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situation is fluid. we ll be listening to what nancy pelosi has to say. and it gets to a larger question, is momentum building for some big wins, a bill that helps us compete with china now heads to the president s desk for signature. and democrats have senator manchin on board for a bill they are calling the inflation reduction act that addresses everything from climate change to health care. couldn t come at a better time with the midterms fast approaching and democrats fighting to hold on to control of congress. and there are policy challenges from the war in ukraine to securing the release of brittney griner. there is iran and russia and china whose leader the president spoke with yesterday amid rising tensions of pelosi s trip to the region and potentially taiwan. let s dig into all of this. wehave mike memoli and also ali vitali. and we have our mcrib contributors. ali, what more can you tell us about the situation of the bills? reporter: at this point it is rea ....
At this point. and the strategy is important to understand. it is a package of bills that includes the assault weapons ban but also the police funding bills and the view from progressives is that they cannot even though they want to vote for an assault weapons ban vote for this rule becausen as sault weapons ban would not be able to pass the senate. that is the reality here. but the police funding bills pushed by some of the other moderates would have a chance so progressives don t want to be seen as not having the provisions that they want but also allowing them to come up for a vote in the first place. so mike, what is the mood inside the white house. is there a sense here that the winds are shifting in their favor and they can close in on some big wins ahead of the midterms? that is certainly the hope. i talk often with white house officials and very often those conversations of late in the last few months especially have really been them grousing about the fact that they can t ....