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Good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. heres whats happening as we approach 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific. on capitol hill, congress is headed toward a budget showdown. both the house and senate facing multiple deadlines this coming week. the house is set to vote on infrastructure. right now, a virtual mark-up is just getting under way of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that has moderate and progressive democrats split. th...

That they can say, well, if we cant know for sure, if our elections are secure, then we have to pass more laws to make sure theyre secure. its almost, in a sense, the way that republicans insist that theres no way to deal with immigration until the border is 100% secure. thats an impossible ask. theres no way to crack down on voting to make it even more secure than it already is, i feel like, in the way that will satisfy the people who are calling for these audits and thats the game. its an impo...

Going to vote for it because youre not going to vote against child care and paid family leave and community college and all these top priorities which, by the way, the country desperately needs. and the country overwhelmingly supports. so you know, i think -- im also on the education and labor committee. we had a very interesting mark-up last week. we had differences of opinion on many items, but in the final analysis, every democrat voted to move that bill along. so i think youre going to see c...

>> we will have a great bill that honors the values of the president and his vision. i dont know what the number will be. we are marking at 3.5. we are not going above that. we have to talk about what does it take? what would you cut? i hope that as people are being looking at numbers that theyre weighing the values. >> and shes talking about the mark-up. they are writing this bill right now with the house, ways and means with the congressmen. jim, you know what its like. they can write when the...

Democrat support on a lot of these amendments. >> there is also a lot of talk happening about the $6 billion in unspent funds appropriated for training the former afghan security forces. rob wittman says congress should use that money for counter terrorism in the region while house minority leader kevin mccarthy said it should go towards bringing those remaining americans home, although ultimately he said it is better left to the ndaa mark-up. were told to expect a very long night. >> bill: well...

Get to "morning joe," joining us with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder of axios, mike allen. whats the one big thing. >> good morning to jacob, in my native land. the axios one big next thing is the gops new foil, the taliban. house republicans are going to try to make unease over the pull out from afghanistan, a defining issue in taking power back in the house for 2022, and were going to see a preview of it today. its a mark up of a defense bill, and this is going to be the tip of the sphere...

Day, theyre all terrorists. we should designate them as such. next week we will go through on the house armed services committee the mark-up for the annual national defense authorization act. ill have an amendment that will designate the taliban as a terrorist organization. currently theyre not. the taliban in afghanistan has never been designated as a terrorist organization. youre seeing right now, theyre complicit in the attacks that have occurred. they have taken over the country and allowed ...

0 for the allies being targeted in afghanistan and a safe withdrawal of everybody. leave nobody behind. my heart is troubled in that heart. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham is up next. have a great weekend. pray for our family in afghanistan. >> im pete hegseth in for laura ingraham. we start with a fox news alert. we learned a drone strike killed an isis-k planner that was believed to be carrying out future attacks according to the pentagon. also tonight, the state department warn...

Senator hatch. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this has been a very difficult set of hearings, and a difficult mark up, and i think you have handled it very well. i compliment all of our people on both sides of the aisle for approaching this very seriously. and it should be approached seriously. its been 81 days since president trump nominated judge brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. since then, we have reviewed more records of this nominee than for any supreme court nominee in history. ever. eve...

But, yet, these allegations are being made. this is a terrible way to treat any nominee and certainly we saw from the interview last night the judge is not going anywhere. but is he paying a terrible price as is his family, including his two small daughters to be able to serve on the nations highest court. its really too bad. >> neil: senator, we are been told or got word that a lot of you guys have been told to stick around town. that there could, in fact, be a kavanaugh vote this weekend. is t...