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>> real quick. were almost out of time. im wondering your thought in a broader look. you know, you got india and pakistan competing for influence. china, iran, russia, they have their own interests. whats the potential for those interests creating more problems outside georgias borders? >> it could be catastrophic. empires and all these types of cliches but the truth is its a regional cross roads. india, iran, russia, china, all these countries fighting for influence in afghanistan to sort of le...

Affordable internet across america is going to be critically important. again, there are at least 17 republicans that joined us. i think 18 with one of the votes over the weekend to be able to move this package. there were five republicans, five democratic members that got to go to frame this working with the president. and again, we will pass this package. it is just a matter of whether it is today, tomorrow, or tuesday, but this will pass the united states senate. >> it doesnt matter if it is ...

Actions, bloody sunday and others to have the moral authority to push through on the others. so much of that would not be done, not just with negotiations of congress, but americans who are out on the streets, peacefully protesting and demanding from their members of congress certain things are done. we are the tip of the spear in congress doing the work to ensure that the framework and the legality is there through legislation. but we cant do that without the continued momentum of american peop...

This is not the white house wants. but it is evidence of the frustration that the president and senior officials in the west wing and health officials elsewhere in the government feel about the american response right now in the pandemic. that this is something where they should feel like we should be further ahead than we. are the vaccines are, theyre there plentiful. we cant give them away yet because of the politics of it. because masks are politicized, vaccines are politicized, because the f...

Thousands of dollars on hotels by the city of the county that we are housing these folks. they take the position based in ideology, unless we get subsidized housing, actual homes, apartment complexes they are willing to let people suffer on the street because they think they can use that for leverage. that is not really working. that is a failed attempt by the seattle city council. a lot of people blaming the mayor for this and i dont on this particular issue blame the mayor for the disaster. sh...

Can you tell me about that? >> were seeing the white house going back to the drawing board after their initial attempts to get folks vaccinated have not been sufficient. the white house determined its not in their power to order every american to get vaccinated. so now theyre looking through every point of possible federal leverage to see what we can do. so theyre looking at a possibility of using federal funds to try to get institutions to require their employees to get vaccinated. you have tho...

That is good news, bad news. there is always heat upon re-entry and trying to get through that same door at the same time. however, we dont want to sustain inflation because that would cut into the ability of those who have finally gained some upper leverage on their wages in ability to spend going forward. i think the fed needs to step up and start at least tapering the purchases of asset purchases. >> okay. always a pleasure. thank you so much for your insights. greatly appreciate it. >> today...

Infrastructure bill unless we have the reconciliation bill passed by the united states senate. laura: she plays hardball. republicans are waiting for a wiffleball game to start. shes not taking up infrastructure until they get there spending package through a simple majority vote. simply put by agreeing to this order of things the romney group gave up all of their leverage. democrats are able to bypass them entirely on their way to a simple majority vote on a $3.5 trillion package no one sees. s...

Beginning and months after the romney group met with biden the democrats finally release their infrastructure bill $110 billion roads, bridges, major projects, $66 billion for railways, $66 billion for broadband but that is not all. there were more that most senators wont have time to read, 2700 pages including funds for new state imposed carbon reduction requirements, $1 million for the appalachian regional commission cochaired by joe manchins wife come millions for wildlife crossing structures...

There is some suffering cuba or anywhere else there is some policies for something we have done wrong. s what that core america is the inherently evil nation built on the this is not a nation worth saving but to be torn down and rebuilt. there is a lot of that embedded in and part of that is you look to cuba and you say we dont like the fact they put people in jail that generally what they are trying to do is the right thing. government-sponsored this and that. for us cuban is an example sociali...