Nevertheless, we are likely to see some announcement of amendment votes at some point today. we re hearing at this point some rosier pictures. senator john thune, the number two senate republican saying members may be able to catch a flight out tomorrow morning and that would be good news for both members and people cheering for the deadline to be met here, but at the same time we won t know anything on the firm timing of this probably until around after lunchtime and that s when we expect a lot of these senators will talk about it on their caucus lunches and then get onboard with the actual plan, but again, if all hundred senators come to the table and say all right, we want to do this as quickly as possible, they can decide to do that, and they ll probably have to do votes on amendments in order to get there and we re not sure what the timetable looks like yet. mike, president biden and the white house made a big effort to get house democrats onboard, what are they going to do on the
Approved by the house, and the house needs to act and act quickly. there are a few days to go before the government says it will run out of money and will be unable to pay its bills. 60 senators will have to sign off on the deal and just like the house, senators on both sides are unhappy with the agreement and bernie sanders is among them. we have more incoming wealth inequality than we have people on top doing phenomenally well, middle class struggling and lower income people really facing desperate times and you don t do deficit reduction in any moral sense on the backs of some of the people in this country who are barely making it right now. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale and mike menially. how quickly can we expect the senate to take up this bill? it s a good question, but you know the answer is as quickly as they can because they know and
Happening in our country with gun violence, but also, their hope is, there will be celebrity football players. and when we re talking about celebrity, it can be high school through the college, to the nfl. they are hoping they will pick this mantle up and make a point to everybody that gun violence and mental illness are two serious problems that need attention in our country. kerry, thanks for bringing that story to us. the white house is preparing for a potential covid wave this winter. the administration just rolled out a new winter response plan. it includes bringing back those free at-home rapid covid tests, a new push for vaccines and having supplies ready to roll out to hard-hit states. joining me now is nbc news white house correspondent, mike menially, and peter cotez, the developer for the senior
31 past the hour. we are keeping a close eye on wall street this morning. it has been a little bit of a slow move for wall street this morning. federal reserve chair jerome powell is answering questions from senates on the economy. and senior administration officials say president biden will call for a three month suspension of federal and state gas taxes to alleviate pain at the pump. if enacted, truckers could save 24 cents a gallon on diesel fuel. this proposal coming as the national average for regular continues to hover around $5 a gallon. mike menially is with us this morning. mike, what about the president s plan to reduce gas prices? this is a temporary three-month thing but could be announced as early as today? that s right. the headline is as you talk about.
Campaigning, some democrats might want to keep their distance from him. thank you for joining us for that. i really appreciate it. mike is with the president. he s traveling with president biden in new york because the president is visiting nypd headquarters. this is his first visit to the city since eric adams was inaugurated. here he was a second ago. mayor adams, you and i agree. the answer is not to abandon our streets. it s not to defund the police. it s to give you the tools, the training, the funding, to be partners, to be protecters, and community needs you. this comes after the recent killings of two nypd officers. you see them wilbert mor ro, and jason rivera. look at this graphic on the screen. transit crimes up 70%, and people stealing stuff out of cars, 90%. that s almost double, and you have big cities across the
Front now, offering a $15 million transfer to help democrats chances in the midterms. that s the hope. it s coming from the dnc s war chest which raised more than $150 million in 2021. nbc news is learning this is more of a down payment. more money to come, and what outside observers see is an uphill climb come november. we have mike menially. reporter: i should start by saying some of my closest friends in the big apple are joining me. we ll work through this as we often do. all good. reporter: i m here in new york because president biden is here trying to set the tenor and tone of how he thinks democrats should be campaigning, especially on the issue of crime which will be a big issue this fall. you know what else democrats want to see from the president? it s money. they re getting a $15 million
thank you so much, texas state representative ann johnson and congressman brendan boyle, thanks to both of you. joining us now for more on all of this, in philadelphia, i should say, nbc white house correspondent mike menially awaiting the president sxoe good to see both of you. you ve been a lot of reporting on what the president will say under considerable pressure before the august recess. they haven t even written the john lewis act. reporter: that s right, andrea. as we ve seen this issue of voting rights itself has become a litmus test in both parties and this is a speech on the part of the president that has been scrutinized for democrats and republicans alike and especially for democrats has the voting rights and erck especially on the voting rights just a few
Biden. she said she was looking at president biden in the eye and asked can you trust president putin. he was nodding his head generally in the direction of the press. what do you make of that? why such an effort to make sure they re working to clarify that particular piece of information? i ll start with your first question and just explain a little bit about the lay of the land here. i m a short walk, maybe five minutes away from the villa la grange. you re on the ground, mike, right? i want to be clear. you re there. yeah. i had as close to a front-row seat as you could get during the arrivals and just a short distance from the entrances and they have what s called a hold, for the smaller, protected pool and that is so that they can bring them in in a hurry if they decide they want to bring in the still photographers and the cameras and the print reporters as well. we shouldn t rule anything out.
In geneva, and you ve experienced that and the nature of this, this is so closely watched. around the world, right? this is not the u.s.-russia thing and there are so many other stakeholders who are keeping such a close look at what comes out of this biden-putin summit and no surprise that the security is incredibly tight there, andrea. exactly. mike, such a wonderful biden watcher for so many decades, you ve seen it all and remembering the tim russert question from meet the press. how important is it for joe biden to show how tough he can be and do you think he s at a disadvantage? i know the conventional thinking is that he comes second. in talking to experts here, they believe that is a disadvantage because vladimir putin at a news conference will come out and give the russian talking points and is an old debater and he will be able to lay out all
Vladimir putin completely understood what that was about. it was about belarus, but it was also about, hey, if you violate international law to target political opponents under the biden administration you will not have a president who will shrug about it and you will have one who will take stiff action. senator tim kaine, we are appreciative of your time this morning. absolutely. thank you, ayman. let s head to switzerland and bring in nbc s mike menially outside the summit in geneva. our first update and our first reading from the white house. 90 minutes in and that first small group meeting has now concluded. yeah. that s right, ayman. 93 minutes in total. i m not sure if you had the over or the under on that. i had the over, mike. i ll be honest. i thought it was going to be longer than that, if you look at the breadth and the depth of what they had to discuss. that s right, hallie. what s interesting about this and the time i ve spent covering