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a major energy and health care bill that could breathe new life in his agenda. he urged congress to act quickly and pass it. >> the fact is that my message to congress is this. this is the strongest bill you can pass to low eriner inflatio tackle costs, and promote energy security, all the time while reducing the burdens facing working class and middle class families. >> manu raju is on capitol hill for us. manu, how did this come together? >> reporter: over the last few days, these ne...

invasion of ukraine. and i will just end by saying that according to officials, there was a discussion of a possible face-to-face meeting going forward. theres no timeline for that, but they are going to follow up and set up that meeting. >> mj lee, thank you. lets turn now to selena wang in beijing, gathering chinese reaction to joe biden and xi jinpings phone call. what did china have to say about mo pelosis possible trip to taiwan? >> reporter: while the readout did not specifically...

Forward. i think its also not always a direct line, where you might be able to speak to someone in the state department and have someone go up to the president of the united states. im not sure that the throughline in russia runs from the ministry of foreign affairs directly to president putin. there are oligarchs and others. >> you have written that your brother has said that he is more mr. bean than mr. bond. your brother was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges. you said that i dont bel...

Meet manchin where he is. the signal was sent a few weeks ago from the white house to congressional democrats to basically say, we need to take whatever joe manchin offers us. and in their case, this is something that they want too. its a significant climate investment. its a significant piece of legislation when it comes to prescription drugs. and it also includes some of the tax provisions the democrats wanted. so, this is a big win for the biden administration and a big reversal for manchin. ...

The media. they should be talking about what theyre trying to do to strengthen the economy. >> lets talk about the manchin/schumer deal, which took everybody by surprise, including democrats in the senate. do you think this could pass? i feel like i have told this story a hundred times before. now well hear from the parliamentarian, which is important, of course. >> there could be bumps along the way, as there always are, with big pieces of legislation. this is sort of the last train out of town...

Schumer ultimately cut. but the question is do they have the votes? theyll have to get it together by next week. that is the goal in the senate. then the question is the house. can they get it done by august? optimism in the democratic circles but not there yet. >> house gop leaders are whipping against that bill that you mentioned by bipartisan vote in the senate. can they block it? >> reporter: at this point, it appears unlikely. both democrat and republican sources are indicating to me that t...

April, you asked the obvious question, why was paul left behind. he was actually taken into custody before trevor reed. your brother arrested in 2018, refr reed in 2019. do you think that the administration would have put this deal on the table only for your brother or only now its on the table because brittney griner, a wnba star, is also being held? >> its really hard to tell. i think that the u.s. government, the biden administration in particular, is moving much faster with wrongful detentio...

Perspective really about the size of this reversal. he would say it isnt reversal. but from what weve heard over the last several months, it looks like one. >> yeah, i think it is a reversal. i mean, i think that manchins last comments on the previous state of negotiations was, lets wait to see what another month of inflation numbers and gdp numbers look like. and then lo and behold, this deal was struck even before the latest, you know, gdp numbers came out today. so, manchin clearly made a det...

This chronology of the passing of the chips bill and manchin coming on board for the spending bill. leader mcconnell said he would block the chips bill if democrats move forward with their funding bill. that didnt look like it was going to happen. mcconnell said, all right, were moving forward with chips. manchin says, ill make a deal. is it trickery? is it strategy? is it kwcoincidental? >> i think at some point it matters whether youre on the right side of the issue as far as the american peop...