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[audio difficulty]mike congressman brad sherman of the great state of california, thank you so much for your time. have a great day. >> thanks, mike. ♪♪ mike: turning now to the tight virginia governors race and the crucial role critical race theory and education are are having on the hoedown between dem -- showdown between terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin. joining us now is patty menders. patty, welcome. >> hi, thank you. mike: with all the controversy in recent months, school board membe...

People think, gender and sex are things but they arent the exact same thing. and so the way that you are assigned at birth may be based on genitalia or whatever, its not the same thing -- [ audio difficulty ] so on and so forth. so were really saying that these things are more complex and its actually not just trans people having a gender experience. everybody is having a more complicated gender experience. >> yeah. thank you so much, raquel. i appreciate you joining us. and getting your side ou...

[audio difficulty] >> you asked a question, im sorry. jon: yeah. you have argued a lot of the dethe tails of these spending bills are are being hidden. >> absolutely right. we wont see these spending bills until the very last minute, and theyll be 2400 pages, 3000 pages or more, and there will be a lot in those spending bills. for example, when you talk about $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, only 10% of that goes to loads and bridges and what -- roads and bridges and what we would think of as ...

Direction. when its going to happen, nobody knows. neil? neil: all right. thank you, my friend. great reporting asking the big commander in chief those questions, timelines here. apparently, he doesnt have them. lets go to chad pergram right now. the president already in wilmington, delaware, hell be spending the weekend, so its pretty clear theres no sense of urgency on this, at least from the president here, hes optimistic this all gets done. what are people telling you, chad? >> reporter: wel...

Ripped off the bottom and landed where im standing, so things are getting pretty dangerous. the to stoplights have been out for a long time, but now its dangling from the metal pole. on the opposite side of the street at the marriott, you see a dozen linemen, electrical workers who are stationed here. they have their bucket trucks ready to roll. they can only perform in 30 mile-per-hour winds or less. we are very far from that. the earliest theyll be able to get out and repair power is sometime ...

It doesnt seem like it is a hike in rates b should it be? this. >> theyre definitely not going to start raising interest rates until they stop buying bonds. neil: exactly. >> take heart. there are five things that got us to these record, record highs in the markets. [audio difficulty] accelerating inflation, accelerating corporate profits, historical fiscal stimulus and historical monetary stimulus. and with the exception of the fed, the other four are softening. early indicators because, of cou...

Showed spalling in the concrete, cracks in the concrete, water on the ground there. you know about the 2018 report that was done by the engineer. does any of that raise red flags for you? >> [ audio difficulty ]. you know, while some of those things -- ive seen things like that in lots of buildings. the bottom line is you have this particular building, and a lot of buildings, you have the building tower and then the first floor and the basement stick out further than the tower in the plan, and t...

Waterproofing. the issue is when water gets into a crack, all concrete cracks, its made to crack. water gets into a crack. in the north, you worry about it freezing and thawing, because when water freezes it expands and that makes the crack bigger. you also worry about -- [ audio difficulty ] then you can get rust in the reinforcing steel. when rust gets in the reinforcement steel, at first glance it might look like its really severe, but remember, its an expanded material. you take a wire brush...

Things like a bomb explosion -- [ awed audio difficulty ] things like that, a trigger kind of event. foundations moving around more than a certain amount. all those things are trigger events. sometimes buildings talk to you if you can listen to them, so what happens is its possible that slabs in the building were deflecting for long periods of time. that means spinning downward and nobody knew anything about it or didnt understand it. all those things can eventually lead to a problem. there are ...

You is tell us what that feels like, what that atmosphere is like, what happened in that moment as you approached the crowd with your camera recording ? [audio difficulty] rachel: i think were having some tech issues with you, tijana. were going to work on that audio -- pete: i really want to hear that answer. i mean, whats it like. rachel: you know who knows what its like? dan bongino, rand paul, all the member of congress that were leaving the white house, what