yamiche: here's the key question. can the president sell his plan to the american people if he hasn't closed the deal with his own party? according to a recent cbs news poll, the majority of americans say they don't know what is in the bill. keep in mind most lawmakers also aren't sure will end up in the final bill either. plus on thursday, the house voted to hold steve bannon in contempt for defying a congressionalubpoena. >> the people who attacked this building have told us on video, and social media, and now before the federal courts, exactly what motivated them. they believed what donald trump told them, that the election was stolen and that they needed to take action. yamiche: joining me tonight to discuss all of this and more, mike memo, nbc news white house correspondent. a white house reporter for the washington post. ryan j riley, of post-senior justice reporter. and jake sherman, founder of fungible news. -- touchable news. i'm going to come to you first. talk a little bit about where the latest is in this

once again, from washington, moderator yamiche i'lalcindor. yamiche: welcome.ocrats are locked in 11th hour negotiations over president biden's sweeping spending plans. he delayed his trip to rome to go to capitol hill where he pressured democratic lawmakers and try to pre convince them to turn framework into law. pres. biden: every element in this framework would be viewed as a fundamental change to america. taken together, they are truly consequential. yamiche: the framework for the bill include some of president biden's campaign progress, including the expansion of the affordable care act, half $1 trillion for climate change, investments in childcare, eldercare and universal pre-k. other goals like paid family leave were left out. still, how's progressives have come out in support of the framework. on thursday, they held up a vote on the bipartisan and for structure plan even as nancy pelosi pushed for a vote to happen. >> on day one, both of these bills -- i support the infrastructure bill. but, i want to see a strong build back better as well. >> our trust

yamiche: you were going to jump in. hopefully, your member your thought and talk about what is going on with the economy. guest: what i wanted to say before was that when greg abbott ban these vaccine mandates, the most interesting thing was what did private visits is in the state of texas do? they ignored it and kept on trucking. they know that for their businesses to thrive, they need people to be healthy. they need to ay open. that is how they will continue to make money. this interesting to see these are public and governors. republicans who consider themselves a pro-business part me getting blown off by these ceos. show me any fortune 500 ceo that has pushed back against the vaccine mandates. the osha requirements? you cannot find them. they're thrilled that the administration did this because they know in order for their businesses to make money, they gotta be vaccinated support that over there. as far as our economy? people do not like that prices are going up on everything good we are buying out there, rices are

yamiche: president biden needed this win.hat do you make of the narrative that might be in some voters minds when you have mitch mcconnell having issues with republicans and the deal he made, the president's approval numbers and democrats fighting. what does this say to voters when you think about the narrative people think about washington and the ability to govern both sides? nancy: it makes it harder for the president to go into negotiations even with his own party when he is not cing from a position of strength. he's not saying look, the american people are on my side, you need to meet me in the middle. his approval ratings are low right now. they wanted a win with these jobs numbers today and instead they found themselves cherry picking through the report defined figures that suited them -- to try to find figures that suited them. eamon: it is bad when you're to turn to page three to find something. nancy: the best the president could do it so look, covid was so bad in september, those numbers were bound to be bad, ey wi

yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. yamiche: this morning on capitol hill.n optimistic and determined president biden. with him a $1.75 trillion , framework for his social policy plan. after weeks of negotiations, he said he was confident he could unite his party around the plan which aims to make massive changes to healthcare and childcare and to rewrite the tax code. if passed, the plan would also be the largest investment in climate change in u.s. history. back at the white house he called the framework historic and overdue. >> this agenda, the agenda in these bills is what 81 million americans voted for. yamiche: the outline is the result of hours of closed-door meetings, hand-wringing and public feuding between moderate and progressive democrats. it's one of the most challenging efforts of president biden's long legislative history. president joe biden: no one got everything they wanted, including me. but that's what compromise is. that's consensus. and that's what i ran on. yamiche: that framework includes $550 billion for universal pre-k, child care,

yamiche alcindor has oureport.amiche: for the first time since he resigned as special envoy for haiti last month, daniel foote spoke publicly, briefing the house foreign affairs committee. foote, who left his position amid mass deportations of haitian migrants on the southern border, told lawmakers it is wrong to send haitians back to the struggling island nation. >> deportation in the short term is not going to make haiti more stable. in fact, it's going to make it worse. nobody asked me about the deportations. i found out about it on the news, just like the rest of us. yamiche: in mid-september, more than 14,000 haitians, many from south america, came to the u.s. southern border seeking asylum. many ended up in squalid conditions, camping under a bridge in del rio, texas. as many as 12,000 haitians were released into the united states to await immigration proceedings. but thousands of others were sent back to haiti. meanwhile, beyond covid-19, the island nation is still reeling from a major earthquake in august.

