to spend less and we achieved that goal. was it everything i wanted? no. but sitting with one house, a democratic senate and a democratic president who didn t want to meet with us, i think we did pretty dang good for the american public. our correspondent, nomia iqbal, has the latest from capitol hill. there was a sigh of relief in the chamber when it was finally announced the bill has passed the house of representatives. remember, the magic number was 218. in the end, 314 voted yes, so they overwhelmingly backed the bill. in terms of breaking it down in numbers, ultimately more democrats supported the bill, 165. 149 republicans backed it. in terms of the republicans that opposed the bill, many of them were ones that we suspected, the ultra conservative members of the party, the house freedom caucus, who felt that the bill didn t go far enough in spending cuts. and then over on the democratic side, there were members of the more progressive parts of the party who voted no as
biden wants to ban menthol cigarettes which are favored by black smokers. he wants to legalize weed for white college kids. republicans hope to siphon off some even if a small amount of biden s voters in some of the battleground states like nevada, iowa and pennsylvania. the white house for their part they have not given a clear reason for this delay. it s really interesting and important. thank you for tracking it. and cnn this morning continues right now. i don t have a woman problem. you have a corruption problem and that s what people need to know. nikki is corrupt. it s not worth my time to respond to him. her donors, wall street liberal donors make money in china. they are not going to let her be tough on china and she will cave to the donors. she will not stand up for you. he is mad because the wall street donors used to support him and now they support me. there you is have it. if you watched the debate it was fiery one. good morning. i m poppy harlow
to spend less and we achieved that goal. was it everything i wanted? no. but sitting with one house, a democratic senate and a democratic president who didn t want to meet with us, i think we did pretty dang good for the american public. our correspondent, nomia iqbal, has the latest from capitol hill. there was a sigh of relief in the chamber when it was finally announced the bill has passed the house of representatives. remember, the magic number was 218. in the end, 314 voted yes, so they overwhelmingly backed the bill. in terms of breaking it down in numbers, ultimately more democrats supported the bill, 165. 149 republicans backed it. in terms of the republicans that opposed the bill, many of them were ones that we suspected, the ultra conservative members of the party, the house freedom caucus, who felt that the bill didn t go far enough in spending cuts.
manchin was lined up with the rest of the democratic party to move aggressively to reform some parts of the big pharma market. and kyrsten sinema was the person standing in the way. so, yes, i think democrats are going to be frustrated, but at the same time, she was going to be facing a tough primary challenge in a state where she s not belove by democrats. yeah, and she was often the stumbling block, particularly when it came to issues involving her financial backers or her friends in the financial industry or pharmaceutical industry. she would keep her views to herself on the other issue. when it came to the infrastructure bill, and the build back better bill didn t go through in the end, it was kyrsten sinema we couldn t get a response out of. it was not very easy to find out
for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinian push