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Flow. it just cant because of the sanctions regime. we have to continue to ease some of those sanctions in a way that does not help the taliban but does help the afghan people and theres a way to do that that weve outlined in our letter. theres more to be done. >> today president biden signed the ndaa, the defense funding bill, which includes a multi-year independent afghan war commission to look at the war in afghanistan after the u.s. military withdrawal. what are the biggest questions you wan...

Congresses of the past. you will see exclusions for people coming into the country. a public charge responsibility that the executive branch has. this is a section about excludible aliens that is people with criminal records and communicable diseases and people who have been part of totalitarian parties, federal law. when you have an open border, you allow anyone to come in whether people from haiti working their way from chile to united states or people from dozens of countries. i think i read ...

Get a serious case and die. why would the governor of the third largest state in the country with the highest percentage of elderly in the country, the most vulnerable population, be putting obstacles in the path of people getting vaccinated. >> congresswoman, i quickly wanted to get in a question about the presidents agenda going into ths the new year. an election year where democrats are anticipated to have some losses potentially in the house because of historical trends. youve said youre dis...

Saying it would be fully paid for under the way the democratic bill was structured. but they also argue that the estimation from manchin and others that we would add to the debt over the long term does not take into account that, you know, long term, they would also do things such as raising taxes to pay for programs being extended out. and those are zegss that would be made in future congresses, presumably with the senator joe manchin having the ability to vote yes or no. but these are some of ...

And those are decisions that would be made in future congresses, presumably with the senator joe manchin having the ability to vote yes or no. but these are some of the issues that they discussed. theres been a lot of talk, im told, about the importance and the democrats view about extending the expanded child tax credit. that is a huge sticking point too. joe manchin does not want to continue that in its current form, this current proposal. wants to do it separately. and that is set to expire y...

Road. what happens next, if both perry and jordan say no? >> reporter: right, and thats the thing, right now the committee is not saying that theyre going to move to a subpoena, but of course that is possibly the next option. that would be an extraordinary step, not only for the fact that you have a sitting lawmaker who is a top leader for the conservatives on capitol hill, but also, you know, obviously for republicans who have said that members of their caucus are off limits to a committee that...

Congressman perry has refused, and thats where they are right now. theyre trying to figure out what happens next. >> is it tricky to subpoena someone of your own body, someone from the house, when youre a house committee? has that ever been done before? >> there is no modern precedent that experts are aware of for this, katy, and thats why there is a sense the committee wants to tread carefully on this. there is no precedent at all. what the committee does will certainly set the table for future...

Didnt mention their role at all or any of the texts that were sent. >> exactly. and i dont expect them to either because thats just the political age were in. meadows in prior congresses with the democratic administration surely would have taken the position that members of congress have a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight as well as authority to obtain the records of the executive branch unless there are certain issues of privilege at play. now of course hes not in that position. h...

Same thing about what a cesspool congress has become. they dont like to say that when they leave. in a statement they like to say about the honor of serving their constituents and the time they need to spend with their family. this is a year for congress like no other. its never been this bad. there has never been a more profound divide between the death threats and the sort of celebrity fundraising that people are doing, coming off of partisan attacks. the divide between the honor and opportuni...

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