oh, right. oh, he tripped over a sandbagn on the stage. and briefly, hde tripped and gop up and he he got right back up and continued continued what he- was there to do. he did not he there was no needi for the doctor to see him as imt was related to the fall. and he s doing fine. biden s pals, the liberal media, are covering for him by accusing republicans of pouncing. biden has this misunderestimated thing where people assume, oh, he s too old, he doesn t know what he s doing, and he just keeps delivering. today, he tripped over, you know, i guess there wasght r like a back on and twitter and the right are going crazy.ta it s the advance team or whoever s fault that they put a sandbag in front of him. sthe sandbai tripped in my own g is he so enraging to the right because he is so normal? no more than two years old, the president do decide to have, a war, but as ii do, i look lid it is good to see did. but given voters concerns about the president s age, this is
cnn through the crime scene. plus, she s the one that we wanted and treasured. singer, actress, and icon olivia newton-john passes away. hello, and welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. president biden began his week on the cusp of a huge win for his party. the senate this weekend in a marathon voting session passed the democratic branded inflation reduction act strictly along party lines. every single republican voted against it. the bill now heads to the house. it is expected to pass along party lines there as well. and president biden could sign it into law as soon as friday. the massive $750 billion bill contains sweeping health care provisions, tax increases on wealthy corporations, and the largest climate investments in u.s. history. and this comes as the president and first lady tour eastern kentucky, where hellish flooding killed more than three dozen people and caused catastrophic damage to communities. presi
chris s injury all over again. how are you doing, luis? i m eddie. that s my son, chris. it s all gone in an instant. someone s gone from being so independent and at the prime of his life, now becoming very dependent on some of the basic things, the simplest things that we all take for granted. they can be mad at the world. but i ll go in there to help them just to let them know that they re not alone through this process. never give up that faith, man. this is something that we have to do. we know that this is our purpose. and so we do it. who else you got here? i like to collect sports history. so for me, like, i got some of the older guys like terry bradshaw. got the steel curtains. you know i m not a big fan of the steelers. you know that, right? in all the time i ve been with them, they don t talk at all about themselves and their struggles. they talk about how can they help someone else? how can they support another family? and to me that s what a hero is
tell me just a little bit about gridiron heroes, how it got started. you know, it started after chris suffered a spinal cord injury. it was our last home game. we had to win this game to go to the playoffs. about four or five guys missed the tackle and i made the last touchdo touchdown. along with that, i broke my neck. he just reached his one-year anniversary date of his injury. chris was going through some hard times. he started to shut down on me. depression hit, and i was still in the wheelchair. so just to get him out of the house, i said, let s go to a football game. there was a state championship game. and at that game we ended up witnessing another spinal cord injury. as soon as chris saw that young man being put on that cart, chris turned to me and said, dad, we ve got to go help him. i know what he s going to go through. you know what the family s going to go through. that was the inspiration behind starting grid iron heroes. gridiron heroes, we provide