i'm going to turn to you first, yamiche. the president is saying that he's confident that he's going to be able to get this framework through, that he's got the votes. what is the white house thinking on this? what is their strategy here? okay, i'm told we may have lost yamiche's earpiece for just a minute. we're going to come right back to her. lisa, let me come to you. we heard in yamiche's reporting, what's the story on the strurt vote. and you have some late-breaking information. >> there is news in just the past couple of minutes. while speaker pelosi had told her caucus, even just this morning, that she wanted to vote tonight on that infrastructure bill that already passed the senate, i can now report that that vote will not happen tonight. instead, the house will vote on a short-term extension of highway funding-- that was in the infrastructure bill. but to keep that highway funding going, they now need a short-term patch. that vote will happen shortly, and more than that, judy, the house is leaving for the weekend. t

yamiche: kidnappings have spiked 200%, 300%.k about what makes this kidnapping of these 16 americans different from the kidnappings we've seen in the past. talk about the evolution of kidnappings. >> the kidnappings started years ago. they were targeting the mole auto class. then the darker skinned haitians were targeted. after that, street vendors were targeted. just about anyone could be kidnapped into haiti. we have seen foreigners slowly being targeted. we had a french priest who was kidnapped. there were parishioners kidnapped live on facebook. everybody is unsafe except white americans, because everyone is afraid of the wrath of the u.s. government, but with this kidnapping, it shows to us that th is not a concern anymore. they are telling the americans, come get us if you can. they are taking this to another level. every time i think this is the last stop, someone else tells me , you have a lot more to go down. yamiche: the u.s. position has been to not negotiate with terrorists. how do you see this being resolved, and ho

. ♪ yamiche: the biden agenda on the line. >> do you think you won't get a deal? i do think i will get a deal. yamiche: agreement on his slimmed-down infrastructure plan. >> we must defend and strengthen the right that unlocks all other rights, the right to vote. yamiche: but democrats face another setback in their effort to pass a voting rights bill. >> as long as senate democrats remain fixated on their radical agenda, this body will continue to do the job the framers decided, and stop terrible ideas in their tracks. yamiche: as senate republicans blocked debate on their latest legislation, the move setting off another aument over the future of the filibuster. plus.

yamiche, biden's meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down, and remind the good folks watching that that won't be greeted as good news by all the democrats. >> that's right. the president today spent a lot of time meeting with members in his own party to try to scramble to really unite his party so he can get these infrastructure plans through. he met with house progressives as well as house moderates. he also met with senator sinema as well as senator manchin. it's 1.9 to around $2.2 trillion. that is about $1 trillion less than what house progressives were going for, which is $3.9 trillion. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of what the president was doing. they were calling him the mediator in chief, the closer here. that being said, there are also some critical things we know are coming out of the bill. free community college, i'm told, is coming out of the bill. also paid family leave. the timing of that will come down from 12 weeks to 4 weeks. th

yamiche alcindor explains.he: the "rolling stone" article cites anonymous organizers who claim they coordinated with white house officials and republican lawmakers multiple times in the weeks leading up to january 6. i'm joined now by the author, hunter walker. thanks so thanks so much, hunter, for being here. now, you were at the capitol on january 6. you also talked to two of these individuals who were involved in planning the events that happened on january 6. what was the most important thing you learned about the former president, former president trump's, his effort to try to overturn the election that he lost, as well as his possible involvement in january 6, after talking to these individuals? hunter: i think the mere fact that these individuals who i confirmed were involved in planning and organizing the main rally on the ellipse, as well as multiple protests against the election that happened in the weeks leading up to that day, i think the fact that they spoke to the press and the fact that they are

