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
His eventually obituary, that is how we wrap up our wednesday night broadcast. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. It is wednesday, the 18th Of December in the year 2019 and President Donald Trump is impeached. The vote in the House Of Representatives tonight to impeach the president was not close. It was 230 to 197 on the first article, which was abuse of power. One democrat voted present. On the second article, Obstruction Of Congress, it was a vote of 229198, again, with one vote present. These were not slim margins. The successful vote to impeach the president tonight, of course, does not remove him from office. The decision of whether or not to remove him from office will now be made in the United States senate, where hell be put on trial in a proceeding overseen
by the Chief Justice of the United States supreme court. Were talking about that as if it is a forgone conclusion, as if thats the next obvious thing
senate. for years the naysayers said we could never take on the big drug companies. and lower the cost of prescription drugs. but now we have. they said we could never take on entrenched big oil interests and get tough on chime at change. we succeeded. they said we would never close loopholes for the wealthy and make the ultra rich pay their fair share but we got all these things done in one single bill! for anyone that thought washington was broken and couldn t do big things, democrats have shown that real change is possible. if the last two months could be summed up in it a word, it would be persistence. my dad who died in november and would have been 99 on flag day, taught me a lesson. if you try to do the right thing and if you persist and never
it s no different than hunter biden saying what drug problem? turn on the local news. a woman sucker punched on the street and a woman dies after a brutal mugging. the national news runs from the story like a female staffer running from andrew cuomo. [laughing]. greg: and these crime waves are somehow acceptable because it s fine with the ruling class. not a lot of street crime at a party in martha s vineyard. this has people like me buying guns for protection. i can t go on certain carnival rides but buying a gun is a snachlt i love this county. the gun store shelves are as
sent to all of us in the senate today, he references the fact that he s worried about history and that he hopes 100 years from now future americans will review this history and not repeat the same mistake. this is the first inkling we have of what kind of defense president trump might oftener the snachlt we don t know who will represent him, whether it will be rudy giuliani, some of the house folks who spoke today in the republican caucus or whether it will be a disciplined and seasoned legal team such has represented him in his defense in the mueller probe. so i think we re in for a bit of a wild couple of weeks ahead, rachel. i hope that leader mcconnell and some of my republican colleagues look to history and look to the responsibility of the senate. and in particular, i m hoping that there are a few republicans who are willing to press leader mcconnell, because we ll end up getting whatever rules 51 republicans will vote for.