good to be back. it s great to you have here. do you remember the name brandan van grek? as i have memorable name. if not, the circumstance of which you first heard it? but if you are like me and the first time you heard the name brandon van grabbing is the first time you heard the word he is spee naj formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, not just spy movie stuff, as in u.s. law. we were only about four months in to the trump administration when the new york times was first to report that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice. it was very early on. may 2017. you think about that for a second, trump was inaugurated at the end of january. this was less than four months later in may of that year, less than four months into his presidency, we learned of the new york times
all a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. let s do at home joining us this hour. it s great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van grack? it s a very memorable name, so you might remember the sound of it. if not, the circumstance in which you first heard it. but if you are like me, in all likelihood, the first time you heard the name brandon van grack, it was the first time you heard the word, espionage, formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, as it not just spy movie stuff but as in u.s. law. but we are only about four months in to the u.s. trump administration in the new york times first reported that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice.
tomorrow the president is expected to return home from south carolina where he s been on vacation. he s going to sign the inflation reduction act. the new bill at the white house. he believes it will be the signature legislative achievement. and in the coming weeks, president biden and members of the cabinet are expected to hit the road to promote this thing. they re planning 35 different trips planned to 23 different states. and in a technical sense this is ld called being on a roll. watch this space.
perhaps, most significantly of all, the bill also is the biggest climate investment in the history of the country. and somehow, all of that is managed to pass in a 50/50 senate, that includes folks like these, senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, who got up and said you know in the morning, before they do anything else, just because it makes them feel good. tomorrow, the president is expected to return home from south carolina, where he s been on vacation. he s gonna sign that inflation reduction act, this big new bill at the white house. he believes it will be his signature legislative achievement, and in the coming weeks, president biden and vice president harris, and members of the cabinet, all expected to have the right to promote this thing, planning 35 different trips, to 23 different states. in a technical sense, in political science terms, this is called being on it will. watch this space. watch this space you can schedule service in just a few clicks.
president who wants something legislatively, you hit the road and you rally the american people to your cause. and joe biden hasn t done that. so people are wondering where he is. and that s why i think, look, if you have a signature legislative achievement, you have to be able to do things and demonstrate that you re invested in. the public doesn t see that. and i think that s what to some extent, and i do want to move on to a different subject and wrap it up nicely for the holidays. i do think that joe manchin did, i think, mislead a lot of people in his party for many, many months to think that they were going to get somewhere on all of this. and, yes, he may represent a maga state now and so on. but not everybody in west virginia has a house boat. anyway, moving on, let s talk about something else. before we go, i have to get your take on this made-up war on christmas and these comments from donald trump and mike huckabee. let s watch. when you came into office, america had g