governor s race. kathy hochul is in a bit of trouble here as lee zeldin nudges this race now from what was a solid dem in that column, now it is just likely dem. so these are moves that we watch closely. hochul is now trying to recalibrate, scrambling to say that everyone deserves a subway ride that is without fear after this horrific scene that we watched over the past several days. so many other beatings that have frightened new yorkers. these two races are also shifting. sean patrick malone, head of the democrat campaign committee, a very important influential democrat is now in danger of losing his seat to mike lawler of the gop who you may have seen on with sandra. then you have john katko s seat a republican leaving office. looks like it could stay in gop control in what is considered to be a part of new york stay that could easily go to the democrats. these are places that joe biden won by double digits. so republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis is running again
the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill, as amended, is passed. the bill, known as the inflation reduction act, contains the biggest climate investment in u.s. history. it also makes big changes to health care policies. it s headed to the house later this week after enduring more than a year of pain staking debate of more than 15 hours of a vote-a-rama delirium on capitol hill. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. this was once called the build back better agenda for joe biden. he didn t get everything he wanted, but they got a lot of what they initially were going after. how did it get resolved? there was some last-minute drama here. reporter: yeah, this capped more than a year of negotiations within the democratic party. you mentioned the build back better agenda. this is scaled back from this, but still significant in size and scope, dealing with health care, drug prices, climate and energy issues, imposing a new 15% corporate minimum tax that make mor
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed
joining us i m eric shawn. for some other major stories were funky right now. trying to intensify the military the coast of tehran. that after house speaker nancy pelosi visited the country last week. beijing also suspending climate and military cooperation agreement with the united states. meanwhile in the middle east dozens have been killed in gaza. the bloodiest fighting between israelis and palestinians in over a year. as palestinian jihad terrorists continue to attack the jewish state, more than 600 rockets have been fired from gaza. some see behind these attacks the hidden hand of ironic. former prime minister of israel will be here on that in a few moments. cracks fox team coverage starts right now. alexander hoff with a more on the china threat. first were going to go to chad per agreement. he has on capitol hill so chad what is it looking like? the senate has 44 sanding grocers one very important human rule exhaustion but centers have voted straight through since l
stolen, and a live stream captured the crime going down. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the january 6th committee releasing new evidence in its case against donald trump as it narrows its focus for the coming weeks. on the agenda, trying to compel testimony from ginni thomas, a conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, over her role in advocating to overturn the 2020 election. committee vice chair congresswoman liz cheney telling cnn they will consider a subpoena if thomas doesn t cooperate. we certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. committee is also pushing to get more documents from the u.s. secret service and answers about the agency s potentially missing text messages from on and around january 6th. one of the committee members, congresswoman elaine luria, released previously