justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
i will say mr. sid pallone did appear voluntarily and answer a variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come. there is that, and also reporting on what could be a big step in the chain of testimony from another figure, steve bannon. ryan nobles joins us now but the latest. what can you tell us about what he told the committee, do we know anything? the first thing is he was behind closed doors for a significant amount of time. the committee heard testimony from cipollone for more than seven hours and as you heard from congresswoman zoe lofgren, what he had to say was productive. the got information from him that they were looking for. the question is just how much of what they have heard from prior witnesses was cipollone able to specifically confirm? there is a little bit of a caveat that they provided to that. take a listen. he could say so one s
for the paddle and it was useful. i will say that pat cipollone did appear voluntarily and answered questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses. i think we did learn a few things which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come. so, there is that and there is also reporting on what could be a big step of obtaining testimony from another figure, steve bannon. what else can you tell us about what mr. pat cipollone told the committee ? he was behind closed doors for a significant amount of time . as you heard from congresswoman loughran, and what he had to say was productive. they got information from him that they were looking for. now, the question is how much of what they heard from prior witnesses was pat cipollone able to specifically can confirm and there was a little bit of a caveat that was provided today. take a listen. he could say so-and-so was wrong which he did not say. there were things that he might not be present for or in some c
and the important health care item that was blocked by republicans. plus, another loss for supporters of abortion rights. indiana becomes the first state to pass a near total ban on the procedure since the overturning of roe v. wade. and it was a big weekend for maga world in dallas. we ll have the recap of cpac just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senate democrats have done it. after more than a year of negotiations and dead ends, democrats have passed a reconciliation package that includes a bulk of their priorities. the yeas are 50, the nays are 50, the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. no republicans voted in favor of the final bill. it passed with a tie-breaking vote from vice president kamala harris. the bill went through some last-minute changes during an overnight vote-o-rama. that process al
15% minimum tax on large corporations. joe biden says at the end of the day, it is a win for the everyday americans. it s a game changer for ordinary folks. some of it won t kick in for a little bit, but it s all good. [ inaudible ] so will this streak of legislative wins help set the stage for a political rebound for democrats in november? victories, though, in washington rarely translate into success at the ballot box. just ask former president barack obama after he passed sweeping health care and financial reform packages, and still lost democratic control of congress. but will this time be different? things change pretty rapidly. joining me now from capitol hill are my guests. so, sahill, what s the word? well, it s been such a roller coaster journey for this piece of legislation over the last 18 months, it s had more deaths and resurrections. it got over the senate with a 50-50 vote broken by vice president kamala harris. after three dozen amendments were voted on,