Structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. One month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. There they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. And after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. Here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. We re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. We have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s about mass transit. O
Activity. Yes. People usually say like don t do math on live tv. Don t try to add two and two unless you have somebody walking you through. It there s something about it but, in that case, i know it is 1850. Seven notes 1850s have not because i m good at memorizing dates but i know how long it took from that to get to the start of the civil war in 1861 so, i would not mess it up. And, it wouldn t be like a typo because the nine is not next to a seven, and it was written as the seven, yet, i just said it is the nine. What s gremlin is? that getting old sucks. This is a totally new way of failing, new form of failure, i don t even know i was capable of. It rachel, i would ve been lucky if i got the decade right on the dred scott decision. So, that s a i gotta remember, under no circumstances for the next hour should i say 1859. I just have to get that out of my head. I just can t, okay. Yes. I m just going to go get a tattoo. Good. Thank you rachel. That s it. Thank you. Congressman kati
asia and the cause of change in china. in his last year in office, clinton made expanding the chinese economy one of his most important priorities. to do that he appointed a lobbyist called steve machete and put him in charge of the project. fast forward to today, china has been a member of the world trade organization for 20 years. steve has written an even higher in democratic politics and is a top white house aide to joe biden. as for china, it has changed as bill clinton promised it would. china is now the richest country in the world, police state is far more efficient authoritarian even then it was under chairman mao. china is a much larger threat in united states and its neighbors, as far from peace in asia as we have been since 1945. the american manufacturing sector is gone, evaporated, most products are made in china theater maybe you seen the pictures of cargo ships strung out into the pacific, struggling to get to a port to unload containers. you will hear this d
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king and washington. very busy day in the news. thank you for your time right now a supreme court deadline in a critical medication abortion case, a decision on whether to take a pregnancy ending drug off the shelves but now happen at any moment and this hour, an overwhelming show of solidarity for a black team shot for ringing the wrong door. bell, the man who pulled the trigger twice. it s still not under arrest. attorneys for ralph yours, family say that s an outrage and that the reason his black and white and the florida governor versus the house. the mouse build ron desantis threatens retaliation against disney with rival amusement parks. even he says, maybe a state prison crowd cinderella s castle, others eyeing the 2024 republican nomination, say governor desantis is doing harm . the gop s less government free markets brand. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that is devolved into an issue and i
his departure could happen in the coming weeks and marks a rare and significant turnover for the biden administration. the news comes at a time when the president is dealing with classified document controversy, and questions about his 2024 ambitions. let s get right to cnn s she joins us from delaware where president biden spending the weekend. here we go, some saturday news for us from the biden white house, what can you tell us? yes jim, pretty big news, as we have learned that white house chief of staff, ron klain, is expected to the part his post in the coming weeks. sources said that the transition is expected to happen after the save the union address, which is currently set for february 7th. really, this comes as there has been very little turnover amongst president biden s most senior staff. ron klain of courses within that inner circle of advisers that has been with president biden since he joined the white house, and has worked for biden before in the obama adm