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joining us i m eric shawn. for some other major stories were funky right now. trying to intensify the military the coast of tehran. that after house speaker nancy pelosi visited the country last week. beijing also suspending climate and military cooperation agreement with the united states. meanwhile in the middle east dozens have been killed in gaza. the bloodiest fighting between israelis and palestinians in over a year. as palestinian jihad terrorists continue to attack the jewish state, more than 600 rockets have been fired from gaza. some see behind these attacks the hidden hand of ironic. former prime minister of israel will be here on that in a few moments. cracks fox team coverage starts right now. alexander hoff with a more on the china threat. first were going to go to chad per agreement. he has on capitol hill so chad what is it looking like? the senate has 44 sanding grocers one very important human rule exhaustion but centers have voted straight through s ....
what s the latest. chad: griff, good afternoon, the senate has met for more than 24 hours straight and voted for nearly 14 hours straight. exhaustion is setting in. senate chaplain barry black sought to calm freight tempers. our weekend work gently reminds us that freedom s price must be paid. as our senators provide the currency of perseverance to protect and defend this land we love. chad: there s gamesmanship, republicans controversial amendments to get vulnerable democrats on the spot especially on border issues and on energy. so the next time you see a mark kelly in arizona or a raphael warnock in georgia or a maggie hanson in new jersey or michael bennett in colorado or katherine cortez, hey, we want gas prices to be lower, you know they are lying because they stood up and voted, raised the gas taxes, stick it to the producers, make our consumers pay more at the pump. chad: democrats lashed out at gop for striking a provision to cap insulin at $35 a month in p ....
Katherine cortez, hey, we want gas prices to be lower, you know they are lying because they stood up and voted, raised the gas taxes, stick it to the producers, make our consumers pay more at the pump. chad: democrats lashed out at gop for striking a provision to cap insulin at $35 a month in private insurance plans, however, the cap remains in place for those on medicare. mr. president, life-saving medicines don t do any good if people can t afford them. if republicans really want to help patients get influence, they will help us get this bill signed into law instead of trying to derail it with amendments and trying to weaken the influence provision democrats want to pass. senators are now trying to figure out how to handle a potential amendment on changing the corporate tax. now the longer this goes on, the more dangerous it becomes for democrats. they need all 50 members present and voting yes. they are counting on vice ....
President harris to break a tie to pass the bill. griff. griff: chad, a quick follow-up, i know that you re watching closely this sort of discussions going on over this 15% minimum tax on corporations which is one of the biggest revenue raisers in the bill. what do you know about that? chad: well, you know, this could change how much savings they have and how much they have in deficit reduction. that s key. we don t know what the language might be. this is why this voterama is so organic and perilous for democrats the longer this goes on. griff: chad pirgram live on capitol hill. thank you, chad, we will check back in as warranted. china continuing to flex their military might with a fourth day of drills in the air and sea near taiwan in retaliation to house speaker nancy pelosi s trip to the island. alexandria hoff has the latest development, hey, alex. ....
Pockets of americans, it lowers utility costs, the healthcare costs are not in dispute. those are big deals. americans when they get to their kitchen tables know that they want things to be a little more fair. they want to have those those costs reduced and this does this in a substantive way and how does it do it, it taxes billionaire corporations and taxes make sure that tax cheats that have very high incomes are paying their fair share to the government. griff: wait a minute, is it going to do that? as we heard from chad pirgram, there s discussion, sounds like manchin and republican senator john thune in discussions about this 15% minimum corporate tax rate which is one of the biggest revenue raisers in the bill. you will have a hard time paying for it if you don t accomplish that. ultimately is this not arriving at what they had hoped? i don t see that. i think that voterama, you have ....