yamiche: the battle for democracy. in statehouses across america, republicans are introducing bills restricting voting. >> there should be constency between the counties. >> so really this is a witch hunt. it's a witch hunt that's aimed at people of color. yamiche: while in washington -- >> democracy itself is in peril. yamiche: democrats are pushing the senate to pass a law to expand voting. >> i simy think the commission is not necessary. yamiche: and trying to find common ground on a january 6 investigation. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided b. kaiser permanente. additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation committing to bridging cultural differences in our communities, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again from washington moderator yamiche alcindor. miche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." inauguration day w

yamiche: i want to turn to minneapolis.ek chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for george floyd's murder. here's george floyd's cousin reacting. >> we got justice, but not enough justice. think about george being murdered, in cold blood with a knee on his neck, execution style in broad daylight, 22.5 years is not enough. yamiche: this comes as lawmakers reach an agreement on the framework for police reform more than a year after floyd's murder. it comes as president biden is working to deal with the rise in gun violence and homicide rates. he laid out his plan for community policing and gun control. >> iteans more police ficers, nurses, counselors, social workers, community violence interrupters, to resolve the issues before they escalate into crimes. yamiche: i want to come to you about the chauvin sentencing. it was a long sentence. there were people, the family included, who were disappointed. what does it mean for the justice system what we saw today? zolan: if you go out into communities, if you talk to crimin

yamiche: the u.s.it believes the peaceful transfer of power helps strengthen democratic institutions and has sided with moise. but moise's opponents say biden is breaking campaign promises he made to haitian americans when he was courting their votes last year. >> there's clearly no quit in the haitian community. there is none. and i promise you, there will be no quit on my part as your president. yamiche: these protesters were calling for closer alignment with russia, brandishing the russian flag. one was questioned about bid's promises. >> what promise? i'm going to tell you something, as long as the american government has gone up, made changes, gone down, they have always made haiti dozens of promises yet none have ever been executed. >> the people of haiti and the haitian community in the united states are very disappointed by the biden administration's politics. yamiche: it's an opinion shared by younger haitians like emmanuela douoyon. >> we are afraid that the same thing that happened under the

judy: and yamiche joins me now from brussels. hello, yamiche., president biden had that news conference delayed. you were there to tell us what the main takeaways were. yamiche: president biden underscored the united states's commitment to nato, in contrast to president trump, questioned over and over again whether nato should exist, an article 5 says if one member nation is attacked, they are all attacked, and he said it was a sacred obligation. that said, the president still has some disagreements. one is how strong to be against china. also, there is a real question about whether president biden will pull out troops in afghanistan and include leaders in that decision, although some leaders are excited about leaving afghanistan, because they got in because of the u.s.'s attack on 9/11, but the main take away is the president saying america is here and standing strong. judy: there is the meeting that the president has with vladimir putin on wednesday. at this point, what are the main issues that are expected to come up in that conversation? yam

yamiche: that's right. president talked a lot about disadvantaged communities and trying to work on lessening this racial wealth gap. but there are a number of people included the president of the naacp who says the president really needs to deal with student loan debt. the naacp says that disproportionately impacts black americans, especially black students. they say until you start talking about student loan debt, you cannot get to hone or business ownership because people are tied down with that debt. when the president was a candidate he said he was supportive of a plan that would wipe out, erase $10,000 worth of student loan debt for each american. but since his election, he has not moved forward with that. the wte house chief of staff ys they are looking into whether or not the president can wipe out student loan debt with only executive action. that i a question still hanging in the air. student loans is top of mind and the president did not deal with that today. judy: yamiche alcindor reporting. tha

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins with that story.iche: at the white house, a rare presidential appearance in the driveway to announce a big bipartisan deal. the agreement came after president biden and a bipartisan group of senators settled on a framework on infrastructure built in a compromise both sides are praising. >> this is not non-infrastructure items, without new taxes, and with the commitment from republicans and democrats and not -- alike to get it done. >> we all gave some to get some, because what we did was put first the needs of our country. >> the total price tag of the package is $1.2 trillion. over eight years. over five years, it's $973 billion. overall, there's $579 billion in new spending, as republicans wanted, it poses -- focuses on traditional items like roads, ridges, and broadband. the scope is more narrow than president biden's original proposal but the president insists democrats will pass a separate bill. president biden: if this is the only one that comes to me, i'm not signing. it's in tandem. yamiche: f

