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we'll be back here, tomorrow night, at eight pm eastern. stay right where you are because there is much more news coming up on msnbc. >> what happens at the supreme court this week could be the beginning of the end for donald trump and one historic way. plus, a report from behind the curtain, trump's conviction scenario. what does that mean? a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news. right now, around back houthi rebels vowing the latest american strikes will not go unanswered or ...

senate democrats have passed the inflation reduction act. they're major climate in health policy act on -- vice president kamala harris breaking the 50/50 tie. >> the yays are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed. >> the final version of the bill includes some huge wins for democrats, including investing nearly 400 billion dollars over ten years to attack climate change and to boost clean energy. it allows medicare to negotiate drug prices. raises taxes on some billion dollar corporatio...

Problem to be able to affect turnout for api voters? >> absolutely. i think the fact that latino voters, for instance, there's one language they generally recognize and understand. it's much easier to reach them as a block. asian american voters, this is proof they are not a monolith. they are very challenging to reach. in places like orange county and california, there are a lot of the enemies americans. republicans have had some success at siphoning off that group of voters. most asian american ethnicities, chinese americans, korean american, indian american strongly prefer democrats. vietna...

Islander voters across the country, they have something to say. according to new pew research from 2000 to 2019, asian americans were the fastest growing racial ethnic group in the united states. the georgia runoff election in just two days away and aapi votes, they could put either of the candidates over the top according to new msnbc news reports and aapi data released in 2021. asian voter turnout in georgia grew by 84% or, to put it more pointedly, 61,000 votes between 2016 and 2020. those ballots were a large part of the reason president biden won the state in an effort to mobilize aapi vo...

Api voters. this is inherently diverse group of voters. it strikes me that half of gen z isn't eligible to vote yet. >> yeah, it really is crazy. when we look at the voting in georgia, 80 plus -- the same thing for latino voters and high around 50 or 60%. if we want the consistent -- we need to be changing what we're doing so we're supporting black and brown people. it's something we have seen a gen z. we are connecting every group of people together, we're all coming together, we know that we need each other. i think that's something that we're going to keep seeing. that's something we need t...