this means for special counsel jack smith s multiple investigations, and trump s third presidential bid. frightening future, the second year of a post-roe america looks worse than the first. we re going inside the all out episodes to keep the southeast swath of the country from turning into an abortion desert. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you i m katie phang. we begin with a major show of support from the white house on what could become a critical turning point in the war in ukraine. the biden administration defending their controversial decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine to help that country gain grounds against vladimir putin is now 500-day war on ukraine. cluster munitions, also known as cluster bombs, are banned in 120 countries due to the high risk of killing civilians. despite blowback from his own party and human rights groups president biden says he spoken to allies about the decision. it comes as he prepares
what we know about how they were found in what the biden team is doing about it. and a dangerous escalation into the battle over medication and abortion. we will touch down in the state whose attorney general has threatened to prosecute women for taking abortion pills. plus, they would ve been dr. martin luther king junior s 94th birthday. tomorrow, we celebrate his. life later this, hour though, we will talk with his. work velshi starts now. and good morning to you. it is sunday january the 15th. i am ali velshi. we begin with a dire warning for the american economy. a debt ceiling showdown that is set to explode this week in congress, with potentially disastrous consequences. but in order to understand what is at stake, let us start with a history lesson and a historic visit. on, friday president biden hosted the japanese prime minister fumio kishida at the white house. an important visit meant to highlight the close relationship in the alliance between those two nations. a
u.s. history, putting forth more than 300 billion dollars for climate clean energy investment, including a methane reduction program, which rewards farmers and ranchers for reducing methane emissions. environmental justice block grants, a climate bank provision to make investments in clean energy technology, and energy efficiency. an extension of the electric vehicle tax credit. guaranteed wage rates for clean energy jobs, in four billion dollars for drought funding, one of several items of the democratic arizona senator kirsten sinema negotiated into the bill in order to end her hold out for. it on drug pricing, the inflation production act gives medicare the power to negotiate some prices with drug companies for the first time, with the goal of lowering prescription drug costs for seniors. however, a provision would ve kept the price increase for prescription drugs in the commercial market, but penalizing companies, was blocked by the senate parliamentarian. she said it cou
many states have multiple laws governing abortion on the books. in the world it is unclear which laws were infected with the even mean. take arizona, for example. it is unclear which law will take in effect there. two of the states top officials are indiscriminate about it. republican governor doug doocy says a recently passed 15-week abortion ban takes president. that would allow providers to offer some abortion care in the state. the attorney general, however, says that a 121 year old law banning all abortions is in effect. since the attorney general in forces the laws in the states clinics, they have decided that it s too risky to keep offering abortions. they have entirely stopped until everyone can get on the same page. arizona is one of the states highlighted in this darker red on the map. no abortions in those dark red states are being offered. the laws are clearer in some of these other nine states, but the reality of post roe america is equally grim everywhere. yes
domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses chain themselves their emissions capacity to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dressing climate change in u.s. history. and democrats appeared to be on track to get it done