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im victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> were hours away from president bidens state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the presidents left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. >> hes expected to talk about lowering infl...

Come back here to try to make a difference. I want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. Now one of the questions i would ask you is why youre willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and Human Services. Thank you, senator. When i think about the mission of the department of health and Human Services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People, its what ive liter...

Chirping the Cispata Bay Mangrove forest is expected to sequester nearly A Million tons of carbon in the next 30 years. But here, the community is part of the decisionmaking process. They help guide the investments, ensuring that 90 of the money is spent locally. Its a huge step forward compared to what i saw in senegal

>> thats a great question. that raises some troubling questions about the decisionmaking process on the chinese side. this is a sensitive time in the u.s./china relations. the two sides said they wanted to stabilize things. either this was a sensitive operation authorized by xi jinping or it was not authorized. there have been instances where the chinese military or other actors have undertaken sensitive operations without the knowledge of key leaders. but xi jinping has tried to fix a lot of th...

I suspect that will be one of the people reading between the lines with his body language. i suspect he will not -- he told them to behave. he wants them to reflect well upon republicans. >> so no ripping up of scripts. can i ask you something that you wrote about, thats the delicate dance that this president is going through right now in terms of deciding his future and whether he says im a one-term president or im going to run for a second term. if he does, that would make him 86 years old by ...

And rivals wouldnt order. now, you can debate the extent to which that ethos is is carried out. and, you know, you can look through the schedule and probably find some channel 4 shows which are pretty similar. but ultimately, you know, it is a broadcaster that over the decades, for a0 years now, has ordered different types of shows. theres no certainty that a privatised channel 4 would continue in that way because, ultimately, if profit is driving your decisionmaking process, youre going to view...

Early, there are also 95% that were staying home, not going to work, not seeing their families if they were being isolated for too long. so saying that you can leave isolation after five days if you have no symptoms, and i agree with ashish completely, ideally you take a test and show a negative result, is data driven response from the cdc. theres going to be people that are going to criticize them at all times on both sides. and i think -- but they just have to continue to put their heads down ...

Of pages of documents, theyre working tonight, taking depositions from another former trump official right now as we speak. is there an interplay between that decisionmaking process at the justice department and attorney general garlands office and whats happening with that investigation in congress? >> i think there is. its a huge team. the committee has 40 people headed by two former prosecutors. and i think theyre trying to pressure garland to act. i think it was excellent that he spoke today...

The right direction. are we there yet in every single place throughout the country? i dont believe so. but some places are looking at what the trajectory is and are saying lets go with it. >> let me ask you about spaces under federal jurisdictions, im thinking of planes. that mask mandate is set to expire the middle of next month. what recommendation do you plan on making to president biden when it comes time to extend that mandate or close it out? where do you think we are? >> i dont want to ge...

Who is he talking to? who is giving him advice? is he really just alone with his own thoughts. there are those western officials who have been saying that he appears to be lashing out to underlings, that he is getting angry, upset. so the decisionmaking process is an important one that western intelligence officials will be focused on, and a lot im afraid does hang on president putin himself because, you know, he is the boss. he is the godfather. he is the one man band. he is the general. you kn...