that monthly tax cut for parents is going to end in just a couple of months. it s going to be impacting the families of kids during the winter when the heating costs are going up. the bottom line is this. when you give working families a break, we re not just raising our quality of life. we re positioning our country to compete in the future. now, i talk to all you folks out in the playground, i joke, everybody knows i like kids better than people. fortunately they re like me, maybe that s why i like them. but all kidding aside, you all talked about, you all talked about what it means in the families of these children. and granny, you had to cut way back, and because of a lot of things happening, things aren t the same as they were. but these bills are about strengthening the economy for decades to come. both of these bills spend out over ten years. take the infrastructure bill. all those investments in roads, bridges, highways, high speed internet, clean water, everything re
maga underworld all-star, and she s the governor who wants to be president, who thinks her state s attorney general should resign. i still continue to believe the attorney general should resign. why the disgraced attorney general of south dakota is now looking into misconduct allegations against governor kristi noem. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is looking like a very late night on capitol hill, as democrats try to hammer out a deal for two bills that contain basically the full scope or a huge scope of the biden domestic policy agenda. two centrist democrats in the senate say they will not support the big spending reconciliation bill that contains the bulk of the agenda because the price tag is too high. progressive democrats in the house say they won t vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the senate until they have a guarantee on the broader build back better bill. the one that includes big climate provisio
that scheme to set up fake trump electors to be counted and certified is likely under criminal by the justice department and by the january 6 select committee. the new york times has now unearthed two brand new documents that the trump campaign is directly tied to. the scheme. quote, 15 days after election day in 2020 a lawyer for the trump campaign in wisconsin received a memo with the audacious strategy to put in slates of electors in slates where donald trump was trying to overturn the loss. the memo and another one three weeks later are among the earliest known efforts to put on paper proposals for prepares electors jat the heart of the strategy the idea that the real deadline is not december 14th when official electors are chosed but january 6 when congress would meet and the second memo uncovered by the new york times dated december 9 between the same attorneys lays out everything the fake trump electors needed to do to present themselves as real electors. that memo
happened. he shouldn t be surprised and no one else should be surprised. he shouldn t be surprised, nobody else should be surprised, anybody that has followed this story at all, unless they re reading about it on, i don t know, websites run by chinese cults, would know that. everybody around donald trump warned him at the time, if you do this, if you keep moving forward, you are going to be fighting the law for the rest of your life. that was former attorney general bill barr, knowing something about that, making it clear that donald trump has nobody to blame but himself for his many legal troubles because he was warned all along that all of this could happen. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i want to jump right in here. it s friday, august 18th. we ve got the host of way too early white house bureau chief jonathan lemire, former white house press secretary under president biden, now a host, jen psaki and former white house press secretary under president obama ro
i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. it s built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trump s own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists, and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the entire country to the brink of economic default just a few weeks ago. and encouraged by trump to stonewall efforts to reach a deal on the debt limit. but mccarthy s speakership so far will likely be remembered for republicans many efforts to avenge donald trump to take action against his critics, and to rewrite the narrative of his first presiden