senate bipartisan infrastructure bill. because i ve been so involved in this attack on democracy, i see all of our budget machinations through that prism. i m not as tied into the most recent inside scuttlebutt. but failure is not an option for us. because democracy is at stake. we have one democracy party, the democratic party. another political party has basically been hijacked by one right-wing authoritarian guy demanding absolute power for himself, and people going along with it. and they have positioned themselves outside of the constitutional order. i believe the cooler heads will have to prevail. we get everybody s egos under control, and we ll be moving forward together, not too far to the port or starboard, but even
security clearance file would not be completed by the deadline today. that there were still some outstanding issues that required further investigation but we are told tonight from white house officials that jared kushner still maintains his interim security clearance. bret? bret: you heard the president saying general kelly will make that call. the chief of staff. all the talk about whether general kelly is staying or going, what is the inside scuttlebutt? the inside scuttlebutt is that his job is safe. you know, one person told me a while ago that you have a player who stays out until 4:00 in the morning and you bench him and that player were to be tom brady, that player would not get benched and i m told that arnold here, john kelly is tom brady. bret: good analogy. thank you. a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier at the white house this afternoon. the secret service tweets the vehicle did not breach the security barrier of the white house complex.