Today on Velshi, a new deadline for Democrats to pass the Biden economic agenda.

This, as talk in the White House, turns to what to cut from the landmark bill in order to win two crucial votes in the Senate.

Plus, they rallied against the Biden administration for abandoning our Afghan allies, then turned around and voted to cut a crucial lifeline to those very Afghans,

now that they're refugees here in the United States. We will call them out. And we know that

there are more monuments to mermaids than to congresswomen in the United States. Find out what else

we learned from a new audit of American monuments. Then I hit the road this week in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

You won't want to miss the raw and powerful conversations I had with six Latinx Texans about

everything from culture to COVID to abortion rights.

Velshi starts now.

And a good morning to you. It is Sunday, October the 3rd. I'm Ali Velshi. We've got a lot of developing news this morning, so let's get right to it.

First, tomorrow is the start of a new term for the Supreme Court, and women's access to abortion is on the line.

The conservative leading high court is now set to reconvene on Monday. It's going to hear a challenge to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion

nationwide, along with several other related cases this term. Organizers say hundreds of thousands

of demonstrators gathered in hundreds of cities across the country this weekend,

with some taking the fight for reproductive freedom right to the Supreme Court steps.

And just days before yesterday's marches, the Biden administration urged a federal judge

to block the nation's most restrictive abortion law in Texas, which has been preventing most women from

accessing this form of health care since September. This is just one of the many things

President Biden is working on as his administration reintroduces the country to what functional

government looks like. That brings me to the ongoing negotiations surrounding his bipartisan

infrastructure bill and social policy spending package that has been dubbed the, quote, human infrastructure plan.

Now, you'll remember how the twice-impeached ex-president managed to turn infrastructure week into a long-running joke on Capitol Hill that failed to even make a serious attempt to accomplish anything.

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