their goal is to try and have him help pass voting rights legislation by removing the phil buster. the capitol hill team calls this the apex of texas democrats visit to dc. also the u.s. surgeon general just posted a new warning about an urgent threat about the delta variant. and it is misinformation. we start with the payments going out to 39 million american families today. mem mike memoli with us from the white house. stephanie ruhle also joining us. walk us through who gets the payments and how much they can expect to see. >> for those filed their taxed already from last year they will be seeing that money very quickly. any family with a combined income of $150,000 or less above that it fazes out. if you have children between ages 0 to 6, that is $300 a child per month and six to 18 it is $250. it is important to remember this is. many say this is looking like the seeds of universal base income. you should get this yet if you. if you haven't done your taxes, you didn't get the money and that's who needs it most. >> so if you didn't file using direct deposit, do you have to wait

put it to a vote, that previous bill, it stalled in a senate as a result of a phil buster. the separate bill the john lewis voting rights act. the vice president's vote, but there is no viable path for 60 votes to break a republican phil buster. and that is where activists have been involved. but still this effort indicates moderates are calling and saying time is running out and congress needs to act quickly, jose. >> and we just got a update on that deal. >> senator schumer says the senate may need the weekend to continue voting on the infrastructure agreement, to get through amendments, and he is optimisticly saying they hope to issue up final assage of the legislation in a matter of days. there is still a tro access to be worked out, but the fact that 67 senators voted to begin degait on that is a sign of it being in good shape. >> a pleasure to see you this morning. thank you for being with us. >> tomorrow is a day that millions of americans have been dreading. a moratorium put in place at the start of the pandemic will expire. vaughn hilliard is talking to families th

the president did not call for the end of the phil buster on this issue. we heard from congressman jim lye burn. he essentially called a carveout if you will, the two bills, the jon lewis bill and the other bill, is that a viability option? >> i support, and i think the civil rights community supports passing what we need by whatever means are necessary. by whatever peaceful means are necessary. so if it is assembling 60 votes or carving out a filibuster, whatever pathway is required. here is what is important for the public to recognize. there are multiple existing exceptions. the press is widely reporting budget reconciliation. there is trade authority, there is a congressional review act. mitch mcconnell amended the filibuster rule. it is not in the constitution. it's not a federal statute. it should not be elevated like it is a commandment of democracy. it is an internal senate rule for which there has been exceptions. and it has been historically utilized to block legislation time and time ghen. so if it requires a carve out, so be it. it is not an ea

it's not much of a majority at all with the phil buster rule in place for passing most legislation. you're seeing democrats try to find ways to think creatively on some of these issues like holding a feel hearing that will get way more coverage than a traditional hearing sitting around in a committee hearing room. chairman klobuchar made the point to me that she would like voting rights in the reconciliation bill. that would be unusual. there was talk about the various lawsuits, the d.o.j., all of the different ways that democrats can try to pass this. i also asked the democratic senator from california about this. he says if you don't change the filibuster rules he said this is a conversation that he continues to have with his fellow former state level secretary of state joe manchin back in washington. here is what he told me. >>> look, we're two of the former state secretaries going through the for the people act. there may be sweeps in order to get this right. i think senator manchin sees the significance of this. >> all that suggests to me is that some of this is being done for

and whether or not we are going to have to reform the phil buster. certainly, there is a growing view that we need to do that f. not -- at least to make some sort of changes, to bring back the old-fashioned filibuster which said if a minority party wanted to talk on the floor they could talk on the floor but eventually there needs to be a vote. eventually, the people of this country deserve to have a vote. and when you are dealing with something as fundamental as voting rights, fundamental to this democracy, the majority should be able to have its say and make sure that we are actually expanding the franchise and making sure that more folks have the opportunity to make sure that their voice is heard at the polls. >> senator, your state attorney general in michigan will now investigate where individuals may have viewed the controversy in the 2020 election results in one of your counties to benefit themselves testimonily or otherwise. the amount of g. investigation was prompted by a report issued largely by state republican lawmakers after allegations

