harris announcing the passage of the inflation reduction act which is a $750 billion tax and climate bill that will likely define biden s legacy. the democratically controlled house is expected to take up this legislation on friday and must approve the bill before it reaches the president s desk. it has been a good week for biden. in the word of his predecessor he s been doing a lot of wing and that has democrats energized about the upcoming mid terms. reporter: democrats are on the verge of a massive victory with less than 100 days before the mid-term elections. the senate voted on sunday along party lines to approve a sweeping economic package, and this vote came after a marathon voting session that began saturday evening and lasted into the next day. and this bill includes a number of key democratic priorities. it includes a historic investment of nearly $370 billion for the climate. it would allow medicare to negotiate drug prices. it would extend expiring obamacare hea
from washington today where we have a special show for you tonight on this first day of steve bannon s criminal trial. we re seeing this first sketches of the twice indicted trump aide in court with clues about the process as he faces up to two years in prison. john flannery joins me here in washington in person tonight, and we ll hear directly from a top economic figure in the biden white house, brian deese. plus, pulitzer prizewinner and author david kornacki on set with me. so we would argue it is a big show, or as good as any show we could bring you. we begin with the news about a new witness going to face this house january 6th probe tomorrow. it s a trump white house aide who sent so rogue he was punished for sneaking coup plotters in the white house. he worked for peter navarro, the now indicted aide who plotted the overthrow the election, and if you watch the beat you might recall a little bit about navarro s aide, garrett zeigler. we reported on his role before, ev
president biden s very controversial meeting with the saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we begin tonight with new questions for the secret service from the january 6th committee. now of the many wild revelations surrounding the january 6th attack, three of them involve the united states secret service, so, first, there was the alleged altercation in an suv after the former president s speech that day recounted by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect i m the f ing president. take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said, circumstances you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. there s also incident involving former vice president mike pence. shortly after he was escorted out of the capitol by secr
yes, can still keep and protect america s interests, but he doesn t have to sell somehow america s values. today was a divorce from that promise. and the challenges this is what president biden said about gas prize. there s been a real change. gas prices are coming down every single day. peter alexander of nbc asked when will we see the impact of the visit? maybe not for a couple of weeks but we ll see it. there was an imperative in this trip to say i m here to bring your gas prize down and it feels like that s the politics that biden is stuck with. that s what mbs was telling him from day one. mbs gave multiple interviews to the american media. he said president biden needs to think about his interests. why did he give kushner and trump all of this lavishing them with money, not trying to influence the election or bank roll the next presidency he s sending a signal to everybody. this is how you deal with saudi
are coming out, you know, the struggle for democrats and the biden straight is people do not feel, you know voters don t feel the economy and the health of the economy on a macro scale. they really do feel is in their day-to-day personal lives and the more the case that the president can make that things are improving on an individual level can only help democrats in the mid-term this year. arlette, take us inside. this is what the president said running for president. he s blue collar joe, this is his wheelhouse and workers who are worried about some things. you see headlines from opinion writers, paul krugman says don t tell anyone, 2021 was a lot to celebrate and dana milbank said this is the worst economy we never had and what s the major problems, the cost of everyday items, housing costs, gas prize, that s inflation and your covid