obscure the larger truth. if the ideological gulf between the president and steve bannon is small. this is not a fight over ideas, it s a fight over who deserves credit for an election win. talk about missing the point. if the legacy of 2016 is not a single person, any person, it s a set of ideas, the ones that reflect the hopes and their needs and the fears and the aspirations of a badly mistreated american middle-clas middle-class. those voters came to the polls because they wanted real borders, higher wages, they were dispirited by the opioid epidemic, why wouldn t they be. they were sick of being lectured by political class of washington that despises them and holds them in contempt. they were the other country, but they had come to recognize that it is hard to make the rest of the world better and very easy to make it worse. above all, they voted for leadership that promised to put americans first above any foreign nation or domestic interest group. that is the real legacy of 20
Privilege should apply here stronger, but placed in trump has basically said he wants these documents to be secret. they haven t been. that s what the judges found in on a lot today, no specific claims about specific documents that should be privileged for an actual reason, it s this broad brush. we would like to keep this information secret, and that is not good enough. very quickly, when will they get a result the net and will he go to supreme court? i result the net and will he go to supreme court? result the net and will he go to supreme court? i think we will get resolved quickly. supreme court? i think we will get resolved quickly. the supreme court? i think we will get resolved quickly. the judges - supreme court? i think we will get resolved quickly. the judges today j resolved quickly. thejudges today recognise that this is an important matter, coming up to almost a year since january six, and a former president trump loses, his lawyers indicated that they certainly do pl
Sagging poll numbers and that the multitrillion dollar infrastructure and build back america better proposals will pass congress and potentially on tuesday. he did have strong words with iran saying the u.s. would use drones if they threat the interest in russia and china basically did not even show up. amy kellogg is covering the g20 and knows international affairs very well. your take on the strong words of iran and how he chastised russia and china for calling it in. the saudi saying the three of them had not done enough to honor commitments to climate change, hadn t been here in the way that they had originally planned to be here, it was asked what he was prepared to do if saudi arabia did not help to ease the energy supply and he
From the larger pitch for the domestic agenda, the multitrillion dollar infrastructure plans that were the centerpiece of discussions the last couple of weeks because they thought potentially it was going to come to a head. of course, we know those votes were all delayed and they are working with a limited timeline and runway here. so they are a little bit concerned that what the president sought to do yesterday in michigan by going out and making this pitch in a swing district gets drowned out by this. but they also at the exact same time acknowledge the urgency of extending america s ability to borrow and raising the debt ceiling. they re using language that is a little bit hyperbolic because they want people to understand the potential economic disaster. that s something that they are more keenly focused on because nothing focuses this
About $2 trillion in spending o education, childcare and healthcare pray democrats say they will cover the cost by raising taxes on corporations and those making more than $400,000 a year. this is just about deliverin and making sure that we deliver both bills to the american people because it meets their needs. at the end of the day it will cost zero because we re going t pay for it. we want to grow the economy. the democrats are a party that want to grow the government. and you heard it right there. they are continuing to try to mislead the public by saying it is free. it is not free. the social spending bill was a about three and a half trillion dollars which but to attract or moderate democrats and get this through the congress, the white house is no pushing a range of up to $2.3 trillion. the moderates also want immediate vote on the separate trillion dollar infrastructure bill senator kiersten cinema writes the failure of the u.s. house to hold a vote on the
Proposal early in the summer. he was laying out where he was comfortable with based on wet revenue we could generate and then based on what he felt the priorities were that the country needed to address and he is willing to work with the president and get something done. that s something that he s here to. do he wants to negotiate a deal. he wants to find a compromise. he did it on the 1.3 trillion dollar infrastructure. deal and he s gonna do it for the reconciliation. jonathan alter, would impact do you think biden s trip to the capital will have? i think it had a pretty big impact. it was kind of like a chill pill for the democratic caucus. like, we got this, this is going to happen. it might not happen in the next six minutes but more likely in the next six. days i hope it s not the next six weeks because then if it starts to get in the way of joe manchin s arguably historically
Hello, everyone. welcome to this special holiday edition of newsroom. i m alisyn cam erota. no break for the white house today. the president still grappling with multiple challenges. roughly 100 americans are still in afghanistan. covid numbers are still climbing, and the future of booster shots is still unclear. the economy is still suffering from the pandemic as more than 7 million people lose their enhanced unemployment benefits this weekend. the president s trillion dollar infrastructure is still on shaky ground with joe manchin putting up resistance. and parts of the country are still without power. thousands of americans searching for food, water, gas, and housing in the aftermath of hurricane ida.
Package and locking in a late september vote on the trillion dollar infrastructure only measure. there was a battle between some ten moderates that said we re not going to hold a bipartisan agreement on that has widespread support to deal with infrastructure, hostage to something like this that could be delayed substantially. apparently the middle ground has been found to go ahead, try to get a vote going on the infrastructure only package and then do the $3.5 trillion one or the motion of that in september. it could go a variety of ways. you get a vote on that. the easier vote would be approved for the infrastructure-only measure marking off and then dealing with too time and delayed and limited calendar to get the other one done before the end of
Part, given the current state of the economic recovery, it s irresponsible to continue spending at levels more suited to respond to a great depression or a great recession, not an economy that is on the verge of overheating. lot to talk about with our guest tonight again eugene robinson pulitzer prize willing columnist for the washington post and mike murphy veteran republican strategist, also cohost of the hacks on tap podcast, eugene you get to go first, your assessment of the week, the democrats have had thus far? well, it s been a pretty incredible week, there is no way they were ever gonna get a trillion dollar infrastructure to do the senate with 19 republican votes, there is no way they were gonna hold together the entire caucus deposit 3.5 trillion-dollar