making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify something real
adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in
gets resolved. i actually wonder, when you talk about republicans calling up the offices, legislation and policy aside, that one thing is a motivating issue. is we can t get started on biden. you saw mike waltz on earlier, right? talking about how we don t have the china task force. he s hitting on all those red meat republican issues. right? we re supposed to be doing all these things that are really important and we can t get to it. so republicans who are holdouts let s get to it so we can get to the people s business. david, one final point j. because sessions was talking about it s all about numbers and whether you get a vote tonight and whether you try to adjourn till tuesday, the votes for that, because people are leaving. who s running the math on this right now for kevin mccarthy on finding out exactly who s gone and when? it s emmers, it s the whip s office, it s kevin and a good deal of folks who can count heads. and they re look at it and dfrn did dsh. just a lock
playbook for the left for a long time. it hasn t worked. and the right stands up to its base by saying, no, we can bridge some of what we consider bedrock freedoms in the name of gun safety not in the name of gun control and getting rid of guns which i think is a political nonstarter. so great to talk to both of you this morning. thank you. john stamos opening up about the loss of his friend bob sa saget. an about face interest from kevin mccarthy on finding out the truth about the capitol attack, what new audio is revealing this morning. t westers you get rewarded when you stay on the road and on the go. find your rewards so you can reconnect, disconnect, hold on tight and let go! stay two nigights and get a free night. book now a at bestwestern.com. (mom allen) verizon just gave us all a brand new iphone 13. (dad allllen) we ve been customers for years. (dad brown) we got iphone 13s, too. switched two minutes ago, literally right before this. (vo) iphone 13 on u on any unlimit
november 25th. this is where he spun out that false tale, the cover-up that it was a traffic study. it wasn t a traffic study. this was the coverup. now we know the investigation is casting a net to try to find out who was in on drafts of that cover story testimony. who was in on the drafts of the cover story that they tried and failed to sell to the legislature to cover up what really happened on that bridge? were any of these people, were any of these offices in on it? was the governor s campaign in on it? was the governor s office in on it? and we can report tonight that that is what the investigation is now zeroing in on finding out. and we can additionally report that the governor s re-election campaign has confirmed to nbc news tonight that, indeed, one of the things that is in their new subpoena is a request for any communication with bill baroni prior to that false testimony to the legislature. our document that we can report originally here tonight shows that that was the targ