of the last seven years or so of coverage but we are glad to have you in the seat. thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded like at the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives you ban books, you ban drag, kids are still in body bags. that was the scene at the tennessee capitol earlier today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic house of representatives from the tennessee house. they voted to kick two democrats out of office. it was an unprecedented, and it was a drastic move, and it all started last week. that is when hundreds of school students came to the tennessee capitol to call for new gun safety measures after a shooting opened fire at an elementary school in nashville killing three 9-year-old students and three adults during that protest, a handful of democratic lawmakers stood before the house chamber they had megaphones and they were not shy about standing in solidarity with the protester
Compared to the last asessment in january. Its big concern is about inflation the rate at which prices are rising. On the global measure the imf is using, it thinks it will be 2. 8 by the end of this year and warns that getting inflation back to their 2 target should be the priority for central banks. For many politcians thats been a key concern as they try to ease Cost Of Living pressures for people around the world. Heres the imf s chief economist. The Global Economy continues to display remarkable resilience with Growth Holding steady and inflation declining. But many challenges still lie ahead. Global growth was 3. 2 in 2023 and is expected to remain at that level both in 2024 and 2025. This represents a 0. 3 percentage point upgrade from our 0ctober projections for 2024, with stronger activity than expected in the us, china and other large emerging markets, but weaker activity in the euro area. 0ur correspondent Michelle Fleury is following this from new york. Lets begin by talkin
what voters at home care about? should social media have a warning label, the same way cigarettes do? the new pitch from the surgeon general who says our children s well-being is at stake. and wiping the slate clean. maryland s governor just pardoned tens of thousands of people convicted of marijuana-related crimes. why he says he was motivated to take such sweeping ab shun. we start with president biden pushing spending to a new level in what is expected to be the most expensive presidential campaign in american history. today the campaign announcing a new $50 million ad buy, part of a massive new effort to reframe the stakes of this election just ten days before the first presidential debate. the goal in the words of the biden campaign is to focus on trump s legal issues and allow the president to project himself as a, quote, wise and steady leader in contrast to trump s chaos and division. in the courtroom we see donald trump for who he is. he s been convicted of 3
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islam phobic, you name it. But those other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. And they are just desperate for change. Clinton said in a short time ago, quote, let me read you part of it. Last night i was grossly generalistic. Thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. That was wrong. She goes on to say its door morible that trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a National Platform to hateful views and choices. Now to trumps latest attack on clinton, the republican president ial candidate last night speaking at a rally in florida suggesting clinton could commit an act of violence in public and not face any consequen
On them. the only big opposition to it was from big pharma, which wanted to keep prices as high as possible. and their dog at opposition, over decades, is why this really popular, sensible proposal, was blocked. yet, today, that air is over. president biden announcing, in a program that is part of the inflation reduction act, the names of the first ten drugs that will be subject to price negotiations with medicare. eric tanden serves a domestic policy adviser, and she joins me now. it s great to have, you have been a democratic policy circles for a while and i ve been around this issue. so, there is something almost surreal about seeing that event today. this is a thing that is happening. yeah, i feel a little like i was aging with the videos. i worked on some of those campaigns over many years where we had leader after leader advocate for drugs being negotiate by medicare, very common sense proposal, but i m really proud that joe biden and