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the president will visit a small local business thats benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, whos live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter...

Episode of his show. he defended the harvard universitys mens soccer team. the "new york times" reported on quite a list of this. in 2016 for ravnking the sex appeal of students on a scale of 1 to 10. he basically dismissed it as, this is sort of what happens. this isnt ancient history, its recent. you also have, for instance, the governor of california backs bernie sanders saying, this is not what we want. we dont want bernie sanders supporting this person. >> there are a lot of progressives wh...

Sexist comments, for instance, rating women on a scale of 1 to 10 as to whether men should be allowed to perform oral sex on them. were talking really gross stuff. what is your thought on endorsing bernie sanders for this person? >> i wish katy hill were running for the seat. she should not have been asked to resign and she should not have resigned. she has a big future. my understanding is he has apologized for them. he has said theyre clearly inappropriate, many of whom were disgusting. senato...

Study, one is jenks optimism the transition cost when you lose. the scrutiny concern is the voter hears, were taking what you have, were taking your private insurance and there may be a kick in the taxes on top of it. tough sell. >> i was surprised, honestly, given what a bunch of candidates on the stage the last two nights have said prior to this, that only four people raised their hand when they said, would you favor abolishing all private insurance? so, bernie sanders makes sense. elizabeth w...

Tsunami and the seas essentially giving up the dead now and washing them back ashore. now were getting the full dimension of the human impact. but keep in mind, this is a three-phased disaster. youve got the earthquake, the damage like this. youve got the tsunami, and then, of course, as you were talking about, youve got this who nuclear emergency, jenk. >> lets talk about that for a second. because full-scale panic was a quote from one of the experts. thats a pretty heavy quote. how scared are ...

A meltdown? >> well, if we have a meltdown, jenk, what it means is that the fuel rods that are in the core, they begin to melt, and literally, as it says, the real fear, if you have a complete meltdown is that those fuel pellets inside that fuel rod go down and then they start to melt and they form like a -- its been described to me like molten lava. and then they go down to the bottom of the reactor and then they have a nuclear reaction and then all this radioactivity goes out into the environm...

Citigroup, somebody whos just doing the health care reform bill cant take a job at wellpoint. lets pick this up next week. >> heres the problem is, you have smart people that know their jobs. why would you tell them not to practice what they know? ill tell you why, we have a $14 trillion deficit thats largely created by a culture of unfairness, trade, tax, banks health care policies that are manipulated by those very people. >> since 1789. >> well talk to you next time. coming up on "hardball....

Welcome back to the daily rant. its tuesday. its time for a jenk attack. allowing information for some on the super highway. if youre on a wireless, they get to pick winners and losers. which ones go faster, which ones go slower. people get confused about the issues. i want to make it really, really simple. net neutrality means an open internet where everybody has equal access. just that simple. people are worried about regulation. oh, no, regulation is a bad

Rules work and let people contribute money, unlimited or however they want to, and just disclose to people where the money is coming from instead of pages and pages and pages of finance that never works anyway. >> whats wrong with just disclosing that senator so and so is sponsored by the nra and represents the nras agenda. we can all look at it. another politician from the sierra club. we all know whats going on. we all know the politicians are trying to hide it from us. we all know thats the p...

>> if it was a republican -- is your view on cell phone recording specific to your political agenda, and that youre in favor of them when they portray people you dont like doing stupid things, but otherwise wouldnt want that? what are you saying here, my man? >> as i said, im not a big fan of the paparazzi. im not a huge fan of this. if youre a publicç official aa public event, its a different story. i think its fine. >> jenk, what do you think here? >> i think its an indictment of the mainstr...