piece of legislation, the vote 51-50 for the inflation reduction act and a sweeping 700 plus diamond bill on health care, prescription drugs and climate with all 50 republicans voting against and vice president kamala harris breaking the tie. if the house passed the bill later this week as expected, democrats would have passed a landmark piece of legislation as described by the washington post as quote one of the most consequential pieces of economic policy in u.s. history and it comes at the string of legislative victories for joe biden as the times put it, capped off an extraordinarily productive run for a congress better known for its paralysis and it included passage and the first bipartisan gun safety legislation in a generation and a huge microchip reduction to bolster american competitiveness with china and a major veterans health care measure. a series of successes was all of the more sweet for democrats because it came with the political benefit of republicans maki
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
new report this morning that accuses the secret service of deleting text messages related to the attack on the capitol after they were requested by oversight officials. and new reporting that all but confirms that donald trump will run for president again. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 15th. we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have you both on board this morning. joe, we re going to be looking at, obviously, what is going on abroad with president biden and his meeting with abbas, but let s begin with the secret service, accused of deleting text messages that could be critical to investigating the eve events of the insurrection. how could they be deleted? the dhs inspector general writes, after his office requested full electronic records for an evaluation of the capitol attack, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th
Station. The crews splashed down off the east coast of florida. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. I often see these moments at burning man and think interesting, probably something ill never be a part of. Except this weekend everybody seemed to care about it because everyone was stuck. Yeah, it is an Epic Burning Man id say. They always say it but this one actually is. Just hour fwrs s from now roads finally reopen. Organizers will make the decision this morning. Roads leading in and out of festival have been shut down since saturday after heavy rain created ankle deep mud. Officials say the thick mud made it virtually impossible for cars, buses and rvs to leave. A lot of people walked for miles through the mud to get out. And here you can see some vehicles that tried to leave but became hopelessly stuck. So much water. We are flooded. Well be stuck here at least a couple days. This is nuts. This is what people have been trudging through for days now. Festivalg
efforts to maximize every penny of the stimulus. the president and vice president and their spouses hit the road today from vegas to near philly for what the white house is calling the help is here tour touting the massive legislation. this comes as president biden is setting new goals for the nation to begin the path out of this pandemic and to help reach those goals the biden administration is now devoting $250 million to try to encourage skeptical americans, many of them trump supporters, to get the vaccine as cnn s phil mattingly now reports. shots in arms and money in pockets. reporter: with stimulus checks already hitting bank accounts president biden now in an all-out sprint to promote the $1.9 trillion covid relief law. the american rescue plan is already doing what it was designed to do, make a difference in people s everyday lives. reporter: and ensure there are no errors as it s put into place. the devil is in the details. reporter: biden naming gene sp