politicsnation. tonight s lead, out with the old, in with the new. right now there s literally just hours left in 2022. a turbulent political year now ending with several transitions. not least of which being this incoming divided congress. the winds of change are blowing in both parties, as new leadership takes the reins for congressional democrats, for republicans, and internal battles over the parties future rages even as the gop prepares to take over the house in a little over a week. 2022 you had its highs and lows. but, i am grateful for a few things. democrats retained the senate, and i ve held on to morehouse eats not expected. the biden white house has a long list of policy wins to boast about as the year ends. and, even with a congressional probe into january 6th ending, the investigation surrounding donald trump appears to be tightening by the day. and, yesterday at the after six years of legal wrangling, we finally know just how little donald trump paid in federal
gesture from capitol hill and senior msnbc political contributor matt dowd as well. julia, if you will, start us off. take us through it. what do we know? yasmin, this is the first step in avoiding a government shutdown. it comes 12 days away from that january 19th deadline which had been looming. what this top line number means is that democratic senate leader chuck schumer and house speaker johnson have both agreed on a top line spending number which means that now that they have the steak and get into the nitty-gritty of how all of that money is appropriated. once we hear this number and learn of this later this afternoon, we should be hearing from the appropriators more on how the breakdown is. there s a lot to keep an eye on as we look at what is into this spending deal a number, specifically one of the issues is a 69 billion dollars in non military domestic funding which
the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining
alphabet shares jumped after hours as the company announced that its quarterly revenue rose to more than 69 billion dollars that s 3 percent higher than the previous year. microsoft stock also got a boost in extended trading, with a quarterly revenue beat that was mainly driven by growth in its cloud computing businesses. for more on this we re joined by daniel ives managing director and senior equity analyst with wedbush securities. earlier, he told me this is welcome news for the tech sector. , ,., welcome news for the tech sector. , , , ., sector. yes, some sunshine in a dark environment. sector. yes, some sunshine in a dark environment. this - sector. yes, some sunshine in a dark environment. this is - sector. yes, some sunshine in a dark environment. this is a - dark environment. this is a flex their muscles moment for big tech in terms of what we saw from alphabet and microsoft. both on cloud and digital advertising. market is going to be focused on these results tomorrow.
from the south, and the midwest going back to the civil war era. looking at that history, you are task force has looked at five areas specifically in its evaluation of the discrimination effect on the states black residents. housing, incarceration, property seizures, devaluation of black businesses, and health care. each area representing a loss that could be quantified. another housing discrimination is key in the study, and your panel found that from 1933 to 1977 that factor alone would as to meet you around 569 billion dollars in losses, $223,200 per person. in reparations. can you tell us why housing discrimination factors so heavily in the state s history? absolutely.