we have yamiche now. we are getting everybody online in terms of trying to get all of these long distance connections to work. yamiche, i want to play a part of the press conference today when president biden actually responded to a question that you raised to him on the crackdown of dissidents in the capitol. take a listen. >> i would say that's a ridiculous comparison. it is one thing for literally criminals to break through, go into the capitol, kill a police officer and be held unaccountable than it is for people objecting, marching on the capitol and saying, "you are not allowing me to speak freely," you are not allowing me to do a, b, c or d. they're very different criteria. >> just to frame it correctly, essentially vladimir putin tried to draw a false equivalence between his crackdown on dissidents in his country and the prosecution of the people who were insurrections in the capitol. was it a surprise to folks in the white house, yamiche, that that is where putin went, that he went to black lives

yamiche: the battle for democracy.atehouses across america, republicans are introducing bills restricting voting. >> there should be constency between the counties. >> so really this is a witch hunt. it's a witch hunt that's aimed at people of color. yamiche: while in washington -- >> democracy itself is in peril. yamiche: democrats are pushing the senate to pass a law to expand voting. >> i simy think the commission is not necessary. yamiche: and trying to find common ground on a january 6 investigation. next. announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided br

joins me now. >> woodruff: and yamiche joins me now. yamiche, tell us more about the reactions to the president's visit to tulsa today and more about what he's saying about how to address the enormous racial wealth gap in this country. >> reporter: president biden's historymaking trip was welcomed by many but met with a lot of unanswered questions that remain tonight. president biden spoke at length about the massacre in tulsa, that it was a ar on the nation's history, that this is something we need to learn about, that a nation needs to confront and deal and contend with its dark past, but he also talked about that he and the country needs to do more now to deal with the racial wealth gap, which is why you saw the white house today roll out these initiatives. the big question is what can be done for the people of tulsa now. there are survivors the president met with who are 106, 107 years old who say that, right now, they are not able to pay their bills, they were never able to close -- go to school, and there are a lot of people wonde

yamiche alcindor reporting on it all for the president's trip into next week. yamiche, thank you.eff zients is the white house covid-19 response ordinator and i spoke with him earlier about the president's historic announcement. jeff zients, thank you very much for joining us. 500 million doses is a lot. i guess that's 250 million people, two doses a person. we know people are dying from this virus every day. i saw 10,000 just yesterday. so, the question is, how soon is this going to get into the arms of the people who need it? and, how much of a dent is it going to make overall? >> you are right to focus on, how does vaccine become the accination? in other words, how do you get needles in arms? there are strong plans in each of the recipient countries to make sure that the vaccines become shots in arms as soon as possible so that we can save lives. the 500 million doses today is in addition to the 80 million doses that the president announced a few weeks ago that we're sharing from our u. supply of vaccines, and we will continue to share additional supply across the summer months

hello yamiche, so as you reported, president biden did have that news conference delayed.was tonight. were you there, tell us what the main take away. >> president biden really came to underscore that the united states is fully supportive of nato and that of course is a difference from his predecessor former president trump who questioned over and over again whether or not nato should even exist. so you heard from president biden today saying that article 5 which says if one member nation of nato is attacked than all members are attacked. he said that that is a sacred obligation. that being said, the president still has some disagreements with member nations. experts tell me chief among them is how strong to be against china. also there say real question about whether or not president biden when he pulls out u.s. troops from afghanistan whether he included european leader enough in that discussion. even though some experts say european leaders aren't excited about leaving afghanistan because they got in because the. is was a takdz on 9/11, the main purpose and take away fr

thank you, yamiche. ♪ stephanie: i'm stephanie sy at newshour west.will return to judy woodruff and the show after the latest headlines. there is were the u.s. will buy 500 million more doses of pfizer's covid-19 vaccine to donate to 92 low income countries and african union. about 200 million will be shared this year. the remainder wilbe distributed in 2022. the official announcement tomorrow. the united kingdom reported its highest daily count of new covid cases since late february, more than 7500. the rise is due in part to the highly contagious delta variance, first found in india. prime minister boris johnson says it obligates plans t reopen on june 21. >> cases are going up and in some cases, hospitalizations. what we need to assess is the extent to which the vaccine rollout, which has been phenomenal, has built up enough protection in the population, in order to go ahead to the next stage. stephanie: the delta strain is spreading quickly in the u.s., where it now makes up 6% of all infectio, but vaccines have been effective in preventing sympto

