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as a progressive place. then there's the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party's nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who's pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to -- voted to impeach president trump. ther...

a major energy and health care bill that could breathe new life in his agenda. he urged congress to act quickly and pass it. >> the fact is that my message to congress is this. this is the strongest bill you can pass to low eriner inflatio tackle costs, and promote energy security, all the time while reducing the burdens facing working class and middle class families. >> manu raju is on capitol hill for us. manu, how did this come together? >> reporter: over the last few days, these negotiations between joe manchin and chuck schumer have picked up behind the scenes. in mid-july, the ...

invasion of ukraine. and i will just end by saying that according to officials, there was a discussion of a possible face-to-face meeting going forward. there's no timeline for that, but they are going to follow up and set up that meeting. >> mj lee, thank you. let's turn now to selena wang in beijing, gathering chinese reaction to joe biden and xi jinping's phone call. what did china have to say about mo pelosi's possible trip to taiwan? >> reporter: while the readout did not specifically mention pelosi, they gave a strong warning about playing with fire when it comes to taiwan. in ...

Forward. i think it's also not always a direct line, where you might be able to speak to someone in the state department and have someone go up to the president of the united states. i'm not sure that the throughline in russia runs from the ministry of foreign affairs directly to president putin. there are oligarchs and others. >> you have written that your brother has said that he is more mr. bean than mr. bond. your brother was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges. you said that i don't believe any government would exchange mr. bean for the merchant of death. that's the moniker for vik...

Meet manchin where he is. the signal was sent a few weeks ago from the white house to congressional democrats to basically say, we need to take whatever joe manchin offers us. and in their case, this is something that they want too. it's a significant climate investment. it's a significant piece of legislation when it comes to prescription drugs. and it also includes some of the tax provisions the democrats wanted. so, this is a big win for the biden administration and a big reversal for manchin. >> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell does not like it. he has called it basically nonsense. l...