we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
billionaires and multi-national corporations in the world, he flew down to mar-a-lago that night and said to his billionaire friends sitting around his table, i just made all of you a lot richer today. i think most working class americans, most middle class americans are really glad that some of that the very pieces of legislation he helped pass, the tax bill he helped pass, the provisions that allowed the biggest multinational corporations in the world to pay zero in taxes, those bills got stripped. as far as steve bannon goes, yeah, we are at war. we are at war politically with guys like steve bannon. freedom loving americans, americans who believe in the constitution, steve bannon is a guy who said his hero was vladimir putin. said before he even got into the trump white house he wanted to tear everything down. he wanted to tear the state
americans. you have this, an economic rescue plan that s led to the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. you ve got a massive, bipartisan infrastructure plan that was passed. you ve got the first significant gun safety legislation passed in over a decade. the electoral act to prevent future january 6th. the china competitiveness bill. $280 billion to make sure we can have a stronger semiconductor manufacturing base in america, so we re not dependent on china. confirmation of the first black woman to the u.s. supreme court. and then this package, mika, which is landmark. yeah. there is no doubt, you look at what happened in the ten years before joe bidenstepped into the white house. the last six years of obama s
administration and trump s time in the white house, joe biden has done more than them, not combined. two, three, four, five, six, seven times. this has been an extraordinarily successful two years, legislatively. any way you cut it, even republicans have to admit this privately, and they are. it s been a hell of a run. it has. i want to develop on that point and then back up and look at how this all happened, especially with this package, which is landmark, as you said, joe. first of all, you re right, for joe biden, think about it, pull out 20,000 feet. world stage, preventing a nuclear war. preventing world war iii. check. covid, he survived it, two bouts of it, never went to the hospital. covid is under control, and this president, unlike the former president who always talks about his strength, who had to be shipped off quickly to the hospital and pumped with all sorts of crazy drugs.
apocalyptic collapse. whereas, this appeared out of nowhere one evening. a press release out of manchin s office, quickly endorsed by schumer, then moved sumer quickly in a way that almost nothing does on capitol hill. the bottom line, people in the white house say this is no lucky break. this is the president putting out an economic theory. you heard him say in the state of the union, bottom-up, middle-out, not top-down. this is a vindication of slow patience, eye on the prize. wow. i mean, you know what, mike allen brings up lbj. katty kay, not a coincidence, lbj also a creature of the senate, something joe biden has been criticized for. but you look at this landmark legislation, then you stack on top of that ttruman-esque efforts. the historic expansion of nato. what he has been doing with