on a fishing boat after not getting drafted three years ago. he made an impression in the alliance of american football league and found his way to the browns. the performance, even impressing lebron james. he tweeted, the earnest johnson on one tonight. love to see it. all right. congress, meanwhile, wants to know more before the nfl s investigation into the washington football team. members of the house committee on oversight and reform sent a letter thursday to nfl commissioner roger goodell requesting that the league provide them with documents and information regarding the washington football team hostile workplace culture and the nfl s handling of the matter. an nfl spokesperson told cnn the league has received that letter and looks forward to speaking with congress soon. all right. finally, warriors star steph curry putting on a show last night in the warriors home opener against the clippers. two-time mvp could not miss. scored 25 points in a perfect first quarter. curry hi
frustrations when it happened most recently this week. we will see how much he s willing to actually move that forward once he gets his legislative agenda that he s currently working on passed in the senate if indeed he can. so, jeremy, the president also went into some new specifics, some new details about the negotiations for his plan to reshape the american economy, really the negotiations on build back better specifically. what stood out to you there? reporter: there was a lot of news. there was a lot of news even just in those first 20 minutes of that town hall. we heard the president really pull back the curtain on some of these negotiations, making clear what is still in and what appears to be out. one of those things that s out, the free two years of tuition-free community college. that we had seen through some reporting. the president also making clear that expanding dental, vision and hearing through medicare would be a, quote, reach, but he did say that he s looking to d
the reason it s down to four weeks, i can t get 12 weeks. one of the other things democrats are looking to do is to expand medicare to include dental, vision, and hearing. will all three of those still be covered? that s a reach, but here s the thing. mr. manchin is opposed to that. there s a lot of democrats in the house and senate who are confused about where senator sinema actually stands on things. first of all, she s smart as a did he evil, number one. number two, she s supportive of the environmental agenda in my legislation. where she s not supportive, she said she will not raise a single penny in taxes on the corporate side and/or on wealthy people. period. you re a president of the united states and you have 50 democrats. every one is a president. when will the vaccines for young children be ready? and how accessible will they be? the expectations are they ll
that there would be no corporate tax increase in this bill, and that s because of opposition from senator sinema. it was one of several moments where we heard the president being very, very clear that senator joe manchin and senator kirsten sinema are the ones standing in the way of some of these proposals he wants to get in and forcing some of these hard choices. but we also heard the president talk about the value of compromise. listen. look, it s all about compromise, you know. it s compromise become a dirty word. bipartisanship and compromise still has to be possible. bottom line, do you think you will get a deal? i do think i ll get a deal. look, when you re in the united states senate and you re president of the united states and you have 50 democrats, every one is a president. [ laughter ] every single one. reporter: and the president getting some laughs there, but that is indeed the reality right now that president biden is
at cnn s town hall, the president of the united states with this forecast for pain at the pump. my guess is you ll start to see gas prices come down as we get by and going into the winter i mean, excuse me, into next year, in 2022. i don t see anything is going to happen in the meantime that s going to significantly reduce gas prices. several factors driving prices higher, for one, opec is gradually increasing output despite calls from the white house to do more. national average is up 7 cents in the week. you can see how it compared last week. last year it was shutdown. gas prices are rising because we re using it so much more. we re driving so much more. the economy is growing so quickly. the same time, the u.s. supply chain is still a tangled mess. containers are sitting in ports of long beach and los angeles. there aren t enough truck drivers to move the goods. biden said he is considering