american, paul whelan at. we ll get to those stories in this hour. but we start with a big breakthrough in democrats efforts to pass a main part of president biden s agenda. prescription drug prices, taxes, and climate change. kirsten sinema of arizona has announced her support for the bill, calling it the inflation redact act. clearing the way possibly this weekend. the democrat agreed on some changes. including dropping a carry over interest rate tax. increase on some of the risk just of the rich. hedge fund, and private company executives. and changes to a 15% on corporate tax obligations. they could make amendments, but this film could be seen as historic changes for everyday americans. change is very popular according to a poll, by cutting prescription prices and refusing the deficit by 300 billion dollars. you heard that right. it would also invest in nearly 370 billion dollars to address climate change. and also, it would be interesting to think about it from a politic
i know, it he knows it and deep down, i think most republicans know it. adrian, a real man would not lie to his supporters. how fierce is that from all pinot, dick cheney. speak to that. will that sway any republicans? well, here s what i like so much about that ad is that he basically goes out and says i know a lot of you may be trump supporters on the outside. but i know deep down that you know this is wrong. and dick cheney was the hero for so long among so many conservative republicans. so that he is making appeal, especially to those older republicans who you know remember dick cheney and thought he was our american hero. felt like it was really the president when george bush s administration. and he could talk to them so i think it s an interesting ad, i think it speaks volumes and looks, maria teresa we have been doing this for a long time. you know i ve been in the trenches of the democratic party for a long time. i would like to actually get
gen z for change was targeted by a florida congressman. matt gates. she turned that controversy into 2 million dollar windfall for donations on abortion advocacy. adrian, thank you so much for joining. i want to talk to you a little bit about what we saw in kansas. we saw more than 900,000 voters cast a ballot against the major that was on there in kansas. was striking to me is that the whole reason these individuals were on the republican side, this other the put this on the ballot was because it s not expect high turnout. most people do not turn out during primaries. what do you say to this? first of all, maria and teresa thanks for having me. such an honor to be on the same panel as olivia. huge rounds, congratulations to all the amazing work we have done olivia. such an inspector so many of us. and, look this is what s so funny about this she now ploy by the republicans. if not they could pull a fast, one thought they could put this on the ballot when you know democratic turnout
that s all for this edition for dateline , i m craig melvin, thank you for watching. welcome to the show! i m maria. in for my friend, zerlina maxwell. coming up! the sun and at the watch and rights victory in the red state of kansas is compelling democrats around the country to give reproductive freedom a key issue in the elections. and one day after the wnba star and olympic champion, greatly griner, was sentenced to nine years in a piña colada knee in moscow. and the release of another