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tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i.r.a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription d...

to the senates efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. lets get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards ...

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The alternative minimum tax. the new minimum tax, for corporations, that would reduce revenue, somewhat, by basically allowing more depreciation by companies. manufacturing companies actually like that. but, we do know that there are major changes made by the parliamentarian. as you know, sam, when you do reconciliation, you actually have to have within it, provisions, to get this status, where you can deliver an expedited vote. robert byrd, when he was in the senate, made sure that this would o...

Expedited vote. no filibuster -- robert byrd, when he was in the senate, made sure that this would only apply to things that dealt with the budget, with fiscal policy, and did not have, predominantly, other policy affects. they go through a process that is called, a bird bath. one part of a prescription drug benefit. one that would require drug companies to pay some more, if their prices went up faster than inflation for private insurers, which were taken out. but we have to emphasize is the thi...

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>> reporter: in court we were in federal criminal court, which the judge explicitly said is a completely separate process from any reunification with your children. its a question that didnt even come up in criminal court, but what were hearing is that because these parents are released immediately to cbp and i should be clear, there was not one person who stood up in court and said ive been separated from my children. they did say they had children back in their home countries that they wanted ...

If it meets that criteria. >> would be open to changes about how that money is taken out of the government? >> our bottom line is to make sure were able to cut two cents out of every dollar. >> let me ask you, republican party chairman is doing an autopsy about what happened. what went wrong in 2012. polling shows that basically the public mostly blames republicans for government failings. what does -- just talk about your side of congress. what do you think you all can do to change the image of...

Out of every dollar. >> let me ask you, republican party chairman reince priebus is doing an autopsy about what happened. what went wrong in 2012. polling shows that basically the public mostly blames republicans for government failings. what does -- just talk about your side of congress. what do you think you all can do to change the image of the republican party? >> not just talk to the mind, but also talk to the heart. many times we spend so much time on policy. but we dont explain how the po...