to beto o'rourke earlier today. what is he hoping to accomplish? >> he has been crisscrossing the state of texas, culminating. >> reporter: just this year alone, 14 states have already enacted laws that make it tougher for people to vote, with more than 60 other pieces of legislation currently working their way through state legislatures. that's why lawmakers, as well as activists here in texas say it's so important for there to be federal. >> this is the toughest state in the country to vote and get registered to vote. on top of that, the legislature this last year proposed to make it harder, sb-7, the voter suppression bill would reserve the right to overturn future elections based simply on the allegation of fraud. >> this is the front lines on the fight. >> reporter: on tuesday there will be a vote for the federal for the people act. republicans are threatening to block that, yasmin. they say this is about election integrity. this i want

ordered a city in indiana to stop with this well, and joining me with that story is correspondent josh lettermaniting to talk to you, my friend, all afternoon. i read the writup for this story and don't understand, so explain it to us. >> reporter: it kind of works, believe it or not, like an underground stock market where different parts of the sewer will bid against each other for limited space in the waste water treatment plant, so if it's raining on the east side more than the west side, so the east side might get the space, and how to protect tomorrow's generation without impoverishing today's? for a century, it was the economic backbone and it was also the suer. storm water and sewage went into the river. in the 1950s, the city built this treatment plant but when it rained it was not enough. before the smart sewer rain water would flow out of pipes like these, sending as many as 2 billion gallons of polluted water into the river. the solution, should we open it up? >> yes. >> all right. artificial intelligence. 15 feet below ground. >> so this box here is what is called a remote terminal u

. >> josh letterman in austin, texas. >>> as rye hanking republicans are already testing the waters forun in 2024 we are getting an early look at how that race might shape up. the results may surprise you. a new straw poll connected on line by the western conservative summit found florida governor ron de santis came out on top with about 75% of the vote, narrowly beating donald trump, he got 72%. joining me now, jaf mason of righters. a big welcome to you. this is a straw holiday. so i guess take it with a grain of salt, right. but someone edging out the leader of the party seems significant. it's not the first time we have seen momentum behind de santis, how do you read it? >> i think it is important to keep reminding ourselves that it is a straw pochl that's an important context. the fact that he polled higher than donald trump who is basically still considered the republican leader even out of office who has so much nunes over the state of the race, the midterm, not to mention the presidential even though that's three and a half years away is telling. the big question alex is whether

. >> nbc josh letterman is in washington, d.c. he's following the sfrur -- infrastructure negotiations. where does this stand after some of the conflicting statements from the president? >> reporter: president biden accidental through a wrench into the negotiations last week with the comments suggesting he might veto the piece of infrastructure legislation reached in a compromise between republicans and democrats. if he didn't at the same time have that democrats only bill to sign. the president and his aides spent the next couple of days feverishingly working the phones trying to calm democrats and republicans into clarify his comments before ultimately putting out the statement at the end of last week that made clear he does not intend to hold one piece of legislation hostage for the sake of the other. this morning we're hearing from republicans who seem to have accepted that with senator mitt romney saying he believes the president, trusts the president and his walk back from the comments and joe manchin is at the center of all

. >> all right pete williams, josh letterman, and everyone, thanks for all of you for getting us started today. coming up next, shot in the dark. why some teenagers are finding they are unable to get covid vaccine if parents will not give them permission. but first, whirlwind week, president biden back in washington knowing that g7 summit, nato meetings and the historic summit with lata mayor putin. so where does the domestic agenda stand now that he is at home. you are watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. nobody builds 5g like verizon builds 5g. thousands of engineers taking peak performance to a new level. that's why in parts of many major cities where people can use massive capacity we added verizon 5g ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. it isn't just a step forward, it's a leap forward. because the more you do with 5g, the more your network matters. it's us pushing us. it's verizon vs verizon. and who wins? you. struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh,

and josh letterman sat down with beto o'rourke yesterday and asked him about senator manchin's votingyou think of senator manchin's compromise measure. >> i'm really happy that senator manchin is back at the table. as of a week ago, he had walked away and said he would not support the "for the people act" even though he was a co-sponsor of it in 2019. now that he is negotiating with his colleagues and describing what within the act he can support, i think that that is a sign of progress. but it doesn't go far enough. i think that this is a sign of progress, gives me further hope and optimism that we will succeed in passing the "for the people act," but we need to go much further. >> joining our conversation, kimberly atkins stohr. and matt dud is still here as well. and i hear, kimberly, what everyone is saying. claire mccaskill in the last hour, beto o'rourke here. you can't get out of the gate without joe manchin at the table. and it is good that he is at the table. but have some fire. right? i mean i'll throw it over to you, but it is still such a low bar in terms of getting anythi