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Vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, the war has become an abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with the relaxing of hard-line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year, western chains, inevitably, are everywhere, and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on...

>> i couldnt miss your birthday party reverend al. >> thank you. last week, let me go to the point i really wanted to talk to you about, congresswoman. last week your state back the latest to see its gop dominated legislature redraw its congressional maps to either grow the number of republican districts or reduce democratic representation by cutting into diverse and minority majority districts. has the democratic party -- as the democratic party chair in your state how do you fight back? what f...

Education policy is not about that. its about exposing children in a proper way so that they learn from it. >> absolutely. i think educational policy, educational history, i mean, theres a lot of drama there. i think you would engage more students to talk about the conflict, talk about the power imbalance. why were these things happening? >> i guess the trick with this conversation right now is that its an abstraction to most people. it revolves around the structure of critical race theory. its ...

This is an independent country, taiwan. it is a thriving democracy. it has been not a treaty ally of the u.s., but a friend of the u.s. for many decades. this would be an enormous event. by the way, from chinas perspective, it is not a crime to do this. it is righting a historical -- it would be like if texas was under mexican control. thats the way xi jinping looks at taiwan. >> so the defense minister says it expects an invasion from china by 2025. youve been talking about this and writing abo...

Investments in child care, health care and paid leave to empoweral manies of struggling people economically will remain or at what level of ambition. manchin and sinema have imposed a level of abstraction and generality on this debate that has made real argument on concrete trade-offs much harder. progressives insist the failure to deal with those challenges poses more of a threat to our future than higher spending and high end taxation do. but we cant debate this because we dont know which chal...

Empower millions of struggling people economically will remain or at what level of ambition. manchin and sinema have imposed a level of abstraction and generality on this debate that has made real argument on concrete trade-offs much harder. progressives insist the failure to deal with those challenges poses more of a threat to our future than higher spending and high end taxation do. but we cant debate this because we dont know which challenges manchin and sinema see as postponable for the fore...

Difficult ive made in my life, but it is my choice and that is what must be preserved for every pregnant person. >> joining me now is my colleague tiffany cross of "the cross connection," good morning my friend, you have one of the congresswomen that we just heard from, representative barbara lee. that is some of the most compelling testimony ive ever heard because these are -- it just makes this real. it makes it real for people who think abortion is an abstraction for other people. >> youre ab...

A consortium led by Cambridge-based quantum computing software company Riverlane and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed an open-source hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that makes software

But what if he had not? ask yourself what might have happened to the united states and the american experiment, our democracy, had someone else been in that role, had kevin mccarthy been the house speaker? what if the chairman of the joints chief of staff or secretary of defense had been mike flynn, who had started for calling for trump to invoke partial martial law to enforce new elections in states that biden won? the threat of violence is no longer an abstraction. trump on thursday called the...

Of 9/11? >> i would agree with the point that is being made by so many of my colleagues that this is a diversion. away from 9/11, away from the 20th anniversary, and away from the debacle that was his afghanistan withdrawal. >> that is such a revealing thing to say, a diversion. covid is an abstraction, a political game. 1500 people died today. americans. like the americans we lost on 9/11, like those brave service members we lost in afghanistan. today. tomorrow. on the one hand, these are just ...