if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we ll come to you 808 to one 4,000 hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. all right. the countdown is underway for i don t trump the former president is just hours away from two major legal threats colliding and new york tomorrow is the deadline for him to post a nearly half billion dollars bond in his new york civil fraud case. his attorneys have asked an appeals court to allow him to post a smaller bond or none at all but the court it has not reached a decision yet on friday, trump claimed he has the cash to cover the bill, but his lawyer told cnn that trump does not actually have that cash on hand. meanwhile, new york s attorney general has already filed judgments in westchester county and new york city where trump owned properties. so first which indication the state is preparing to seize his assets if he can t pa
the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill, as amended, is passed. the bill, known as the inflation reduction act, contains the biggest climate investment in u.s. history. it also makes big changes to health care policies. it s headed to the house later this week after enduring more than a year of pain staking debate of more than 15 hours of a vote-a-rama delirium on capitol hill. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. this was once called the build back better agenda for joe biden. he didn t get everything he wanted, but they got a lot of what they initially were going after. how did it get resolved? there was some last-minute drama here. reporter: yeah, this capped more than a year of negotiations within the democratic party. you mentioned the build back better agenda. this is scaled back from this, but still significant in size and scope, dealing with health care, drug prices, climate and energy issues, imposing a new 15% corporate minimum tax that make mor
i welcome you both. ali, to you first. u.s. officials, confirming americans are among the dead. but, what do we know of any specifics, around those statistics, this hour? yeah alex, this is something that we heard, first mention by secretary of state antony blinken this morning, when he said that u.s. officials were working overtime, to confirm reports that americans were among those killed. since these attacks began yesterday, as well as reports that americans, were among those taken hostage, into gaza, by hamas militants. and tonight, we have a new quote from a national security council spokesperson. confirming that the deaths of several u.s. citizens since this attack began, but also on these reports of americans being taken hostage. they would only confirm that there are americans, quote, unaccounted for. they say in a statement, quote, we are aware of reports of unaccounted american u.s. citizens, and we are working to confirm, we are closely monitoring information of
that are populated by iran, islamic revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the paramilitary arm there are, there are some other options. the former head of the mossad is israel s former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the israeli cabinet is considering targeting iran nuclear infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. but not get them into a complete all-out war. of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think it s just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. we re in unchartered territory seth. thank you so much. thanks erin thanks for joining us. the lead starts now cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper. we start this hour with breaking news and what we do just heard from house speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead
facing a potential revolt from his far-right flank over his plan to bring three different foreign aid bills to the floor this weekend? it s a move his fiercest critics say, could ultimately cost him the speakership. but speaker johnson tells me he s not worried about what could happen. he s going to do what he thinks is right. even if the bill gets democratic votes this is very simple. i m operating with the smallest margin in us story. i have a o ve margin oy. so in order to getomhing into this underlying package, we have to havthe tes in the orida pass aule. i don t ha all mrepublicans who agree on that ru. and a rule on the floor or is that it requires a couple of democrats l s speaker johnson explaining why there isn t. a tougher border measures this legislation as many house republicans want there to be coming up anjust moments. e of those republicans, coressman chip roy of texas, is goi to ta to ushe said today he s passed the point of giving gra to the speaker. what