states. some positive nice is hospitalizations have remained steady this month. omicron is brings serious diseases. the fda has given emergency use approval to a new covid bill. in russia today president vladimir putin blaming the u.s. and nato for escalating tensions with ukraine. president biden confirming he is running for reelection in 2024. and coming up, joining us now, nbc white house correspondent monica alba. joining us now is our guest
shannon: there is a lot to unpack there so where do you want to start? first of all i agree on one thing. every democratic senator up in 22 on the record with massive tax increase, massive spending bill, add maker early christmas. please do it, number one, number two, joe manchin if he loses the primary a guaranteed to keep republican so primary him too. but here is the key part. let s step back. how did democrats message this bill? as a spending bill. a covid bill, energy bill and suspending bill. that is why we approve the price sale. a spending bill for spending sake is a political loser. that is why joe manchin is not supporting it. whether you like it or not come at the 51st bow and we need the vote. instead of pretending no leverage, you should cater to
passed, historic and infrastructure bill. far reaching covid bill. they gotten some it does not feel like it because all they have been doing is fighting in the halls with the press and making promises they can t deliver. people are screaming at manchin, support the bill, they are not finish with the language of the bill. he s been saying it all along. it s really complicated business speaking as if he was a legislature to understand it. i remember you are telling me a month or two ago. we are not talking about changing the tax codes or environmental codes that are extraordinary complex and complicated. this is going to take a couple of months to sort through and score and get the parliament. to he was telling me that in
spending bill. 220 to 213. one democrat no golden the democrat from maine publicly opposed to this. all republicans did vote no. chad pergram with an update from the hill as this has all just happened on a friday morning. good morning, sandra. just to show you how tight this is 220 to 213 you switch four votes and the vote goes the other way and goes down to defeat and why nancy pelosi put this on the floor and knew exactly how many votes she could lose and it was golden. a moderate democrat flipped a district about 2 1/2 years ago from red to blue in northern maine. he is somebody who spoke out against the salt reduction. the deals with state and local tax reduction that was restored in this bill. he said it was a giveaway. he also was one of two democrats back in march who voted against the 1.9 trillion dollar partisan covid bill that the house and senate democrats passed in the late winter.
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