plus, on the trail. as candidates make their pitch to voters, one democrat goes all in on a major issue. i am pro-choice and i am going to be governor because of my commitment to the women of georgia. what s the winning strategy for november? democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams joins me ahead. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is watching the u.s. senate pull an all-nighter. you are looking at live pictures of the senate floor where tired lawmakers are still voting. after more than nine hours of all-night debate on the democrats sweeping tax, health and climate package. saturday vice president kamala harris cast a tie-breaking vote. right now democrats are trying to remain united as republicans and bernie sanders offer up amendments to the bill. i want to go straight to capitol hill and cnn s chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, you have been up all night. you don t look it, but you ve been up all night with
graham and democratic senator richard blumenthal. plus, on the trail, as candidates make their pitch to voters, one democrat goes all in on a major issue. i am pro-choice and i am going to be governor because of my commitment to the women of georgia. what is the winning strategy for november? democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams joins me ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering how long they will go. you re looking at live pictures of the senate floor where tired lawmakers are still voting after more than 12 hours of all night debate on the democrats sweeping tax, health and climate package. right now, democrats have stayed largely united as republicans and bernie sanders offer up amendments to the bill. but now we re learning democrats may be trying to make some changes of their own. i want to go straight to capitol hill to cnn s chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, what s the latest? reporte
pharmaceutical companies invent less new drugs. remember covid? well, it was the american pharmaceutical industry that got us the drugs that keep us out of the hospital and keep a lot of us alive. this is price fixing. it s never worked for us. not going to work now. hiring 86,000 more irs agents, if that makes you feel better, you missed a lot. they re coming after waitresses and uber drivers and everybody else to collect more taxes. if you think growing the irs is good for you, you re wrong. do you want to respond or move on? i think the irs is going to target the highest income americans. as the saying goes, that s where the money is. that s where they re going to look to collect. the idea there s going to be this army of irs agents descending on the average americans is preposterous. for the biggest corporations in this country to pay nor taxes, for them to do stock buybacks that benefit the shareholders. in the case of oil companies,
stuff, the average american sitting at their kitchen table deciding whether they can buy medicine, pay their mortgage, or go to the grocery store and get the food they need, they re going to be able to get that medicine much more cheaply and overwhelmingly american people want to cut the costs of prescription drugs, this measure does it through enabling medicare to do what the va does, what the department of defense does, negotiate for lower prices and that will affect the entire course of i want to bring one other issue that is in this bill i don t agree with that. go ahead. prescription drugs, this is price fixing, they take 15 drugs and put a limit on what you can charge. that sounds good, until pharmaceutical companies invent less new drugs. remember covid? well, it was the american pharmaceutical industry that got us the drugs that keep us out of the hospital and keep a lot of us alive. this is price fixing, never worked for us, not going to work