doctrine which he stated so eloquently during the first gulf war when he said that you should not go into a place without overwhelming force, allies, and an exit strategy. so colin powell himself was, to the very end, a soldier. he he was a four-star general, but he always remained a soldier, and that powell doctrine he will be remembered for. i think as the war in afghanistan ended, as the pentagon regrouped, this is an inflection point for the pentagon. people will be going back to the powell doctrine and thinking about that, i think, in the new feature. sandra: jennifer, the retiring perception has begun. we ll watch that in the national cathedral.
progressives are threatening to not vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill at this hour until the build back better or reconciliation bill is voted on as well. house speaker nancy pelosi may put the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the floor anyway. and essentially dare progressives to vote against it. even now there is continued uncertainty up on the hill with a back and forth that has stalled the president s domestic spending agenda. multiple preferences promising deals have not yet developed. concretely. congressional correspondent chad pergram starts us off with the latest at this minute from capitol hill. good evening, chad. good evening, bret. fractures among democrats, moderates and liberals sniping. house democratic leaders cutting their losses. they lack the votes to pass the social spending plan. so democrats looked for an exit strategy. they punted on the social spending bill. now they want to win on infrastructure. i do believe that there are a large number of mem
because schools are open, but they re still not normal. and you know, there needs to be some sort of off ramp, some sense that when we get to a certain metric that we can, that there s an exit strategy from what parents have been through for the last 18 months. i think that s all well put and speaks to the intersection of today s news, which is big, and what people typically want if you are forced to live through some sort of hellscape because it s temporarily required as michelle says, people want to know where the darn exits are. where are the exits. a lot of people have been feeling like that for some time. i thank michelle and dr. patel. come up, we have a lot more on the program. new details in the giuliani criminal probe. we re going to break down what michelle was referencing. a lot of people are dead wrong and we re just going to show you the facts to explain why. meanwhile, joe biden also trying to dial up the pressure to get