♪ good morning. it is saturday, august 6th. i'm phil mattingly. >> i'm amber walker. you are in the "cnn newsroom". democrats are moving closer to a senate vote today on the sweeping economic and climate bill. >> that bill has already cleared one key political hurdle, winning support of arizona senator kyrsten sinema. her support is essential as democrats push for passage of the bill under a procedural process which allows passage under a simple majority.

>> the bill includes $369 billion to combat climate change, largest in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 and extended affordable care act subsidies for three years. >> white house reporter kevin livtak looks at what it means. jess, i want to start with you because we have news breaking in the last five to ten minutes, which i think is a good harbinger for your next few days at the capitol, where do things stand for the key elements for this to move forward? >> reporter: phil, democrats getting good news from the senate parliamentarian. to give you the big picture, they are using as you both noted this complex budget process that requires the support of all 50 democrats. doesn't need any republican support, but in order to do that the parliamentarian has to rule it passes and musters up to all

of these rules surrounding it. we just found out really in the last ten minutes that the parliamentarian has ruled a key component of the package allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices has passed muster so it will be allowed in this bill. that is big news for senate democrats. the parliamentarian also ruling that the other provision that would have imposed a cap on private companies if the preice of drugs rose faster than the price of inflation, she said it cannot be included but it can be imposed on medicare. again, the bulk of what the democrats wanted with this particular provision stays in. she will continue to rule on other key components they wants to include and that takes us to the timing for the rest of the day. we expect the senate to gavel in around noon, but where its from there, it is kind of anybody's guess. we know that they are waiting on the non-partisan congressional budget office to rule on some -- or to put scores out on exactly

how much some of this will cost and how it will affect the deficit. that could come at any time. so it is kind of a rolling time frame here. the big step will be the motion to proceed, and that's just that it is going to need a simple majority and that's going to kick off this process. the question is when that will happen. we know the democrats want to wait on the parliamentarian to make sure she has ruled on everything so they don't have to make changes once they start this process. again, a lot of this, phil and amara, is in flux in terms of timing. what we do know is we expect this to ultimately pass the senate and move on over to the house. it is just at this point, guys, a matter of timing, and we will see how that plays out over the day. >> a matter of lots of procedures, jessica dean. thank you for that. so i mean big picture here, right, kevin, the democrats are getting closer to fulfilling essential element of president biden's economic agenda. he's also wrapping up a week where he had several wins that they are touting. so what is the latest from the

white house and how important is this -- will the passage, potential passage of this bill mean for the biden agenda? >> reporter: well, it will be a big deal for president biden. when you look at what is included in that plan, the billions for climate change, raising the corporate tax rate, being able to negotiate drug prices, so much of that had really been left for dead over the past year as it repeatedly came up short. that it is happening now is really a vindication of sorts for president biden's approach here, and it is kind of a patently biden-esque way of going about things, allowing space for this deal to come together, for these negotiators to come up with an agreement. it is not a way that a lot of democrats have wanted him to work over the last year. they've really been calling him out for not acting more urgently, but the president has been able to sort of tune that out and allow this to come together in a way that really will advance an agenda that he wants to see advanced. it is falling short of what he initially proposed when he came

into office. it is less than half of the size. in a way, he was sort of a victim of his own expectation sitting there when people came into office and said he would be imposing sort of a new new-deal and fdr-style reforms, a lot of safety net things he wanted included in there have been left out, but what is included is still very significant. it sort of represents the largest investments in a lot of these areas really ever. you know, for climate it is the largest investment in combatting climate change that has ever been passed through the senate and house, if it passes through the senate and house. sort of the task for the president after that will be selling this bill, and that is something that he himself is the first to say has not always really been his strong suit. you can tell by the name of the bill, "the inflation reduction act," where he is headed in that. he wants to show americans that he is focused on bringing down prices and that is something they will be highlighting that

wasn't always the focus of his agenda, but it is certainly now as americans face high prices. so as this bill makes it through, it does cap what has been very successful week for the president. he took out the leader of al qaeda. he got a massive jobs report yesterday. so certainly the president heading into the weekend feeling like he has a lot of momentum, amara. >> yeah, there's no question about that. we will see how this plays out in the next couple of days. kevin, you take it easy out there in the heat. jess, you take it easy because you have a long few days ahead, my friend. thanks, guys, very much. >> reporter: thank you. joining us to discuss all of the latest in washington, cnn political analyst and my good pal margaret taliv, the managing editor at "axios." you talk scores and ruling and cbo, and let's push that aside as much as you and i love it. when it comes to the process over the course of the next couple of days, do you see anything that could get in the way of senate democrats passing

