Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbra, and we are covering a lot tonight, including this breakthrough for the president's agenda in Washington initiatives that were long left for dead roaring back to life.

Many eyeing a big win ahead of the midterm, Senator Schumer and Mansion, who had been holding out a brokering this

deal behind closed doors, and we're going to explain what it means. So I'm calling it the most ambitious

climate action ever undertaken by the United States. That's how the Times put it. And Medicare

would then regulate the price of prescription drugs in order to negotiate, which would actually

help a lot of people who need drugs, according to the experts, also raise taxes on corporations,

as well as some of the very rich, high-earning individuals who the administration and mansion

apparently agree can afford it. Now, what happens next and what does it mean? We go right to the White House itself. White House

Communications Director Kate Bettingfield making some time at a very busy moment. Thanks for being here.

Of course. Thanks for having me. Ari. Absolutely. Our setup here was quicker than usual because we'd be

quoting the White House, but we have the White House. So bottom line, one, what does this all do?

And two, the big question, how did this president get this senator mansion back on board?

Well, what does this all do? It does an enormous amount for families all across the country.

It tackles the climate crisis in a meaningful and urgent and, frankly, historic way. It's going to lower the cost of prescription drugs. It's going to lower the cost of health care. And it's going to rewrite the tax code so that corporations have to pay their fair share. And people making under $400,000 a year are not going to see a tax increase. So this is a massive down payment on a lot of the big things that President Biden campaigned on when he ran for president in 2020.

These are big campaign promises, and he's incredibly gratified by the deal that came together.

And he is incredibly grateful.

You ask, you know, how it came together.

He's incredibly grateful for the work of Senator Mansion, Senator Schumer, and people who have been working on this quite literally around the clock for months and months and months.

So a lot of work and an enormous, enormous step forward for American families.

How did you get Manchin?

Well, I let Senator Manchin speak for himself, but, you know, he has negotiated in good faith.

These conversations have obviously been, as you all know, you've been covering it, have been ongoing for a long time.

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