she and yamiche alcindor join me now. lyssa, the voting is under way. tell us where everything stands. >> this is a procedural vote, a vote to even start the debate on the idea of election and voting rights reform. the truth is we expect this vote to fail. it needs 60 votes, but it only has 50. it is important it does have 50 because this issue, judy, i can't stress enough, is one that both sides believe is critical to our democracy itself, the future of voting rights in this country. who can vote and who decides who can vote. in fact, vice-president kamala harris is in the chair right now for this vote. what democrats are kind of corraling around, all 50 of them for opening debate, is a compromise by west virginia senator joe manchin. he is proposing -- i'll show you in a graphic what he is proposing. he is saying in his deal, in his proposal, he would like voter i.d. to be required across the country. that could be something that includes even a utility bill or a driver's license. 15 days of early voting. also automatic registration of ting. in additi

they can deliver. >> yamiche, you've covered both white houses. how deep are the scars from the trump administration when it comes to the relationship with the european allies and how much work does the president have to do to heal those wounds based on your reporting? >> based on my reporting and conversations with the white house and conversations with experts on nato and the g7, president biden has his work cut out for him because a lot of our european allies are deeply traumatized by former president trump who was hostile to european allies who talked about whether or not nato needed to exist and also was seen as the europeans as a response to some of the actions and the ideas of the american people. so when i'm talking to experts they tell me that president biden will be met with a lot of cagey european allies and they'll be cagey because they wonder if president biden is someone who issa i space holder for between president trump and possibly someone that will be trump-like in 2024. that's a big issue this and as jake sullivan said there, th

judy: traveling with the president is our yamiche hello to you, 500 million doses that is a lot, whatdo we know about the president's plan to contribute this money to countries that are struggling to get people vaccinated? yamiche: president biden and the white house is presenting this pledge to donate to 500 million covid vaccine doses to struggling n really a part of america's responsibi the world and also as being in america's interest to keep our own people safe. but it does come as the u.s. was facing pressure to do more to help other countries get vaccinated and as the was facing criticism in the way thattoday, the president spoke at length at about this donation of 500 million doses and what he sa is that america steps up when people isto look at peoplend see them struggling and doing more. he said it is our spots ability as americans to help asthma anddemic. he pointed out that almost 600,000 americans have already died from the virus, but he also said this is because america will benefit from this donation. he said the only way this pandemic is going to end is if people aroun

yamiche alcindor. >> welcome to sunday, it is "meet the press." >> announcer: this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> it is sunday morning, we'll get to politics of the day. we'll begin with the terrible tragedy with the miami beach condo collapse. 156 people remained missing in the collapse of the champagne tower south complex. hopes are fading that more survivors will be found in the rubble. the death toll could end up roughly at par with oklahoma city. these terrible images of the building pancaking one on top of each other. joining me now is our own sam brock. we know yet more fires in the rubble slowed down the process. i know officials insist this is still search and rescue. what can you tell us about how realistic it is that they're going to find more survivors? >> well, they are maintaining hope. that's the best i can tell you. we are entering fourth day of the search. on the other side is a pile of rubble that is three or four stories high. that rubble is incredibly fragile. we know search and rescue crews out having much more better accessibility than they did 24 hours

so hello to yamiche, to you, and safe travels. first of all, tell us about what the president's hoping to accomplish on this trip and what are the main concerns as he meets with american allies in europe? >> well, judy, i'm so happy to join you especially because some cicadas at one point were delaying our plane but we are here now in the u.k. people heard me right, is a cadeas -- is a cadeas. >> experts tell mes in going to be a love fest but it's also going to feel like a family reunion -- there will be love but also drama. there are a lot of european leaders who want to talk about trade, covid vaccines and the role that the u.s. is playing with the president, expected to make announcements on that front. there's also going to be talk with china and how to deal with it. but the president is really trying to come here t really underscore the fact that america is back, that diplomacy is something he's going to embrace and that america will embrace n.a.t.o. and g7 and the allies, something his predecessor was hostile toward. >> woo

