An extraordinary day. All he said that is that Kamala Harris this is a chameleon. She prints students to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of. The greatest of all time. And she has the chain to prove it live from london. This is Cnn Newsroom with Max Foster and Christina Macfarlane warm, welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. Im Max Foster. Christie is off today is friday, august the second, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. At Joint Base Andrews in maryland, where Three Americans took their first steps on us soil since being released. From russian prisons as part of the biggest exchange of his kind since the Cold War, us president Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, welcoming home, marine veteran Paul Whelan. He spent the past six years in prison next off the plane was Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich. She ran and to hug his Mother And Father before speaking with his colleagues also, returning to the u. S. Russia
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detail. we re all on the same page, both tracks, the bipartisan track and the budget reconciliation track are proceeding apace and we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. and i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this has ever been done before. i don t know how they re going to do the two bills because if you re the republicans and you re negotiating with the democrats on infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s not extra, like, thing your not talking about. yeah, there s this other giant reconciliation bill with taxes and all the other stuff, environmental stuff that you guys don t like, we re going to do that on a separate track. and republicans are supposed to walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here. he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it s never done before because i have no idea how this works.
that we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this have ever been done before. i don t know how they are going to do the two bills, because if you are the republicans and your negotiating with the democrats on an infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s no extra thing. you are not talking about it. yeah, there s this other reconciliation bill with taxes and other stuff that you don t like, we re gonna do that on a separate tracked. and republicans are supposed to just walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it has never done before. i have no idea how this works. i trust senator mark key to know how this can work, but i share your slack jawed skepticism that it is going to perceive in a two track way in any path that results in