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have two big hours coming your way. first primary in the road to the white house now underway. polls are open in new hampshire where a potential curveball from supporters of president biden loom. it s a bit of drama on that side and see how it shakes down. it s tuesday morning and good morning, everybody. bill hemmer, how are you doing? dana: great, how are you? i love the band at 5:00 a.m. and my friend, johnny, who has his roof up above there. he is loving the band. he loves it so much. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be here. at this hour voters are making voices heard. former president trump is looking for a decisive blow following his win in the iowa caucuses last week. bill: standing in his way is nikki haley. she received all six votes from the small town of dicksville, notch. it votes at midnight. she is at a high school with governor sununu and they re trying to pull a big upset here today. i m not going anywhere. what i will te ....
democrats wasted no time taking a bow. at last we have arrived and we are elated. every member of my caucus is elated about what happened because we really have changed the world in a way that you rarely get an opportunity to do that. it is going to make a difference to my grandkids. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today. harris: many economists paint a very different picture from he just said calling the inflation reduction act saying it will do exactly the opposite and republicans are warning the legislation will wind up raising taxes on the middle class. they call it the inflation reduction act. the most orwellian name in the senate since i ve been there. people paid 26 paychecks a year, biden policies have consumed four of those 26 paychecks out of every year. that is appalling. it is doubling appalling they would spend more and raise taxes in the middle of a recession while we re in inflation. harris: the spendin ....
just around the corner, republicans and democrats are raising the stakes as senate democrats celebrate the passage of their major spending legislation, republicans also gain an edge of sorts by forcing democrats to vote and show their cards on several key midterm issues. moderates appear to be left with a bad hand. republicans are preparing to up the ante with plans to target moderates in november and beyond in 2024. congressional correspondent asha has any is on capitol hill with our report. good evening, asha. good evening to you, mike. that s right, senators are headed back home for the august recess. handing the baton to the house which is expected to vote on this massive tax and spending plan on friday. republicans in the meantime promising democrats will pay the price in the midterms. [cheers] it was a feat some didn t think was possible. i put in one word persistence. even republican senator josh hawley tweeting tonight i will give the dems this with a 50 ....
Afghan civilians were killed in that attack. this began the journey the world watched as the taliban moved in. it is hard to believe it has been almost a year, harris. afghanistan has always been known as the graveyard of empires. four successive u.s. presidents tried to pull all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. three presidents were talked out of it. february 29th, 2020 secretary of state mike pompeo at president trump s direction signed a peace deal with the taliban which includes a promise to withdrawal u.s. troops and release 5,000 taliban fighters from prison that begins the eventual u.s. withdrawal. defense secretary marks per is fired days after the 2020 election after sending a letter to president trump outlining the dangers of a full withdrawal. chris miller is trump s final defense secretary. we will implement president trump s orders to continue our repositioning of forces by ....
The good news about that is that the preliminary data showed about an 89% protection from hospitalization or death have given within the first three days of symptoms. now that the complete full final data center is in is just as good if not better. that s really good news. it is holding off under larger numbers of people. they re going to be submitting that to the fda and hopefully we ll get action on that soon. it is has been a year to the day since vaccines first came out. but it is also well more than a year into this pandemic. and we were looking at the death toll and the first nine months of the pandemic from february from the first death on february 29th, 2020, to nine months later, 269,000 deaths, a little bit more. in the last nine months, very close to that, 255,000. and those are nine months in which the vaccine, highly ....