this, getting it to the house and eventually getting it to president biden's desk? >> good morning, phil. i actually don't unless it is something parliamentary in nature, unless some aspect that allows, you know, the tax revenue to come together in the way it has been promised were to be impacted. that would certainly impact both joe manchin's thinking and kyrsten sinema's. other than that, there don't seem to be any road blocks. there will be this vote-a-rama. there will be a lot of noise over the weekend, most of the house democrats that could be sticking points over local revenues and taxation are falling in line. there may be one or two who don't. really, this is right now, unless something happens with the parliamentarian's judgment, on a path to go through, and its implications -- really, i think of them in two buckets. politically, the climate change aspects may appeal politically to democrats who have been, you know, wanting this and it will

help them be motivated. but i think for a lot of kind of swing voters or centrist americans, the climate aspects are obscure. it is hard to understand how this could impact me, it could be years away. the impact will come down the road because it will make it cheaper to use clean energy, and that will shift the way america works much more toward clean energy, but the prescription drug aspect i think is something that all americans regardless of your political stripes can understand. if you rely on prescription drugs, especially if you are older, they can be extraordinarily expensive. this won't make everyone's drugs cheaper immediately, but it will be the foot in the door that opens up that process, and it could have profound implications in years to come. >> yeah. look, when you talk to democrats and republicans, they make very clear the prescription drug issue just pops in their internal polling, it always has. now democrats are doing something they wanted to do, or on their way potentially to do

something they wanted to do for decades. one of the questions i have had, margaret, you are an astute observer of white houses. you have covered multiple presidents over the years. the president entered this week with his polls at the lowest level, struggling when it comes to inflation, no shortage of foreign policy issues on his desk as well. it was a blockbuster week for him. this bill, while capping a scaled-back version of his cornerstone piece of the agenda, it is still a big issue, a big win if he gets it. can he change the trajectory that has been pretty static for the course of several months? >> yeah, that's the $64,000 question or the $10 trillion question or whatever you want to call it. i mean if you are the white house, if you are president biden, you will take all these wins and you will take that victory for the pro -- for the abortion rights side in kansas and you will run with it as far and as fast as you can, but a lot of public opinion is baked in at this point. the real -- you know,

traditionally the real push in terms of, you know, election years, even midterm years is around labor day. this is before labor day, but some of the trouble americans are facing -- like inflation is not going to go away just because of this stuff. gas prices are better. i'm in delaware now. when i cross the state line, the gas prices here were in the $3-plus rather than $4-plus. but, you know, democrats just don't know. biden's approval ratings are still stuck in the 30s, and the real question is probably not how will this impact house races. it is how it will impact control of the senate. for that, all of this stuff matters, the economic stuff, the motivation around energy, but that abortion vote in kansas on tuesday and what it says about how democrats will campaign around the country, how they will seek to turn out their own base and how they will seek to motivate swing voters, republican women in suburbs,

that may end up being a bigger driver than any of these pieces. >> have you gotten a sense when you talk to democratic sources that this can be extrapolated out, that it isn't just an isolated issue in kansas, it is not just about the messaging or the makeup of the state, this is something that can carry over? because that's been something republican officials i've been talking to for weeks have been dismissing, but they saw the numbers particularly on the turnout side and said, okay, maybe we were underplaying this a little bit. what is your sense of things when you talk to folks? >> in close races, 100%, absolutely. what democrats believe is this could have implications in several key states, in michigan, in pennsylvania, if arizona, in georgia perhaps, and in wisconsin. it is two fold. one, democrats are concerned that candidates or advocacy groups not take the ball and run with it too far. this isn't about voters saying they embrace, you know, totally

liberalized abortion rights laws. it is about voters saying they support some restrictions, but not state's abilities to completely ban the procedure or to take away women's rights to obtain, you know, medical procedures that could help them. so it is a degree of nuance to some extent, is what democrats think. the other thing that democrats are watching is, you know, we're looking now at a lot of ads. obviously there's going to be a proliferation of ads that have been cut since tuesday on this issue, but another thing to watch is the ads beforehand because there was a very targeted and deliberative ad campaign in kansas and the tone, the rhetoric, the words that were used, the approaches and the arguments that were used in those ads are going to be a real roadmap for the language that you see in all of these states and nationally to make the case that this is about choice or that it is not about government mandates. you may hear those words more than you hear words like

