biden s nightmare. i concluded that it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. cooperating fully. the president plays defense as the white house grapples with a brand new political reality. plus, mccarthy s majority comes back together after a bruising battle. we are one party. what we went through last week makes us strongly. next up a spending strike. and a defiant george santos says he is not going anywhere. i will not resign. i will hold the office elected by the people. even as gop colleagues say it is time for him to go. can t be honest with yourself you ll never be honest with your constituents. hello and welcome to inside politic sunday. the white house was feeling good this time last week. the republicans emerging from a nasty public civil war. inflation is coming down and the approval ratings are ticking up. what a difference seven days can make. classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking? i d get a ch
less than the democrats original $3.5 trillion build back better pitch, president biden is calling this a success. adding that senate democrats put american families above special interests. now, the victory, all the more notable, because it had none, zero republican support. the bill now heads to the house of representatives and president biden could sign it into law as early as friday. let s begin with cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean. she s on capitol hill this morning. jessica, this is a wide-ranging bill. it is designed to reduce inflation. it has billions of dollars in climate and energy incentives. it tackles prescription drugs. break down for us what is in this multibillion dollar bill. reporter: yeah, it s a big one. as you mentioned, it comes after a true marathon over the weekend here on capitol hill for democratic senators who really pushed this over the finish line. they used that specialized budget process that required only democratic support, bu
drip-drip-drip narrative and could have been avoided. if you look at the timeline the fact that the white house counsel s office addressed this first on monday. they knew about the second batch of documents but didn t disclose that information and only talked about the first set and then ad addressed the second set on wednesday and then used the language that the review is finished leading everyone to believe they probably got them all and then a narrative that show there s probably more documents out there. supporters wish the white house handled this differently. they said that the review was done and not sure if that s the case. i want to read what bob bauer, a presidential lawyer said about this yesterday trying to explain how this played out.
for democrats. a tough map. they have nine incumbents for re-election and a seat vacated by an incumbent. these are going to be tough races. people like jon tester and senator manchin. unicorns. democrats inhabiting very, very red seats. it is a very bad map for democrats coming up. we often talk about the three races that will be toughest for democrats but that s the beginning. there are other complications across the country. for example, what s going to happen in arizona. sinema didn t say she will run but if she does democrats have a problem of is this a three-way race. look at michigan. stabenow is retiring. it is a state they can t take
along and then surprises them in the end. that dynamic still exists and it gives joe mansion a bit more power in a 51-49 senate dynamic because he actually played a bigger role last year, earlier in year in the fall coming up with that plan that sinema didn t know about where the inflation reduction act. neil: to your point, we haven t heard from him, we don t know what he ll be doing down the road. susan, thank you very much. have a wonderful weekend. you too, kneel. thanks neil, thanks for having me. neil: if this is a move to the middle, probably the governor of new hampshire saying welcome to write am and where i.chris sununu, what did you mae of this move? it s a lot of it being a title. she s not changing her philosophy or principles or