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
house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
thomas. in a 32-page opinion objecting to what he considers a lack of due process. still not delivered by the high court, with only a week or so left in this year s long-awaited decision on whether former president trump is immune from prosecution. and whether emergency medical care can disapprove abortions if necessary. also, the judge in the mar-a-lago classiied documents case raising more questions as she permits outside interest groups to argue long-decided issues. has still not set a trial date a full year after she first got the case. a stunning new york times report that fellow judges had advised her to recuse herself because of her inexperience. have her questionable procedures accomplished making sure this doesn t get before a jury before the election? good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the supreme court has just ruled 8-1 to uphold a federal ban on gun ownership by people under restraining orders for domestic abuse. the case was brought by
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