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Both will happen tonight? >> reporter: jake when it comes to timing they are really deferring completely to house speaker pelosi on this saying she knows her caucus best and will know when to make the decision to actually have those votes. but make no mistake there is a reason president biden delayed his trip by several hours today instead of leaving for rome this morning and that was because he wanted to go to capitol hill and make this last-minute pitch especially to the progressive members yo...

Corpo corporations. skpef struck down on obvious ways to raise money. they are looking for something palatable and it will raise revenue. everybody wants to go after the billionaires. they cant afford to pay more in taxes. the question is whether this will work. it has constitution ality questions to it. it is not exactly how well it would work, what do you do, for example, if a billionaire loses assets from one year to another. is uncle sam going to be cutting a check to mark zuckerberg. that w...

Hunter biden sells for more than the average american home. >> -- potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars could be funneled to hunter biden through his art sales. the white house has sought to reassure those concerned about undue influence arguing entires will remain anonymous except to the gallery, and hunter himself wont discuss anything related the selling of art. hunters first show in l.a. drew political figures and celebrities, and we are waiting to see if there are any famous faces st...

Because of all these regulations. however, when the war ended and the union army left, the system was basically abandoned and eventually by 1910 and the man act prostitution was declared illegal throughout the united states. >> and the debate continues, you know. the current debate now has taken a few turns here and there, but what is the argument for making sex work legal today? >> so it is an extremely vociferous debate, and right now there are many arguing for decriminalization which includes...

Are directly or indirectly employed in indias coal industry, and the coal consumption is only going up because of an expanding middle class. they are buying air conditioners, there refrigerators, so the electricity usage is going up. and india continues to import coal. in fact there was a coal shortage in parts of india recently, and there was little stock of strategic reserves of imported coals, and indias coal consumption continues to rise because of that. and in the coming days we can see mor...

Chair and a vice chair that are of different parties, liz cheney and bennie thompson, but theyre basically aligned on this issue. so the rule that was passed actually allows for jim banks, who is a freedom caucus member of the republican party, to be the opposing person debating this issue today on the house floor. so cheney will get time, thompson will get time and then banks will be the one arguing in opposition to this measure today on the house floor. one of the things were going to be watch...

Hometown since taking office, and were told, again, hes going to trying to talk about some of these more specifics but arguing what matters is that democrats are coming together and are closer than ever to a deal. hes going to stress he wants this done before he leaves for europe next week, which is still a tall order, steph. >> it sure is. you are in luck because i have got the perfect guest to dig into this, democratic congressman josh gottheimer. he was in the room negotiating with the presid...

What he will do. he is facing considerable political pressure, even though the white house and justice department are supposed to be completely separate, president biden weighed in late last week saying, yes, he believes bannon should be prosecuted. and, of course, weve seen democratic lawmakers also calling on the justice department to proceed with this arguing that if they dont, then trump associates wont have any incentive or need to cooperate. its interesting, jake, in speaking with legal ex...

Huge investments that republicans are blocking. as democrats are trying to build our economy the only thing republicans seem interested in doing is tearing down our democracy. its never fun when youre going through the details but this is is not just a significant piece of legislation, these are two pieces of historic legislation that will help our economy and families for decades. theres no guarantees, the democrats will stay in the majority. i hope they will. so you better take a big swing now...

Transpiring tomorrow? and what is donald trump arguing in this lawsuit? could that affect anything that the committee is going to? do >> yes brian, would it define republican party that colin powell was a part two as opposed to what we are seeing right now from the former president. and who are arguing today that the records request from the house select committee investigating january six are overly broad and have no legitimate purpose are also seeing steve bannon most likely to be held in crim...