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♪♪ good to be with you, im katy tur. the 118th congress is in a league of its own when it comes to legislating. i would call it little league but even toddlers get a lucky swing or two. this group of lawmakers is on track to become the most unproductive in history. in the year it has been in power, only 35 bills have been passed and signed into law. the fewest since the great depression. its been particularly bad in the always somewhat unruly house, but the republicans with their...

deficit spending and options to pay for their infrastructure bill theyre working on now. progressives are advocating for a wealth tax. the white house is reportedly focused on increasing the corporate tax rate, raising income taxes for those making more than $400,000 a year and other tax hikes that would impact the rich. biden -- president biden seems to realize that republicans are not going to get on board for this. >> ill get the democratic votes for a tax increase. if we took the t...

Trying to ban car farts and straw? we have a multitude of issues that have happened over the past year, chuck and nancy saying were a big pen, come in. and you are now seeing the ramifications of that. theres another fantastic poll, npr, they discuss the very fact that biden, warren, all of the major candidates, in fact all of the candidates have less popularity in the country than they do unfavorability. they are, no better than trump. what does that tell you in terms of whats happening in the ...

Year, chuck and nancy saying were a big pen, come in. and you are now seeing the ramifications of that. theres another fantastic poll, npr, they discuss the very fact that biden, warren, all of the major candidates, in fact all of the candidates have less popularity in the country than they do unfavorability. they are, no better than trump. what does that tell you in terms of whats happening in the democratic party? we arent an alternative to the president, were an embarrassment. thats a sequenc...

He took a big pen. there was a cartoonish looking bomb, but he talked about where he thought iran was and how close they may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon. and he said in the spring or the summer. now, his timetable differs from the obama administrations timetable. they believe that if iran does decide it wants to make a nuclear weapon, then its a year out. so they differ in that. but there is certainly agreement on what to do about iran. and both of them have said that the red line is, iran ...

Bret, as the chairman once upon a time of the senate appropriations committee, this guy was in charge of a third of the federal budget and he had a big pen and he was referred to as the prince of pork and they loved him in west virginia because he sent a lot of money back home. >> he definitely did and they loved him in west virginia beyond that but his political career really started in 1946 in local state offices. never lost an election. he always carried a pocket version of the u.s. constitut...