winners for economics say it will ease long-term inflationary pressure. the bottom line, if price increases are what you re worried about, the best answer is my build back better plan. third thing we re going to do, promote competition. look, in too many industries, a handful of giant companies dominate the market in sectors like meat processing, railroads, shipping and other areas. this isn t a new issue. it s not been the reason we ve had high inflation today. it s not the only reason. it s been happening for a decade. but over time, it has reduced competition, squeezed out small businesses and farmers, ranchers and increased the price for consumers. we end up with an industry like the meat processing industry where four big companies dominate the markets. pay ranchers less for their cattle they grow, charge consumers more for beef,
democratic senators were on this issue, you probably know the whip count better than i do. but beginning of every senate there is a rules package and we re in a 50/50 senate. you guys had it. why not attempt talking filibuster. the incremental filibuster changes right that manchin says he needs to see before he s ready to say, let s give up on the whole thing. why didn t that occur then? was there not a debate about it? i understand not going for broke here, but why not try to reform the filibuster, particularly if you think it s going to prove your point that it s still goegto be an obstacle. why not try to do that at the beginning of the senate. was that a missed opportunity? well, it would be a glorious thing to do. but unlike every other legislative body in the country the senate has continuing rules and to be able to get a new rule proposal before the body for debate requires cooperation of both parties. so, we, obviously, didn t have mitch mcconnell s cooperation to put reform
0 skis. ambition is a good thing. aspiration is a good thing. that s how you motivate people. you should advance your policy agenda but the president was unable. not sure he could have in this social media age. unable to manage expectations in his party for how much they could do. and for americans who don t check their list every day they look at washington and say what the hell is going on there? and they look at the prices at the grocery store and they look at the prices at the gase station. we expect president biden to address a number of pressing challenges, including the standoff at the russian/ukrainian border. ginn joining us now, christiane amanpour. what can president biden say today to bring down the temperature of this standoff to convince vladimir putin that an invasion, again, is the wrong idea? well, jake, actually in the words of the state department official today, perhaps diplomacy is not dead. a very united and strong front led by the united states with the nato
it. saying, hey, maybe you shouldn t be doing that and that there should be vaccine mandates. but i stand by that and there should be. just like you can t go to school, you can t send your kids to school. you have three kids. they have to be vaccinated. the society has mumps. polio. rubella. smallpox. i don t even know how effective any of those vaccines are. i just do it because i know that s how my kids go to school. i do it because the science tells me. we have all accepted this, already. this isn t a new issue. i m going i wish i had her number. i would give you nikki minaj s phone number so you can text her after this to talk about science and what it really means. i don t know if you have seen the whole thing. go check it out. you know me better than that. i got to run. i thought she was playing for the ravens. see ya later. i love ya, d lemon. love you, too. this is don lemon tonight. we got a lot to talk about. president biden in california at this hour
appropriation bills prior to end of the fiscal year in september. mcconnell was under enormous pressure from his own caucus and president trump to cancel as much of the recess possible. it is bad f red state democrats. it forces them to remain in washington instead of spending the month on the campaign trail. talk about some of the stories, thanks for joining us. very much appreciate it. let s talk about rod rosenstein. obviously putting this story out from lindsey graham saying there s a conflict of interest for the russian investigation for rod rosenstein from his point of view. could we see rosenstein recuse himself? it is definitely a possibility. we know this isn t a new issue. we knew rosenstein was involved in former fbi director james