judy: yamiche alcindor following these two stories. thank you, yamiche . >> i'm stephanie sy.e'll return to the full program after the latest headlines. cruise in southern california worked to cleanup an oil spill that fouled parts of the coastline. huntington beach was hit hard after an off-shore pipeline leaked 126,000 gals closing beaches and killing wildlife. investigators are looking at whether a ship's anchor ruptured the pipeline will return to this later in the program. today was the deadline for teachers and staff to get covid vaccinations in new york city's public school system, the nation's largest. yor bill deblasio says 95 fors of school employee haves now had that's one dose. thousands rushed to get shots in the past week to avoid being put on unpaid live. refugee admission toes the u.s. hit a record low when the federal fiscal year that just ended. the "associated press" reports gazunder 11, 500 refugees were admitted not including thousands of afghans who came in recent weeks. president biden pledged to restressor sharp cuts of the trump years. u. inner humanit

yamiche, let's talk more about this. the president, before this offer was made, yesterday the president talked about a carve-out to the filibuster as a means of raising the debt limit, he said that is a real possibility. to your point, that cat is already out of the bag. you could argue that not raising the debt limit is an existential issue, but much in the same way he's talked about voting rights, suppressing the vote being an existential issue. >> the question i would love to pose to the question is why is it a possibility to change the filibuster for the debt limit but not for voting rights, not for american democracy, given the fact that whip clyburn, who was crucial to electing president biden, he's been saying for months there needs to be some sort of a carve-out for civil rights, there needs to be free access to voting. we're seeing republicans all over this country move at such lightning speed to change the voting laws after 2020 and president trump's lies about the election and his loss in the election. so now

. ♪ yamiche: president biden's big gamble. pres.no one got everything they wanted, including me, but that is what compromise is. that is what i ran on. yamiche: president biden unveils a $1.75 trillion framework for infrastructure and social policy. now, he is helping you to learn the support of americans and convince democrats on capitol hill that it is time to make a deal and pass legislation. >> this is phenomenal progress we have made in just three weeks because the progressive caucus was bold, but we understood that in a democracy, it can get messy sometimes. yamiche: while progressives back the framework, they are still cautious about the way forward. plus, president biden heads to europe to meet with world ad

thank you, gary pierre-pierre, for joining us. >> my pleasure, yamiche.u. >> woodruff: this weekend the entertainment workers union i.a.t.s.e. reached an agreement on a new film and tv contract, averting a strike that would have ground productions across the country to a halt. but it's not the only showdown between workers and businesses. and after over a year of risky and demanding work on the front lines of the pandemic, as stephanie sy reports, many low- wage workers have had enough. >> sy: judy, thousands of american workers are on strike, and thousands more are preparing to walk out in what some on social media have dubbed "striketober." last thursday workers at farm equipment maker john deere walked out over pay, working conditions, and benefits. from kellogg's cereal factories to film sets and hospitals workers'-- dissatisfaction is leading to strikes and threats of work stoppages. 24,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in california and oregon voted to allow a strike after negotiations stalled with private hospital group kaiser permanente. the

joining me now, nbc's kerry sanders and pbs's yamiche alcindor. kerry, what do we know about the latest on these ransom negotiations? >> the fbi has agents now on the ground in haiti attempting to make contact with the mawozo gang here. the 400 mawozo gang, which is claiming responsibility for taking the 17 hostages. their demands we understand right now, and this is "wall street journal" reporting with the justice minister in haiti, is for, as you noted, $17 million. we have a breakdown of who these 16 americans and one canadian is. it includes five children, one as young as 8 months old, 3 years old, 6 years old, 14 years old, and 15 years old. there is a background here to understand that gangs in haiti have attempted and have been successful at extorting money in hostage situations like this before. just in april, five priests, two nuns, and two relatives were released after a ransom was paid. the challenge, of course, here is, does the united states negotiate with what essentially are terrorists. there's a long history of the united states no

. >>> joining me for insight and analysis are yamiche alcindor, moderator of "washington week," david french, the senior editor of "the dispatch" and former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." ness from >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. from our nbc news bureau in los angeles. every day it seems we're learning how fragile our democracy is. just this past week the senate judiciary committee released a report about how close we came to losing that democracy in the weeks after the election. the report provides new details on a january 3rd white house meeting where top justice department officials had to threaten to resign en masse to stop president trump from taking further steps to overturn the election. we also learned that last week mr. trump told his former aides to not comply with subpoenas from congress regarding the january 6th riot at the capitol, and a facebook whistle-blower told congress this week how the com

