our own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor have been following all the twists and turns in this story today, and they join me now. first of all, lisa, you're wearing an eye patch. you hurt your eye. are you all right. >> desjardins: you noticed, of course. yes, i'm fine. no one in congress is responsible for this. it was my own fault. i was rushing. i was thinking about something intensely, and actually pulled a car door into my face. but i will be fine, and it's just a remernd maybe we all need to slow down. >> woodruff: we want you to take care of yourself. >> desjardins: i will. >> woodruff: it will get better. about what's going on, where do things stand? is it thought speaker pelosi will go ahead with this vote tonight? >> desjardins: yes, it is. what a dramatic day. i want to remind people what's happening here with these two bills. let's look at this reminder of where we're at. first of all, these are critical decisions. the infrastructure bill still needs to believe passed by the house to become law. house progressives want the reconciliation bill, the bill with child care and

president trump. >> hill: lisa, thank you. >> desjardins: you're welcome. >> hill: the u.s.l deport thousands of haian migrants in del rio, texas, along the u.s./mexico border in the next few days, according to the department of homeland security. the move comes after thousands of haitian asylum seekers assembled around a bridge in del rio earlier this week. today's d.h.s. statement, said 2,000 migrants were moved out of the border area to other locations for possible removal from the u.s. the department also said it will send more than 400 agents to the del rio border region. after the devastating 2010 earthquake in haiti, large numbers of asylum seekers reportedly migrated to camps near the u.s. mexico border, many near tijuana. the u.s. has deported many using expulsion flights that send the migrants back to an impoverished country wracked with political instability and still recovering from a recent earthquake and other disasters. france's ambassador to australia left the country's capital of canberra today, as trade deal tensions between the two countries continue to es

the road ahead on all of these issues is murky tonight, and our own lisa desjardins is here lisa, helptand, congress is tangled up over two different issues, each of which could shut down the government. >> reporter: let's start there. we're talkic about government spending and the debt ceiling. the debt ceiling is not like a credit card limit. the debt ceiling means essentially freezing most of america's bank accounts so we would not be able to spend in the future if we hit it. let's talk about how these are related. first of all, these right now are the deadlines, government spending, the funding deadline september 30. the debt ceiling will likely be hit in early to mid october. going on now, there's a government-funding extension that has bipartisan support in congress. the debt ceiling, however, leeps in the senate vowed to vote no. you generally need 60 people in the senate, without republicans very hard to pass anything like this. democrats last night put the government funding bipartisan idea together with the debt ceiling plan, passed that out to have the house. that big blob o

for more on all this, i'm joined by our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins. hello, lisa. so a lot has been going on this week. tell us, as of now, where do the democrats stand on this? >> well, a reminder we're talking about this because this is historic legislation, maybe once in a generation legislation, that would change the face of child care in this country, higher education, climate change, you nake it, very important debate. house committees met to put their legislation on the table. four long days of back and forth votes and amendments in committees. and actually the legislation did move out of committee. but we learned something, one of the tougher things they'll have to sell the american public is there are tax increases to pay for it. look at what we learned about those tax increases. i know we mentioned them earlier this week. this is what democrats are posing right now, that large corporations would see an increase to 26.5%, and wealthy americans, the top 2%, it would increase to 39.6%. the ultra wealthy, making more than five million a year, a 3% surtax. thi

and, lisa desjardins is here with me in the studio. so yamiche, to you first, you have been coveri this crisis in haiti. you also have been talking to human rights activists on the ground there in texas. what are they telling you and, about all of this and how is the white house reacting? >> well both human rights activists and the white house describe the situation playing out in texas with these migrants mostly of haitian des ent as heartbreaking, human rights activists and haitian american activists say this is the biden administration treating thee migrants cruelly an inhumanely, they say people are angry and president biden programsed haitian americans particularly when trying to win their votes but haitian all around the country that he would treat people in a more dignified way than former president trump but a lot are saying tonight these images prove president biden is not doing that and not keeping his word. i should note there are human rights activists who say sending people back into haiti, a country that is facing so many

we turn to our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins. d any to see you. >> good to be here. >> capitol officials, we all remember last time, were roundly criticized for how unprepared they were for january 6. how are they prepared this time? >> you know, it's completely different. i'll say i don't always have to do illiteration, but it helped me focus that there is a difference in strength in the numbers of people that they will have at the ready. there is a difference in strategy. they have been briefing police officers in a way that's different than last time. and there is a very clear difference in structure. i want to show you what i mean. the cap capitol policeave erectd fencing just put up in the last 24-30 hours. so they've proven they can do this quickly. this was up for months and months after january 6. they hope to take this down in the next couple of days but this is the main barrier between the capitol itself and the protests. there is something else i want to make people understand, where this is happening exactly. let's loo

lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor have been covering this story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue they join me now. lisa to you first, right now, where does everything stand with these two major pieces of legislation? sa: right now, the house speaker is meeting with her democrats. i passed several of them going to the meeting. this is a critical meeting teeing up the rest of the week. let me remind people of the to do list. the very tricky to do list. the first thing they have to do, probably the most difficult thing is sort out the size of that reconciliation bill, that is the one with childcare, climate, all those provisions. no agreement among democrats how large that should be. they have to decide what should go in it. the content of the reconciliation bill. how much childcare? how much climate change? all of those things are trying to be worked out this week if they can. if they can work out enough of that package, the third thing, they pass the infrastructure bill this week. the issue is that the infrastructure bl has the votes among democrats, but progressives are holding b

lisa desjardins is here to walk us through what's happening. it's a lot to follow. derstand. congress is tangled up over these two different issues, each of which could shut down the government. lisa: we are talking about government spending and the debt ceiling. the debt ceiling is not like a credit card limit. if we hit the debt ceiling, it would mean freezing most of america's bank accounts. would not be able to spend in the future. let's look at what were talking about. these are the deadlines. government spending, september 30 is whenhat runs out. the debt ceiling, likely would be hit in early to mid october. there is a government funding extension that has bipartisan support. the debt ceiling, republicans and the senate have vowed to vote no. you generally need 60 people. without republicans, very hard to pass things ike this. democrats put the government funding and the debt ceiling together and they passed to that out of the house. that now works its way toward the u.s. senate, where republicans plan to block both of them at o time, likely on friday, so these

and lisa desjardins is here with me.amiche, you've been covering the crisis in haiti and talking to human rights activists on the ground in texas. what are they telling you about all this and how is e right -- the white house reacting? yamiche: human rights activists and the white house describe the situation as heartbreaking. human rights activists and specifically haitian-american activists say this is the biden administration treating these migrants cruelly and inhumanely. a lot of people are angrynd say president biden promised haitians that he would treat people in a more dignified way than former president trump. but a lot of people say these images prove that president biden is not keeping has word. i should note there are human rights activists who say sending people back into haiti, a country facing so many crises from gang violence to the aftermath of the assassition of the president and the earthquake, that it is not the right thing to do. one activist told me sending people back into haiti is like sending chi

our own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor have been covering this story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue today, and they join me now. so, lisa, to you first. right now where does everything stand with these two major pieces of legislation? >> lisa: judy,as you said, the house speaker is meeting with her democrats. i passed several of them going to that meeting as i was coming to report to you now. this is a critical meeting, teeing up the rest of the week. let me remind people of the tricky to-do list that the democrats are attempting. the first thing they have to d, probably the most difficult thing, is sort out the size of that reconciliation bill, sometimes called the build back better build, that is with child and all of the agreements. no agreement from democrats how large it should be. and they have to decide, oh, what should go in it, how much child care, how much climate change, what about health care? all of those are things they're trying to work out if they can. if they can work out enough of that reconciliation passage, then the third thing, they pass the infrastructur

earlier today, lisa desjardins spoke with cdc director dr. y about many of these questions. it was part of a special forum hosted by research america, a biomedical advocacy group. lisa: one of the items that is a major discussi for scientists and for you right now is the idea of booster shots. the biden administration is planning to roll out a major booster effort within just days. i wonder if you can tell us exactly who you think should be getting those booster shots, what the plan is right now. what does the data support here? how do you see this? >> we know that among the things that we need to do as we're planning a lot for booster shots is to really focus as well on the unvaccinated. so i really do want to highlight that while we are focusing on booster shots, making sure that people who are not yet vaccinated get vaccinated. so let's say that, but also turn to the importance of the data that we are going to need to collect to understand who and when booster shot should be given. we have we at cdc, i'm really pleased and proud to say, hav

and, our capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins is here with more on what's at stake. it is good to see you. >> goods to see you. >> nawaz: the two big bills, where are we right now? >> it is about as clear as a glass of mud, to be honest, and somehow it got even muddier today. others reported the infrastructure has long be connected to that large, we call it reconciliation package, that's how they want to pass it in the senate. speaker nancy pelosi said she would take a vote on that infrastructure bill on thursday. she has an all-out rebellion from progressives, who think that will jeopardize the reconciliation bill. we saw this statement from progressives, from jayapal, who reiterated and doubled down on this statement, saying we will only vote for the infrastructure bill after passing the reconciliation bill. that then was bolstered by senator bernie sanders, one of the top progressives in this country. he came out and said we thought we had a deal, that the two would only go together. he told people not to vote for the infrastructure bill this thursday. so how do t