inflation reduction act after a republican amendment in the vote-a-rama past with democrats like kristen sinema, voting in favor of it. this is making the legislative marathon even longer as republicans continue to try to make this process as painful as possible. democrats are painting the eventual expected passage of the bill as a major victory, hailing what is in it for the american people. vote after vote after vote we have done this with no sleep 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about climate change. lift the ban on negotiating less expensive drugs under medicare. and then as the name of the bill says, bring inflation down by 305 billion dollars a deficit reduction. oil need 50 votes. we don t need 60 we don t need any republican votes to do something significant for working families in this country. unfortunately, for fairly well known reasons we have conservative democrats. we couldn t get the 50 votes that we need r
country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i m going to take action that i have been looking forward to doing for 18 months. going to sign this inflation reduction act. okay. here we go. it s now law. [ applause ] all right, we have been watching president biden at the white house signing what democrats are calling the inflation reduction act into law. that is sweeping investment in green energies, tax reform, and other measures related to health care. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the $750 billion health care, tax, and c
payback. what is next with cdc changes. breaking tonight we have to wait a little longer, at least, to get a look at the materials used by the justice department to obtain the search warrant for last week s search and raid of the florida compound of former president trump. the judge declined to order the unsealing today instead scheduling a hearing for thursday. the president is calling for the release of the affidavit that was part of those materials in what he calls the interest of transparency. the fbi opposes the move. correspondent mark meredith has our report tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. thursday s hearing is going to be fascinating pitting former president trump directly against the government he once led. trump and the media are urging federal judge to unseal the affidavit related to last week s search. the justice department trying to block the release and as for president biden, he is just trying to avoid talking about the case. palest
afghanistan s capital city to show you what life is now like under taliban rule, and asking afghan leaders about a known terrorist who lived in their midst. plus, what may be a silent spread of polio. the virus detected in new york city waste water. why health officials fear hundreds of cases may be out there. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start today with our politics lead and an avalanche of major developments when it comes to trump s attempt to overthrow democracy. giuliani has been informed he s a target of whether trump and his allies tried to break the law and overturn the election in georgia. he s scheduled to appear before the grand jury on wednesday. this news comes hours after a federal judge ruled lindsey graham of south carolina must testify before the very same georgia grand jury. graham s legal team had been arguing that graham did not act inappropriately when he phoned georgia election officials after the 2020 election. georgia secretary of
could alter the investigation s trajectory, and as they re describing more about that, they re digging in and saying we want to protect witnesses. we want to protect grand jury sec secrecy, and they also say the fact that this investigation implicated highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation. that s an acknowledgment by the justice department this investigation implicated highly classified materials. that s their words in the papers. what happens next? that s a great question. so the media, 12 different news outlets including cnn, are trying to get this affidavit made public. but there are lots of calls for transparency right now. it s not just the media that s asking for this. there are some republicans on capitol hill that have wanted more transparency around this investigation. we will see if the court agrees with that. and of course, there is still on the table these requests from both democrats and republi