so -- >> hey, can i ask you something, kirstin? i think you're right, when you go through something like that and come out the other side, are people realizing that they can get along with less resources, they can be more connected with their family, i know that's part of it, not all of it, jon, i see your face, there are a few people -- because jon, listen, you and i live near each other, every single store, every shop, every restaurant, there's help wanted signs everywhere and people say they can't find workers. as you said, people are reevaluating, kerstin. don't people say, listen, i learned to get along with less so, as you said, i'm going to do the things i want to do and refocus my life and do things differently? >> yeah, i think, look, i think that this country generally has had a problem in terms of people valuing the right things. i put myself in that category as well. we're just very materialistic, very consumerist, driven, hypercapitalist as a country. and we were forced to slow down. and sort of stop for a lot of peopl

senator kirstin gillibrand is the author of a bill that goes even further and break the chain for otherious crimes as well. >> secretaries have been fighting us from the beginning, for the last 10 years. they don't want to do anything. if i could put it into military terms, they have retreated to just sexual assault. >> reporter: the chief of naval operations warned that simply prosecuting more sexual assault cases won't solve the problem. what has to change, he said, is the culture that tolerates sexual assault in the first place. norah. >> o'donnell: david martin at the pentagon. thank you. and now to that powerful appeal by britney spears as she fights for control over her life and fortune. the pop star, who turns 40 this year, has been living under the terms of a court-dictated legal arrangement, and she pleaded with a judge by phone to end it. here is cbs' lilia luciano. >> what do we want? >> free britney! >> reporter: with supporters outside, britney spears spoke to a court for the first time publicly about her conservatorship, making bombshell statements about the rare arrangeme

but kirstin, do you think t that -- how do i put this?that in -- that there's a lesson in this for joe biden? because the former president is now out talking about what he should've done or why he did what he did, but is it a lesson for joe biden now to get it done while you're in office, to be bold, to call people out, to use the bully pulpit, to use the power of the office while you're in it rather than after you're gone talking about what you could have done better or why you didn't do everything that you wanted to do in the time that you were in office? >> so i know you're expecting me to say yes to that. >> no. >> agree with you probably. >> no, i'm not. >> because i actually think that you can't compare barack obama and joe biden because barack obama was the first african-american president. >> i'm just saying a lesson in it, just a lesson in it for joe biden. >> even to take a lesson from it, i think it's very different. i think whenever you're the first person, it's very different. and so i just want to be clear that i think that

we saw the white house put out a readout of a call between the president and kirstin sinema.was unhappy with what she heard from the white house, and that is the deal being in absolute trouble. >> we have not gotten a readout from nine other senators if he is doing this by calling senator by senator. they are doing reconciliation with thinking they could not get in the bipartisan deal, and suddenly republican senators are saying they're shocked. >> well, republicans are telling me, republican sources, i should say, that they always knew that the democrats would do reconciliation. what is the problem for them is that they have now so inextricably linked together, that president biden said he would not sign the bipartisan bill unless he also received a multitrillion dollar reconciliation passion at the same time. and my sources are telling me in is not the commitment they received from the white house. that was not the commitment outlined from the president in their meetings. there is a lot of anger republicans about this. they think the entire situation might be derailed 24 ho

if kirstin sinema is not with you you can't go it alone. and there are other moderates. just because they have a d next to the name doesn't mean they vote for every piece of legislation that joe biden or the progressive wing of the parties puts in front of them. >> let's talk, aside from the infrastructure bill, the other major legislative element. you of course know mitch mcconnell and the commitment to stopping a democratic president's legislative agenda. >> yeah. >> what does this mean for the other elements, aside from the things that can be passed via rilgts? is that it for the biden legislative agenda. >> very tough, vikt. let me say one thing about what senator manchin is saying. when you say bipartisanen is your sin kwon on. you hand the other sveto power. and mitch mcconnell has used that veto power time again. he wants to thwart the biden agenda, not assist or participate in any aspect of it. and so, you know, that is something that senator manchin has to consider. are you in a sense empowering grid lock by taking the position you're taking? i don't think that

joe manchin and kirstin cinema, a lot of democrats whether they'll come around. >> i think joe bidenng in good faith. he's trying to bring republicans to the table. he's reduced his overall spending from $2.3 trillion to now a trillion dollars. pete defazio will move that bill because everyone knows that it is going to expire in september. so something will happen. but here's the bottom line. if democrats don't go big, then guess what, voters are going to say come home because you're not able to deliver. i think at the end of the day biden will be able to deliver on his promise to basically upgrade our infrastructure across the board. >> this does seem to be the dilemma for the president. he has to get something done. >> honestly, the legislative process is not working at all. i just left congress not long ago. there is no legislative process. i heard the commerce secretary say we have a legislative process, the legislators are working, they're not working. what we have is a few people, some in the house, some in the senate, they work on everything. they decide everything. then they