health care bill becomes law. then, team trump sets its sights on confidential sources. i understand the witness protection issue but at the same time, it s not going to be concealed for very long. i ll talk to george conway over the fight of unsealing the fbi affidavit. plus we are facing very difficult and challenging times. we are facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat. robert draper on the anti-democratic forces advancing state by state. steve kornacki at the big board for election night in america. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. it is a big day here at msnbc. we have the debut of alex wagner in an hour. it is also a huge day for the country, the planet, for joe biden and the white house, for everyone. because today president joe biden signed well, the first as insane as it is to say, the first true climate bill in this country s history. it is the largest ever piece of american legisl
nations, ensuring this history and repairing the damage done by removing native children from their parents. this senate indian affairs committee hearing is just over two hours. sen. schatz: good aft, welcome to the committee s oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interior s federal indian boarding school initiative investigative report and a legislative hearing on s-2907. a bill to establish a truth and healing commission on indian boarding school policies in the united states. the indian boarding school era was a dark period in our nation s history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. american indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. as the department report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. these schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and languages, separating native children from their
sen. schatz: good afternoon, welcome to the committee s oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interior s federal indian boarding school initiative investigative report and a legislative hearing on s-2907. a bill to establish a truth and healing commission on indian boarding school policies in the united states. the indian boarding school era was a dark period in our nation s history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. american indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. as the department report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. these schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and languages, separating native children from their families and their homelands, and indoctrinating them to, as the founder of the carlyle school ominously said, kill the indian and save the man. and that was not an empty p
in south carolina, and billions in new climate spending. bret: president biden will hit the road to promote the legislation but yet to see if vulnerable democrats appear alongside him. his poll numbers are around 40%. gillian: peter doocy is with us to kick things off from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what part of this bill are officials hoping to highlight this afternoon? peter: it s not inflation reduction so far, gillian, even though it is called the inflation reduction act. instead the president is teasing this bill signing by highlighting the green impact. he tweeted the inflation reduction act will position america to meet my climate goals, saving families hundreds a year in energy costs and take advantage of clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits, more than twice the savings. the package was more than twice this size but even the slimmed-down version, the democrats in congress negotiated so it could pass, has republican colleagues nervous about what comes nex
and elsewhere have been clamoring for the justice department to unseal the affidavit. and president trump could reveal the documents that he has as well. that would be transparency. meanwhile, an attorney for rudy giuliani said the former new york city mayor is now a target of the criminal investigation into possible 2020 election interference in georgia by former president trump and others. giuliani is a former personal attorney for trump and last week was ordered to testify in person before a grand jury handling the case. that is expected to take place tomorrow. giuliani was subpoenaed last month but his legal team delayed his appearance, citing health concerns. and the former cfo of the trump organization is expected to plead guilty as early as this thursday in a criminal taxes case. the charges against allen weisselberg are tied to his indictment by the manhattan district attorney s office investigating former trump s businesses. but terms of the expected deal were not