. >> joining me now, yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs "newshour." she is also the moderator of "washington week" on pbs and an msnbc political contributor. also with us, live from the capitol, ali vitali, capitol hill news correspondent. thank you both for being with me this morning. the congresswoman sounded confident there, but progressives also just threw cold water on manchin's pitch for a $1.5 trillion price tag over the weekend. we saw senator sinema get chased into the bathroom by immigration activists. where do things stand this morning? >> well, sinema clearly facing that pressure at home from the grassroots, but in terms of that conversation around the price tag, it's not entirely surprising to see progressives throw cold water on that $1.5 trillion number. certainly, that's at the bottom of where they want to be on this. and there are even some progressives who would tell you, they wanted to see this bill at $6 trillion. so even $3.5 trillion felt low to them. what's clear, though, after this week is that it's not going to be $3.5 trillio

lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor, thank you both. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the u.s.me court refused to block a vaccine mandate for health care workers in maine. it is the first statewide requirement to reach the high court. meanwhile, the u.s. secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, tested positive for covid. he's been fully vaccinated, and is isolating at home with mild congestion. and, various reports have said that brazilian lawmakers want to charge president jair bolsinaro with mass homicide over his pandemic policies. they say hundreds of thousands died in his bid for herd immunity. kidnappers in haiti who abducted 17 members of a u.s. missionary group are demanding $1 million for each captive. the country's justice minister confirmed it today. meanwhile, in port-au-prince, the spike in overall crime has spurred protest strikes. streets are quiet, and businesses, schools, and mass transit are closed. north korea stoked new tensions today, after firing a short- range ballistic missile into the sea of japan. the north said it launched from a submarine.

yamiche alcindor, claire mccaskill, and robert costa. his latest book, "peril," is currently at the top of "the new york times" best-seller list. claire, to channel your prior experience as a prosecutor and member of congress, tell us the scope of what this committee is likely looking for from a guy like clark, who was virtually unknown beyond family and friends heretofore, but may become very famous. >> he wasn't number two, three, or four, he was down in the hierarchy. to try to learn how he would have catapulted to getting the nod from the president to take over is important for the committee to understand. and we need to take a pause, and realize this moment is way bigger than donald trump, maybe even bigger than what happened on january 6th. because if this committee cannot get people to testify in front of it, in an oversight capacity, then i believe we are on the verge of admitting to the country that there are no checks and balances. there are no separations of power. that the congressional branch is toothless. has absolutely no

yamiche alcindor moderator of "washington week."ratic member of congress donna edwards from the great state of maryland. the engagement of american politics and the electorate is getting closer and closer and at times a bit uncomfortable. here is a quick selection of just the last week. >> if you don't pass this, we're going to lose the midterm. >> we need a build back better plan right now. >> we need solutions the build back better plan has the solutions we need. >> no to vaccines. no to masks. >> yamiche, to sum up, that was joe manchin with protesters at his houseboat, kyrsten sinema being followed into a bathroom stall and a school board member in sarasota being harassed at her own home. we know we're polarized. we're getting more combative it feels by the hour. >> i think that's a wise observation, and i think when you look at those videos, what you see is really a country increasingly at war with itself and increasingly at war with the truth. there are deepening policy differences when you look at social policy programs, when

yamiche alcindor, you know well the kind of rules surrounding presidential power. you don't exert it unless you think there is going to be a return because that is a precious commodity. tell us what you know about these plants to delay his departure so he can give a final sales pitch in the house. >> there are several sources that are now saying that president biden is expected to blue low capitol hill to meet with democrats to try and seal the deal and to really marshall and unite democrats around voting for the infrastructure bill. it's interesting where the president finds himself, he has been really trying to exert pressure, trying to be a closure, trying to be a mediator, chief. but now comes the time where democrats with progressives and moderates are trying to work out much of the details and now they're really looking to the president to say, okay, we need you before you go off to europe to really put this together. the question though is whether or not that's going to work. today we saw a lot of different developments on the bill. but it is still unclear w

yamiche alcindor, biden's meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down and remind the good folks watching that that won't be greeted as good news by all the democrats. >> that is right, the president today spent a lot of time meeting with members in his own party to try and scramble together to really reunite his party, so he could get these infrastructure plans through. he met with house progressives, as well as house moderates, he also met with senator sinema, and senator manchin. what came out of this is he's been talking to white house sources. he put an actual top five number, 1.9, to 2.2, around 2.2 trillion dollars. and that is about a trillion dollars less than what progressives were going for which is about 3.5 trillion dollars. that's what house progressives are saying when i was talking to them at the white house when i was talking to the president. they sounded optimistic. they sounded like they really wanted to get behind the strategy of the president that he was doing. he was calling him the mediator in

