Armies of lobbyists and lawyers . Or does it work for all the people. Now the House Of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful. The house is about to vote on a budget deal, a deal negotiated behind closed doors, that would let traders on wall street gamble with Taxpayer Money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system. This is a democracy, and the American People didnt elect us to stand up for citigroup. They elected us to stand up for all the people. Thats the Bugle Signaling charge. Today the white house scrambled to contain the fod. Just minutes before the scheduled vote, the white house took the dangerous move of taking direct aim at the warren wing of the party by declaring
and campaign contributions, opening up the ÷÷naufloodgates. First you give the keys to the bank and then you bail the banks out. We are not having that. I think the vote today shows that, shows the unity of
Saw a flare being fired into or being thrown into a police suv. The police also took that out. That fire we saw was just a few minutes ago. These are live pictures of kptv in oregon, the official protest cancelled, we have seen now just dozens and dozens of these people, basically just moving freely through the streets, kicking in windows at several stores, sara sidner has been in seattle, and she joins us now at the protest that is going on in portland. Sarah, this protest in portland, the official protest was cancelled, but theres clearly a number of people that the police are describing as anarchists who seem to be moving down a block in an uncontrolled way at this point. Reporter yeah, i think
been destroyed. And so there is a lot of consternation there, where there are folks here who are concerned about that same group, the antifa, or antifascists. They sometimes call themselves far left. Youre actually seeing a Police Vehicle with tactical units, basically hanging on either side
wants to expand subsidies for more families to take advantage of it and tighten loop holes for people to get more coverage. the presence of barack obama with the president, i m just wondering if it hurt him that a loot hoff democrats watching would say, well, that s what we remember and like. that was the message that we remember and like. that certainly might have been a consequence. i don t think that was the intention i think they brought in obama for a specific reason, which was to create excitement about this administration again. biden has been suffering bad approval ratings and democratings need something to get excited about. so they bring in their star power and talk about the major legislative achievement that they ve had over the past few years. neil: but if you re joe biden and you don t get high oratory skills, that kind of matters to
welcome back. data download time. a closer look at the rising gas prices. you might think of them as something that impacts every american, but if you look closely, you can see the democratings and republicans are experiencing this year s pain at the pump a bit differently. this is a real-life unintentional impact of the self-sorting that has come to define modern-american politics. it will explain why the two parties seem to be focusing on the issue with different urgency. the average gas price is up, $3.38, the highest it s been going back to 2013. so this is real what we re seeing. but people are experiencing this pain at the pump differently. check this out. this is most vehicle miles traveled per capita by state. top ten states, eight of the top ten are trump states. the only two blue states, this is the one rural state democrats still carry, new mexico, if you will, and then there s georgia.
going back to his office now to make calls to lawmakers to really push for them to get behind specifically the build back better plan, does this give him a little more ammo this morning? reporter: a little bit. it s the start. and if, in fact, they can sustain the progress against the pandemic, then you re going to see the continuation of strong jobs reports, strong economic growth reports, and over time some of those supply chain issues that have been fueling inflation are likely to smooth out and ease those inflationary pressures. all of those things have been inflation in particular, they slow down in the summer along with the other political problems joe biden had, had dragged his approval rating down. it s been a terrible few months politically for him. you can see even days after the very bad election night the democratings suffered in both virginia and new jersey, the beginnings of a turnaround, if they can sustain it.