senator rob portman is going to join us in the 8:00 hour. >> melissa, what do you think? if you are in senate or congress, you should disclose? >> absolutely. all investments. >> and currencies generally? this is considered a currency of sorts. we haven't said you should disclose how many u.s. dollars. >> they have to report taxtaxes. there is disclosure there. when you are involved in asset class, there should be disclosure. >> i'm in the same place sdp sdpplace. >> you can ask senator portman >>> cryptocurrency regulations slowing down the $1 trillion

that's why i asked senator portman to join me and senator baldwin in build america, buy america, a bill we introduced on president trump's inawtion ration -- inauguration day. we worked with other leaders on buy america and will continue to. i especially call our senator baldwin. four years later now we're finally -- took four years. we're finally getting it right. we're putting in place a clear, comprehensive standard american tax dollars should support american jobs, period. american tax dollars should support american jobs, period. these historic investments will support ohio manufacturers and knock their foreign competitors. with potential for hundreds of bridge repair projects alone, this investment in ohio combined with our strong buy america rules means job creation in every region of my manufacturing state. it keeps the promise i've made to ohioans my entire career that i'd fight for the dignity of work. when you love your country, you fight for the people who make it work to ensure the industrial heartland would be the engine of opportunity that drives us into a 21st century ec

portman: thank you senator peters. as i said earlier, these threats are affecting communities across our country and i want to make sure that as we go through these hearings we recognize that. they transcend racial, ethnic, and religious lines. as we heard on tuesday, significantly increased threats against members of law enforcement, military and government. that was based on the data compiled that we heard about on tuesday where most of the actual threats and acts had been committed. we have a problem. the internet, senator hassan and our experts pointed out, has exacerbated the problem in terms of spreading disinformation and creating some of the conditions for violent extremism, but also in terms of organizing some of the hateful acts. on tuesday witnesses highlighted important points that we will discuss, including virtually all domestic terrorists do use the internet and social media platforms to release propaganda, coordinate training, raise funds, recruit members, and incite violence at home. the administration

last night, senator portman, the lead negotiator on the infrastructure bill for republicans, let mitch mcconnell's voters in kentucky know what is at stake for them in this bill. >> for 25 years, i have been involved in the effort to find the funding to replace this bridge, because it needs it. funding will give us the ability to do that. we will have the ability to help with kentucky and ohio. and with the federal government working together, with the local community, to complete this expense bridge corridor project. why? because we are putting unprecedented amounts of money to bridges like this one, not just bridges, bridges that are major commercial bridges. bridges that are functionally obsolete, which hours has been four years. bridges that desperately need help. >> today, senator schumer explained why what we are seeing in the senate tonight could never happen when mitch mcconnell was majority leader. >> this senate has operated much differently under democratic leadership than it did under republican leadership over the past six years. we have taken more amendment votes this yea

we're going to have senator rob portman on to talk about the infrastructure bill. what's baked into the cake in the markets right now and what isn't? >> so the real issue is on the bit coin part. i'm glad you raised it before the earlier break. the market is looking for bitcoin trading today. there's sort of relief that it's not going to be as bad as they thought it would be. in terms of infrastructure, the market expects a physical infrastructure program it doesn't expect a human infrastructure program which is a shame. >> okay. mohamed el erian, always grade to see you and get your ideas especially on a monday morning like this. thank you so much. see you soon. >> thank you both. >>> a lead republican negotiator on a bill inching its way through the senator. we'll speak with rob portman live >>> attention small business owner, cnbc's small business playbook is coming this wednesday featuring a star studded lineup to give you the tools to make the most of the economic recovery. we'll get kevin o'leary and aaron rodgers and his game plan to support small businesses

