on a total of more than $3 trillion in spending to get the economy going, including lots of new taxes that are being levied out there if this bill goes through saying that it s a huge record of accomplishments now. we ll talk about the evolving narrative out of the white house and whether or not it s true. the bill is called the inflation reduction act. it s packed with green energy handouts as part of the push to transition. you ve heard a lot about that. look at all of those on the list where this money is going, transitioning where you get your energy, green energy. it s a big part of what is in this bill. so this afternoon, we ll peel away the layers, show you what is actually in this bill and whether or not you can assess whether it was make life easier or better for you. lauren simonetti is here and joe concha. first to aishah hasnie with the very latest that just developed this afternoon on the potential passive of this bill. senate democrats have hit the road. they
hell of a lot more bills. we ll sort through the republican s successful removal of a proposed $35 cap on insulin in the private market. and president biden and the first lady are in eastern kentucky surveying the damage from last week s floods. we ll have live coverage. and there are renewed concerns either potential nuclear catastrophe for ukraine and europe after weekend shelling near europe s largest nuclear plant in ukraine with the international atomic energy agency sounding the alarm of the very real risk of a nuclear disaster. we begin with ali vitale and jillian tet. 11:29 p.m. saturday night they finished after 4:00 sunday afternoon. reporter: this whole process from the time they started with the motion to proceed vote on saturday until the moment they passed it on sunday was about 22 hours continuously of work in the senate. this is a building that s rarely working on the weekends and certainly not stretching for 22 hours at a time. but that s what it to
words. critics say president biden s words not nearly strong enough. house speaker s nancy pelosi visit to taiwan adding tension between the u.s. and china. this is the faulkner focus and i m dagen mcdowell in for harris. xi warning biden not to play with fire when it comes to taiwan. speaker pelosi s possible stop there. the speaker is set to leave for asia today and expect to hear from her later this hour. general jack keane criticizing america s passive approach to an aggressive china. the old paradigm we ve used for years, which is self-censorship and self-deterring in our relationship with china all because we don t want to spook them. we don t want to aggravate them. that paradigm has failed massively. dagen: jacqui heinrich live at the white house. good to see you. president biden and president xi had a long conversation today, 2 hours and 17 minutes. then the white house agreed to a face-to-face meeting. an odd thing to do critics say after a death warning. th
inflation reduction act into law. we ll talk about the impact it will have on families with congressman gregory meeks. we begin this very busy hour with the results of last night s critical primary races. liz cheney, once the third most powerful republican in congress, lost her primary bid last night to her trump-backed challenger by a whopping 37%. here s some of what she said about her political future in an interview with today. are you thinking about running for president? that s a decision i ll make in the coming month. i m not going to make any announcements this morning, but it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. a different story for another trump critic in alaska. senator murkowski finished first in her primary bid, allowing her to advance to the general race. but she won t be the only republican on the ballot. the candidate endorsed by donald trump will advance to the november midterms. here to start us off is
for detained americans brittney griner and paul whelan. the president expected to speak with his chinese counterpart this morning as tensions boil over taiwan and a potential trip by house speaker nancy pelosi. in ukraine the u.s. believes more than 75,000 russians have either been killed or wounded since the start of an invasion and 80% of their land forces are bogged down. and in north korea overnight a new warning from kim jong-un threatening to use nuclear weapons. let s get right to our reporters covering it all around the globe. reporter: i m clare sebastian in london. the u.s. has revealed it s ready to trade convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout currently serving a 25-year sentence in the u.s. to secure the release of wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan, another u.s. citizen convicted of espionage in russia, that s according to people briefed on the matter. despite the offer being on the table since june a senior administration official subjected r