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The bipartisan bill unless you, leadership, you, mr. president, promise us to get more involved on these other issues which they consider existential to democracy, meaning voting rights. >> right. thats the leverage we have. right now in the senate theres no margin for error among democrats. theres also very little margin for error in the house. its been progressives in the house democratic caucus who have been more willing to protest against their leadership to get policy measures they want. th...

And was going to fight over an 11 -year-old dumpster cat that has three chronic illnesses. the dog, i feel like him loves the dog so much, to the point i is weird. i will hear him talking to the dog about vacations are going t take just to the two of them. including specific plans, but i cant admit that i was given th dog because i say that now and ill be giving up a lot of leverage. if we were to ever split up, which by the way we better not split up and you better hope that better than everybo...

I was in pakistan last week, i interviewed prime minister imran khan -- >> by the way, if you or your family is going i islamabad this weekend and you see posters of jonathan and cant read whats under that face its not good at all. >> oh, no. >> you are a man on the run. >> david is exactly right, this is where its heading, theyre very worried. they were talking about a civil war, that seems to be what everyone is expecting. the idea that you can coerce the taliban into a peace settlement seems ...

The anchor of cnn newsroom at 9:00 a.m., poppy harlow joins us. great to see you. >> great to be on the big show. good morning, guys. >> when we talk about the leverage that workers have,s why do they have it right now and how long do you think its going to last? >> isnt it amazing? >> it really is. >> i think its so significant, im fascinated by this story. i dont have the answer to that question of how long it will last, nor does the federal reserve and well get to that in a moment. but its a ...

Individual because they want a deal. its great that the biden administration and the justice department shut down these disinformation websites. its a signal to iran, were not going to give an inch. its terrific. i rarely economiment biden or the justice department. >> martha: give credit where credit is due is a google principle. raisi also -- appears to feel like hes in a good negotiating spot. he says he knows the biden administration wants to reenter this day. theyve been through seven round...

Incentives change. remember all the investigation we saw, all the reporting about the taxi medallion scheme with michael cohen. the whole idea is that prosecutors use shady personal finances to squeeze someone enough to say we know you have all of this going on here, help us out, maybe we make all of that go away. do we know that thats whats happening with weisselberg? we do not. we dont know what we dont know. but the question is whether they can use something as leverage to make weisselberg fe...

>> yeah, in addition to writing about manchin in the new yorker, you have also written a great biography of president biden. is it clear to you what kind of relationship they actually have? there was this pleasant kind of bland readout today. >> you know, back in march, ron klain, the chief of staff of the white house, went to dinner with joe manchin. one thing i discovered during the reporting. went to visit him on that house boat. they had dinner and during the dinner, president biden called a...

>> joe knows. so joe still has some leverage in this process. hes brought leading progressives, stacey abrams, barack obama with him. and now do you say, since the republicans dont want the big package do we serve up a bill that takes out the things they supposedly dont want? >> right. >> well see how that plays out. i think joe has worked this to his advantage at the moment. the question is whether the democratic party has the political strategy on the back end to close the deal. that gets into...

For drug prices. medicare is not allowed to negotiate. theyre not allowed to factor in cost in their decisions about approving a treatment. so theres not really any leverage to get this price down if its approved. and it creates a knock-on effect here. if this drug -- bare in mind, this is an issue even if the drug does turn out to do everything it says. >> i want to talk about it. it was eye-opening to me to read the resignation of three experts. what does our best reporting and science say abo...

We dont know about that. were talking about the intent to make these fraudulent statements. if youve got one version of a spreadsheet that has the correct numbers and then you have another version of a spreadsheet that has the fake numbers, then youre showing that there was clearly an intent to move from the one set to the other. you know, it doesnt need to be the gotcha moment of getting somebody to testify and say this happened. it could be much more boring, but still actually get a guilty ver...