are not meant. to go through these types of tragedies. american people go through this again and again, this time for innocent people killed nine innocent people injured and yet another community in horror. today after a mass shooting in louisville, kentucky, after a lone gunman opened fire in his workplace, a bank the governor himself, says he knew one of the victims killed. plus emergency moves by the justice department and a drug manufacturer today trying to hit the brakes on the ruling from a texas judge, appointed by trump that effectively would ban the availability of a popular abortion pill. and classified pentagon documents leaked online , revealing top secret information on allies and adversaries. this leak different from previous ones because of how fresh the intel is speak with the house intelligence committee chairman who was said to be briefed on the matter just moments ago. welcome to the lead . i m jake tapper. it is another emotional day we start with our nati
talked a lot about the frm former president, but now he s putting himself, the record of his administration, front and center as we get closer to the midterms. reporter: there s no question about it and that s because white house officials, the president included, believe they have a record to talk about, a record to hold up as they head into these final days before the midterm election, and as you noted, it is a record that has been bolstered over the course of the last nine weeks by a real flurry of legislative victories. some of the president s key economic agenda items, key climate agenda items, key healthcare agenda items all moving through congress throughout the course of this summer. you combine that with what we saw from the supreme court related to striking down roe vs. wade and there is no question about it. democrats, politically, feel like they re in a railroad diff very different place, but the president s legislative accomplishments are significantly more sub
the white house putting itself on the back toward legislative victory, the cdc confessed it dropped the ball when handling the covid pandemic. the agency s director admits the entire department when into overall as it faces criticism over the response to the monkeypox virus. the wilmington delaware, peter. william, inflation reduction act has been the law of the land for several days now but no inflation reduction get in the something? of the president are starting to call him out for. he spends trillions and trillions of dollars we don t have and he was warned not just by people like me who he s not going to listen to but economists who work for people like obama and bill clinton. if you do this, you re going to spark massive inflation and now here we are. maybe it shouldn t be a surprise because senator joe manchin who negotiated said inflation reduction is going to take a while. it s not because we never said anything happened, turn the switch on and off. bottom li
appear to be borne out by photographs from the white house bathroom. tonight with the context, the international trade expert rebecca harding, and former adviser to president george w bush ron christie. hello, welcome to the programme. president biden is defying expectations, and earning a reputation as a president who gets things done. despite the toxic nature of washington politics or maybe because of it senate democrats have been working through the summer to bring about an impressive list of achievements and a lot of that has come with the support of republicans. first came the pandemic relief $1.9 trillion, otherswise known as the american rescue plan. then in november the infrastructure bill. injune the first bipartisan legislation in decades on gun safety. then came the chips act, to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing. then new health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. a bipartian agreement on nato expansion admitting finland