Ignition switches . We are watching the u. S. Supreme court at this hour and a block buster ruling that can be handed down at any moment with the current term about to end, justices have only today to release their decision, the most highly watch involves obamacare and hobby lobby, specifically whether under obamacare could force the retailer to provide emergency contraception under its health care coverage. Were awaiting that decision. Good morning to all of you. Good morning. Jim, i want to start with you, is the white house worried about this case . Well, i think judging by the way donna virli was batted around during the arguments back in this march, i think they have an indication this may not go their way. The Obama Administrations argument is reverse of mitt romneys corporations are people too lines. They are arguing koopgses are not people, they dont have the same religious freedoms, hobby lobby and other forprofit companies would have to provide coverage under that mandate in
As you know, mitch is not pollingwise, the most popular guy in this country. Im very disappointed in mitch. And halfcourt press. President trump predicting hell be able to replace four Supreme Court justices in his first term. Hes training his sights on two of the courts four women. I will remain in this good job as long as i can do it. Full steam. And good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. President trump huddling with his cabinet this hour after weeks of punting. Several kedo mess tick and key policy problems from his administration to congress. Then sharing a meal later this hour with one of his favorite political punching bags, Republican Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Joining me now is White House Correspondent Kristen Welker. Msnbc cricketer David Ignatius and New York Times White House Correspondent mark landler. We understand hes spoken on a number of domestic issues, kristin as well as the Iran Nuclear Deal. Well have the tape coming out of the cabinet room we hope
stop this chips bill from moving forward. they looned on their members, tried to get them to vote against it, but that was not enough to stop this bill. two dozen house republicans broke ranks and this bill pass affidavit they joined all democrats. the final vote 243-107. one voting present. so now this bill, provide about $280 billion in total in scientific research to reposition the u.s. versus china as well as more than $50 billion to boost semiconductor chips that are in short supply right now. this bill has been long in the making. they ve been negotiating this for more than a year. now it goes to joe biden s desk and he ll be signing this into law. this is all part of a last-ditch effort and legislating before congress heads home for its summer break. in addition to this, i mentioned that larger bill that is now being discussed dealing with drug prices, health care subsidy, energy, and taxes. that is still being dealt with in the senate side of the
conference. what do you say to that? see you later. reporter: still a question about exactly what joe manchin will ultimately agree on, but he has indicated that he will indeed support that narrower focus on prescription drug prices, letting medicare negotiate the price answer as well as extending health care subsidy for two years. so there is optimism from democrats that they can get that across the finish line. but of course that ultimately is up to joe manchin about whether he will get behind that plan and whether they can keep all 50 democrats together and get this out of the senate in the coming days. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. and wall street rebounded in a big way on tuesday with investors cheering strong earnings reports from netflix and others. and betting that may be just may be the markets have found their bottom. dow jumped over 750 points and the nasdaq was up over 3%. and right now, at least, it looks like that rally could
possible because i think that that is what he has been very consistent about and the president is right, you know, i remember him saying to us, i m going to have to go home and tell jill i couldn t get community college done. we will fight that on a different day. but absolutely, jake, we are not going to throw away a chance to get these big, important pieces done like child care, pre-k, you know, housing, climate. these are big transformational changes that we believe we can still get done. well right. i mean, bill clinton i think said something along the lines of, just let joe manchin come forward. offer his version of the build back better plan. pass that. pass it in the house. get it on the desk. campaign on that. look at all these big things, reduction in prescription drugs, pre-k, health care subsidy, all the things you just talked about. and then you can run again on things you want to put other things you want to do. why isn t that just happening? i don t understand. i th