within the republican party. he is the loan. black republican senator in congress at this moment, and in his announcement launch, he really leaned into his own personal history. that s something that people close to him believe is something that will be a big selling point with people. the son of a single mother who grew up in poverty, and he really emphasized that as he tried to talk about what he can offer to the american people, but also offer some type of connections with them as well. should we listen to it did okay, so let s listen to a little bit of how he was introducing himself. i was raised by a single mother and poverty, the spoons in our apartment. plastic not silver, but we had faith. we put in the work and we had an unwavering belief that we, too, could live the american dream. i know america is a land of opportunity , not a land of oppression. i know it because i ve lived it. that s why it pains my soul to see the biden liberals attacking every wrong of the lad
hard to erase female athletes. and later, more shocking video d from the breakdown of lawca s and order in america s major cities. it s happening everywhere, every place, every day. take a looplace,k. s mr. now, as mr. rogers usedegular to say, just a regular day in ht the neighborhood. not really. this has to end now.o en bau re not going to believe how bad these far left has nows become. it is getting worse every day.o and we ll have more in a moment. but first, for many, today t days represents one of the worst days of the year. it is the official deadline today because the 15th weekendoi to file your taxes this year, you, the american people, youe e have already forked over more money to the federal government than ever before in history. even if resnow, even if you ren a deep blue city, in a deep vas t mablue state, the vast majorit of your tax dollars being sent to the washington sewer and swamp, the average american household is now forking overo almost thirty seven
new york. thank you for being with us as we await a critical decision minutes away that could have major fallout from your bank account. the federal reserve is poised to once again raise interest rates to try to tame inflation. this would be the fourth straight big rate hike and the impacts will certainly be felt at the white house less than a mile away where we ll hear shortly from president biden set to discuss his latest efforts to bolster the economy. and then tonight he ll make a primetime address focused on threats to democracy. but it is those pocketbook issues that most voters say are most important as they fill in their ballot. you can see the economy tops the list with election day now five days away. matt egan is live outside the federal reserve. how much pressure is the fed facing right now to make the right call here? reporter: well, ana, the pressure has just been building and building on the fed. it s palpable. people are angry about the high cost of living a
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj 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. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
mar-a-lago, florida home. and what potential crimes are being investigated. agents say they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, at least one was marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classification. the warrant also reveals some of the potential crimes officials are looking at including violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. at this point, no charges have been filed. cnn s evan perez is live for us with details on this. evan, what more are you learning about what was seized by the fbi? reporter: good morning, fredericka. you re highlighting the most important part of this and what the fbi found when they went into mar-a-lago to retrieve these 20 boxes. the top item, obviously, are these documents that were labeled as ts/sci. this is among the most tightly guarded secrets of the u.s. government. these are things that in order to view them you have to go to special rooms that are des