they're calling for a carve out on the phil buster. you have called for abolishing the filibuster. what does that look like specifically? is that too vague for you? how do you define that and do you see getting eventually joe manchin on board. >> president biden laid out of the case. that republicans are contracting this out to state legislatures to carve out the voting rights of especially black and brown americans. it's a crisis in democracy that is unfolding before our kwies. it is imperative that the united states congress act to restore and strengthen access to the ballot. and so if that requires a repeal of the filibuster, we have to repeal the filibuster. we cannot allow for the republican party to use the 60 vote margin that has to be released to strengthen this, and the obstacle to block the erosion of rights going on in texas, arizona, florida, georgia, red state after red state. they are paranoid that what happened in georgia, when they won, is the prediction of what will happen in state after state across red state america. and if that is what the republicans are going

buster for this one issue. the president last night says i don't think so. >> i've been saying for a long, long time the abuse of the filibuster is pretty overwhelming. i would go wac to that, you have to maintain the floor. you have to stand there and talk and hold the floor. there's no reason to protect it other than you're going to throw the entire congress into chaos and nothing will get done. nothing at all will get done. >> he says nothing will get done if you throw out the filibuster. on his left are a whole long line of democrats saying sir, nothing is getting done, because of the filibuster. >> i mean, yeah, exactly. the argument for ditching the filibuster specifically to pass the democratic bills. the things he campaigned on. i think it was interesting in the answer, he didn't articulate the flip side of it in that there's a lot of concern that if you get rid of the filibuster, what happens when republicans control everything and undo the laws quickly and start passing their own, for instance, anti-a

buster has become disabling. >> mark, it is always great to have you on the show. thank you for bringing us in that room and for your perspective. >> turning to something different. that space race between two billionaires down to it's final days. richard branson and jeff bezos, two of the richest people, set to take flight. bezos in blue origin. tom, even with a ton of money, right, do billionaires get a little pre-flight nerves? what's your sense from talking with branson? >> if not he is not portraying that at all. he says he is ready to go. he is ready to take it to the edge of space in less than 48 hours. >> it's the last place you expect to find two billionaires. sir richard branson here. >> if you didn't know better you would think you in the middle of nowhere. >> you are in the middle of nowhere. >> the brand new spaceport america. he is just 48 hours away from fulfilling a dream. to fly his own spaceship and to cross the line between the earth's atmosphere and space. nasa put that invisible boundary line at 50 miles above earth. they will go weightless thr

buster is not going to do that. republicans are very determined to block these voting rights expansions and guarantees in all 50 states that democrats want to pass, ayman. >> jake, let's bounce back to the january 6th commission and talk about it in the inter-republican dynamics. you have wyoming republican congresswoman liz cheney took the side of the speaker yesterday, called out leader kevin mccarthy over his comments. just a few weeks ago, you had leader anyone who accepted a speaker could have their committee assignments pulled. what are you heane face any punishment or fallout as a result of her accepting a role on the select committee? >> the disdain, absolute disdain, between liz cheney and kevin mccarthy is very difficult to miss. these two people -- i mean, i've been covering this institution for a long time. i've never seen any two people dislike each other at this moment. i don't see any way to repair that. here is what we were told yesterday and wrote about this in punch bowl news a.m., they don't feel

buster reform. yeah, so i don't, on the arrests in denver, i don't want to speak on the arrests. it was apparently the result of a made that saw the reps in a hotel room and reported them and that is incredible. the idea that she came forward and did her duty is really amazing. on thely voting rights. what i think should happen is we need to show up in favor of democracy. you see name cuba that are protesting oppression there. democracy is being tested all over the world. the chinese government is competing with us in a relentless way and we need to get our act together. mitch mcconnell's obstruction of the senate. it's not a traditional approach. he is bringing this democracy to our knees as is the voter suppression that is going on all over the country. my t state has the second highe voter participation rate in the country. weth have mail in pal lots. we have opportunities for people to drop off their ballots early. republicans would fight as hard as democrats to keep it the way it is and i think