president biden s address to the nation tonight. you can see all the microphone checks are happening right now. they re making sure the prompters and everything are in place. you can see all the little behind the scenes pulling it altogether on the tech side. give you a little bit through the window here and see how that works. we ll go to a quick break. the battle for the soul of america. that is coming up right at the top of the hour. stay right there. [ only wanna be with you by hootie & the blowfish] discover is accepted at 99% of places in the u.s. [ only wanna be with you by hootie & the blowfish] as someone with hearing loss i know what a confusing and frustrating experience getting hearing aids can be. that s why i founded lively. affordable, high-quality hearing aids with all of the features you need,
and they are really, really difficult. much more difficult than those of us sitting at home shouting at the television set, might imagine. justin, let s go back to the inflation bill. because as infuriating as it is to see the carried loophole carried interest loophole still intact, again, the private equity industry is going to get hooked up ridiculous, it is true. let s talk about what they are doing. and it is estimated that this 1% tax on stock buybacks, that s going to bring in at least 73 billion dollars. and putting this minimum corporate tax, that s huge. put into context for us what this means. democrats have been excited to talk about the spending side of the bill. everyone likes. that but it s important to focus on the tech side. and their three big things. close the loophole that means that these private equity millionaires who are skipping with almost no taxes, fund the irs so we can get the tax
from her phone. and showed investigators. you thought that was an important text into? of course i did. the prosecutors found it suspicious that levi delivered all of other texts that weekend. yet you deleted every techs except for that one! how is i supposed to know how many tech side the lead? it and put him as a lying philanderer. the answer? that was the old levi. and he was now a changed man. is it possible for any person to change in one day? there is a process. and leave i was not afraid to interrupt to make his points. and it tells us that. i was telling the jury that s a process. let me speak to my jury please. referring to the jury as my jury. can i speak to my jury please? your honor. no. you need to answer the question. in nearly six hours of testimony. levi chavez tried to show he had nothing to hide. and that he did not kill his wife. turns out, levi did not do
all the stuff about procedure, i want to sort of center things a little bit. the problem for president joe biden and democrats here is pretty clear. with the narrows possibly majority in the senate, they need all 50 democratic senate doctors to agree. again unanimously on legislation. and to democrats have emerged in the face of opposition in the party s agenda, there is west virginia joe manchin and arizona sinema. say what you will about senator manchin but he represents the state dold trump won by nearly 40 points in 2020. and he also has explicitly articulated the basis of his opposition to the current biden adjust the prosal. he thinks 3.5 trillion dollar price tag, again over ten years and that s just the spending side, not the tech side, he thinks that s too high. he wants more means testing,
won. a kid got a full scholarship. he toured the tech side of it. and basically insults the rich platform for a democrat in the early stages of his first term. it s not a bad strategy. i think that he is doing okay. what is the difference between $1.91.1 trillion? you know, if it s more than $100, $1,000, you know, these numbers are so astronomical, we can t even conceive of them. but you know, in summary, i think that he s doing okay and this plan, you know, the build back better, if he can stick to highways and bridges, and internet, and some of the things people understand and not i think he will be fine. jesse: yeah, but greg, to geraldo s point, if you add trillions and spending to that, you jack up inflation and the people that aren t rich are going to feel pinched. greg: yeah, that is the