to the senate s efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. let s get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i. r. a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they c
We arranged for all of that to happen in that hour as hazing for you. Youre in the frat, dont worry. Thank you, rachel. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Right off the top, there has been Breaking News in the last hour or so. In a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. He lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. There were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. He is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. But he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. We have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a
Candidacy. Well, i appreciate that, rory kennedy. Best of luck with the documentary. You can watch it tonight at hbo. That is tonights readout. Inside tonight with jen psaki starts now. Good evening from washington, im Michael Steele in for my friend jen psaki who is wrapping up a well deserved vacation and will be back with you next week. We have a lot to cover tonight so settle in. I do want to begin with a headline. Trump employs images of violence as political fuel for Reelection Fight. Now you might be thinking, yeah, i saw this over the weekend. After all, donald trump posted a video on his social media depicting President Biden with his hands and feet tied up in the back of a pickup truck. And at the same time on that same site, trump not only lashed out at the judge presiding over his trial but also at the judges daughter. So yeah, i would say he is employing images of violence in his Reelection Fight right now. That headline is not from over the weekend. It is from september o
israeli forces say two israeli hostages have been released and more are expected to be handed over soon. it comes after renewed violence in gaza and jerusalem in the last 24 hours. will this affect the chances of extending the truce deal beyond today? global reaction to the death of former secretary of state henry kissinger at 100. and the u.s.-mexico border, a record number of migrants are dying at the el paso sector. we re going to speak with a journalist who reports it is so bad, residents are oftentimes stumbling over bodies in the desert and even in the towns. and new this morning, republican congressman george santos has a warning to his colleagues if they vote to expel him from congress. that is going to be the undoing of a lot of members of this body because this will haunt them in the future. and we begin this hour with more on the breaking news in the israel-hamas war. at this moment, we are awaiting the release of more hostages just about an hour after two