abortion. >> yeah, it will be fascinating to watch. '94, '95 days, i think. i regret to tell you, my former bloomberg colleague, we ran out of time to talk about pce and the vix. maybe next time we will get into economics. >> thanks, bill. speaking of abortion rights, indiana has become the first state to pass an abortion ban since roe v. wade was overturned. the bill would provide exceptions for when the life of the mother is at risk and for fatal fetal anomalies. it also would allow exceptions for some abortions if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest. indiana currently allows abortions up to 20 weeks after fertilization. protesters filled the halls of indiana's state capital as lawmakers voted on the measure. the new laws into effect september 15th. a texas jury has ordered right-wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay more than $45 million to the parents of a

child killed at sandy hook elementary school in that massacre in 2012. >> now, the punitive damages are to penalize jones for spreading the lie that the attack never happened. the victims and their families were actors was a part of that lie. cnn correspondent polo sandoval joins us. to be clear here, that $45 million is on top of the millions he was ordered to pay originally, right? >> that's correct. a reminder, it is compensatory damages meant to compensate for injuries sustained, but then the significant amount decided on yesterday by the jury, the punitive state meant to punish the defendant. in this case, alex jones taking the oath as part of the testimony he offered at the end of the civil trial here, it is an amount awarded to the parents of jesse lewis, one of the victims of the shooting at -- in connecticut. i think what is important here

is what we heard from the parents of jesse lewis here, some emotional testimony including from his mother, scarlet lewis, who said the years of lies coming from alex jones not only they felt stained the legacy of their son, but also tore memented them for yea. this is how scarlett lewis responded or at least reacted to the decision handed down by a jury yesterday in texas. >> we can choose love and that we are all responsible for one ano another. care and concern is so important, and we saw what happens when there is a dirth of that. so i hope that we all just go home tonight and everybody that's reading these articles and hearing this message and you choose love with your kids because you can, realize that you have a choice and your choice is love. >> so the big question now, what are the chances that jesse lewis's parents will actually see all of the compensation awarded by the jury yesterday.

the answer is not good, at least not in texas here because of that cap that's been set by texas law of $750,000 per plaintiff. elie honig, one of our legal analysts, making an important point for what may come next for the plaintiffs. they could argue that violates their constitutional right to a fair trial, and that would eventually end up in the texas supreme court, which may not look favorably on this particular case but it is an argument that worked before in other states, guys. it will be interesting to see what comes next and also for the outstanding trials we are yet to see. another one in texas and one in connecticut with the judgments against alex jones. >> really his legal troubles are not yet over. >> no. >> i have to say watching that, one of the most powerful moments was watching this mother, scarlett lewis, address the court and alex jones, and face him and say, i am real, my child was real, and how sad and tragic you have to say that.

thank you, paolo sandoval. cnn has learned that president trump's legal team is in direct talks with doj officials. cnn correspondent jessica schneider takes a look at the former president's attempts to keep conversations behind executive pressure. >> reporter: pressure continues to build on the doj to charge trump at the same time subpoenas have been issued to several former white house officials, all while cnn learned trump's legal team is in talk with doj officials about trump wanting to shield the conversations he had as president to investigators. >> i have been very clear. i think he is guilty of the most serious dereliction of duty of any president in history. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with kasie hunt, liz cheney indicating they must indict if they uncover sufficient evidence. >> we will continue to follow

the facts. i think the department of justice will do that. they have to make decisions about prosecution, understanding what it means if the facts and the evidence are there and they decide not to prosecute, how do we then call ourselves a nation of laws? >> reporter: the attorney general has refused to divulge what prosecutors are planning. >> no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us -- >> even a former president? >> maybe i'll say that again. no person is above the law in this country. i can't say it any more clearly than that. >> reporter: sources tell cnn trump's legal defense team has warned him indictments are possible. while the former president has grill it his attorneys about whether they actually believe he will face formal charges. trump's lawyers have even advised him to cut off ties with his former chief of staff, mark meadows, who has defied a subpoena from the january 6th committee, though trump and meadows have still spoken a number of times according to sources. sources also tell cnn the department of justice is priming for a fight over executive

privilege which if they win could open the door to revealing testimony from trump's top aides. >> can the doj pierce that privilege by saying and perhaps going to court to get a ruling that donald trump's -- the conversations are misconduct and therefore not shielded by executive privilege? >> reporter: trump's spokesperson firing back that trump will fiercely fight any moves to strike down his executive privilege claims. how can any future president ever have private conversations with his attorneys, counsellors and other senior advisers if any such adviser is forced, either during or after the presidency, in front of an unselect committee or other entity and be forced to reveal those privileged, confidential discussions? >> and that was our jessica schneider reporting. still ahead, a war of words. tensions heating up between the u.s. and china after house speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan, and now the secretary of