i heard senator portman speaking, i think last night you said. those projects are really important for america and the american people at an overwhelming majority want to see these projects happen. i think it is incumbent upon all of us and the senate to work hard through the rest of tonight and the next couple days and get this bill done. >> when legislation like this has moved in the senate and the house in the past and there's never been legislation this big, but infrastructure legislation the only cabinet secretary you tended to see around capitol hill pushing it was the secretary of transportation because of all of this highway building and rail transportation, a lot of transportation issues in the bill but president biden created a team including the labor secretary, yourself, and several other members of the cabinet to push this. how has that helped? how has that coordination and in your particular case the emphasis on labor helped with this legislation? >> well, i think it showed the commitment by the white house and the biden/harris admi

chairman. >> thank you, ranking member portman. senator padilla, i understand you need to preside over the senate shortly. senator carper has agreed to defer to you for your questions. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you, senator carper as well so i can do exactly that, for to stay in and fulfill my duty to preside over the senate session. i also like to thank secretary mayorkas for his service and his leadership at this a very challenging time for the department of homeland security, and better balancing multiple objectives. yes, maintaining safety and security at the border, along the border i should say but also respecting our nation's i sign and humanitarian laws in the midst of a global health pandemic which the delta variant is causing us or reminding us that we're not out of the woods of the covid-19 pandemic quite yet. but wanted to raise questions and issues on a different topic. mr. secretary, last month as chair of the senate judiciary subcommittee on immigration and citizenship in order safety i've held a hearing on the

portman, thank you for your question. it is an important issue and certainly the leadership conference does represent nonprofit organizations that are committed to protecting civil and human rights. the engagement of these communities in addressing the problems that we have with domestic terrorism are critically important. but as i mentioned in my testimony, we have over 50 statutes on our federal books that can be used to prosecute individuals who are engaged in these activities. i alluded to the fact that those who are charged today with some of the violence directly related to the january 6 insurrection are being prosecuted based on these provisions. i think certainly educating nonprofit groups about the circumstances involved with domestic violence, encouraging the fbi and the department of homeland security to help educate these communities as well on how to apply for these grants, how to use them appropriately would be a very , constructive contribution would help these communities better understand how they can be

i would like to thank senators portman and sinema, senator collins who's on the floor, senator portman, senator sinema, all of the group of 20 -- if i start naming them i'm going to leave somebody out. but particularly senators portman and sinema picked up the ball where i left it. i'd like to think i got it to the five-yard line, maybe not so quite. but i got the ball rolling and i got it moving in the right direction, and they did the tough sledding ahead. i'd like to thank my counterpart senator carper. he has been great in managing this bill on the floor but also to keep the guardrails on that we established to make sure that the group, the bipartisan group was following along with the committee had unanimously passed and how we felt would be the most effective way to invest in our infrastructures for the future. i would like to thank my entire e.p.w. committee team starting with my staff director adam who has been with me for many, many years. what you don't know and what i know is that adam was back in the back with mary francis, and they were the traffic cops through the whole a

ranking member portman, you are recognized for your questions. sen. portman: thank you to the witnesses for the information you provided. mr. yang, i like what he said that we need more facts, information and data. . i think that is true and we heard today some data from some of our witnesses that is concerning. mr. jones, can you discuss some of the data you have compiled? one thing at that was interesting as you said there are more attacks on military and police -- i think you said law enforcement -- than any other group. can you tell us if that is historically true or just true in 2020? you had interesting data about other attacks, saying threats and attacks although worst they have been since 1994. with regard to the information you provided us today, which is new to me, that the highest number of attacks have been a law-enforcement, is that historically accurate or just a recent of element? dr. jones: excellent question. in response to your question about the targeting of government, military and police, it is primarily a recent phenomenon. gover

senator portman, do you have anything further to add on this item? mr. portman: first of all i appreciate the clarification to my colleague from virginia and senator warner, you are correct in your understanding. i would also ask senator warner to clarify the intent of the proposal with respect to the application of the bill to persons solely engaged in the business of validating distributed ledger transactions through proof of work. often called miners. am i correct under our provisions it is our understanding that treasury and the i.r.s. will not treat these miners as brokers? mr. warner: the senator is entirely correct in his analysis of the application of the bill. and further i believe at the -- that the treasury has indicated that this would also be true for individuals engaged in staking their digital assets for the purpose of validating distributed ledger transactions, proof of stake which we know would be much more environmentally sustainable. it would also be true for other validation methods associated with other consensus mechanisms, some of

