competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we re going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we re going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin mccarthy do now? let s bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analy
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
fight. that was easy, huh? after 14 failed attempts. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. house republicans finally elect a speaker, in a battle that hasn t been seen since the run-up to the civil war. we will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done. kevin mccarthy gains the gavel after making major concessions to a small group. because it took so long, now we learned how to govern. a preview of how the house republicans will govern. we will never compromise our principles. while republicans were divided this week, democrats remained enthusiastically united against their history leader. plus bridge building. we can work together. we can get things done. as washington was consumed by the house drama, president biden showcased hi bipartisan accomplishments. we look to things we agree on. and try to do those even while we have big differences on other t
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj 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. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed