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president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situat ....
between the u.s. and russia and how soon paul whelan and brittney griner could be home as we go one-on-one with national security spokesperson john kirby. i m hallie jackson in washington on this thursday afternoon. carol lee over at the white house, jake ward posted up for us in san francisco, our business reporter. carol, let me start with you. this is time number two we re hearing from the president today on the economic news of the day. reporter: that s right, hallie. what you re seeing is not just the president but across the administration, a number of officials are out talking about the economy today addressing these gdp numbers. this is an effort to try to shape the narrative. part of what you re hearing from the president, you might be hearing bad news about the economy, but it s not that bad. he s also saying this is no surprise, that the economy was always going to slow down as the fed steps in and tries to address inflation. he s pointing to things like a ....
at $2,000 and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more on all of this, jessica, what is happening? reporter: well we have the senate in session now, fredricka. they are doing a couple of nomination votes to get everybody here and everybody moving and in the meantime behind the scenes the democrats are waiting on final rulings from the senate parliamentarian because remember they re using the specialized budget process in order to move this legislation forward. it requires the support of only democrats but they also have to pass the test of the senate parliamentarian who is looking over every provision and making sure that it fits within this budget process. so they re waiting on final rules from her. they re also waiting for the congressional budget office to see just how much some they re going to score this and how much it will cost and how much it will effect the deficit. so they re waiting on a couple ....
track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some remarks and begin this first step. they re using a special budget process. the first step will be a motion to receive that requires just a simple majority. all 50 ....
china flexing its military muscle for a third straight day after house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan. defense officials there saying the communist regime s military appears to be simulating an attack on the island. a look at the big picture with fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. plus, actress anne heche injured in a car crash, video surfacing that shows her speeding and driving erratically before plowing into a home and sparking a fire. maryann rafferty live in los angeles. reporter: critical condition after crashing her car into a home pretty if morning, causing it to go up in flames. the 53-year-old actress was driving a blue mini if cooper when she first crashed into the garage of an apartment complex. she fled and moments later crashed into a nearby home causing a blaze that also a engulfed her car. a shocked maybe describing that scene. there was three fire engines here and a lot of commotion. but the result was the fire that was go ....