i want to start out by thanking senator portman and snort cinema for providing support and senators and negotiated in court noted this incredible effort. i also want to thank senator capito who's managing this process along with an five public works committee chairman tom carper. the progress they've made on this issue with the administration earlier this year compared with the excellent leadership they provided the committee really exemplifies what is possible when we work together. it's allowed us to get to this point. madam president, reviving america's roads and bridges is long-standing national priority of congress anddd it's one thats taken us too long to address. we need reliable assessable infrastructure to operate locally and to compete globally. and as it currently stands the bill before us is a well-positioned to meet that exact need. the infrastructure investment and jobs act isn't perfect, no bill evernt is, but it makes historic investment in assets that will benefit every american many, many years. i applaud the group for using the surface transportation bill that we unan

host: weird senator portman earlier saying as far as the financing of this -- we heard senator portman earlier saying as far as the financing of this, where does the money come from for the new spending? guest: the lead negotiators continue to say this is a fully paid for bill. federal transportation observers and congressional experts -- they are noting that the bill is proposing dedicating about $200 billion from unused covid-19 relief funds sent to the states. so the states that have yet to use that money transfer that money that has been unobligated over to this legislation. also there is money from other unused federal-aid programs, such as unemployment insurance, due to the covid pandemic. and then there is several other provisions. one of them is to establish robust tax enforcement policies against -- not against -- tax enforcement of crystal currencies such as bitcoin. then there is another realm of funding proposal here that is called dynamic scoring, in that the revenue from investments -- so like a return on investment from this bill -- that funding has been calculated in th

bipartisan legislation that senator portman and i introduced and that this committee passed last month. as we work to pass this bill in the full senate, could you liberate on the unique need for a clearinghouse specifically focused on houses of worship? >> first of all we think the price safed act is incredibly important. that it would create a portal for faith-based organizations from all religions that would benefit from dhs's understanding of security protocols that they could take on themselves. what's worked for other organizations in terms of best practices. how they can apply for federal grants. we know that this issue in particular is a big problem. the nonprofit security grants program which we would like to see dramatically increased still is underutilized by the vast majority of faith-based organizations. getting more of them to apply and act as the program is critical. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, today is the anniversary of the attack on the secret water. we know that the nonprofit grants program is not utilized despite the attacks on mosques, black churches as we

ceos of eli lily, bp and delta airlines all joining us in the next two hours plus senator rob portman brings us an update on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. check out the futures ahead of the second trading day of august dow futures indicated up by about 160 points nasdaq up by 19. you're watching "squawk box" and this icns bc ♪ someone once told me, that i should get used to people staring. so i did. it's okay, you can stare. when you're a two-time gold medalist, it comes with the territory. >>> futures rising this morning after monday's late-day fade we'll get you caught up. >>> earning in focus we'll be hearing from the ceos of eli lily and bp this hour plus we'll talk quarterly results. >>> and the spread of the delta variant remains a focus, keeping investors on edge after the daily cases in the united states surpasses the peak seen last summer the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now >>> good morning welcome back to "squawk box" right here on cnbc i'm andrew ross sorkin along with becky quick and joe kernin. dow 166 points higher, s&p 500 looking to open 16 points

all of my colleagues for their contributions, but particularly i want to log the work of senator rob portman and senator krysten sinema who led our group of ten senators -- five democrats and five republicans. the other republican members in addition to myself were senators murkowski, cassidy, and romney. on the democratic side, in addition to senator sinema, were senators manchin, shaheen, warner, and tester. and all of us worked very hard, and we're grateful for the ideas and the input that we had from so many of our colleagues. i also want to thank our staffs. we couldn't have done it without them. they too were here night and day. they haven't had a weekend off in a very long time. so, madam president, it is essential that we make this historic investment, and i urge all of my colleagues in voting tomorrow morning for final passage of this long-awaited, much-needed, bipartisan legislation. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor.

