we appreciate it. stick around. we ll talk to you again in a few minutes on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate passed a sweeping climate health care and tax bill, putting democrats on the verge of another major win ahead of the midterms. republicans also scored a win for big pharma. we ll explain. donald trump s republican party gathered in dallas for cpac this weekend, where the big lie was on full display. along with an incredibly ridiculous guest and this is not the one i m talking about. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 8th. with joe and me, we have corresponde
with conservative members. the two of them have faced off tonight in wales. and a hosepipe ban for gardeners in parts of southern england. but how are the farmers coping with the lack of rain? we ll be live in essex to find out. tonight with the context, the former adviser to hillary clinton, amanda renteria, and former senior adviser to george w bush, ron christie. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. she was there less than 2a hours, but the fallout from nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan looks like it might endure for some time. china is about to begin three days of live fire military exercises barely 12 nautical miles off shore, which taiwan says amounts to an air and sea blockade. such was the military response to the speaker s visit yesterday, the flight that transferred her from malaysia to taiwan was forced to take a three hour detour around the phillippines. and it remains tense. at one point today, taiwan scrambled its own fighterjets to ward off those from china tha
Americans. you have this, an economic rescue plan that s led to the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. you ve got a massive, bipartisan infrastructure plan that was passed. you ve got the first significant gun safety legislation passed in over a decade. the electoral act to prevent future january 6th. the china competitiveness bill. $280 billion to make sure we can have a stronger semiconductor manufacturing base in america, so we re not dependent on china. confirmation of the first black woman to the u.s. supreme court. and then this package, mika, which is landmark. yeah. there is no doubt, you look at what happened in the ten years before joe bidenstepped into the white house. the last six years of obama s
Americans, stand united by the speaker americans, stand united by the speaker of the house going over to taiwan, speaker of the house going over to taiwan, recognising the geostrategic importance of that island, and as amanda importance of that island, and as amanda just mentioned earlier, this is something where i think we have been is something where i think we have been behind the curve. she and i both been behind the curve. she and i both being been behind the curve. she and i both being from northern california, being both being from northern california, being from both being from northern california, being from a part of the country that has being from a part of the country that has a being from a part of the country that has a semiconductor manufacturing base, but recognising this is manufacturing base, but recognising this is something that they should have been this is something that they should have been taken care of years ago. the biden have been taken c