Right. The economy does do better under democrats. And as vice president kamala harris announces a major plan to boost small businesses, economists are saying that trump s proposals, like for instance, tariffs, would actually hurt americans. Also tonight, we are just days into the new school year for many students, but we ve already had our first school shooting, leaving four dead and several injured at a high school in georgia. Plus, breaking late today, republican liz cheney, who once said that donald trump is unfit for any office, announced that she will be voting for vice president kamala harris. But we begin tonight with it s the economy stupid. James carville s famoused a moe in addition from the 1992 election that remains true today. Polls show the economy continues to be the top issue for many voters, including inflation and affordability. And yet there is only one candidate who is proposing policies that would actually help americans. Vice president kamala harris. Here she is
west is water conservation. every single drop counts from here on out. wow. bill, thank you for explaining all that. the situation is obviously very dire. they need to find a way to compromise. thank you very much for explaining it to us. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it s good to have you. this hour we expect to see the president at the white house. he ll sign a bill into law that one adviser calls a culmination of the administration s effort towards building the economy. the inflation reduction act as it s called makes historic investmentes in the fight against climate change. it gives medicare more negotiating power with prescription drug companies. and it imposes new taxes on some of america s biggest corporations. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlyn collins joins us live now. so democrats consider this a significant victory. they didn t get everything they wanted here. it s not everything they wanted. and it s very different than the build back bette
Investigate this and oh, my god how could President Obama have done this to President Trump, and they were quiet, with the ni microphones except f microphones except for john mccain and lindsey graham. The question is why would the president Want Congress to spend money investigating a question to which he has the answer by virtue of his tweet . And can make that public any old time he wants. Lets talk turkey here. This is a president on a twitter storm clearly angry about the way that his staff had handled things, deciding to take things into his own hands and try to change the subject, who knows, probably divert attention from russia, all of the above. And sean spicer was asked and
this because he hasnt shown any evidence. Imagine if he had evidence of this action by the former president it would be the biggest political story in 50 years or so and he would want to put it out there and we will wait to see what he does. I think they are hoping this does become like Groundhog Day and e
mr. president, you know how much you meant to my late wife emily. who three years ago lost her 30-year battle with diabetes. if she were here today, she would be beyond joy, celebrating the $35 per month cap on insulin and the $3,000 annual cap on out of pocket costs for medicare patients. she will also rejoice in three year extension for affordable care act subsidies and the authorization of medicare to negotiate some drug prices. emily had adequate health insurance. but many of our neighbors and her friends did not. mr. president, you took office
congress. this law, this law that i m about to sign finally delivers on a promise that washington has made for decades to the american people. i got here as a 29-year-old kid. we were promising to make sure that medicare would have the power to negotiate lower drug prices back then. back then, prescription drug prices, but guess what, we re giving medicare the power to negotiate those prices now. on some drugs. thiamines seniors are going to pay less for their prescription drugs. while we re changing circumstances for people on medicare by putting a cap, a cap of a maximum of $2,000 a year on their prescription drug costs, no matter what the reason for those prescriptions are. that means if you re on medicare, you ll never have to pay more than $2,000 a year no matter how many prescriptions you have, whether it s for cancer or any other disease. no more than $2,000 a year. and you all know it because a lot of you come from families that need this. this is a godsend.