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amy, let's pick up where yamiche was reporting.es it say that senator chuck grassley, longest-serving republican in the senate, who back february said that president trump was irresponsible, and i'm quoting here "encouraged his own vice president to take unconstitutional actions." now in october, he is happy to have his endorsement? >> amy: he gave you the answer. i wouldn't say no to someone who has a 91% approval rang among republicans in this state. donald trump easily won the state of iowa, even as polls during the end of the 2020 campaign showed it may be a lot closer. the senate race showed polls being close, ended up not being close at all. he knows exactly what he needs to do to win. and that's where this energy that we're seeing on the republic side is coming, the primary base, people who will show up, go to conventions and primaries. if you're a republican and you're running and you have other republicans in a primary running against you, you cannot afford to not be with the president. >> woodruff: tam, what about that? c

for more, i'm joined by yamiche alcindor. so yamiche, we shedder today from the president and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, wre does everything stand? >> well both sides are dug in as debt ceiling, it is unclear which side will blink. president biden took to the white houspodium today and he delivered pointed remarks. he accused republicans of playing quote russian roulette with the u.s. economy. he said that the debt seang is not about new spending. he said this is about whether or not the u.s. will be able to pay its bills. here is some of what the president had to say. >> not only are republicans ksh-- their job, they are threatening to use their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frankly it is hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. >> now president biden also said that it is wrong for republicans to link the debt ceiling limit and raising the debt limiwith his infrastructure plan though the gop has said if democrats can pass the infrastructur

this goes to yamiche's point. joe biden is going to be president until 2024. like, there's not going to be a trump reinstatement, but how much of what we're seeing right now is based on setting the table for 2022 and making it so that anyone who loses an election on the republican side who wants to can say we need an audit or recount or to throw out the votes altogether, and to win elections you didn't win on the back end? >> i think that's certainly an element of it. you know, so much of this is jumping off of the demands that the former president has had. i think, too, governor gregg abbott in texas responding within hours to a demand by the former president to hold audits in four counties, but when i was in iowa on saturday, i talked to over a dozen trump supporters there, and i was asking them, you know, do they want trump to run again in 2024? who would they want his potential v.p. to be? what are the issues that are important to them? the issues that were important to them are things the republican party would probably rather not trump be talking about.

. >> you know what i thought, yamiche when i saw this, it is all b.s.n, there is nothing in it that is asserting an opinion. there is nothing in it that's about a vision for a future campaign. it's lies. he drags bill barr. i mean, it's lice. it's hysteria. what i thought is it's a window into how terrified the "wall street journal" can the murdochs still are of donald trump and his base. >> well, it's a curious decision. i know people who work at the "wall street journal" who are street reporters who don't want to be judged by the editorial page. but let's think about what this was. it's not only just that it was form of president trump spewing the lies that he has been spewing ever since that november night that it was very clear to him that he lost the election. but it's that he also included these sort of fictional fake numbers going state by state making thing up that were clearly not true. it is sort of scary in these times when you think of all the different things that this country has been through. you think of january 6th and really american d

yamiche for pbs news hour and moderator of washington week. also on pbs. robert costa, national republican reporter with "the washington post." his latest book with his post colleague bob woodward of "peril." and dr. badel 5 -- badelia. good evening and welcome to you all. yamiche, the beat that you cover, biden said today he is going to talk to mitch about the debt ceiling. where do we think that idea originated and what do we expect to come of it? >> president biden has always said that he wants to lean in to his decades of experience in government to try to somehow broker bipartisan deals so he knows mitch mcconnell. they have talked to each other, brokered deals in the past so the president is saying that maybe he can have a conversation with senator mitch mcconnell to try to move him. but everyone that i'm talking to doesn't see that's likely going to happen and why you see the president doing something that's very extraordinary for the president and that is saying that changing the filibuster and making a carveout is a possibility. that's what presid

