hey, everyone. it s saturday, august 6th. thank you for waking up with us. phil i shouldn t ask about how you re holding up. how is your wife holding up with those four children? they have been fed, as far as i know right now. not watching on the cameras like you guys have. they are happy with their breakfast. i hope there s some cartoons going on. i have to be careful about tv stuff. it s saturday. you watch cartoons, right? phil, when are you coming home? after 11:00. don t worry, wifey. walk through the door and here s the children. it s the beauty of it. amara great to be with you. step by step, democrats moving closer to a major climate bill. that bill has passed a key hurdle in kyrsten sinema, who supports the legislation. her support is essential as democrats push for passage of the legislation, after what we will call a convoluted procedural process. here s a snapshot of what is in the bill. it includes $369 billion to combat climate change, which is the lar
conveniently ignoring that to our bill in fact lowers the deficit, and is completely paid for. we are watching every minute of what is happening on the senate floor. we re gonna have the latest for you in just a minute. also this hour, alex jones ordered to pay up and pay a big for his lies about sandy hook in the murder of innocent children. we are going to look at that story later had as well. we do as i said want to start in washington on capitol hill. where right now we are starting we are waiting that key vote on the inflation reduction act, a bill that has already seen some changes today as the senate parliamentarian rules that a cap on drug plate prices for the commercial market cannot be remain in the package. but some democrats are vowing to stick together in the face of what could be a challenging and very long amendment process. want to bring in nbc s giuliani strong capitol hill to talk to some of this. good to talk to you, once again julia. so bring us up to da
lost to former trump administration official john gibbs. gibbs has been known to peddle 2020 election lies. in the arizona, house speaker rusty bowers who delivered emotional testimony to the january 6th committee, he is projected to lose his bid for a senate seat. the winner of that race claims, the devil himself meddled in the 2020 election. the devil. and in one of the largest rebukes to the supreme court decision on abortion ban in that state. nick valencia is in topeka, kansas, following the story this morning. nick, the voter turnout here really highlighted the importance of this issue that seems to have driven voters to the polls. and they voted no. that s right. good morning, jim. voter turnout turned out to be a huge factor here in kansas. a state where there is nearly twice as many registered republicans as democrats. but a huge swath of unaffiliated voters. that s what kansans in the state trying to protect abortion access were counting on. they worked tireless
About the Mask Mandates in place at the moment and Karine Jeanpierre said yes, the way this process is supposed to work. Its a different message out of the white house which is tightly controlling some of the mandates through cdc recommendations throughout the pandemic. Trace indeed. Gillian take a look at this, any moment now, Mitch Mcconnell will face reporters, it is expected to be mcconnells health, obviously, after two freezeups over the last few weeks. Welcome back, im Gillian Turner in washington. Good to be with you, trace. Trace gillian, good to be with you. Im Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. Breaking news in the hunter biden probe, david weiss and hunters attorneys have until the end of the day to provide an update on the battle over a Diversion Agreement that was aimed to keep hunter out of prison. Special council weiss says the agreement fell through when the plea deal collapsed in july. Hunter bidens team is arguing the opposite. David spu
Governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden will be on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. Well go through the legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 24th. We made it to friday. It was in doubt there for a while. Thank goodness. Im jonathan lemire. Im alongside the bbcs katty kay. We are in for joe, mika, and willie. Good friday morning, katty. Yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. I think that is worth waiting for friday for. We now have that at least. I suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. Hanging, yeah. With us to dive into this important story, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, and msnbc political analy