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Mission. >> tell the story about what he went through. my basic thought i woke up and give back to someone that has so much -- >> a group of bills currently on capitol hill aim to make burn pit exposure a presumptive condition for va health coverage. the cost $282 billion over 10 years. in november the va and white house made covering burn pit exposure a priority. president biden believes his own son's cancer resulted from it. >> we'll follow that man's story. >> dana: a federal court reinstated president biden's maxine mandate for large private businesses. the legal battle appears to be heade...

They'll see a replay of 2010. they want to get something done for november 2nd. that's the one they're most scared about. >> go deep on this one piece of this. leigh ann has laid out what's in, what's out, but there's also how to pay for it, right? the idea of this billionaires tax, but an annual tax on unrealized stock gains. that means billionaires will get taxed on their stock even if they haven't sold them yet. as an example, the head of tesla, elon musk. eads seen a gain of about $82 billion so far this year. if this tax were to go into effect, he would pay something like $30 billion even...

That's sort of a pithy way to put it, but this isn't an easy snap your fingers kind of get it done situation. >> it's really difficult. senator ron widen, the finance committee chairman, he's been talking about this for a couple years but they've not released any kind of legislative proposal where we thought we could actually do something today. they've received a framework for this, but think about what you said there. elon musk made $82 billion this year. that's an insane number. what they're talking about is people like jeff bezos who has an enormously large stock gain, and they can spend h...

He was in. but also, he came to the training center of the operating engineers. and as you know, the building trades unions are really supportive of the bipartisan infrastructure program. so, he came right to them and said hey, let's do both. because the build back better agenda has so much for you, to. 82 billion dollars of school construction spending and making the rules at the pro act right into the build back better act, so that employers who violate workers rights get penalize. so, that was good. and he's going to do fine in the state. but only if we pass this agenda. we've got to pass i...

Free community college for older students, feds picking up 75% of the tab, states covering the rest. there would be 82 billion for public school improvements, also more money for universities that serve minority groups, including historically black colleges. >> we need to deliver for the american people. >> reporter: there would be help with child care, middle to low income families with kids under five send no more than 7% of income on those services. proposes to help low income families save money making the earned income tax credit permanent. and build into child nutrition, 9 million more c...