what s the latest. chad: griff, good afternoon, the senate has met for more than 24 hours straight and voted for nearly 14 hours straight. exhaustion is setting in. senate chaplain barry black sought to calm freight tempers. our weekend work gently reminds us that freedom s price must be paid. as our senators provide the currency of perseverance to protect and defend this land we love. chad: there s gamesmanship, republicans controversial amendments to get vulnerable democrats on the spot especially on border issues and on energy. so the next time you see a mark kelly in arizona or a raphael warnock in georgia or a maggie hanson in new jersey or michael bennett in colorado or katherine cortez, hey, we want gas prices to be lower, you know they are lying because they stood up and voted, raised the gas taxes, stick it to the producers, make our consumers pay more at the pump. chad: democrats lashed out at gop for striking a provision to cap insulin at $35 a month in private
well, i will go with what joe manchin said about it that this is a red, white and blue bill. this is $300 billion in deficit reduction and you re putting money back in the pockets to have american people by lowering utility costs, by lowering their healthcare costs and by lowering their prescription drug costs all really huge for everybody across the political spectrum and i think this is a huge win for president biden but also for the swing states and swing democrats that have name on ballot, this is substantive relief for the american people while making historic investments and green jobs in investment in the long term. big win. griff: erin, how do you see it? you have 230 economists saying that this will only add fire to the inflation crisis and what are democrats doing right now in washington, they are not trying to tackle the inflation crisis. they are going to make it worse. we have a border crisis, a drug
a lot of conversations and up and down votes. it s chaotic. i will say this it s going to come out on the other side because it s too important and we have to close hoop holes and companies making money hand over even with inflation pay fair share and get the money back in the pockets of everyday americans. griff: we will see exactly what we get and we may get final vote in this hour or if not very soon. erin, let me ask you, do you think that democrats have really caved or is it just negotiations to get something across the finish? senator sanders who i mentioned obviously having to give on this sort of taxing billionaires which he and senator warren have long made their crying call. well, voteramas are a painful process and they take a lot of hours and a lot of votes. but what you re seeing right now is democrats forcing the american people to ultimately pay more for everything. when they go ahead and they raise taxes on anybody, it always gets passed down to the
told me i had a straw poll. when attendees were asked about most important issues election integrity led the way followed by immigration and energy independence and much to a surprise inflation was down at the bottom at number 5. griff. griff: that is quite a surprise, indeed. jeff paul for us live in dallas. jeff, thank you. all right, let s go to our political panel. joining us erin pareni, vice president at strategies and former communications director for texas senator ted cruz and laura fink, democratic strategist. laura, let s start with you as we watched the senate s democrats in the senate looking to narrowly pass the 700 billion-dollar bill that they say will give americans relief when it comes to the health provisions and of course combating climate change, why is this win, will this be a win for the american people by in large?