a big agenda with a t of challenges ahead. >> sreenivasan: newshour white house correspondent yamichealcindor, joining us from plymouth in the united kingdom. thanks so much. >> thanks, hari. >> sreenivasan: for more on the g7 summit and the latest international and national news, visit pbs.org/newsur. >> sreenivasan: at least 14 people were wounded in a shooting on a crowded street in austin, texas, early today. the incident took place in austin's busy downtown sixth street entertainment district at around 1:30 this morning. as of early this afternoon, two of the injured were in critical condition, and authorities were still searching for two unidentified suspects. officials believe there was a ght between two people and that they were not targeting others caught in the gunfire. austin police are asking for help from the public and those who may have cell phone videos of the incident. commemorations are under way today in remembrance of the victims and survivors of the pulse nightclub mass murder. five years ago today, a gunman opened fire on the gay nightclub in orlando, florida, ki

yamiche? >> one, thank you for having me. i think it's one of those things where, when you hear from stacey abrams, you have republicans ready to run when they hear her because they know she is the one that delivered georgia, she is the one that called out voting rights and voter suppression. so it's really tough because the moment you get bipartisanship and the people who are focused on voting in the democratic party, chief among them stacey abrams, republicans are looking at their elections and looking at 2022 and saying, we can't tie onto anything that this woman, this very visible african-american woman, have really shaken up the map on when you look at blue and red states, we don't want to do anything that she's a part of. i think that in some ways underlines the idea that they are saying in some ways republicans are wasting our time and we should be moving forward as democrats. every time we get close to a deal, this happens. >> or lawmakers in general are wasting their time, because they're doing something we do in our

. >> yamiche, compromise, of course, is something he knows very well and speaks of warmly. what does this framework, this agreement do for joe biden in the city you cover so well? >> well, this infrastructure deal is president biden catching his white whale. so many people, including democrats, said that he was wasting his time , that white house officials were wasting their time negotiating for weeks over infrastructure. and now this is president biden saying you can compromise in d.c., you can move something through congress with giving up a little bit and gaining a little from the other side. so this is really president biden in some ways really underscoring that the thing that he ran on, which was bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle, that it works. in talking to officials today, they said the thing they hope progressive democrats get out of this is that compromise has to happen for things to work. they say just look at the new york city mayoral race and the democrats fwhg louisiana and virginia. they're saying, yes, the party is divided, but it needs to be rati

. >> and to our audience to underscore two things yamiche mentioned. turpentine bombs were dropped on american cities and "washington post" reminded us of other acts in history glossed over, massacres of black americans through the years that everyone needs to know about. sam stein, this white house came into power, job one was to slay a pandemic. as we've just seen from the holiday weekend, it appears the worst of it is behind us. what about communication, messaging now for them going forward? here we are talking about this urgent period in our american history for the first time at memorial day event the president of the united states has declared our very democracy is in peril. >> yeah. today was a very striking speech. i don't recall and i don't think there's been a case in history a president has been so blunt in a speech about our country's racial warts. i could be wrong. leaned in that aggressively about issue of racial equity in speech like that before. remarkable speech. to your point, with covid, knock on wood, on the downslope, biden does fa

yamiche talked about a white whale. there are several white whales out there. yes, one of those whales has been harpooned and it's being brought onto the boat. there are others out there. will we get to those? yes, we will. yes, we can. the new president, president biden, said he would do this. he said he would crush the virus. that was the rescue plan. he would support businesses. he would support family, put money in pockets, give the businesses the opportunity to survive, to exist in the days ahead. yes, we need to vaccinate more people but that was the first thing the president did. not one republican helped us. not one in the senate or the house. we got that done through reconciliation. we will move forward with concrete, steel, broad band, all the rest. the soft infrastructure, if we have to do that with another reconciliation, we will. we'll get this done. >> so let's talk about the support and the bipartisan support because it involves ten senators from both parties. if you want it to pass you will need another handful of republican senators and progres

was attorney general merrick garland announcing that they're going to challenge georgia's laws, and yamicheustice department's attempts to challenge state laws around the country. where is this going? >> when you talk about people really familiar with the thinking about this, the democrats realize it's not only going to be resolved in a legislative way, but there has to be a judicial court battle ahead. when i talk to rights activists, they want to see two things, that that can't be the way america works. they want to see more judges on the court. they want to see president biden accelerate nominees to the courts. who can get the access to vote? republicans and state legislatures are saying essentially a critic would say if we don't like the way you voted, we will take away your vote. that's a real problem if you look at the philadelphia state legislature and whether north they can nullify votes in philly. that could be a problem and a big problem. >> look. this is where sort of the multiple conversations here, dani are. there's the fight about access to the polls and then who decides what

