next. plus, florida governor ron desantis trying to prove he can go toe to toe and punch for punch against trump, so was he willing to go there in front of voters in south carolina where the former president is beating him by 20 points. we ll let you know in just a minute. and president biden will celebrate the bipartisan debt bill with a nationwide address tonight less than 24 hours after the senate agreed to raise the debt limit. will the country give him credit for taking economic catastrophe off the table? but first, some extraordinary new reporting that the georgia investigation into donald trump s alleged interference in the 2020 election is far bigger than we ever knew before, and could mean a precedent setting case. the washington post reporting that d.a. fani willis s probe has, quote, broadened to include activities in washington, d.c., and several other states, a fresh sign that prosecutors may be building a sprawling case under georgia s racketeering laws.
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
dismissed. it also has the potential to upend fani willis s sprawling election interference case in fulton county, georgia. not to mention, the fact that if trump succeeds with his claim of immunity, it could reshape our understanding about the powers of the presidency. there is a lot at stake, in case you need a reminder, the former president was indicted four times this year, he is facing a total of 91 criminal charges in manhattan, washington, d.c., florida, and fulton county, georgia. a new york judge has also found him liable in the attorney general civil railroad lawsuit against him and his company. a separate judge found him liable for sexually abusing the writer and columnist, e. jean carroll during an encounter in the 1990s. carol is also suing donald trump s second time over defamation comments he had made on cnn in may. his punishment on those two civil cases are still pending. on top of all this, his continuous campaign to return to the white house. the colorado s
officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. less than two hours ago, the house passed a bipartisan plan to head off a disastrous default, which the treasury warned could come as soon as monday. the bill clear the house at a critical time for our economy, with the risk of recession still a concern. 314 members voted in favor of the bill. 117 voted against it. among the no votes, 71 republicans, including members of the freedom caucus. they were not alone. 46 democrats were also in the no column. but before the vote took place, several members from both sides went to the floor to make the case for the bill. thank goodness for joe biden s legislative skill, we will not go over the edge. and they are prepared to take us over the edge. the bill contains spending cuts that takes a step towards the right direction to restoring fiscal sanity in washington. we need to avoid a default that would stop checks to our seniors, benefits to our veterans. house democrats were c