Theyll be relying on congress to pass a Spending Bill and aboat Government Shutdown by a midnight deadline next saturday. If congress fails, those workers paychecks will be delayed possibly for weeks. Federal agencies have begun the process of preparing for a shutdown and it looks more and more likely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over a handful of gop handliners, but hes hopeful theyll eventually vote for a Stopgap Spending Measure did avoid shutdown. New jersey senator bob menendez is pushing back against calls to resign, even from fellow democrats. Federal prosecutors say menendez and his wife took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes including gold bars, cash, Home Mortgage payments, and a luxury vehicle. A Growing Crisis at the mexican border. Federal officials are sending more resources to help with the surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Lets bring in a panel of political experts to talk about this. Joining us now, former fox news host Geraldo
audit in arizona. what do you want to hear from the president today because there s been criticism that he hasn t been forceful enough and he hasn t put pressure on congress to break this down. andrea, i m just literally a few blocks away in my office and we ll walk down to the national constitution center, and a perfect setting for this historic speech on voting rights. i think the president has been forceful and it was in congress to do our job when the house representatives did our job, and it is now time for the senate and in my view, voting rights are a lot more important than preserving some arcane that the founding fathers would urge in the first place. i would under my colleagues to do everything we can to protect the right to vote before it s too late.
organizer and trying to get people on their role which is federal action from the president and congress to get these voting rights passed to mitigate the damage we re seeing happening in state legislatures across the country. errin haines, thanks for your deep dive into all of it. cuba in chaos, cuban-americans calling on the biden administration for help as cuba cracks down. and coming up with that, and mid-summer surge, covid rates spiking in 28 states and hot spots erupting where rates are low. dr. fauci joins us this hour. this is andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. kraft. for the win win.
them and that s, i think, has been their cry. it s a cry for help. joining me now is senator bob menendez chairman of the relations committee and the highest-ranking latino in congress. we ve never seen protests this large. from my memory, it was bigger than 1974, they cut the internet, cutting phones and arresting people. so what is the import of these historic protests? is this or is this not a tipping point potentially? andrea, your memory is good. this is one of the largest, most significant protest because it spans the whole of the country and not just havana, which of course is urban, but across the entire country including in the countryside and it just expresses the depth of discontentment that the cuban
certainly continue to call for, but want him to do more than kind of use his bully pulpit. that could be more executive orders. for example, the justice department has said they plan to be more aggressive although the fate of section 2 is under question after the latest scotus ruling. to give you an example, i talked to the organizer that will be watching attentively to the president s remarks today and what she told me is that she s hoping that today is a line in the sand, that the president is really going to draw a line in the sand and get beyond rhetoric and thanking black voters like the ones in pennsylvania, in philadelphia who put the president and vice president over the top that gave democrats control of the white house and of congress, and really take do more to take action. she says she can t legislate. she can t win votes and she s out there doing her job as an