off? what dollars amount is more important than american lives and values? and the house speaker leaves today for asia. an important trip but her itinerary still unsettled. the big question will she visit taiwan and test what china means by the perish by fire warning? we begin with multiple developments in the january 6th investigations. more missing records. more important cooperation. fierce preparations now for a daunting court battle. the washington post reporting late last night there is yet another batch of missing text messages. sources telling the newspaper texts from donald trump s homeland security chief chad wolf and his deputy kent cuccinelli are reportedly lost to a reset of their government devices both potentially critical witnesses to a number of important trump episodes including a presidential demand to seize voting machines. there is this, too. brand new cnn reporting that justice department prosecutors are now preparing for a courtroom war to compel
what happens if senator sinema says i want to change something or one of the climate groups says, we can t be onboard unless you water down or take out the fossil fuel provisions senator manchin insists on. does the deal have to pass as? is that where manchin is? let me start with the environmental groups. the vast majority of environmental organizations really like this bill. there are varying degrees of enthusiasm but the environmental community is unified with the exception for the center for biological diversity behind this legislation. i want to make that extremely clear. on whether or not any member can ask for any change, you know, that is chuck schumer s role to try to negotiate and land this package. i am pretty confident this bill is pretty baked as it is and we ll be able to pass it next week. we have a lot of work to do over the next seven days. nothing is guaranteed. we ve certainly failed on this before. i m not over confident. i do think we re in a good position to e
the speaker called it a security situation and would not discuss whether taiwan would be part of the travel plans. her stops include japan, malaysia, singapore all key u.s. allies in the region. the new york times reports the biden administration plans to begin offering updated boosters in september. the new shots are expected to work better against the highly transmissible omicron ba.5 sub variant. officials are holding off on expanding eligibility for second boosters until the new verg is available. currently only people 50 years or older and immuno compromised people are eligible for a second booster. the senate majority leader chuck schumer plans another vote on the closely watched burn pits bill. the multimillion dollar legislation would provide critical help to veterans who suffered toxic exposure to burns during military service. earlier this week 25 republican senators who previously supported the legislation voted against it calling for additional changes in the bill. the fa
for domestic clean energy manufacturing. $30 billion for wind, solar, battery storage tax credit the largest investment in american history. when climate activists look at it, some do see some problems. this is the government affairs director for the center for biological diversity. a climate suicide pact he calls it. self-defeating to handcuff renewable energy development to massive gas and oil extraction. new leasing required in the bill will fan the flame of climate disasters torching our country. is there bad wrapped in the good here? reporter: you are right this is the biggest climate action the american government will ever have taken and is not even close. $370 billion for clean energy and the important way to analyze the bill is emissions reductions. everything else is ancillary. the earth is on fire. how do you use these resources to reduce emissions and therefore reduce global climate change? this gets us 80% of the way toward our goal and is not some
far off goal. this is a 2030 objective to reduce our emissions by 50%. this gets us to 40% reduction as opposed to literally nothing we had a week ago. are there parts of the bill i don t like? of course. we just made a deal with joe manchin. if you think there is going to be nothing in it for fossil energy you don t understand joe manchin. the real question is in the net what does it do for the climate and that is not at all a close call. in the net you have joe manchin. you know the math. this fails if you don t get senator sinema. she says she wants time to give it a careful read. is she a yay or a nay? i can t speak for her. i think it is pretty reasonable since this is a big bill to take the weekend and analyze the bill. we ve talked a lot about the climate and i know she feels very passionately about t i am not her spokesperson. i think it is reasonable to read the bill because not everybody was kind of intimate with all