already passed. the white house has said repeatedly this is a popular law. if that is the case, why is it important to get out and sell it? it is not selling it. it is literally letting people know their rights, right? you buy a product, you are sold on the product but they are not directions on the box. think of it as an education campaign. dana: as progressive policies, president biden preparing for the largest tax hikes in 30 years and democrats spending $4 trillion on green infrastructure plan. so much to get to, kd, why would you announce a press conference nine days from now? my theory is you announce them that morning because the president will come anyway? who knows what will happen in nine days. katie: that is a good point and dana i have to give your credit because you were the one who predicted the biden administration would wait until they pass the plan so that they could have something to successfully towel to appear they are doing this nine days from n
I m not sure what they re waiting for and i hope we get a decision one way or another soon. elie honig, thank you, sir. i appreciate it. i want to turn now to cnn white house correspondent john harwood. good evening to you. president biden spoke to the ukrainian president zelensky for an hour, an hour and 20 minutes tonight, and it apparently didn t go so well. what are you hearing about that conversation, john? well, we re hearing different things from both sides, don. from the ukrainian side, there was an anonymous quote, a leak to our colleague matthew chance in which the ukrainian official said that president biden told president zelensky that an invasion was certain to happen when the ground freezes and that kyiv should brace for impact. the white house says that s absolutely not true, that president biden said there s a distinct possibility that russia will cross the border and invade, but that is not a certainty. at his news conference last
Case than steve bannon. last week we got this ruling from the supreme court that really gutted donald trump s executive privilege arguments, and it wasn t even based on donald trump being the former president. they just said even if he was the current president, his executive privilege claims lack so much merit that we can essentially throw them out here and now. there was some speculation maybe doj is waiting for that opinion. that was last week, that was a week and a half ago already so i m not sure what they re waiting for and i hope we get a decision one way or another soon. elie honig, thank you, sir. i appreciate it. i want to turn now to cnn white house correspondent john harwood. good evening to you. president biden spoke to the ukrainian president zelensky for an hour, an hour and 20 minutes tonight, and it apparently didn t go so well. what are you hearing about that conversation, john? well, we re hearing different things from both sides, don. from the ukrainian side,
Post. it really underscores how tenuous things were in that period where there were so many republicans on the hill. i remember the anonymous quote also in your paper where a republican said, you know, what s the harm in humoring him? i don t know about you, but i m grateful we had military leaders who saw the potential for said harm and were doing something about it behind the scenes. what are the ripple effects of this new reporting going to look like? i like you am grateful. the reporting is going to just confirm so many of the concerns that people on both sides of the i ll have about the previous administration. the fact that the institutions were bending is significant enough for many people to rethink about whether or not this is a direction that america needs to go in again. as you know, this is something that many americans are even entertaining as a possibility because of the popularity of the former president with the republican party remaining so high still in this curren