senator blount and i joined with senator portman and peters on the homeland security committee to interview officials from multiple agencies and review thousands of documents. we convened major public hearings and then interviewed many many other witnesses. our resulting bipartisan joint report focused on the security, planning, and response failures related the violence and unprecedented insurrection at the capitol and includes key findings and recommendations that must be put in place without delay. i'm pleased we have introduced our bipartisan bill which will make sure that the new police chief will be able to call in help from the national guard without calling a bunch of other people in the mid of a crisis. -- middle of a crisis. we have just passed on a bipartisan basis thanked to senator leahy and shelby major security funding that will help to give the police the resources they need and fund the improvements needed to this capitol. we also have put in place two new sergeants at arms, one in the senate, one in the house, as well as a new police chief, chief major, who i just met with

senator portman and i have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require the department of homeland security to finally develop a plan to handle increases at the border. to take the politics out of this, no matter which party controls congress or the white house, and to provide dedicated funding to carry out that plan and ensure a secure, humane process at the border. finding common ground on issues like this is hard, but it's important. i, like many of you, like many of my colleagues, i spent years admiring the way the late senator john mccain represented arizona in the united states senate. but my first impressions of john mccain were not of him as a senator but of his service in the navy. he was a hero of young naval aviators like me, an example of how to serve your country honorably and bravely, including in the impossible circumstance of being shot down and captured. his legacy means so much to the state of arizona, and it lives on through his children and his wife cindy, who i'm so grateful to have here today in the gallery. thank you. mr. kelly: his legacy, it's something tha

the g10 -- senator portman, collins, warner, manchin, romney, cassidy, shaheen, murkowski. all of you folks who sat with me in the same room, and we've battled it out. sometimes the conversation has been fun, sometimes it's not been so much fun. but the. truth is, is every one of these folks wanted to get to yes. and in the end, we did get to yes. i want to thank senator schumer. i want to thank him for his patience, not something that he's known for. but he has been incredibly patient as this bill has been debated and changed and moved forward, particularly over the last week. although i will say that he pushed the envelope and made sure we were tending to business even before that. because i think senator schumer also wants to see this bill come to fruition. and i also need to thank the administration. the folks that represent president biden in these negotiations, and i'm going to name names -- louisa, brian, steve -- these folks were incredible resources, and they were incredibly helpful, and this bill would not have happened without their input. i also want to thank al

portman: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: madam president, i appreciate my colleague from ohio. he -- from delaware. he is the chair of a lot of work that pent into this package -- went into this package. he and senator capito from west virginia worked together on a bipartisan basis. and my recollection is in the underlying bill that we pick up in the broader bill passed with a vote of 22-0 out of his committee and that's because they did good work in finding out where there was common ground and, frankly, the american people deserve to have good roads and bridges and infrastructure to drive on, travel on so it's a big part of this bill and i thank him for his work on that. we have now voted twice to proceed to this very important legislation to finally after a lot of years of talking about it make a major improvement to our nation's roads, bridges, railroads and ports, electric infrastructure, grids and more. it is overdue. and i'm delighted to say that twice now we have voted to proceed to final passage. one was a

senator blunt and i join with senators portman and peters on the homeland security committee to meet with officials from multiple agencies and review thousands of documents. we convened major public hearings and then interviewed many, many other witnesses. our resulting bipartisan joint report focused on the security, planning, and response failures related to the violent and unprecedented insurrection at the capitol, and it includes key findings and recommendations that must be put in place without delay. i am pleased that we have introduced our bipartisan bill, which will make sure that the new police chief will be able to call in help from the national guard without calling a bunch of other people in the middle of a crisis. we have just passed on a bipartisan basis, thanks to senators leahy and shelby, major security funding that will help to give the police the resources they need and fund the improvements needed to this capitol. we also have put in place two new sargeants at arms, one in the senate, one in the house, as well as a new police chief, chief major, who i just met wit

