Today on Velshi, the Senate is in session working through the weekend on the brink of a major breakthrough.

We will take you there live.

Plus, the alarming new data on the Delta variant is stirring up the quacks and conspiracy theorists on the right.

We'll cut through the disinformation and tell you who's spreading it.

Then, new reporting that is the clearest sign yet that Republicans in Congress,

who were in touch with a certain failed former president on the day of the January 6th

insurrection, might get hauled before the select committee investigating the riot.

We'll talk to a member of that committee later in the show.

Velshi starts now.

Thank you. of that committee later in the show. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is Sunday, August the first. I'm Ali Velshi. It is a rare for the Senate to work

on a Sunday, but that's what's happening today. Majority leader Chuck Schumer says the

chamber will reconvene today at noon as lawmakers work to finalize

the text of that nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. Senators spent yesterday waiting

on this package to be finalized. Leader Schumer is urging that a group of lawmakers work as quickly

as possible. But I urge the bipartisan group to finish their work so we can begin the amendment process

here on the floor.

I have said for weeks that the Senate is going to move forward on both tracks of infrastructure

before the beginning of the August recess.

The longer it takes to finish, the longer

will be here. But we're going to get the job done. That August recess, by the way, is set to

begin on August the night. That gives the Senate just a little over a week to finish up on this

bill, the physical infrastructure plan, so they can move on

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