Welcome to the beat, everyone. I am Ari Melbert. And let me start with this question.

Is there evidence to support indicting former President Trump? And what would that legal step entail?

Would it be unprecedented? And why is this in the news tonight? Why am I talking to you about this?

Well, we have been working on something. We have some answers, we think, to those questions in our new special report, which is coming up tonight in this program after our top story.

Now, we begin with the breakthrough for President Biden.

That is the top story.

And by now, everyone in the news and in politics knows about this.

It is a big deal any way you cut it.

The Senate passing this spending bill that is

supposed to cut inflation, cut drug prices with these new negotiating powers for Medicare, and invest

in trying to combat the climate crisis, which everyone's aware of, including during the summer.

Democrats out on offense today, making public appearances around the nation to tout the very

moment when the bill passed without a vote to spare in the Senate.

The yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed.

As amended, that is the bill, the Inflation Reduction Act. The House also expected to pass it

this week. Now, it had looked down and out or dead back when moderate Joe Manchin

polled his support at the time. That was just a few weeks ago. Now Biden and the Democrats,

bringing it back, slamming home policy breakthroughs that they have

been pursuing for decades, including those powers to cut drug prices.

The Senate passed a sweeping climate, health care, tax bill.

President Biden's big historic agenda win.

The president's legislative summer holds

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