senator portman and i have introduced legislation that would require the department of homeland security to finally develop a plan to handle increases at the border. no matter which party controls congress or the white house, provide dedicated funding to carry out that plan and ensure a secure, humane process at the border. finding common ground on issues like this is hard. it is important. like many of you, my colleagues, i spent years admiring the way the late senator john mccain represented arizona. my first impressions of john mccain or not of him as a senator. -- were not of him as a senator. -- an example of how to serve your country honorably. including in the impossible circumstance of being shot down and captured. his legacy means so much to the state of arizona. a lives on through his children and wife. who i am so grateful to have here today in the gallery. thank you. [applause] >> his legacy is something that cannot be matched. it is what inspires me serving in this senate seat. it is his example of bipartisanship, that continues to demand more of us. i am going to continue f

portman: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: i appreciated the comments from my colleague from connecticut and he talked about both the bipartisan infrastructure bill that is on the floor of the senate will be voted on tomorrow morning and he also talked about the budget proposal that is also going to be considered by the senate this week. i want to start by just being sure that those two are distinguished because there's a big contrast between them. the bipartisan infrastructure pack yablg, i believe, -- package, i believe is a sensible approach to restoring our nation's infrastructure, as we'll talk about in a moment and that legislation, again, is meant to be voted on tomorrow morning. the other proposal is the 350 -- i'm sorry. $3.5 trillion, or more, budget resolution that will be partisan, not bipartisan, that's being proposed by the democrats which is a tax and spending ex straj gansa and my -- ex extravaganza and my concern is that not only does it spend on say sets we don't -- assets we don't have and raises ta

once you're not in office any anymore, but also as senator portman was saying, the sort of hipocrisy of someone strongly in favor because he knows how popular it is with the american people. >> that's why he pushed it. >> because democrats and republicans on a voter level really support the idea of infrastructure spending and so for the former president it looks very nakedly like he knows this is popular. he wanted to do it because it was popular. if the current president does it and it's possibpular, it's to j biden's credit and he doesn't want that win. >> republican squabbling, let's talk about democratic internal squabbling as well. progressives last week in ohio set back the special election, bernie sanders back a candidate, losing to a congressional black caucus, candidate in the cleveland area. house zrivenlth listen to how a top house democrat hakeem jeffries, had a warning speebing to "the new york times." the extreme left is obsessed about talking trash with mainstream democrats on twitter. when the majority of the electorate constitute mainstream democrats at the polls. in

i am happy to yield the floor to senator portman. mr. portman: chairman carper, thank you. thank you for managing this important legislation and the time you put into it. i asked my team how much of this underlying legislation we're talking about on the floor was already written, in other words, what did senator capito, senator carper and others on the e.p.w. committee already write with the surface transportation reauthorization bill that we're picking up in this legislation and moving forward to ensure that it gets reauthorized, certainly before september 30, and we hope far before that, and it's about half of the pages of the bill is language that was written through the committee process here. now, some may be happy to hear that, some may be unhappy to hear that, but that's the truth. it made our job easier because a lot of the hard work was done. in the case of the legislation that senator carper and senator capito shepherded through their committee with the highways and bridges, it was a 20-0 vote on the committee, unanimous. we thought it was appropriate for us to no

vance and rob portman. bump for vance in the polls, what do you attribute that to? >> your viewers are familiar with j.d. vance. there's a crowded race there to succeed senator rob portman, who's retiring. j.d. vance was behind. jonathan swan got his hands on some figures from the super pac of jd vance showing that he's moving up and he got a very important endorsement, congressman jim banks of indiana who leads the republican study committee, the conservative caucus, he's endorsing vance and j.d. vance, who's doing tons of conservative cable also getting hits there. in your feed, you're seeing he -- playing a lot of the cultural themes on twitter, lighting up twitter with seemingly a new fight every day. >> a big day for infrastructure on the hill. do you think we're going to see any surprises? >> the surprise is this is happening. biden's change the world agenda is happening. this is his second trillion around 11:00 a.m. when we get the final votes from the senate and go to the house and president biden's signature. we're starting, just in the last 24 hours. we've

