ah hi, i'm steve clemens and i have a question or relations between the 2 biggest powers in the world, china, in the united states, on an unstoppable collision course. let's get to the bottom line. ah, despite their differences the u. s. in china have gotten by for decades. up until recently, american manufacturers love moving their operations at china on human rights. questions like concerns about repression of muslim sense and john, or suppression of rights in hong kong. the nations are passionately divided in washington. their fears at china is astounding economic growth and it's attainment of technological and scientific parity in many key industries of the future, threatened america's lead position in the world. and they see china as working hard to situate itself as the most powerful nation on earth. and if that's not enough of a hot mess of challenges, a bipartisan group of us senators and house members have now followed on the trip to taiwan by house speaker, nancy pelosi, who defied both the white house and china in urging her not to take that trip. china seas. taiwan is part

all of those things are issues that people in the democratic party can campaign on the speak to steve clemens, he's always to volunteer. there is a weekly show, the bottom line and founding editor of the digital media platforms and the 4 joins us on skype from washington. d, c, this is a big political victory for biden, isn't it? well, i think it is a very, very big political victory for biden, because he had had sort of a desert for a while. his numbers were in the thirty's, which were you know, what i would call sort of trump level numbers. and so this gives him something that many people it bought. he would never achieve, which was signature legislation, which is your last guess said, you know, deal, you know, addresses, inflation addresses, drug prices, but also in a way, saves the planet because of the big investments in climate positive technologies. inflation at its highest level and for decades in the u. s. will this measure actually tain the price spikes that have been inflicted so much hardship and american households? i think this is the symbolic gesture, the amount, i mean, we hav

the bottom line with steve clemens is coming up next . ah hi, i'm steve clements, i have a question. the democrats scored big with legislation that provides the biggest investment in climate friendly energy ever. but will it get them any love at the ballot box? let's get to the bottom line. ah, after a year of nasty internal pickering progressive and conservative democrats came together this week to pass a huge initiative and score a wind for president joe mansion. oops, i meant president joe biden. the bill is called the inflation reduction act and it invest in clean energy programs, allows the government to negotiate lower drug prices, and it raises some corporate taxes. it dedicates $300000000000.00 to reduce the deficit, which the democrats argue will also reduce inflation. at least that's the theory. it took every single democrat in the senate to vote for it, and they needed vice president, commonly harris's vote to push it over the edge. $51.00 to $50.00. every single republican senator voted against it. republican se climate change