in our world lead, tensions are escalating on the korean peninsula. north korea confirmed it successfully filed a ballistic missile from a submarine earlier today. this test is the latest in a series of, frankly, ominous moves in recent weeks including what the kim jong-un regime claims was a hypersonic missile test last month which would be theoretically capable of traveling from pyongyang in washington, d.c., in less than two hours. will ripley is live for us. how significant is this latest move? if it is true that north korea launched from a submarine and these images they just released are strikingly similar to the images from their test in 2019 where they said it was a submarine but turned out to be an underwater kind of platform. so we don t really know for sure but it is suspected, according to south korea and japan and others who are analyzing this that the launch did happen out in the sea and the pictures do
make progress. reporter: president biden working behind closed doors to close the deal. the president is basing this approach on five decades of washington is a good guide for how to get things done. reporter: his domestic agenda hanging in the balance, biden launching into a week designed to break the logjam. politics of the art of the possible and president biden is someone who understands how to bring people together. reporter: monday calls with joe manchin, as well as democratic leaders. last night i continued my discussions with speaker pelosi and president biden as we worked to an agreement on legislation we can bring to the floor. reporter: today, separate morning oval office meetings with manchin and kyrsten sinema. two moderate holdouts. afternoon meetings split by ideological leanings. nine progressives who urged biden to go big on his signature economic and climate bill focused by moderates focused on
d.c. look no further than the air waves. jeff zeleny joins us. the ads tell us a lot about where this race is at. every election is about exciting your supporters and turning them out to the polls but that takes considerably more work during the off-year elections like the virginia governors race. these tv ads speak directly to the strategies of both campaigns. democrats are trying to drum up enthusiasm by making this a referendum on donald trump. republicans are trying to fire up their supporters by focusing on schools, highlighting an intense debate happening over in-person learning, mask mandates and whether schools are too woke. in this new ad today, the mcauliffe campaign showed they believe their fortunes must be made by linking their opponent to donald trump. how did we end up here? the lies, the division. it starts when we give room for hate to grow. you also had very fine
states. now the provision, the bill that you re talking about, the build back better act, proposes paying for, if not all, most of these programs by raising the corporate tax level, by raising the very highest level tax level. but we ve also heard that this is a nonstarter, at least the corporate tax increase, for senator kyrsten sinema of arizona. is that true? is there any change on what washington, d.c. calls the pay-ifs or revenues or what most human beings call tax increases? the president said that it will be completely paid for. we didn t get into the specifics of how. now half of the plan is basically a tax cut. the part of it that s an earned income tax credit, child tax credit, that s putting money in the pockets of the working class, especially if it s refundable, it s a tax cut. so that part, senator sinema may not be opposed to that spending for the other parts, the
is like to be furloughed for years and never get a paycheck because of what washington dc has done with policies, what the obama administration to do the economy of this country but when it comes down to this, the scary monster of a government shutdown it isn t scary at all. the markets respond well when the government shuts down. what about that? but for the hair on fire media hysteria, the earth. spinning on its axis of the government shuts down, most americans would yawn. there really is no affect on the every day average american. why does the federal government higher people in nonessential positions? when this, quote, shutdown is over they will be given back pay. this is an important thing to look at the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal government. another thing that is very