people like rob portman and roy blunt. that changes the possibility for more bipartisan deals like the one we are seeing right now. >> that rob portman is very key to negotiating. >> it is all connected. >> we are bringing it all back. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much, judy. ♪ >> we are just about at the halfway point in the limbic games in tokyo. these are probably the strangest in modern times given covid and the lack of spectators. there are amazing feats and records being open everyday. the past few days have been compelling. >> the past 72 hours have brought some smiles and tears of joy for these unusual times. some of the highlights so far, the rebound to win the gold medal in the floor exercise in gymnastics. simone biles is expected to compete in the balance beam files tomorrow -- bema finals tomorrow. of course, there are some disappointments. that includes the u.s. women's soccer team losing its chance for a gold medal today to canada. christine is covering the games for usa today. welcome back to the

and wonderful things that is striking too, republican senator rob portman, who has been central to the negotiations, is behind this bill, drafted this, this is a cornerstone of his legislative achievement, in his career in office, but all the republicans are running to replace him are bashing this and say it's the wrong approach. >> wow. interesting politics, but the process seems to be on track. we'll watch it throughout the weekend. manu raju with reporting there. >>> with me in the studio dana bash, edward from the atlantic and cnn's lauren fox. i what tonight come baback to the former president and his hijinks on the bill or sour grapes to this bill. let's focus on the bill. it does appear the president's approach is going to work, at least through the senate. not to the finish line. it gets complicated. but, the president believes he's on the verge of a win to the point he's delaying going to the beach to stay around for a few more phone calls if necessary, b, i expect an event saying i told you so, the president at the white house saying this is a big deal. >> it's a bill that wo

he said kyrsten sinema, rob portman. he said four people don't know anything about infrastructure transportation. >> what is the speaker going to have to do to keep her caucus in line to get this through because she can't afford many defections. >> she has a balancing act. progressives are looking to nancy pelosi to stick to her commitment she made which was i'm going to make sure that reconciliation comes up at the same time as the bipartisan bill. how do you do that? when moderates on the other end also say we want the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before we do reconciliation. so she has the two factions of her caucus who are not in line. on top of that, democrats want to do their own things to the pra bipartisan infrastructure bill. do we end up putting in earmarks, which members want? does defazio get his hands on it and let him make changes because he's upset his bill they passed out of the house that there are elements of it that are not included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. so far as we know

it connects rob portman's and mitch mcconnell's states both lawmakers have said, the bill could fund that project drivers trying to cross the ohio river every day know of the aggravating traffic on the brent spenls bridge. it connects cincinnati to northern kentucky. it opened 70 years ago back then it was expected to accommodate about 80,000 cars a day. now it usually handles double that local business owners say they lose business because of the construction deliveries are never on time and bill would go toward constructing a second bridge next to the brent spenls to ease traffic jams and bottlenecks but it still faces an uphill battle in the house it is headed there next. senior congressional correspondent, one hurdle cleared. another to go. how does that look >> well, the divisions over this bill and the house are already on display and i'm just talking about the democrats. on one side, moderates like the congressman from new jersey and one of the leaders of the bipartisan problem solvers caucus they sent a letter pleading with nancy pelosi to bring the infrastructure bill up for

and rob portman who helped to write this bill, said he gets it >> in particular, we want to be sure miners and stakers and others now or in the future who play a key role by validating transactions or sellers of hardware or software for digital wallets or note operators or others who are not brokers are clearly exempted >> reporter: now the final vote on the infrastructure bill is scheduled for early tomorrow morning, but republicans and democrats are negotiating right now to speed up that process in exchange for the chance to make additional changes to the bill, including on a language around cryptos. guys >> so a lot of these big crypto advocates are making a lot of noise talking a big game, but what is the alternative here you look at markets like china and india and they're not any friendlier toward crypto you could argue they're a lot more stringent what is the alternative. have you heard anything threats from the crypto industry about what they can actually do or would do if this bill passes as is >> yeah, there is really not much that they would be able to do i mean, one of the reas

