one reporter as president biden this evening about such a carve out for the debt ceiling, biden called it quote, a real possibility, of course lots of democrats have been trying to change the filibuster rules for other things the sheer, especially for voting rights legislation, that s being blocked by republicans, in the senate. democratic senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, have been implacably opposed to such changes. if, if they can be convinced, these, two to make an exception for the debt ceiling, can they maybe be convinced to make exceptions for other things to? and by the, way well i have them on the screen, speaking of joe manchin on the left, christian cinema on the right, they continue to be the holdouts and passing biden s build back better plan. the education health care and climate legislation, that he and most of the democrats in congress have tainted about three and a half trillion dollars. joe manchin says he doesn t want to spend more than 100 and half trillion d
start to do, is they will speak first to their attorneys in their hr specialist and hopefully to their workers. and say, how are we going to do this so it works for everyone, i think i m seeing already happening now. it will certainly happen more. it will have a big effect. it will drive vaccine rates up. it will save a lot of lives. and it s going to help these companies go back to normalcy. what s your sense of the challenges that the administration is gearing up for? we have seen reporting, that the government is trying to make this ironclad. what do you know about that? how do you make something like this ironclad? we don t make live in a world with vaccine mandates typically. a lot of those republican attorney generals haven t read what president biden is told osha to do. this is not a vaccination requirement, the osha law says, that employers have to provide a safe workplace. they have to make sure that workers can we work in these same condition and they got to work. and so
to wait, this was the scene outside the white house today, as protesters held a giant voting rights now sign, in a banner that read in all caps, president biden, no more excuses, voting rights now. the protest was organized by the league of women voters of the united states. people for the american, way and the, declaration for american democracy. they saying this little light of mine. and the urge to the president and congress to act on voting rights now. five peaceful protesters were arrested today, they re currently be held in jail. joining us now is virginia kay solomon, the league of women voters, she was a speaker at the rally today, urging action on voting, writes thank you for being with us this evening. i understand there s still people being held in jail tonight, because of the being arrested at this rally. some of our colleagues, the ceo of the people for the american way,
minnesota. coming, up the biden administration is preparing to go head to head with a republican governors, over the federal vaccine mandate, what we can expect, straight ahead. expect, straight ahead. expect, straight ahead.
the vehicle. they have identified the man s 55 year old dale paul melvin, of kimble michigan. they said that he had also come to the capital complex in august. and quote made concerning statements, but no further details about that august incident. so you don t really know anything more about this guy or what he was doing outside the supreme court today. but it came less than two months after a north carolina man, parts of pick up truck outside of the library of congress. right next door. another building in the capital complex, across the street from the capitol in the supreme court. that man threatened to detonate a bomb unless he was allowed to talk to president biden. he livestreamed the five hour standoff on facebook. his livestream ramblings included his support for president trump, and his belief that various democrats should step down. he turned out not to have a bomb in the end. again, we don t know if today s incident was anyone like that one in august, we don t know what kin