the cap on the $2,000 cap on prescription drugs for seniors, gone. tax credits to lower energy bills, gone. corporate minimum tax, gone. president biden making a case why democrats should remain in power next year. we enter the final stretch of the campaign. meanwhile, the majority leader in the senate is caught on a hot mike giving a blunt assessment of several key races. and elon musk now owns twitter. let that sink in. the billionaire brings a meme to life and already showing top executives the door. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, october 28th. thank you for starting your day with us. joe biden is promoting efforts to bring more jobs and manufacturing across the country upstate new york. in syracuse yesterday, biden showcased a major investment by micro chip manufacturing company micron. touting the $100,000,000,002 decade commitment. the deal is set to bring 50,000 jobs to the state which will pay an average of $100,000 a year. the president
want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people lived, there was a you d go by a wall that my recollection was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went essentially a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top o
in support of the request for a search warrant that gave the fbi legal license to enter mrara lag on. on one side of this dispute the doj strenuously opposing the release and on the other side donald trump and a media of organizations including nbc news urging that the affidavit be made public. there was little to no chance that the judge reinhart would approve the release of the affidavit and at the conclusion of today s hearing that judge reinhart was, in fact, open to releasing a redacted version of it and asked the department of justice to submit a proposal for what a redacted version might look like by next thursday at which point he will make his ruling and it will feature counterintelligence jay brat and he attended the team deeply involved in this case. he told the court that the investigation is still in its early stages and that the affidavit needed to be contained under wraps because it contained sensitive information in a unique case with national security overton
the court was an outrage, show up and vote. vote, vote, vote. but is he showing the urgency that so many democrats are demanding? and wnba star brittney griner s trial begins in russia. the u.s. calls her wrongfully detained and her family says the president must do whatever it takes to get her out. i would love for him to tell me he cares. the only thing that the biden administration can do for me is get my wife back. inside politics, the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. the 2024 election is more than two years away, but donald trump does not want to wait. sources are telling cnn that he s recently discussed a formal campaign launch this month, ditching plans to wait until after the midterms. one source says he knows that if he if he announces, he ll be center stage again. and trump s discussions about running again come as bombshell testimony before the january 6 th committee is shedding
interest rates in hopes of slowing inflation. and this morning, a key report could provide a better outlook on our economy s health. meanwhile on capitol hill, senator joe manchin finally agrees to a major deal on climate, health care, and taxes, and we ll break down what s in that reconciliation package. and potential prisoner swap for brittney griner, the state department says there s a substantial offer to bring the wnba star, and another american, back home. good morning, and welcome to way too early on thursday, july 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. after nearly a year of, a year and a half of on and off negotiations, democratic senator joe manchin says he has reached a deal with party leaders on a sweeping reconciliation package. in a statement yesterday, that surprised even most democrats on the hill, the west virginia lawmakers announced an agreement on what is being called the inflation reduction act of 2022. writing in part this, this bill