track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some remarks and begin this first step. they re using a special budget process. the first step will be a motion to receive that requires just a simple majority. all 50 senat
i get paid tomorrow, and already my whole paycheck is spoken for. plus, adjusting for inflations. how surging prices are forcing some to make very tough choices just to make ends meet. welcome to your new day. we are thrilled to have you this sunday, july 17. the days just keep slipping away. boris, i am so sorry, i m having a tough time hearing you but good morning to you, boris, and good morning to all of you at home. unfortunately, we begin with a very sad story this morning. that search for answers in the tragic shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. hours from now the families of the shooting victims are going to get that preliminary finding of the texas house committee investigation. 19 children and two teachers were killed in the massacre. the committee is also set to present the families with surveillance video of the school shooting which was leaked to a texas newspaper and published this week. let s take you now to uvalde, texas, and cnn s
suggests, tackles the current high inflation impacting marking pocketbooks. long term, it aims to lower prescription drug prices and a big one for progressives, addresses the climate crisis. it s the race to pass before the august recess begins. doing so could offer the boost they need to win the bet terms. here is senator schumer just last hour reinforcing the impact that the i.r.a. will have on americants the most. the time is not move forward with a big, bold package for the american people. again, this was a historic bill, this is store bill will reduce inflation, lower cost, for climate change. it is time to move this nation forward. the stage appears set for passing. all 50 democratic senators on board, including the critical support of arizona senator kristen sinema, who oked the bill after negotiating to drop a 14 billion dollar tax front increase on hedge fund managers and private the next step is overcoming republican roadblocks. here is democratic senator bri
release of brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn learning exclusively that the u.s. is now proposing a deal to exchange a convicted russian arms dealer for the two americans. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new evidence that the justice department s criminal investigation of january 6th is picking up steam big time. a star witness from the house hearings is now cooperating with federal prosecutors who have been asking questions about former president trump. let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, up on capitol hill. tell us about the key witness who is now working with the feds. yeah, wolf. it is the witness that perhaps delivered the most compelling testimony of any of the january 6th select committee s public hearings. that s the former aide to mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson. it shows that this probe is expanding, specifically into the efforts to sta
science guy coming up. and also making the beat debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump s lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i d like to clearly tell you what we re trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program the beat. right now i m going to try to walk through the broader path of how democracy is in danger even beyond how that point itself has become a kind of rhetorical refrain in washington, a refrain that is also true. so we re going to go through that right now, me and you together, and then turn to a special expert on this a little later. the mid-term elections may occur on one day in november, and we know that, of course, is election day. but these primari