Senior White House reporter, cnn senior White House reporter, Kevin Liptack with some details and kevin, we are waiting to get the feed of what President Biden has had to say. So forgive me if i have to interrupt up to you, but tell us what youve heard so far. Yeah. And we did hear that he took some questions about the situation in the Middle East, so we will see exactly what he had to say, but he is convening this Cabinet Meeting for the first time in almost a year, and it is striking just how different his circumstances are from a year ago, of course, hes no longer a candidate for president and his message in this meeting to his top officials is that he wants them to sprint to the finish line. Essentially that the Race Isnt over on his presidency. And certainly the Middle East is part of that. He has been trying to negotiate a Ceasefire Deal that would add, heres President Biden congress to pass a continuing resolution its critical we have ten days for congress to pass a shortterm Fu
Chris jansing live here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. Who is in charge . One of the questions at the heart of the hearing over Immigration Enforcement today, will texas be allowed to take the lead in trying to keep undocumented migrants out of the state . What about the migrants and others who are there legally . Could they be at risk as well . Plus, the new York Attorney general urging the court to reject Donald Trumps claims that it is impossible to get anyone to cover his half A Billion Dollars appeal bond. Whats one suggested solution, he cover it himself by handing over some of his prized Real Estate Properties to the court. And two more members of mississippis socalled police goon squad facing justice for their horrific torture of two black men. The latest on the sentence that was just handed down later on in the show. All right, we want to start with the fate and future of americas immigration system, potentially hinging on a hugely consequential hearing. On one side,
inflation reduction act after a republican amendment in the vote-a-rama past with democrats like kristen sinema, voting in favor of it. this is making the legislative marathon even longer as republicans continue to try to make this process as painful as possible. democrats are painting the eventual expected passage of the bill as a major victory, hailing what is in it for the american people. vote after vote after vote we have done this with no sleep 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about climate change. lift the ban on negotiating less expensive drugs under medicare. and then as the name of the bill says, bring inflation down by 305 billion dollars a deficit reduction. oil need 50 votes. we don t need 60 we don t need any republican votes to do something significant for working families in this country. unfortunately, for fairly well known reasons we have conservative democrats. we couldn t get the 50 votes that we need r
and i m sure they will have a white house signing ceremony. so many democrats are upset with sinema and manchin. yet sinema and manchin did help this version get over the top. so there could be an interesting invite list to that signing ceremony. could be tension, of course no republicans will be at the signing ceremony. i know, bob, this is a bigger conversation, a bigger picture conversation. overall there has been this narrative about how is it the two senators have so much power? how is it that this body of government is structured in a way that two senators have so much power? has there been any discussion on the hill about that? what could feasibly be done about that? aside from just getting votes, right? yeah. i mean, that is why democrats, their goal is not just to keep the senate, it is to pick up a couple of seats. why? they want to have manchin and sinema not have this much power. it is interesting, over the
charlotte ville episodcha charlottesville episode. we have to step up as americans and do better around the question of race, or we re going to continue to repeat these unfortunate episodes. one of the things i think it really does show us, mark, let s take the man at his word. he said it was only a few years ago that he understood the implications of blackface. we certainly had that incident on our own network here. i don t want to call this a teachable moment because that seems dismissive, but is this at least an opportunity, whatever happens to ralph northam, an opportunity for us to have that bigger picture conversation about who we are as a country, what we stand for, and why it is important to stand up and say no? i agree with derrick. you know, this does transcend partisan politics. everything is a teachable moment. that is an appropriate statement. any time we can educate the public about what is appropriate versus inappropriate, and it