senate democrats have passed the inflation reduction act. they re major climate in health policy act on vice president kamala harris breaking the 50/50 tie. the yays 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. the final version of the bill includes some huge wins for democrats, including investing nearly 400 billion dollars over ten years to attack climate change and to boost clean energy. it allows medicare to negotiate drug prices. raises taxes on some billion dollar corporations, and in a statement president biden said of the bill quote, it required many compromises. doing important things almost always does. well, let s talk about some of those compromises. senate republicans block democrats proposal to cap the price of insulin, to $35 a month on the private insurance market. in the final hours of the marathon vote-a-rama. kirsten sinema pushed for a change to the bills
book. the only side effect is me craving bamboo shoots 24 hours a day. enough of that we are learning more about the july 4th themed, i m not showing the guy but we have a replacement for him. this is a pile of horse [bleep]. and trust me it s an improvement. we aren t saying his name but that s not good enough, from now on it s just horse [bleep] from us. my apologies to the horses and their [bleep]. thank you. the fact is for every minute his face is on a screen, you create more like it, it s a power of the media. ask any woman who had a jennifer aniston haircut in the 90s. or me. enough with the guy s face, he s a mass killer, not the plus sized cover girl. of mass shootings are almost always linked to previous ones, they keep stats and record the damage like goals and a demented fantasy league. it infuriates me to see the new slap that face right up there all the time as they repeat the same b.s. we are ready heard before. meanwhile the victims get a quick mention like
to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn t agree with the idea of putting out this stuff, i told the president was bullish. it i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said was saying. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and let the blame of this attack. president t
good tuesday to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we have our eye on several key races, georgia, alabama and beyond. 2022 election lies are key in several of those matchups around the country. some running on those lies, brian kemp, endorsed, however, by former vice president mike pence. he is facing a battle against senator pe rdue backed by forme president trump. kemp resisted his ideas in 2020. president biden on a trip to asia, his first since becoming president. he said his issue on taiwan has not changed despite his comment that our military would help defend taiwan if there was an invasion. let s begin this hour with primary races in georgia and alabama. diane gallagher is in huntsville, kristin is in georgia. walk us through what folks are watching out for today. good morning, erica and jim. it is a big day here in georgia and the biggest race we re watching is that gubernatorial republican primary which has become a proxy war between trump and the e
More on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Carnegie Corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan 13 dead, scores more hurt, two arrests grim results of todays attack in barcelona, where a speeding vehicle vaulted a sidewalk and drove down its victims. It follows similar attacks across europe, and last weekend, in charlottesville, virginia. For more, we turn to max gayler, reporting for reuters in barcelona, and lorenzo vidino, who leads the program on extremism at George Washington university. Spain hasnt been the site of this attacks. Weve seen a lot of focus on london and france. Yeah, the last time sp