schumer on a major reconciliation bill that would lower prescription drug costs and invest hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change and clean energy programs. sinema s support is crucial to get the bill through a 50/50 senate and to the democratic house for a vote. vladimir putin s top spokesman was annoyed the u.s. had gone public about ongoing talks for a prisoner swap to free brittney griner and paul whelan. tony blinken is expected to call sergei lavrov for the first time since the ukraine invasion after shunning him since the invasion in february to talk about a possible swap. president biden spoke with china s president xi this morning as tensions have risen over potential congressional trip to taiwan led by nancy pelosi and the passage of a senate bill increasing competition with china in the semiconductor market. we begin with the president and the economy. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent carol lee, nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vi
conveniently ignoring that to our bill in fact lowers the deficit, and is completely paid for. we are watching every minute of what is happening on the senate floor. we re gonna have the latest for you in just a minute. also this hour, alex jones ordered to pay up and pay a big for his lies about sandy hook in the murder of innocent children. we are going to look at that story later had as well. we do as i said want to start in washington on capitol hill. where right now we are starting we are waiting that key vote on the inflation reduction act, a bill that has already seen some changes today as the senate parliamentarian rules that a cap on drug plate prices for the commercial market cannot be remain in the package. but some democrats are vowing to stick together in the face of what could be a challenging and very long amendment process. want to bring in nbc s giuliani strong capitol hill to talk to some of this. good to talk to you, once again julia. so bring us up to da
Hunter biden. Now weiss says the agreement well apart in july along with hunters plea deal on tax charges. Team hunter disagrees indicating both sides signed the Diversion Agreement. Meanwhile congress now is looking into whistleblower claims that the Secret Service tipped off hunter biden to a potential i. R. S. Interview which foiled those plans for the interview one month after the election of 2020. Jonathan turley telling us last Hour Congress has no choice but to pursue the evidence. This is going to end up with a confrontation between congress and the administration. The question is why the administration is doing this . Its like a game of chicken and they want to see if Congress Jumps out first. Well, congress can change the game. They could start an Impeachment Inquiry and they could say look, we want these answers. Dana were live in washington. Last week we said this Court Hearing will be a week from today. Here we are, david. High stakes for hunter biden . It really is becaus
About the Mask Mandates in place at the moment and Karine Jeanpierre said yes, the way this process is supposed to work. Its a different message out of the white house which is tightly controlling some of the mandates through cdc recommendations throughout the pandemic. Trace indeed. Gillian take a look at this, any moment now, Mitch Mcconnell will face reporters, it is expected to be mcconnells health, obviously, after two freezeups over the last few weeks. Welcome back, im Gillian Turner in washington. Good to be with you, trace. Trace gillian, good to be with you. Im Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. Breaking news in the hunter biden probe, david weiss and hunters attorneys have until the end of the day to provide an update on the battle over a Diversion Agreement that was aimed to keep hunter out of prison. Special council weiss says the agreement fell through when the plea deal collapsed in july. Hunter bidens team is arguing the opposite. David spu
george floyd. floyd s sister will join me in a few moments. and fallout from the interview with prince harry and meghan, alleging racism in the royal family. there s a conversation with you with harry. about how dark your baby is going to be? potentially, and what that would mean or look like. much more on that interview straight ahead this hour. but i want to get right to something we ve all been waiting for. the cdc releasing official guidance for americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. what can they do? where can they go? can you hug your family, or be inside without masks? dr. jonathan reiner joins me now. thanks for joining. this is good news. we can see some small gatherings, grandparent hugs. but dr. leana wen argues, it s too cautious. you should be cautious, right? she says the cdc should be saying if you re willing to get vaccinated, you should be able to travel freely. do you agree? i agree. this administration said that science wo