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Going to happen. its why president trump didnt finally go down to zero even though he did want to go down to zero. he still had a few thousand troops remaining at the end of his term. its the same problem the obama and bush administrations ran into. the second you pull everybody out of the region, it was u.s. troops even a small level that was standing between loose order and complete chaos and back to where we were before the united states went in, the talibans going to completely take over. an...

Antony blinken saying we will continue to pursue all avenues to bring austin home. words are easy and were measuring by action which is what we dont see, and the only thing lester that we have asked since 2012, nine years, three administrations, is direct diplomatic engagement with the syrian government. >> what do you think the obstacle is to seeing that happen? >> right now what we need president biden to do is to tell the national security council, the state department, that austins freedom i...

Not be critical of the folks working behind the scenes in many respects. are you saying you think the biden administration is dropping the ball, not working hard enough, fast enough when it comes to this? >> again, i think both sides of the aisle deserve a lot of credit. both administrations deserve a lot of credit. the biden team has been very ford forward about vaccinations. since youre bringing up testing, again, the facts speak for themselves. testing is down substantially since we left offi...

The debt ceiling. you know that janet yellen wants a stand alone bill and schumer made the point that its been bipartisan for the last numbers of cycles and what you saw from mitch mcconnell and republicans is that theyre not going along with the debt ceiling right now. they want it to be part of the reconciliation bill. or rather part of the bipartisan bill. >> sorry. is that for me? yes, and what youre seeing is certainly a turnaround from the past when the debt ceiling was not a problem for r...

At the end of my term, whenever it ends, no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment. >> reporter: now, wolf, this job of governor is going to be hers in exactly 13 days. and she said that she has spoken with governor cuomo and that he promised to her that he is committed to there being a seamless transition between the two administrations. i also just want to quickly note its widely expected that she was going to run for re-election in 2022, and she confirmed that th...

Since freelance american journalist austin tiye was abducted by an armed group in syria. today marks his 40th birthday and hes spending it captivity once again. his plight covers three administrations and his colleagues said will president biden be the one to bring him home. we think its within bashar assads power to free us a it un. joining me now a vocal advocate for jason tice, writer for the "washington post." i know that austin has been in prison for more than nine years. weve followed this...

Joining us is a deputy director of the white house national economic counsel. good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> i want to -- im ping-ponging between a punch of issues here, the infrastructure vote and stuff that the administrations have been doing. i want to go back to the thing that theyre not voting on yet and that is -- reconciliation bill. there are a lot of people in the house, progressives saying were not moving on this. were not signing off on the smaller infr...

Senate. lets bring in john avlon. lauren fox also with us. john, let me start with you. the president of course trying to put this in the context of this is good for the job market, this is good for families. as we watch the numbers, the inflation numbers, the cost of living, calling it fiscally responsible, he has a huge sales job to do here to the american people. >> he does indeed. that said, i think theres more of an appetite for government spending than there has been in some administration...

Period in which the governor asked that he would take before the lieutenant governor is sworn n and she was transparent that it is not necessarily what she asked for, and she has been preparing for this moment, and ready to be sworn in, but it is as if the administration communicated that they needed this time to introduce her to certain folks, so she took it, but did not take pit as enthusiastically as one might think, so incredibly transparent there. and i also thought that it was interesting ...

I am ping-ponging between issues now. the stuff the administrations may be doing. i want to go back to the thing they are not voting on yet, that is the larger reconciliation bill. the human infrastructure. i dont know what we call this anymore. the big bill, three and a half trillion dollar bill. there are a whole lot of people in the house saying, we are not moving on this, we are not signing off on the smaller infrastructure bill, the one for roads and bridges until we see what is happening w...