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Using the last few days to remind the president the promise he made to voters, especially black voters to reward their loyalty. to reward their support by fighting for the issues that are so important to them. this is the most important issue to them right now. what is so interesting, katie, this is a moment when the president, when the white house is launching a full-court press for an issue a moment in time this week when the senate takes it up. they know theyll lose. theres no one who is sayi...

So persuasion is what he has and this is not a new effort. he has been trying to persuade for some period of time. and one of the interesting things is the clip you played of mitch mcconnell along with that. he said, you know, joe biden and i are friends. so, that is coming at a time when youve got republicans who are basically saying the president is calling out those who disagree as bigots or racists, not a way to attract them perhaps. whether they be republicans who dont agree with the presid...

Really had a painful impact on american families, and how can they do that? its part supply chain. its part the kind of climate were in right now. and how can they build that with some particular steps. there are billions of dollars invested in this, and efforts to try to address this through bringing about more competition. so the president will be talking virtually this afternoon. we will be able to attend that. well try to ask questions about that too. how quickly this will have an impact rem...

Biden who came in to office with the stated goal of bringing the country together. >> right now we know mitch mcconnell is on the senate floor excoriating the president on that speech. but, kelly, my question is to this i cant recall a meeting of mitt romney, lisa murkowski, susan collins, rob portman, you see where im going here at the white house on voting rights. on whether there was something -- there clearly is a working group here on something. the power of the presidency is two-fold. the ...

Ways to modify the senate rules more broadly to get this done and as best i can count, there arent 50 votes for any one of them that would make a substantive difference on passing legislation. >> kelly, im curious if youve gotten reaction to the new inflation report from the white house and what they say this does to build back better. >> their argument is that they need the large sweep of this sort of biden agenda economically, which they believe when you look at some of the first pieces that h...

>> thank you for being with us. after a week of big political disappointments, president biden is scheduled to speak a all the any minute to talk about the benefits of the infrastructure law including billions of dollars to fix thousands of bridges, charging stations for electric vehicle, among other major programs. joining us us now is senior white house correspondent kelly odonnell, jeff mason and former republican chair michael steele. the white house is clearly looking to tout some wins. i...

Vote threshold in order to pass voting rights legislation. but the problem is, still, senator joe manchin, senator kyrsten sinema. they have not shown any direct indication that they are going to go along with that associations and discussions among democrats and their colleagues have been john going for weeks and months. we know those are going to continue this week. leader schumer put forward a self-imposed deadline of martin luther king junior day. thats monday. and theres no clarity on if th...

Indicators of how strong he remains as a figure in the party. >> arizona where they brought in the cyber ninjas. they did an audit, audit, recount and still joe biden won. the big lie died there or should have. leigh ann, glen, jeremy, thank you. just a few hours from now president biden will head to his old stomping grounds on capitol hill to meet with senate democrats who may have figured out a way to actually get voting rights legislation on the floor by monday, but that is a far cry from a...

Of state. who would have control over these state and local elections. so thats a real picture of the threat that democrats see and its one of the reasons why theyre trying to use this mlk day holiday coming up to inject new urgency into this push, steph. >> they certainly need to. geoff bennett, welcome back. garrett, kelly, thank you all so much. still ahead, i have to talk about this because i need it explained. the great resignation has now hit the manufacturing industry and particularly h...

Burn zone there. have authorities determined the cause of the fire? >> reporter: kate, officials believe they know where the fire started but not how. initially authorities thought downed power lines were to blame but now say the theory seems less likely. >> thank you now to the growing fears over a russian invasion of ukraine. president biden spoke with the ukrainian president today just days after he held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin senior white house correspondent kel...