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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he's the man to do it. chad, what's happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. >> the closer you c...

Because it actually increases the deficit in the near term. and all of this so-called deficit reduction that they're promising comes years and years in the future. and so, you know, what they're doing is a little bait and switch here to kind of -- [laughter] to try to convince us to buy into this thing when it's actually going to be harmful to the economy. our modeling showing that it's going to reduce jobs by at least 30,000, it's going to reduce the size of the economy, reduce capital investment. this is not what the economy needs right now. it needs lower taxes and less -- david: less compl...

Responsibility. today, georgia's governor first said it was unexpected. then he tried to suggest the forecasting was unclear. >> i did not mean to imply we didn't know something was coming. what i was referring to was, the national weather service had their modeling showing that the city of atlanta would not be the primary area where the storm would hit. which came out 12 full hours st, before it happened was plain to see. so today he was singing a different tune. >> i want to start out by apologizing to those individuals who were stranded on our roadways, to those parents whose children were ...