back better agenda to efforts to fight climate change, to attempt that filibuster reform, to taxing billionaires. joe manchin is made himself the man standing the democratic agenda yelling, stop. tonight may have just had a major breakthrough. the top democrat in the senate, chuck schumer released a joint statement with senator manchin saying the west virginia democrat will now support, not oppose, but yes, support the democrats big new budget deal. despite objecting to it just two weeks ago. now, we don t have all the details yet. but a one page summary says that the deal will make progress in some pretty big areas, including a 15% minimum tax on corporations, along with other unnamed provisions to make the ultra wealthy pay their fair share of tax. lowering affordable care act premiums for millions of americans, allowing medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs, something democrats have been trying to achieve for over a decade. increase clean energy product
democrats big new budget deal. despite objecting to it just two weeks ago. now, we don t have all the details yet. but he one page summary says that the deal will make progress in some pretty big areas, including a 15% minimum tax on corporations, along with other unnamed provisions to make the ultra wealthy pay their fair share of tax. lowering affordable care act premiums for millions of americans, allowing medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs, something democrats have been trying to achieve for over a decade. increase clean energy production and, this is a big one, decreasing carbon emissions by 40% over the next eight years. which of course would be huge. it s already been called the biggest climate bill in american history. tonight, senator schumer s office has released the text of the bill. it clarkson at 725 pages. obviously this is not a done deal yet. reactions from other democratic members of congress have range from cautious optimism to outright fr
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proposed a trial date for donald trump s georgia election case. we have the details about the ex presidents formal lawyers who told willis once they reached plea agreements. plus, george santos s last stand in just over a week. the republican could finally be expelled from congress. also, the maga fiction, the magnification of the gop. al secret congresswoman barbara lee but the vile rhetoric coming from the right. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we start this hour with major developments in fulton county district attorney fani willis s election interference case against donald trump. just within the last 24 hours we have learned when we could expect to see the disgraced ex president and his codefendants had to trial in georgia. prosecutors have requested in august 5th, 2024 trial date. that is just three months before the general election. willis s proposal kept off a busy week in court. on thursday, sct mcafee judged a request from the office from an emergency pe
since last year, he s been absolutely pilloried by his home states to major newspapers. but he himself has not actually responded, until today when reporters caught up to him in a capitol hallway. the january six committee said that they talk to a capitol police officer that when you made that fist pump, you riled up the crowd. do you regret that fist bump because of that? no, i don t, i don t regret anything i did on that day. and, it s a privilege to be attacked by the january 6th committee, i want to say thank you for all the help with my fundraising. those were your supporters, they were sort in the same position they did, why were you running from them. listen, don t take any of that seriously, all that was 100% trolling. oh come, now come now, we aren t pretending all this is serious, are we? if we were to take it seriously, i might actually have to answer your question. i mean, the scorn dripping off