yamiche alcindor, moderator. congresswoman debbie dingell is with us. good to see you, thank you for being with us. i've been talking to house progressives in the last week and they actually sounded much more hopeful while acknowledging the fact that progressives are going to have to come down from what their initial sense of a full package was. >> ali, we do not have a choice. we have to land this plane. i think everybody has had a good two weeks at home. they've taken deep breaths. they've listened to their constituents. we need to come back and close the deal. it's going to have has been hands-on involved in this. we need to bring both sides together. this has to get done. there is too much information out there that's not true, too much information that people don't understand what this is really about. code words like the one you just talked about. we have to get back and get this done. >> congresswoman, i want to ask you, earlier i was talking about the supply chain. not a lot that people think about in this country because we think produce comes

>> yamiche, i spoke with people who are deported. i cannot tell you how painful it is.ople who have been deported, and many who are able to survive are looking for a way to escape. >> reporter: well thank you so much, guerline jozef, i really appreciate you joining the program tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> woodruff: it's been nearly six weeks since hurricane ida battered louisiana as a category 4 storm. and survivors are still facing a difficult road ahead. in lake charles, louisiana, thousands are still waiting for relief from a string of natural disasters that began more than a year ago, long before ida. some say it shows the inequality of climate change, and the disproportionate toll it can take on low-income communities. community reporter roby chavez has our story, part of our coverage of "race matters." >> reporter: this house on the north side of lake charles has been in romante lewis's family for generations. so when hurricane laura ripped through here in august 2020, as one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in louisiana. the aftermath was

. >> so, yamiche, the white house is not buying the privilege claims of a private citizen, that's clear, and that would also be correct, there is no national security involvement here, they are not worried about the unmasking of names, but tell us if you can, based on your reporting, more broadly, where this investigation fits into the biden and democratic world, more broadly. >> well, let's remember that the biden administration has said that january six, in the lies about the 2020 election, that former president trump lost, are a stain on american democracy, and they need to be really investigated, in order to not be a continuing threat to our democracy. when you look at the way that president biden's acting, he's essentially saying, not only am i going to make sure that whatever information this investigation meets, it will get, but he's also in some ways saying that these officials who are trying to claim executive privilege, they were likely part of the issue, in part of the problem here. i want to talk about jeffrey clark here for a minute, because he is in official who reportedly

yamiche at pbs. >> thanks so much for taking my question. two quick questions.e first is, can you talk a little bit about the administration's efforts toanether or not kids can be vaccinated? we've seen thing their decisions about adults and i wonder what the thoughts are about not letting isipwhether then the second question i have is, can you quickly just explain a little bit about the weather changes here? i'm seeing states with cold weather are showing a rise in new covid infections in places like alaska or montana. th thank you for the two questions. dr. murthy, do you want to address the first question and then dr. walensky the second? sounds good. thanks for that question. the most important thing for us to do with the vaccination effort with kids is to keep our focus on the health of children. this is about public health. it's not about politics. for many, many years, we have a very powerful tool to save lives. to keep our children healthy. to make schools safer places. that's what wimate recommendations. what we've got to do and we've laid out the plans

at this beginning point, where this conversation is it behind closed doors, i have sources and yamicheted this, too, e conversation seems to be around 2 trillion to 2.5 trillion. even some progressives said maybe they can accept something in that area. there's a big conversation about then what is it that gets cut. that's what they're going to have to do soon. but i think for the next week is going to be about what size that both sides can perhaps get teir hands around, probably not a firm number, but somewhere in the 2 to 2.5 trillion is what we're talking about now. i will also say it seems like this has been a chaotic week for democrats. speaker pelosi pledged a vote, didn't happen, that's not good for a speaker. i want to remind people the affordable care act took over eight months to get through congress and on that vote the affordable care act in the house, democrats lost 39 of their members, and they still passed it. here speaker pelosi can only lose three. that's why this is so much harder. the affordable care act was also difficult. so this is really threading the finance of l

