democrats big new budget deal. despite objecting to it just two weeks ago. now, we don t have all the details yet. but he one page summary says that the deal will make progress in some pretty big areas, including a 15% minimum tax on corporations, along with other unnamed provisions to make the ultra wealthy pay their fair share of tax. lowering affordable care act premiums for millions of americans, allowing medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs, something democrats have been trying to achieve for over a decade. increase clean energy production and, this is a big one, decreasing carbon emissions by 40% over the next eight years. which of course would be huge. it s already been called the biggest climate bill in american history. tonight, senator schumer s office has released the text of the bill. it clarkson at 725 pages. obviously this is not a done deal yet. reactions from other democratic members of congress have range from cautious optimism to outright fr
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that wrote prop 27. it doesn t tell you 90% of the profits go to the out of state corporations. a tiny share goes to the homeless, and even less to tribes. and a big loophole says, costs to promote betting reduce money for the tribes, so they get less. hidden agendas. fine print. loopholes. prop 27. they didn t write it for the tribes or the homeless. wnba star and citizen britney they wrote it for themselves. griner testified from occasion a russian courtroom today, as her trial for drug charges continues. her defense asked if she could be left out of the prisoner cage for a testimony as the six foot nine and griner is too tall to deliver a testimony standing up without bending her neck and slightly hunting over, as you see here. the judge refused as she spoke while seated behind the bars of
the cage on display in what s several experts have called a show trial for the predetermine outcome. the olympic gold medalist who pleaded guilty earlier this month faces up to ten years in prison. she s been detained in russia for more than five months now, following her arrest in a moscow airport just a week before russia began its invasion of ukraine. some believe griner is being used as a political pawn by vladimir putin. griner testified today that she had no intention of breaking russian law by bringing a small alum amount of cannabis into the country. and after recovering from covid in traveling on a 13 hour flight from to russia, they took her passport. she was asked to sign a few documents, an interpreter was president, but did not explain to grinder what she was signing. so griner use google translate on her phone to in an attempt to understand the documents. ed amid griner s testimony today, cnn was first to report on a potential prisoner exchange between reportedly
a week. so, can we expect russia to allow griner and whelan to return home is part of some sort of deal? joining us now is her work is focused around race and the soviet union. she is consulted with the wnba s players union about griner s detainment. thank you so much for being here. britney griner testified today that the document she signed upon her arrest were written russia, no one explained to her. what do you make of all of that? why didn t russian law enforcement provide her with a translator. was it all deliberate? unfortunately, this is exactly what i thought happened as soon as i saw the footage of her being detained in the airport. signing document, i wonder if they were in english, i thought they were in. russian and they were. in russian law she should have had access to a translator. but in russian law the criminal code doesn t say you have