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china is pushing back after house speaker nancy pelosi made a stop in taiwan on her trip to asia this week. the chinese issued new sanctions against pelosi and they're all but halting cooperation with the u.s. on a variety of key issues including addressing climate change. >> yeah, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is calling those actions irresponsible. cnn's blake essig joining us with more. with tensions clearly escalating, where do things stand right now, blake? >> reporter: well, amara, house speaker nancy pelosi's tour of

asia wrapped up yesterday, but the fall-out from her surprise visit continues to be felt here in taiwan. china's live-fire military exercises essentially encircling the island continued for a third day according to taiwan's defense ministry. multiple chinese aircraft and warships were spotted operating in the taiwan strait today with some again crossing the median line on friday during the second day of exercises. taiwan's ministry of national defense says 13 people's liberation army warships conducted activities around the taiwan strait and china flew 49 war planes into taiwan's air defense zone amid heightened tensions. china's war ministry is blaming the united states of starting this crisis in what they call a provocative visit to taiwan by the house speaker. beijing has announced they are

suspending cooperation with the united states on a number of issues including climate change and drug cooperation and have cancelled talks between chinese and u.s. officials. in response to china's drills, the white house summoned china's ambassador to condemn the ongoing activities. of course, the chinese ambassador rejected that condemnation. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken also weighed in. take a listen. >> so let me be clear. the united states doesn't believe that it is in the interests of taiwan, the region or our own national security to escalate the situation. we'll keep our channels of communication with china open with the intent of avoiding escalation due to misunderstanding or miscommunication. >> reporter: blinken also said that china has chosen to overreact and has used pelosi's visit as a pretext to increase proactive military activity. while the international reaction, including from some

exp experts that cnn has talked to, says it feels very much like a dress rehearsal for potential war here in taiwan, the mood is surprisingly calm. people are going about their daily lives. the shopping district here has been busy. there were long lines tonight outside restaurants. it just doesn't feel like people here are that concerned about a potential chinese attack, and perhaps it is because people have been living under that constant threat from china for the past seven decades. now, in beijing it is different. the underlying message surrounding these drills is that time is on china's side with a fast, modernizing military, and that reunification with taiwan is not a matter of if but when. phil, amara. >> yeah, concerning rhetoric there, blake. appreciate your reporting from taiwan. thanks for that. turning now to monkeypox, with it officially being deemed a public health emergency, the issue now comes down to a lack

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so the white house has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. so far, there are more than 7,100 reported cases across the country. i should say 7,500 now, in every single state except montana and wyoming. join eve joining me is an infectious disease specialist at the

university of california. thank you for joining us. as you know there's been a lot of criticism aimed at the biden administration for handling of the outbreak. what are your thoughts? i know san francisco and some cities make their own emergency declarations. do you vinthink the boiden administration has been too slow to react to this outbreak? >> yes. i would give them a d or maybe a b on this epidemic because the longer you wait the more expensive it will be. we needed more money, we needed smoother medication. we needed more coordination and metadata. of course, everyone is focused on vaccines, but in each of these areas we needed better coordination. >> how concerned are you about this rise in infection rates, and also what are you seeing in san francisco? >> i think in san francisco, you know, it is one of the epicenters in the country, and

certainly in california. we have the same number of cases as l.a. and we have ten times fewer the population. so there's an air in the community of anxiety, worried about stigma. the other day a patient came to me asking for meds because she hugged a gay man. that's the worry i'm concerned about. >> i think adding to the fear is the shortage, right, of vaccines. of course, you know, federal officials are moving to get more into the states, but you have federal health officials now proposing the idea or looking into the idea of splitting one vial of the vaccine use it as one dose into five doses. that would need an eua from the fda, but what do studies show? would the vaccine still be effective if it is one-fifth of a dose? >> some people think it might even be more effective

paradoxically, and that's because you are giving the vaccine in a different location. it is not like you are just dividing the vaccine into smaller doses, but you are giving it intra dermally which is more on the surface of the skin, as opposed to what has been done which is subcutaneous which is deeper. they have had proof of concept studies in other outbreaks like cholera when they didn't have enough vaccines. the only question i have, and i'm really excited about it, is that it will take a little time so we won't expect any study results until end of november, early december. like i said, time is everything. >> and before we go, i mean just give us a quick run down of what we need to know about monkeypox. again, going to your patient who was afraid about -- you know, was concerned after hugging a gay man, what are some myths and things we need to know about monkeypox? >> well, i think the biggest myth is how you get it. you can't get it from going to the gym very easily. you can't get it from a yoga studio or going on public

