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Resignation, hes not stepping down today. he announced two weeks. that is to provide a seamless transition to lieutenant governor kathy hochul who will become the acting governor at that point. theres a question what those two weeks will be like. in addition to that, we have the assembly on track to go forward with impeachment charges against the governor. the assembly judiciary committee is still set to meet again, this coming monday. they already met once this week. made it very clear when the...

>> white house press secretary jen psaki later tweeted about bidens comments writing, quote, the president responded to a specific question on infrastructure. also made it clear it was right for governor cuomo to step down, reiterated his support for women who come forward and made clear you cant separate personal behavior from other work. after months of negotiation, the senate has passed bipartisan infrastructure deal. the proposal will pour money into the ageing infrastructure. includes mon...

Report alleging sexual harassment. is the flit cat fallout over? plus, after years of attempts the senate has passed a bipartisan bill. the question is when will it actually get to president bidens desk? and amid covid concerns, the academy is taking the event outdoors and the people to that. the question is who makes the cut? its "way too early" for this. good morning, and welcome to "way too early." the show that thinks that all the nominees are winners. im elisa menendez. well start wit...

For america that we had a person like rosen in that position who stood -- withstood the pressure. >> congressman, what do you make of these latest revelations, and how intense was this pressure that the president and other members of the administration were applying on the justice department and the acting attorney general. >> yeah, its interesting. i was part of the second impeachment trial of the senate trial. and throughout that tirrial, i kept saying, why arent we calling this an attempted c...

Now there is a glimmer of bipartisanship taking shape on capitol hill. republican senators say there is major progress on the hard-fought infrastructure deal. its a virtual pillar of the biden presidency and considered a key test of the toxic partisanship increasingly dividing the two parties zblm. >> reporter: senators are getting briefed about the outlines of this deal, which would be about $1.2 trillion over eight years. that money would be offset by a range of efforts such as redirecting alr...

Bipartisan deal has been reached. can it get to bidens desk? an open question. >> okay, phil mattingly, ma manu raju, thank you very much. with us now is democratic congresswoman from washington state, pramila jayapal. you just heard that this could get the next vote, this infrastructure deal, sometime this evening. what do you know about this bill? >> very little. you know, none of the details are out, as manu said, so were waiting to see what it is. im with the speaker here. we said three mo...

Jumps off the page as someone who has been a consistent and loyal defender of the former president, despite his inaccurate rhetoric about the 2020 election and the fact that he continued to peddle those lies. in fact, listen to what jordan said was at the top of himind about his appointment to this committee when we caught up with him this afternoon. >> we know what this is about. this is about going after president trump. you know, i mean, the democrats, they dont want to talk about anything el...

An open question. that proposal about $600 billion of new spending over the next five years, that is separate from the larger $3.5 trillion plan that the democrats are trying to advance along their own to advance much of joe bidens agenda to expand the social safety net. schumer has set a wednesday deadline for all 50 democrats to essentially agree to move forward with the budget process, not necessarily to commit to vote yes but at least agree to move forward. thats even not there yet at the mo...

Island of its own. there are significant resources there in terms of afghan security forces but also the u.s. force design there to protect u.s. diplomatic personnel and if need be, evacuate them. there are evacuation plans. the concern is that as the taliban gains all that territory around the country much more quickly than expected, that not too long, that will be the last sand stand as it were. its a big city. does the taliban have the military capabilities to take it over? no, at least not i...

Just to put up the south dakota stats, its 46% of the population is fully vaccinated. thats just below the national average. if you look back at the history of this, its had over 14,000 cases per 100,000 people. thats the third highest case rate in the country by population. 40 0,000 people, thats tenth highest among the 50 states in terms of death. and yet, the governor says her way is the right way. >> absolutely. you have some republican governors in other states trying to be responsible and ...