of republicans, including people like lindsey graham, but you're also going to need people like rob portman to play some leadership. that means that mitch mcconnell and what he does in the background playing at three d chess game that he's always playing. will be important as we move forward. remember the fiscal year ends at the end of september, october, 1st kicks off the new federal fiscal year that puts a lot of pressure on everything else going on the background in the biden agenda for september, so this is the next step in that two pronged approach that we see a lot of pressure this week on chuck schumer and the biden administration overall, yes, absolutely. let me ask you a little bit about what comes next because in the house speaker pelosi says that she is not going to take up either piece of legislation until the senate. passes both measures. what do you think about that approach? is there the possibility that strategy backfires? there is a problem with that approach, because in the background of all of that is a january 6th commission and the hearings that are going on about the i

this is rob portman's bill. they didn't get elected president of the united states. we're not going to have two years where we have the rob portman agenda or mitt romney agenda. we're going to have the joe biden agenda. this is his achievement on a bipartisan bill and we'll get the rest of his agenda and we will pass it by the end of the year. >> this bipartisan bill has overwhelming public support. i've seen numbers in the 70% range. i think that has to do with the perception of what is infrastructure. and by that i mean this. i went to your website and you like many others, i do it, cite the american society of civil engineers. and i think their most recent grade for our infrastructure is a c-minus in this country. but congressman, i'm putting on the screen right now how they define and i think how the public defines infrastructure. aviation, broadband, drinking water, levees, public parks, roads, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. not the definition that you're using in the so-called human infrastructure bill. i guess my question is do you think and can you justify

especially when you see how many people are retiring in the senate, people like rob portman, blunt who are traditional establishment members could be replaced by more trumpian figures and that changes sort of the possibility for more kind of bipartisan deals like the ones we are seeing right now. >> that rob portman. >> key. >> is key to negotiating. >> woodruff: it is all connected. >> we're bringing it all back. >> woodruff: amy walter, tamara keith, congratulations. >> thank you very much, judy. >> woodruff: we're just about at the halfway point of the olympic games in tokyo. these are the strangest in modern times, given covid and the lack of spectators. but there are amazing featsnd rerds being broken every day. the past few days have bee particularly compelling. amna nawaz has our look. >> nawaz: judy, the past 72 hours have brought some smiles and tears of joy for these unusual times. some of those highlights: jade carey's rebound to win the gold medal in the floor exercise in gymnastics. simone biles is expected t compete in the balance beam finals tomorrow, big wins and multip

it connects rob portman's and mitch mcconnell's states both lawmakers have said, the bill could fund that project drivers trying to cross the ohio river every day know of the aggravating traffic on the brent it connects cincinnati t spence bridge. it connects cincinnati to northern kentucky. it opened 70 years ago back then it was expected to accommodate about 80,000 cars a day. now it usually handles double that local business owners say they lose business because of the construction construction deliveries are never on employees can't make it across deliveries are never on time and bill would go toward constructing a second bridgeo ee traffic jams and bottlenecks but it still faces a next to the brent spence to ease traffic jams and bottlenecks but it still faces an uphill battle in the house it is headed there next. senior congressional correspondent, one hurdle cleared. another to go. how does that look >> well, the divisions over this bill and the house are already on display and i'm just talking about the democrats. on one side, moderates like the congressman from new jersey an

want to bring in republican senator rob portman out of ohio back home in cincinnati. thank you for your time. good morning to you. you helped craft it, 19 republicans got on board and voted yes with you. "the new york times" gave all the credit to joe biden. ted cruz, however, is not on board. he said the following. my colleagues have tried to claim this bill is paid for. it is not. even if you count the gimmicks and fake offsets it will increase the deficit by over a quarter million dollars. make your case. why is it a good bill, senator? >> first of all, it is the right thing to do for the country. infrastructure is crumbling. 46,000 bridges need to be replaced one in your hometown of cincinnati right behind me. also it's true that this is a bipartisan effort. that's good for country right now, too. there is a definite need for us to replace infrastructure and improve it. people get that. 86% of american people ought to think we need to do that. in terms of the economics of it, this is good for the economy. this is long-term spending. not spent next year or the year