new comedy special out now. and maria hinojosa the president founder of a brand-new msnbc contributor, congratulations, and welcome aboard. molly, good to see you, as always. my question for you is all it is, are you legitimately shocked the democrats were able to pull this one off? i am not legitimately shocked that they passed a law. i m telling you, they passed a lot of legislation, they did infrastructure, they did a big covid bailout. i i was starting to think that maybe they weren t going to get manchin on board, and certainly sinema has proved challenging, and she did at the 11th hour try to make sure that private equity firms were protected because that s a big value for democrats. i don t know what was going on air. yeah i m not that surprised,
how the white house worked with senator schumer to secure this deal? and what role are gonna play going forward? well, symone, they certainly said the contours early on. and they negotiated everything that led to the build back better act late december. but in recent weeks and months, for the most part, the white house has passed the baton to senator chuck schumer, and told them to run with it, and find a way to get manchin on board. there was certainly a lot of frustration, and a blind signed this within the white house. last december, when manchin in the book about better act, but for a long time, it looked like she was gonna fail. just a few weeks ago, manchin was sounding very skeptical about this, and said he would wanted to hold off until the middle of october, doing major climate funding for tax increases. just in the last few days, he decided, okay, he s willing to do it, let s do it next week. manchin says. so, it was a kind of a shocking turn of events, a rare positive surp
to go into midterms as democrats without anything done on these big threats, on the economy, on healthcare and on climate? it would not have been pretty. manchin on board. i was now on senator kyrsten sinema. the white house is cautiously optimistic that she will come on board, and less she seems to pride herself on being an enigma and has yet to comment on this point. but heather, to your point, this certainly gives democrats a real boost heading into the midterms. but it also may change how we all view, to this point, the presidency of joe biden. i always thought that the president who inherited the mass as democrats do did an extraordinary amount. we often don t talk about the fact that the u.s. rate hit the lowest level on record in the first year of the biden administration, in large part
sit on the energy and natural resources committee. really groundbreaking money put aside here. obviously not the $2 trillion that the president had initially asked for, but $369 billion for climate and clean energy provisions. the deal aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030. but it also has benefits for fossil fuel energy and the industry there including new drilling for gas and oil to help get senator manchin on board. does that work for you? are you happy with this bill? are you voting in favor of it? and do you think there are enough votes in general to get it over the finish line? i will be supporting it. let me unpack it real briefly. the bulk of it involves clean energy tax credits. they were written by the senate finance committee that i chair. it s going to reduce americans energy bills by $500 per year and reduce carbon emissions in the power sector by 70% over the
look like who s out and what happened with senator leahy. it comes down to the math and what inflation is like. if there s daylight and a possibility to rescue the climate and green energy spending they talk about that august 10 inflation cpi report has to be lower and significantly lower. we get a preview. we have economic data this week. we get a preview i believe on this friday when we get the fed s inflation measure coming out. the prospects of getting manchin on board. i don t want to make predictions but pretty small. manchin indicated that. there s a possibility but a lot this time of year and you have to look at probabilities and the math to get you to the probabilities and the math is tough. lei, we can t wrap this up without talking january 6.