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Mentioned, you are on the house armed services committee, but in terms of that vote, right, for the bill that just passed, the national defense authorization act, you voted no. and tweeted afterwards youre telling me were willing to spend $8 trillion on defense over the next ten years, but when it comes to investing in working families and preventing the climate crisis, $1.7 trillion for build back better is too much? as we all know, democrats have been working for months now to get senators man...

About the $780 billion defense bill. theyll look up on twitter and see this back and forth. >> yeah, and i think that is what democrats are afraid of in terms of -- and the white house frankly, taking the focus off of what they are actually trying to do to your point to help people in these really tough times. but the fact of the matter is that, you know, these things do have to be responded to whether its the ethics committee or anything else. these things should not go unanswered or unpunished...

Others put china on course with its goal to make sports a $780 billion industry by 2025. >> this could be the biggest sport economy in the world. >> reporter: sports is already big business in china, home to almost 1.5 billion potential fans. according to analytics company global data, chinese firms sponsorship agreements with the international olympic committee and football federations fifa and yew a fa alone are worth more than $2.2 billion and growing. athlete sponsorships and sports manufact...

Associations threat to pull a ten-year multi-tournament contract could cost china, contracts with major league baseball, the nba, formula 1, and others put china on course with its goal to make sports a $780 billion industry by 2025. >> this could be the biggest sport economy in the world. >> reporter: sports is already big business in china. home to almost 1.5 billion potential fans according to an l analytics company global data, fifa and uafa alone are worth more than $2.2 billion and growing...

Of your bank account is not just spying on the wealthy but target blue collar workers, middle class families, anyone spending more than $10,000 in a year. the more information the i.r.s. has on you the more audits they can do and more money they can grab from taxpayers. >> it is not just the price of the bill but the provisions in it. dont get hung up it is less money. it is not less money. all theyre saying is they wont fund it as many years. >> a beefed up i.r.s. will beef up the tax revenue b...

That -- thats absolutely right. it was okay for the republicans to use reconciliation to provide some $2 trillion unpaid for in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. that was fine. but when we are providing dental care and hearing aids for seniors, when we are addressing the crisis of climate, when we are gonna make sure that families in america dont have to pay more than 7% of their income for childcare, when were going to provide increased home health -- oh, thats terrible. we ...

Some $2 trillion unpaid for in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. that was fine. but when we are providing dental care and hearing aids for seniors, when we are addressing the crisis of climate, when we are gonna make sure that families in america dont have to pay more than 7% of their income for child care, when were going to provide increased home health care -- oh, thats terrible. we cant afford it. and by the way, something else. something else. the military budget is now ...

Storm. steve: he hasnt tweeted anything. brian: i think its great. he is busy trying to rally the troops in baltimore. i guess he was cheered on the inside, somewhat jeered when he walked into the building. there were protesters out there because of the comments made about baltimore which turned out to be almost 100 percent accurate. earlier we were telling you about some of the things joe biden said were unorthodox. if you really want to him on the back. hey, joe, $780 billion in a stimulus pro...

And try to attack our country. but more importantly, now, we have detected theres coming up. in those flows are enemies that are trying to do us harm, and so it makes sense to move money and a few billion dollars, the president has boosted the defense budget over $700 billion, 718, i think was last year. so just to take a small fraction of that money and put it on the border, makes complete sense to me and the military will be able to figure out how to real-icate and make sure the funding gets t...

The point where this year and we talked about it when it happened almost all the republicans on that committee supported your amendment to repeal the authorization for the use of military force that was voted on back in 2001. president trump campaigned saying he wanted to get out of afghanistan and this war was too old and too pointless. do you feel like the politics in this country have changed enough so that the president could have announced a withdrawal tonight and it would have been a polit...