hi, mark. good to see you. thursday the justice department will tell a judge if the affidavit is released, it could compromise the ongoing investigation. it s been more than a week since the fbi searched trump s mar-a-largo estate. while a search warrant explains what was uncovered, many juicety details remain undisclosed. the government said why they want to cheap this private. if disclosed, they say, the after day would be a road map to the government s on going investigation providing details about their direction in a manner that is highly to compromise future investigative steps. former president trump accuses the justice department of abusing their power. he announced he supports the unveiling of the affidavit. he said prior to leaving office, he had the power to declassify documents found at mar-a-largo. we re hearing from john bolton who calls that argument laughable. was not briefed on that. the president never said anything to me during 17 months there. i just t
president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t
reduction act, would be the largest investment in energy and climate programs in u.s. history. for the first time it would give medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices, cap medicare out-of-pocket costs at $2,000, and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. but before any of that happens, it must get approval from the senate parliamentarian to proceed with a filibuster-proof reconciliation process, allowing democrats to pass the bill with just 50 votes. cnn s jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. jessica, where does the bill stand right now? reporter: well, now we are sitting around and waiting for it to make its way through this very complex budget procedure that you just kind of outlined there, frederica. but what we are anticipating is that the senate will gavel in in about an hour around noon. from there, they re going to they have to kind of get through all of these procedures. so what we ve learned in the last couple of hours, the
at $2,000 and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more on all of this, jessica, what is happening? reporter: well we have the senate in session now, fredricka. they are doing a couple of nomination votes to get everybody here and everybody moving and in the meantime behind the scenes the democrats are waiting on final rulings from the senate parliamentarian because remember they re using the specialized budget process in order to move this legislation forward. it requires the support of only democrats but they also have to pass the test of the senate parliamentarian who is looking over every provision and making sure that it fits within this budget process. so they re waiting on final rules from her. they re also waiting for the congressional budget office to see just how much some they re going to score this and how much it will cost and how much it will effect the deficit. so they re waiting on a couple of thi
sanders said the bill does not go far enough, what does that mean? he represents the further left of the democratic party and wrangling all 50 of the democratic senators has been no small fete, getting senator manchin and kyrsten sinema on board. ultimately we believe this bill will move forward, the question is when. this is a very, very lengthy, complex, tedious process they re using, a specific budget process they re using to get it through. let me tell you about what s in the bill, a lot of climate provisions, about $369 billion in climate provisions, the biggest investment out of the senate ever. hoping to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. also some tax incentives in there to push renewables. there s also some health care components in theory that would allow medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs, about 10 drugs by the year of 2026 and extending beyond that, the first time medicare would be able to do that. democrats wanted it to be bigger but this was ab