who get sick we re accelerating our path out of this pandemic. the second way to make sure recovery is fully felt is to pass our bipartisan my bipartisan infrastructure agreement and build back better plan being debated now. i will be heading over there shortly after i do this press conference back to my office to make some calls. i want to say very clearly if your number one issue is the cost of living, the number one priority should be seeing congress pass these bills. 17 nobel prize winners in economics have said spontaneously wrote to me together and said this will lower inflationary pressure on the economy when we pass my bills. new analysis from the wall street firm of moody s analyst particular found it will ease the burden of inflation for middle class families. put another way these bills will provide families with, as my dad used to say, a little more breathing room. that s because the build back better framework lowers your bills for healthcare, childcare, prescr
correspondent chat pergram followed this all day and came to a head moments ago. good evening, chad. good evening bret. the house passed 217 to 215 and four gop defection and the bill wasn t ready to pass last night and nancy mace called the bill weak and she s a yes today. that s a pretty dramatic change and position. we had a very productive meeting because until then, a lot of us have not been included in the conversation so to get that commitment from him and working with us on balancing the budget and members force mccarthy to alter the bill in order to win their votes and one change moving up the date for healthy people to find work if they want to qualify for food aid. in the midnight seance that republicans conducted, mccarthy preserved tax breaks for ethanol, corn state members ballinged. we ll not allow balked. we ll not allow them to budget it on the back of american farmers. but tim burchette. we re increasing the debt $1.5 trillion over ten year
president biden is about to honor of hero of bloody sunday. it was 58 years ago that white deputies and state troopers violently turned on peaceful demonstrators. they were beginning a 54-mile march to montgomery, the state capital to call for equal voting rights for african-americans. this is obviously an important trip for the president. what can you tell us? reporter: well, jim, president biden s purpose here in selma, alabama today is two-fold. the white house has said he wants to commemorate the day, the events of bloody sunday 58 years ago so that they will not be erased from america s memory. the president will be speaking in just a short while with a backdrop of the edmund pettis bridge right behind him, where african-americans were severely beaten by white officers. the president in his remarks today is once again expected to put the spotlight on the need for vote being rights legislation. in the 2020 campaign, that was one of the central tenets, one of main promis
voted against. i want to stop spending until we get inflation under control. the fentanyl crisis is so bad because joe biden and tim ryan have not done their job. our guy thought it would be a good idea to post on social media, raise money for the insurrectionists. the new power rankings are out. forecasting a 15-seat margin for the republicans. the fate of the senate still coming down to the four yellow toss-up states. we bring in mercedes schlapp and juan williams, fox news contributors. we can put the numbers back on the screen. action we said, you know, looks, gives more juice to the gop this week from last week. we re talking about a 15-seat majority in the house. the senate still a toss-up. mercedes, your thoughts on what you re seeing. trace, you re being too conservative. it s more than a 15-seat win. i believe it s going to be a strong red wave for the republicans. when you look at the generic ballot in these competitive districts, they re trending republican
hello, everyone. i m bianna in new york. pressure mounts for garland to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation into president biden s handling of classified government records. we are following this from every angle, so let s begin with cnn s evan perez. what are you learning about what we can expect to hear from the attorney general in just a few moments? reporter: well, bianna, we obviously know that the justice department attorney general garland are in a difficult position given the fact that we are learning still new details about these documents that the president s team says that they found now at multiple locations. the justice department is facing the decision right now whether to appoint a special counsel, whether to open a fuller investigation. we know that, at least at this point, there was an initial review that was done by the u.s. attorney in chicago. that part of the investigation is completed, and so now the decision from garland that we expe