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Country faces today. and youve heard that not just from people inside the biden administration but you have heard that from the leadership of the fbi. when you look at the organization planning, training, communications, and propaganda of these militias, of these armed organizations, it shows you that they are threats, not only to citizens, but in fact to our democracy. there is going to have to be a very significant whole of government, whole of nation effort to get out this activity. because o...

Sanders could do to them what he is going to manchin and cinema which is to run primaries against them. the progressive wing of the party is very organized. they have shown his thing in the georgia senate election, capable of pouring enormous amounts of money into in the election they want to support. i think the mark kellys of the world are simply scared straight about which way the party is going they will take votes as they did this past week that will put their reelection in the general elec...

After different aspects of the stop the steal movement. youre looking at what happened today capitol that day but this is the one that actually goes to the higher level and thats why i think its so interesting. boris epstein was -- the letter says to him was president at the willard hotel when some of the strategy was being discussed. he was on the telephone with donald trump on january 6th. jenna ellis who wrote this memo about the strategy, these are really important because they take us from ...

Normal for a president to say when he was asked are you concerned this is going to be a pandemic to say look, we dont know, were learning a lot about this. instead hes says its going to be fine, we have it under control, it not going to be a pandemic, i trust what the chinese are telling me. instead of saying, look, we dont know what this is -- >> sorry to interrupt. if theres one thing we know, its that smart people have doubts. smart people dont know. dumb people, absolutely sure beyond questi...

Epshteyn works to help overturn the last election which makes him the type of fighter trump needs to do it again. they are not hiding it. adam schiff serves on the committee investigating january 6th, a lead house manager for donald trumps first impeachment and he joins me now. congressman schiff, lets talk about rudy giuliani, who was a central figure in both of these -- in both plots that resulted in impeachments. why is it important the committee sit down and talk to him here? >> i think that...

Inflation takes time to operate. you raise rates and people have to say to themselves, do i need to buy that new house, do i need to buy that new car. business has to say, do i need to go out and do a financing and buy more capital equipment. its a long slow process, particularly when youre talking about rate increases of a quarter percent each quarter, thats a small impact on the market. i dont think youre going to see the impact of fed inflation soon. the question is whether inflation will go ...

Power-strong position. the nord stream 2 pipeline is almost done. the germans need russian gas. europe is having a huge energy crisis. gas prices are up 400%. this is all part of a very strategic move by putin. he may -- i think hes willing to go to war. but that is not his first choice. his first choice is to get this rewriting of the sort of security landscape that he wants. the biden administration is trying to do a combination of deterrence and diplomacy. on the one hand, theyve rallied the ...

Claims, about whether they believed them about the influence that they had, who else was involved. the list goes on. but it raises another issue, ali, an additional privilege, so to speak, which is at least sidney powell and rudy giuliani we know are currently under criminal investigation, and certainly the big lie has to at some point fall under the broader investigation of the department of justice. so they may have fifth amendment privileges available to them as well. >> ashley, lets talk abo...

Decision by doj about whether it will enforce the subpoena against the white house chief of staff by prosecuting him like theyve already begun to prosecute steve bannon. then alternatively congress might decide to go to civil court to try to enforce these subpoenas, but that, too, is fraught. there is the question whether the courts would get in the middle of a dispute between the members, and as we all know, civil litigation takes time. this is a complicated and difficult decision. its interest...

Always going to have to try to massage the message. scientific messaging is difficult. context changes. youre going to learn things. things might not apply one day that applies the next. thats hard for politicians to deal with where one size fits all messages. thats not what we can do. we shouldnt straitjacket it. they are our next defense in whatever pandemic were inevitably going to face. >> jason furman, lets talk about inflation, the fed, the president acknowledging its going to be painful f...