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The numbers getting worse, a Public Safety issue and political one. Plus another decision day from the Supreme Court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on Voting Rights and Freedom Of Speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel iodonnell at the white house. This is a new day in d. C....

Former vice president mike pence. have you reached out to him personally? you and liz cheney have the best chance to make that happen. >> i havent. i cant speak for liz, i have no requested if she has or hasnt. for me im always careful. i want to go through the committee process on this. i think its important that it maintains that way. i would love to see the vice president obviously testify even if its just written answers to questions. i recognize he played an important role that day. regardl...

Lgbtq books are on the shelves but the war is happening naturally in florida where ron desantis and witch hunters are leading app assault on wokeness and critical race theory that isnt about critical race theory but fear mongering, far right dog whistles and wrapping kids in bubble wrap so no uncomfortable feeling can penetrate. everyone so happy. for desantis, banning the 1619 project wasnt enough. hes trying to ban feeling like white discomfort and guilt in a series of bills marching through t...

What challenges do you have with our continued resolution? were working off of basically the last year of trump administrations budget. >> one thing i want to -- >> they need help. they want a budget. >> now manchin has concerns about the lack of a committee process, identical to the reason that former senator john mccain in 2017 had that famous thumbs down on the floor, voted against his partys efforts to repeal the aca. this is something democrats can do. they can put these pieces through comm...

Country right now than him. he just held to his values. he is center left. is he not center right. he is not center way left. is he getting vilified for it he could not care less. he knows he is doing the right thing. build back better. what about it? its not a program it will change america. let it go through the committee process. let it change. we are in the majority and see how it goes once we debate it but i cant do this top down reboot on an entire spending program the way this country ope...

Im sorry congressman because of to push back on that for one reason, president trump was able to go through the process of take some of that stuff that was appropriated during your guys committee process -- but he didnt get the full funding from congress and republicans blocked that. so tell me what the republicans are going to do to make sure that this doesnt happen again. >> well the republicans in the house i can speak for the republicans in the house of representatives we want to see that wh...

Im sorry congressman because of to push back on that for one reason, president trump was able to go through the process of take some of that stuff that was appropriated during your guys committee process -- but he didnt get the full funding from congress and republicans blocked that. so tell me what the republicans are going to do to make sure that this doesnt happen again. >> well the republicans in the house i can speak for the republicans in the house of representatives we want to see that wh...

Something in which they believe they can get consensus from the various wings of the party. but there is also pushback from some progressives who say they dont trust joe manchin to get behind such a narrow approach and manchin, himself, has suggested that instead of going through with a democratic-only approach on a smaller bill, if they were to go that route, they should go through the regular committee process and that process, kate, as you know, could take months. it is a process that joe man...

Green palooza. >> all the green stuff will go. greene green new deal stuff will go. child tax credits donald trump in 2017 created child tax credits. maybe we can work to build upon those. child care, theres a group of republicans trying to find a way to help people with child care without driving costs up in a government take over child care. heres the headline, joe manchin is telling the world reconciliation as a way to pass any more spending is dead. he has ditched reconciliation. he wants us...

Negotiating. they interpreted that as meaning the current talks were done but could pick up next year. he meant he was totally walking away, which he said publicly on fox news sunday. however, there does appear to be a path forward. three sources tell me in my exclusive reporting that the president and senator manchin spoke sunday night and the conversation was cordial and ended in the sense conversations would continue in the new year. he wants to go through the committee process and roll back ...