yamiche alcindor reports. >> alcindor: for the new york city board of elections, it's been a cotic 24rs. yesterday, on their results webpage, the city posted some unofficial results, including 135,000 new ballots. those results showed that the lead of the current frontrunner, eric adams, had significantly narrowed against his two closest competitors, maya wiley and kathryn garcia. but hours later, the city removed those additional ballots. officials said a software error had included sample, test votes in the official tally. here to help us understand what went wrong and what it means for ranked choice voting, i'm joined by christina greer. she's a professor of political science at fordham university. christina, thank you so much for being here. what is going on? why all the confusion? >> new york city voters decided to use rank choice voting for municipal elections. this is a period instead of having winner take all, 40% or more and being declared the victor, this is a system that counts all ballots. eric adams is in the lead, but we still have absentee and affidavit ballots that nee

yamiche alcindor examines the complicated story behind the statistics. >> alcindor: michelle hawkinsher daughter mercedes had one thing on their minds: mammograms. >> no new breast issues? >> none. >> alcindor: the pandemic meant annual appointments had been delayed. for mercedes, it was her first screening at age 41. >> i'm excited, a little anxious but okay. >> alcindor: they were at breast care for washington. it's a clinic in the heart of ward 8, an economically disadvantaged part of washington, d.c., where 93% of residents are black. >> we ready to ride now! >> alcindor: across town, bernard fuller was behind the wheel of a mobile mammography unit. it's another way breast care for washington is trying to boost the number of women getting breast exams. the big bus maneuvers around the nation's capital, a city where breast cancer death rates for black women are among the very highest in the country-- 34.3 per 100,000 people. on this day, the bus set up in the parking lot of the former providence hospital in northeast washington. black women face a triple threat. they have higher m

jake: i think the best way to answer that question, and this goes on what i sent to yamiche, is what president biden can do is show the rest of the world what america is capable of. if we can lead the world on ending the covid-19 pandemic more rapidly, if the growth we are powering for the american people at home helps power a global economic recovery, if we can help rally like the president did with his climate leader summit action on the climate crisis so we actually beat this thing ultimately, that is going to be the best way for people to say the united states can do this. they can deliver, and we will stand up and stand behind them. that is the approach he has taken from the first day he has been in office. that is the message he will carry into these meetings. what i believe we will deliver just out of the g7 alone in addition to the other meetings he is going to have on this trip will show the united states retains a found capacity to help rally the world's democracies to solve their problems. >> the second question was will you look at ransomware as a national security priori

. >> joining me now, pbs correspondent, yamiche. 6th insurrection and the fact that we have a major political party that is not dedicated to democracy anymore, how has that impacted biden's sort of sail of america is back in europe? >> it's really impacted in two big ways. the first is that our european allies in nato, the g-7, they're a little shook up by the idea that american democracy has real deep fissures and they're really exposed here. not only of course with the capitol insurrection but the gridlock that followed and we can't even get it together to have an investigation, a bipartisan commission. europe is looking at all of that because these alliances were built on the idea that democracy is strong. and now we're seeing, the other thing it's doing is that ahead of the meeting with the russian president, vladimir putin is looking at january 6th and all the aftermath and seeking to exploit that. seeking to have advantages and showing people, america has its own problems. it can't be selling democracy to you when its own demo

. >> sreenivasan: newshour's white house correspond yamiche alcindor, thanks so much. >> reporter: thanksan: for the latest on the g-7, president biden's overseas trip, and the latest national and international news visit pbs.org/wshour. >> sreenivasan: israel's parliament is voting today to approve a negovernment, sending former prime minister benjamin netanyahu into the opposition after a ror12 years in office. one of the leaders of a new coalition party, naftali bennett, is set to become prime minister when the vote takes place. bennett was continuously interrupted by loud heckling from netanyahu's suprters as he addressed the knesset ahead of the vote. thright-wing, hi-tech millionaire thanked netanyahu for his years of service, and promised that his new administration would reach across the aisle. >> ( translated ): our government will make an effort to deepen and nurture relation with our friends in both parties-- bipartisan. if there are disputes, we will manage them with fundamental trust, and mutual respect. >> sreenivasan: bennett's coalition is the first to include an arab mino

