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Phil. when you think about what the priorities were for this administration. elizabeth warren sent this tweet. big oil raked in $174 billion in profits. putins invasion of ukraine drive up gas prices. we need windfall profit tax and invest in clean energy and provide relief to americans getting gouged at the pump. what is the way out of that when you think about the democratic governor in michigan, gretchen whitmer, threatening to block pipeline there. democratic senator from west virginia, joe ...

Lets talk about that. lets bring in spencer jacob, heard on the street, the revolution that wasnt. gamestop, reddit and the fleecing of small investors. so, spencer, the worst quarter for stocks in two years, biting inflation, russias invasion, interest rates rising. is it going to be rock y, you think, a rocky summer? >> i think all signs point to it being a rocky summer. people dont know what direction to point in. there is some good news, but there are plenty of things to worry about as alway...

PM Modi spoke about the 1982 movie Gandhi in the Parliament in the context of the just-released film The Kashmir Files. Gandhi, a period biographical drama on Indias founding father Mahatma Gandhi won several Oscars but was banned in Pakistan.

Disappointing. but i think it is important to realize that all year long these initial estimates from the bureau of labor statistics, the government agency that puts the data together had been revised higher as we get more information and data. we saw that today. the october and september numbers got revised higher. so when this is all said and done i wouldnt be surprised if the november job numbers were revised significantly higher. and that decline in the unemployment rate, that is really sign...

Weary, forgotten, the vulnerable and poor and all in the margins of life. and god wants you to know in every circumstance of life, that you are beloved, whoever you are. whatever you are. whatever youve done, god looks at you today and he loves you. this is the god we know. who loves fiercely. who traffics in life and death. and is known in every dimension of life even in the cross currents of the emotions we experience today. in speaking with many people in these last weeks as colin powells lif...

Robert e. lee. my personal preference has always been that those statues be not removed, but toppled, that they be left in the public laying on their side as a sign of defeat, like a chess piece knocked over at the conclusion of a game. and so i think thats part of it. the other part of it is the real reckoning with the fact that we have these cross currents. even as lee comes down, we see texas celebrating its step in moving a step closer to their goal of making it more difficult for people of ...

Columnist, best selling author of many books. so tom, i mean, we see clarissas reporting, you see the images. president bidens speech today. what do you make of how things are unfolding? >> you have so many cross currents right now, anderson. i think i would be really humble about making any predictions. the thing that really strikes me is the taliban clearly initially are being very careful what they say, what they try to impose. i think thats partly because they want first the americans to lea...

And how it impacted, how it land ed in a lot of communities. i can site you prince georges county and baltimore city. it wasnt quite the same in some neighborhoods. now with those cross currents coming again, you find the public in one space, prosecutors and law enforcement in different spaces. this president has got to try to navigate that. the best thing joe biden can do, because hes known for this, is to be honest about what he wants to get done, but more importantly, be honest about what can...

>> well, i think its like a river. there is a surface and a deep part of it that could be going with cross currents. i think were sort of at an interesting time because we see the growth in white nationalism, we see a growth in efforts to suppress the vote, which, in many instances, means suppressing the black vote. on the other hand, we go through our daily lives and we seem to get along. there is not a race war going on, but there seem to be people who wish to foment one. >> let me tell you ho...

The transportation bill, and that is not clear. so the pressure from the left that mike is talking about is going to be this offer. mr. president, cant you just do one tough vote and get everyone on board, and instead of trying to jam this thing through with the republicans that leaves out all of the priorities from the more liberals and in the party to dampen the enthusiasm for the midterm in the second tranche, and plus time runs out. so the argument of looking at fiscal cliff of september, an...