tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i.r.a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they could get them ahead of the midterms. vice president, kamala harris, casting the tie breaking vote on the motion to proceed. the senate has, officially, begun debating the legislation. joining me now, norman ornstein, who is an emerita scholar in american enterprise institute. he is also a contributing editor from the atlan
to the senate s efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. let s get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i. r. a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they c
me. let s start with the news of the department of defense wiping the phones of some former senior trump administration officials. we, the public, only know about this latest trove of missing texts, because the government watchdog group, american oversight, sued the d.o.d.. so, let s talk about this. how we got this information, what it means, and what we should imply from it. yes. all of those questions are murky, about where we should go from here, is not. the d.o.d., as you say, are the third agency. all three of these agencies, with relevant information about january 6th. we already know, d.o.d. remember, trump reached out, and said, they should put troops at the ready, and maybe, sees machines. what we have, so far, is the self serving public statements by people who have a lot of squirrelly-ness and their backgrounds. you just have to get a half dozen people in a room, and they must be sworn.
all three of these agencies, with relevant information about january 6th. we already know, d. o. d. remember, trump reached out, and said, they should put troops at the ready, and maybe, sees machines. what we have, so far, is the self serving public statements by people who have a lot of squirrelly-ness and their backgrounds. you just have to get a half dozen people in a room, and they must be sworn. i think, actually, the inspector general are not the right place. but maloney says, they need to be sworn by people, with some criminal authority the best. i think, very possible here, is the department of justice. next to that, would be the congressional committee. this is not for the inspector general to say, was their agency failing to adhere to standards. this is possible crime. there is a committee in existence. it is the january six committee. they say that they are coming back in september with hearings, but,
take a listen. you tested on tuesday and he tested on thursday? yeah i m not going to give you a detail of the time stamp of every time the president has tested. he s tested regularly. the first positive test he received was after his return from bedminster. i get not going to give a detailed readout of his testing, but safe to say his first positive test was upon return, or at least after . that is a lie. we now know that is a lie. that clip there, is a lie. but at the time, it was so clear that i m not going to give you a back and forth about when he tested. it really seemed like the squirrelly-ness around this was hard to ignore. it is. it was very hard to ignore. when i watch, that and i watch it live there, it reminds me of all the different times that she lied from the podium, from the white house lawn, from the stake out location where she is in that clip. it really just underscores that