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>> that means some of the areas that got hit the hardest during the deadly floods more than a week ago could get hit again. let's get right to cnn meteorologist alison chinchar. >> that's right. it is a slow-moving system so you have a lot of time for the rain to fall in these areas. those are the various flood and pl flash flood warnings because of how much rain has already fallen. you have a lot of the areas being inundated by water at this moment. this is what has already fallen. you can see the wide swath here from moorehead to somerset. about 2 to 4 inches has already come down. the areas farther east including hazard and jackson you are looking up to 1 inch so far. remember, the system is moving to the east, so you will see more of the areas pick up the higher amounts in the coming hours. we have a flood watch in effect not only for eastern kentucky but the surrounding states too

because that's where the bulk of the rain is headed, in that easterly direction. this is a look at the forward forecast. once the first cluster moves through we will get a bit of a break, but more showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and continuing into tomorrow. we have another area of concerns and that's in portions of the midwest, specifically minnesota and wisconsin. this system here is also expected to have training thunderstorms and a pretty wide-spread amount of excessive rain. what we mean by that is overall, look at the orange and red areas here. now you are talking 6, 7, even as much as 8 inches of rain over the next 24 to 48 hours. that's why you have two separate areas here where we have the potential for flooding. that first area across portions of the midwest and the secondary area, unfortunately, over the portions of kentucky already hit by devastating flooding and that will continue to slide east, again, as we see the current storms, guys, continuing to ever-so-slowly make their way east. >> this has to be very

concerning for those in kentucky, many of whom lost so many. alison, thank you. on monday president biden and the first lady will travel to kentucky to see the damage for themselves. >> and at this point 37 people are dead, but that number could rise as officials continue searching for the missing. cnn's dianne gallagher filed this report from eastern kentucky where entire towns have nothing left. people are still without power and everything is buried in a foot of mud. >> we're not, we're not victims here. we are survivors. >> reporter: as the people of eastern kentucky dig out of the mud, they're praying for a miracle in the form of donations, good will, dry weather. volunteers lined up at the apple shop in whitesberg to sort and attempt to salvage hundreds of soaked but priceless pieces of appalachian history. >> everything is wet. >> reporter: across the river, another piece of afterppalachia

caked in mud in this distillery. >> first you are heart broke and then you try to fix it back, get it back as fast as you can. >> reporter: running water, communications hard to come by, community touchstones destroyed, schools, pharmacies, fire departments and grocery stores, nothing spared in these tiny towns. >> you think of it as a store, but it is actually a gathering place for everyone. >> reporter: while volunteer firefighters were doing boat rescues, their department flooded, the fire truck swept away, but it is the human toll the chief can't shake. the majority of the flooding deaths happened in that county, including the four siblings that died. >> knowing those people is heartbreaking, it is our community, our town, our home. >> reporter: for those who survived the flood, surviving the aftermath brings new challenges which for many become more difficult by the day. >> there's nothing left. everything's destroyed. >> reporter: the rural nature of

the region, coupled with the water crushing roads and bridges, made rescues and resources difficult to come by. with the national guard coming in by air. >> five on fox. >> reporter: and neighbors by atv. >> it is a bridge. >> reporter: survivors helping survivors in places like wolf cove. >> neighbor helping neighbor, that means a lot. >> reporter: and fleming neon where nearly every home and business was affected. >> i mean it was -- it was like a war zone. >> reporter: leaving the people there stranded, forced to lift themselves out of the mud, unable to seek outside help for days. >> you can't help but cry. you can't help but cry, but it is going to be all right. we're going to be okay. we will be back. >> reporter: survivors, like the fire chief who hung on to the top of this tanker for 15 hours while the floodwaters rose around him, say to really recover they will need more than repairs. >> ptsd is real, and i -- i kind

of wondered about things, how to go forward. but, you know, i got to fix myself first. >> reporter: most who escaped with their lives had little else left behind when the water receded. >> you see the mud right in here, see the window? >> reporter: yeah. >> that's how deep this water was. >> reporter: gary click says most of his possessions are ruined. like many in this region, he didn't have flood insurance because he doesn't live in a floodplain. >> i have never seen water like that. i mean just like a dam burst or like a tsunami. >> reporter: gary lived by troublesome creek for most of his life, but he's not sure if his community, ever independent and resilient, can ever be the same. >> this is literally the end of this little community. >> reporter: admitting he'll never be able to shake the fear of another flood. >> i believe we're seeing the effects of climate change right here. just given time, if we don't turn it around, just given time it is going to get worse. people are going to see life as we know it change dramatically. i have seen it.

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