accountable. are claharges coming? i will ask one of two republicans on that committee, adam kinzinger. he is back. six years after leaving the daily show jon stewart has a new show and a lot to say. i still believe this is an experiment worth having. feel good! our interview and why he still has hope for america ahead. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is watching president biden s problems mount. the president is out fine tuning his sales pitch for an economic agenda. his party still cannot agree on. democrats are scrambling for alternatives after joe manchin appeared to kill the cornerstone climate policy in the party s social safety net package. democrats try to sell their
agenda his party still cannot agree on. democrats are scrambling for alternatives after joe manchin appeared to kill the cornerstone climate policy in the party s social safety net package. as democrats try to sell their spending plans, the biden administration needs to calm fears over inflation and a supply chain nightmare that could get worse, plunging our nation s ports, railroads, trucks and critical infrastructure workers deeper into crisis just in time for the holidays. joining us now is secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. secretary buttigieg, thanks for joining us. we are seeing supply chain disruption causing everything from higher prices to longer waits for products. moody s warns these supply chain disruptions, quote, will get worse before they get better, unquote. do americans need to prepare ourselves for this to get worse before it gets better? certainly, a lot of the challenges that we have been
and long lines spell sticker shock for millions of americans reeling from an 18 month pandemic. 13 year high inflation is the new reality. the consumer price index climbed 5.4% in september, compared to the prior year, matching the highest rate since 2008. food rose 4.6%, electricity, 5.2%, president biden also continuing to push his social safety net package. it s clear that it s not going to be $3.5 trillion. reporter: independent vermont senator bernie sanders of out with an op-ed in a west virginia paper, making a plea to coal country about the climate, the state s senior senator, joe manchin, fired back, writing this isn t the first time an out-of-stater has tried to tell west virginia inns what it west virginiainans what is best for them, i will not vote for a reckless expansion of government
we re live on the scene. hello and welcome to the lead. our politics lead, president biden promising to slash child care costs for working class families. he s visiting connecticut pitching this proposal and others as part of his far-reaching spending plan on expanding medicare or free community college tuition. currently that bill is in jeopardy back home in washington, d.c. that social safety net package has stalled again as moderate democratic senators disagree with progressives with no compromise in sight. as phil mattingly reports, president biden plans to spend his weekend negotiating. reporter: president biden hitting the road and the playground to unlock his stalled agenda. too many folks in washington still don t realize it isn t enough just to invest in our physical infrastructure. we also have to invest in our people. reporter: seeking to rally support for the child care
forward, we need to get to a unified approach so that we can get these passed into law. you ve heard us say that over the past couple of days. kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, the two democratic senators who object to a lot of what the progressives independent that bill, the social safety net package, they say they have made it clear to the white house what they want, how far they re willing to go. i guess my question is, is there even a middle ground? does it even exist? of course there is, jake. we re optimists by nature here. the president is. i am. we believe this will be a compromise that we re going to get done. it s always true that at this stage in the process the later stage of negotiating, you are into the granular details as phil just outlined in his interview with you a few minutes ago. that is true. that s what we re doing. a lot of that is happening privately. the president is on the phone with these senators and other senators and members of