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: it's a crisis of globalrtions. from major bottlenecks at busy ports, to a lack of computer chips for auto manufacturers, and even a shortage of truck drivers to deliver all those goods. today, president biden met with major retailers, port executives, and union representatives, to address some of the supply chain challenges triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. >> if federal support is needed, i will direct all appropriate action. if the private sector doesn't step up, we're going to call them out, and ask them to act. because our goal is not only to t through this immediate bottleneck, but to address the long-standing weaknesses in our transportation supply chain that this pandemic has exposed. >> alcindor: the bustling port of los angeles will now pivot to operating 24/7, the move aims to help ease the massive shipping backlog there. last month, e port in long beach, california made that same shift. together, those two ports account for roughly 40% of all shipping containers entering the u.s. >> the quickest

yamiche, i wanted to show you this.'s bothered by republicans appearing to embrace former president trump rather than distancing themselves from him. >> well, i do think we need to be talking about the future and not the past. i think the american people are focusing on this administration, what it is doing to the country, and it's my hope that the '22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020. >> yamiche, your thoughts? he seems to have seen the numbers. i think it is kind of hard to just brush off what's happened over the past four years. just to joe's point about the economic crisis versus the political crisis we're facing all surrounding covid, the reason the delta variant is here is because of some states and some republican governors and republican leaders not requiring mandates, really not helping with the process of eradicating covid from the american population. >> good morning. it's great to be with you. i th

joining me now is yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs, who understands a lot about haitiamily with a history in haiti. let's talk about haiti because it's long been the poorest nation in our hemisphere, but the -- a decade ago there was a devastating earthquake. they had not even recovered from that, and this last earthquake on top of the assassination has left them completely without political leadership, without law of any kind, and it's in that chaos that gangs have proliferated and kidnappings for ransom. >> that's right, andrea. the situation in haiti has deteriorated over the last decade, but really over the last few years with gang members now beginning to control large swaths of the country, something like 60% of the country. haiti always had issues of poverty dating back decades, but what we saw in the last few years was really an escalation of insecurity in the country. when you talk to haitian activists on the ground, when i've talked to human rights activists on the ground, that's what they've been saying, that for years there's been a sense that people are no

let's bring in our richard haus and yamiche alcindor. >> your favorite candy bar?id not mention raisin nuts. >> what? >> and you did not talk about m&m's peanuts. the lack of judgment. >> yamiche, i have to go to you and as long as you don't say raisin nuts and twizzler. >> i am here in speak up of the candy corn. >> yamiche, thank you, thank you. >> all right. richard, i guess we need to talk about something other than halloween candy, why don't we talk about what's going on as the president goes to europe, what's at stake here and what does he need to get out of the trip? >> well, the backdrop is less than ideal and it's not simply all the legislatives that you all have been discussing. the framework is general but it's what's happening in afghanistan and it's january 6th, it's the lack of consultations of the submarine deals. the united states don't recognize of covid and resistance to vaccines. the rest of the world is dying from a lack of vaccines. they don't understand why people are not taking them. the opposition to mask and you got all that. it's two big p

. >> you know, yamiche, is there -- from the white house's perspective, we're at arm's length, we'ref, but how engaged is the white house in terms of watching what the select committee is doing? >> well, the white house is watching what the select committee, what this investigation into the capitol, how it's progressing. they're watching it very closely. we heard the president say that he views january 6th atz an extraordinary event, it's a deep stain on our democracy. he did have that point where he said people should be prosecuted if they defy congressional subpoenas. he walked that back and said it was inappropriate for him to weigh in. he's walking back not influencing the doj, influencing what the department of justice is going to do, but at the same time he's saying this is a very serious offense. the fact that we had people break into our capitol, this is something that needs to be top of mind with lawmakers and they take this very seriously. they've waived executive privilege. they'll be waiving it for other documents coming down the line. this is the white house saying we're

. >> yep, and yamiche, i have to have you over my house which is your house soon to celebrate together. thank you both for being with me. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up now, we'll be talking about this on what's happening on capitol hill is south carolina democratic congressman and house majority whip jim clyburn. congressman, a pleasure to see you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thanks, good to see you. i want to get your thoughts on the news that senator schumer will take up another voting rights bill to get through the senate. >> joe manchin has done what he said he would do, bring along ten republicans who will vote to allow it to go forward. if he doesn't, we're going to have to get around this filibuster. i hope this will demonstrate to senator manchin the need to do so. i can't imagine that he will allow the filibuster to stop. the black folks in his state and other states are exercising their right to vote. the filibuster has been used historically by southern states to keep black people from voting. it's just that simple, and that's the problem here, and b