yamiche alsindor is here. and frank figluizzi is here. frank, we have always talked about these stories and the ex-president as a security threat. i have followed this reporting if i haven't always amplified it here on the show and i detect what started as bemusement and ego stoking of monitoring the maricopa county add out and now seems to be directing the phony recounts. in that move, what do the extremists hear? >> right. the fact that he is obsessed with these audits i call fraudits is a clue. he does foresee the likely outcome because he is engaged in directing or/and guiding and those around him guiding these fraudits and the outcome. he is not crossing the fingers and hoping. with each report of a potentially new fraudits in another state the threat and risk picture growing larger so here in arizona we can probably game this out to three possible scenarios of outcomes. all don't end well. first a possible outcome highly unlikely they announce that they found smag significant and nothing here. move along. unlikely. but even for that

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we start with yamiche alcindor and also garrett hake on capitol hill. let's start with the multiple efforts by the white house, what does the plan entail and what does it not? >> the president is going to be going to tulsa to talk about racial injustice, and he announced new initiatives, trying to focus on create an opening for more ownership and small businesses, and rolling back two trump-era housing rules, and this is all trying to get at this idea that there's a really big racial wealth gap in this country. one study put it as much as 15% of the wealth that black families have is what they have of white families. i saw another study that said -- this initiative is getting at those disparities and trying to rectify the harm. the thing that is not included is student loan debts, and the naacp says it's critical for the biden administration to take that step. there's also reparations, the president has not been clear on whether or not he's backing reparations, specifically for the tulsa families he's meeting with today. >> and an objective of the white

. >> on a busy night, we are indebted to our starting line this evening, peter baker, calm yamiche and joyce vance, thank you for being with us. today a rare display of bipartisanship. was that? it will there be more? and now what? we will be talking about the rough road ahead. and later, defund the pentagon? a former four star u.s. army general weighs in with us tonight on the mismatch between the florida congressman and the chairman of the joint chiefs. and what it is like to fox we use anchors to attack the u.s. military? the 11th hour is just getting underway on this busy thursday night. wey thursday night. we dad, why didn't you answer your phone? your mother loved this park. ♪♪ she did. delicia: this is where all our recycling is sorted -- ♪♪ 1.2 million pounds every day, helping to make san francisco the greenest big city in america. but that's not all you'll find here. there are hundreds of good-paying jobs, with most new workers hired from bayview-hunter's point. we don't just work at recology, we own it, creating opportunity and a better planet. now, that's making a differenc

yamiche. >> reporter: thank you so much, mr. president. you say you didn't issue any threats. were there any ultimatums made when it comes to ransomware? how will you assess, when it comes to working groups on cybersecurity? >> on cybersecurity, are we going to work out where they take action against ransomware criminals on russian territory? they didn't do it. i don't think they planned it in this case. and are they going to act? we'll find out. will we commit, what can we commit to act in terms of anything affecting violating international norms and effects for russia, what are we going to agree to do? so i think we have real opportunities to move. and i think that one of the things that i in the when we had the larger meet is that people who are very, very well-informed started thinking, you know, this could be a real problem. what happens to that ransomware outfit were sitting in florida or maine and took action, as i said, on their single lifeline to their economy, oil? it would be devastating. you could see them kind of go, not that we would do that, but, whoa. we'll see

weissmann, who formally served as fbi general counsel and former senior member of the mueller probe and yamicheindor, moderator of pbs. this is two years too late. what does this actually get you? >> on the too little too late, there really is a systemic issue here which the house is trying to remedy with a bill, which is this just took so long. there's a lot of blame to go around. the house didn't press this as quickly as it should have. the white house tried to delay it, as does don mcghan and the courts are slow. all of that needs fixing. on the other hand, it is important for people to actually hear from the proverbial horse's mouth. in other words, it's one thing to hear from don mcghan indirectly through the special counsel counsel report but now people are going to be able to ask him questions under oath and hear what he has to say, and to remind viewers, he critically said that he was asked by the president to lie to the press and memorialize that lie in a memorandum and give it to former president trump. and the lie was about whether the president asked to have special counsel mueller

