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Election here. were flipping back and forth. im trying to go slowly so you can keep up with the numbers. 2013 had a bigger dropoff between the presidential race in 2012 and 2013. so you have a drop off of over 40%. terry mcauliffe won by a narrow margin. you have a dropoff closer to 30%, 35%, democrats won by a healthy margin here. this is the ball game. so tonight, the question -- we know there will be more than 2.6 million voters tonight. that, we know. the mcauliffe campaign believes they can...

Todd. chuck, lets start with you, this race has gotten so much closer than nen would have thought, and a lot of factors what are you looking at as the biggest issue? >> i thought there was a good led line today that says math versus momentum. we know virginia is blue, but how blue and how many will show up tonight. if the turnout is a turnout like 2017, northam won by nine points. if its like 2013, they got into the 40% rake, that would be 2.7 or 2.8 together tonight. he is banking on presidenti...

Countries. that might not be the final version. we _ countries. that might not be the final version. we are _ countries. that might not be the final version. we are seeing - final version. we are seeing different vested interests and political pressures. of course that will have environmentalists banging their heads in frustration. they want governments to get past that and work to a unified purpose. give us an sense and this is so important in terms of where we are on the track to try and meet ...

>> in terms of where we are, ive said already, we have 90% of the bill agreed to and written. we just have some of the last decisions to be made. it is less than we had -- was projected to begin with, but its still bigger than anything we have ever done in terms of addressing the needs of americas working families. >> one of the mistakes in this has been, all of the attention has been on what the number is. 3.5 billion, 2.8, 2.2, whatever it is, rather than whats in the bill. why are we doing th...

Actually ocean currents, tells you what a parcel of gas or oil or anything on the surface of the ocean, where it would flow. and basically its a northwest to southeast flow, almost parallel to the land. now, we know already in huntington beach that we have this oil deposits. we are seeing them in newport now. that was something new that wasnt there yesterday. the fumes are overwhelming because of all the chemicals they put into this in their post-processing. if you look at the winds, and those w...

Discussions. but i agree with jonathan. i think the ultimate price tag, whether its 3.5, or 3 or 2.8, i hope this isnt true, but this could be a once in a decade opportunity. when is the next time the democratic party is going have an ability to help this many people with the power they have? but then speaking politically, you know, lawrence, you have to go out there youve got to be in peoples homes, talking about the child credit youve got to be meeting with home health care workers youve got t...

So the highway bill would extend that -- or the infrastructure bill would extend that. i will just say, though, that theres just so much things that remain undecided in this reconciliation package. pelosi has said she will not put a bill on the floor that would not pass the senate, so it has to have the spending level somewhere between 3.5, we assume between 1.5 or 2.8 or something in that range. also we dont know about taxes, we dont know about programs, we dont know most importantly -- >> okay...

Speaker pelosi says this is about priorities and its about policy and having specific things in the bill, and thats what matters, but all of those priorities have to have a price tag attached to them and when you take one out youll subtract some money from that overall ball and thats what they havent claireified and obviously the white house hasnt clarified it eared. they havent specifically said this is our redline on a specific policy or number. they want to see what happens with the negotiati...

But it has also found that to offer the good service it wants to its having to pay higher wages. if were going to start paying our staff as professionals and treating them as professionals, then they need to have a decent living wage, which is what we as a business have started to do. and of course that is going to have a knock—on effect on how profitable our business is. whereas were happy to take a slice of the pie, our slice, and give it away, and share it with our staff, at some point, som...

We have to pay them a decent living wage, which is what we have started to do, and that will have a knock—on effect as to how profitable our business is, and while we are happy to take a slice of the pie, our slice, and give it away and share it with our staff, at some point some of that— pie is going to have to come from the customer as well. overall, consumer prices were up by 3.2%. stripping out the effect of eat out to help out, it was 2.8%. the biggest single factor was petrol, with unl...