pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
i believe in the promise of america. i believe in the future of this country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe to my core there s not a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just have to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decided to make their chips in america. billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. now i m going to take action that i ve been looking forward to do for 18 months. [applause] there we go. it s now law. [applause] neil: you re watching the president of the united states celebrate something that his goal was upon taking office 18 months ago, his $739 billion inflation reduction act, even though the congressional budget office says it does not dramatically reduce inflation, in fact not at all in the beginning. when it
the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he s the man to do it. chad, what s happening? reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. the closer you can demonstrate a connection between what you re proposing and its fiscal impact on the federal budget, the more likely it is that it qualify for a simple majority vote out will. if i it doesn t, if it runs afoul of the rules of the road and/or is more designed to impact private sector activity reporter: on tapped today a marathon vote session with perhaps 15 consecutive hours of votes on amendme
at the same time, it shows the labor market is not slowing, despite all the efforts by the federal reserve to cool down the economy, so they going to be raising rates again, for sure, maybe even higher. in a moment, i ll speak with a member of the white house economic counsel of advisers what it means for your wallet. also this morning, to secure the release the brittney griner, sentenced to nine years in a russian prison. last night, a striking moment pausing before tip-off and the crowd shouting for her to come home. now russia s foreign ministry says they re ready to discuss a prisoner swap. reverend al sharpton who is working with griner s family is going to be joining me. and new fallout from speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan after china held its biggest-ever military drills in the taiwan strait. this morning, china now halting military and climate talks with the u.s., and sanctioning speaker pelosi. the white house summoning the chinese ambassador to the white house to
that we know of. take an amount from him that punishes him. take another amount that ensures that he never does this again. the real question is, will something like this verdict and up making people like alex jones and others, not do something like this again? $49 million award is coming, after sandy hook parents confronted alex jones on what his lies did to them. i can t describe the last night, or even the last nine and a half years that i and others have had to endure. because of the endangerment and the recklessness of alex jones. what was said about me, and sandy hook itself. it resonates from around the world. my life has been threatened. i fear for my life. i feel for my safety. joining me now, former fellow prosecutor, united states attorney, paul, from the database, who has been all over the story from the beginning. what is your response to this new, punitive damaging verdict that just came in? reporter: this is a smart award for the punitive damages. combi