the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, including these four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old and swept away when strong flood waters ripped them from their parents. the governor says they will, quote, be finding bodies for we weeks. certainly the deadliest and most devastating of my lifetime. we can now confirm we have lost 30 kentuckians to this flooding and that is going to grow. we know about additional bodies beyond these 30 confirmed
sanders said the bill does not go far enough, what does that mean? he represents the further left of the democratic party and wrangling all 50 of the democratic senators has been no small fete, getting senator manchin and kyrsten sinema on board. ultimately we believe this bill will move forward, the question is when. this is a very, very lengthy, complex, tedious process they re using, a specific budget process they re using to get it through. let me tell you about what s in the bill, a lot of climate provisions, about $369 billion in climate provisions, the biggest investment out of the senate ever. hoping to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. also some tax incentives in there to push renewables. there s also some health care components in theory that would allow medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs, about 10 drugs by the year of 2026 and extending beyond that, the first time medicare would be able to do that. democrats wanted it to be bigger but this was ab
Government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. Minutes ago the president boarded Air Force One En Route to france where hell meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. The last time the president was on Air Force One was a few days ago. It was at the g20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. During that trip the president was involved in producing the false Statement Given to the New York Times about the previously held meeting last summer. A small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. Ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off
i wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through this. It was a wasted 20 minutes which was a shame. The president responded to his son
say how much it s going to cost and what it s going to do to the deficit. that s what we re waiting on. here s senate majority leader chuck schumer earlier today. we have the bill before us that can win the support of all 50 democrats. i m happy to report to my colleagues that the bill we presented to the parliamentian remains largely intact, the bill when passed will meet all of our goals, fighting climate change, lower health care costs, closing tax loopholes abused by the wealthy, and reducing the deficit. senate republicans are unified against this. once they move into vote-a-rama, senator lindsey graham had a specific way of describing what that s going to be like. so what wit vote-a-rama be like? it ll be like hel.
the real problem are those folks who don t like the medicaid cuts. susan collins of maine, capita. and then you ve got rand paul. if rand paul is really a hard no, that has the room that room that mcconnell has to negotiate. do you think he is actually a no? i do. i think everybody thought rand paul would be a no from the beginning. the wild card has been ted cruz and mike lee. and there s one more. even if they try to give them the amendment. does it go in the base bill or do they vote on it? they would need 50 votes. it hasn t been voted by the parliamentian yet. there may be a lot of things in this bill that can t make it to the senate florida. the pressure has been fascinating to watch.