yamiche thank you so much, renato and david, thanks. >>> now to the coronavirus pandemic.ing the debate over mask wearing after l.a. county urged everyone n, including fully vaccinated people who i'm sure don't want to, to keep wearing masks in public. the cdc director said federal guidelines are not changing. >> we have three vaccines that we know are safe and effective. if you're vaccinated, you are safe from the variants that are circulating here in the united states. >>> good news, moderna says a study found its vaccine shows promise against that delta variant and more about how the trump administration dropped the ball one year ago with a new book detailing how jared kushner and peter navarro threatened 3m's ceo with prison time because they wanted masks. joining me to discuss "washington post" editor damon poletta coauthor of "nightmare scenario: inside the trump's administration response to the pan emic." jared kushner and in a voe row threatening the ceo of a fortune 500 company with prison time. >> i thought we could have written a book about this one interaction.

but as yamiche alcindor reports, haitians are also worried about political upheaval at home - and abouttration's response. >> alcindor: for months, the streets of port-au-prince, haiti, have been filled with protests. people gather often to demand that president jovenel moise step down. they say he is increasingly acting like a dictator. these men chant: moise is a thief. his critics say he took office under bad circumstances, but made them much, much worse. >> ( translated ): jovnel doesn't have any respect for the constitution. you are a thief jovnel moise. you don't have respect for the constitution. >> alcindor: gangs have become more powerful. kidnappings have skyrocketed and become brazen-- like this one caught on a church live stream. civilian deaths are on the rise. people all over the island nation are terrified. they say even for a country that has long struggled, these past few months have felt like a new rock bottom. even a notorious gang leader, jimmy chereizier, known as“ barbecue,” walks the streets freely in s neighborhood, hailed as a hero. critics argue president moise

yamiche. >> thanks so much, mr. president. you say that you didn't issue any threats. were there any ultimatums made when it comes to ransomware, and how will you measure success, especially when it comes to working groups on russian meddling and on cybersecurity? >> it's going to be real easy. they either, for example, on cybersecurity, are we going to work out where they take action against ransomware criminals on russian territory? they didn't do it. i don't think they planned it in this case. and are they going to act? we'll find out will we commit -- what can we commit to act in terms of anything affecting, violating international norms that negatively impacts russia. what are we going to agree to do we have real opportunities to move and i think that one of the things that i noticed when we had the larger meeting is that people who are very, very well informed started thinking, you know, this could be a real problem. what happens if that ransomware outfit were sitting in florida or maine and took action, as i said, on their single lifeline to their economy oil. i

co-host of "pod save america," john favro, white house correspondent of "washington week" on pbs, yamichey to republican outcast. and he'll get to that in just a moment. >> so, john, i want to hear from you first. you caught our eye with a tweet. that's the way to get to us. i'm a pretty shallow guy. how sad, how pathetic. what a statement on me and our times. but your twitter thread was magnificent, talking about the democrats not really having a lot of options. you basically said manchin and the democrats need to call the republicans' bluff. >> it's pretty much what you were saying earlier, which is make them an offer they can't refuse. when this vote goes down today, i think the next step has to be joe biden getting out there and saying, okay, we have joe machb -- manchin that's come up with a compromise, we have the john louis voting rights act. you two get together. find ten republicans, ten democrats just like you have on infrastructure, come to the white house and let's have a negotiation on what republicans will accept in terms of voting rights legislation. i think you have to cal

the worst journalists, because are not journalists, george stephanopoulos, you michelle synder -- yamichelcindor. the worst of all is chuck todd. they are democratic activists, and yet they spout off their opinion is if they are independent. host: thank you to all of you who have participated this morning. we have two members of congress to talk about issues on capitol hill. first up will be mark pocan of wisconsin. later on, we will be joined by the top up of can on the budget committee, jason smith of missouri. this topics and more coming up. host: our first guest serves the second district of wisconsin, representative mark pocan, democrat from that state. he also serves on the appropriations committee. that president has released his budget. some of the top line numbers have drawn attention from both sides when it comes to 6 trillion in spending for 2022 of a back up to age trillion by 2031. when you look at those numbers, how do you react? guest: a lot of this has been spending that we have needed to do, especially around infrastructure and i know that there is a couple bills possibly