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Further than i thought. i dont think there is leverage and an obvious pass. >> i tend to agree with you, but your point about reconciliation is a key one. and then its like, we will come back to passing the thing you think will be best for the country. theres a great story in the new york times meghan, about the object lesson and when they did that a month ago. they got all 50 votes, they passed a big covid package. they didnt want to lay down, they didnt negotiated down. we are gonna probably h...

Out of this? >> the u.s. wants to address the issue of cyber attacks, the meat-packing or meat processing plant being just the latest one. had the solar winds attack, the pipeline attack. not all of them are necessarily connected directly to the russian government, but russia doesnt exactly hand over or extradite cyber criminals to the u.s. where they could face legal consequences for these actions. and i think that has to be addressed. we want to address, you know, past election meddling by rus...

Of benjamin netanyahu if 13 days from now he is no longer prime minister? >> well, look. hes been indicted. he is facing very serious corruption charges. that personal corruption accepting gifts but also structural corruption, using the power of his office to corrupt the israeli media to exert leverage over the things the israeli media would say about him. and so this is very seriously the accountability he faces. in a way it mirrors the circumstance faced by donald trump who was his closest all...

This goes to your other point. i think people want me to say theres a strategy. i dont think the filibuster is going away this session. i just dont. that doesnt mean things cant pass. sinema and manchin have showed a willingness to vote in reconciliation packages, so i dont think that means theres no agenda. but in terms of getting rid of the filibuster, the democrats have gone further than i expected, but in a 50-50 senate with a couple of senators acting the way there are, i dont think theres ...

Not ready to give up on it then. but since then going to the to the eulogy of the john lewis memorial, if it is getting in the way of democracy, it is time for it to go. but democrats cannot get rid of it if joe manchin and kyrsten sinema wont let them. there is a lot of advice that obama gives democrats in our conversation about what dont you say. what do you do to work in a pluralistic way with people you dont agree with and how do you calm their anxieties to win the amount of power necessary ...

Announcement about vaccines is so important. we have seen china, russia doing their own vaccine diplomacy. the white house argued that while those countries are using vaccine sharing as leverage with other countries, what the united states sees as a sharing the vaccines is a statement of u.s. values, its the right thing to do but also for our own purposes ensuring that we beat the covid virus and really requires we defeat it worldwide, not just here in the united states. >> one of the things we ...

After two months theres not a single on record accusation of misconduct. its not a change in the story. this just means an expansion of this investigation. >> they have a point that an investigation is not a charge, and a charge is not a conviction. >> exactly. >> so, i take their point on that. thats important to emphasize. if he were to be federally charged with obstruction, how serious a charge is that? >> this represents another crime potentially. and it adds leverage for prosecutors if you ...

Americas purposes then. junking it around looking over wouldlo be a way to put pressur on it. successt. of administrations ha failed to make what i think is a relatively simple decision. in the case of belarus, this is a pressure point to back putin away. i think youve got to get lukashenko out of power. i would buy him off to put it bluntly but keep russia from coming in to give the people of ukraine a real chance to express what they want for the future of the country. >> why do i get the feel...

Country to say can you help, you know, fill the gap here. the more we can do to reduce the impact that a bad actor can have, the leverage that they have over us with this ransomware, the more we can resist paying that ransom. so having your servers backed up in a completely separate way such that you can bring them back online, for example, those are really important steps to take in advance so that you can at least buy yourself more time to figure out can we bring ourselves back online without ...

Opposite ends of the ideological spectrum in order to prevent israelis from going an unprecedented fit election in two years. the prime minister in his own speech blasted bennett saying he was doing the fraud of the century. take a listen. >> translator: i heard bennett. fortunately hes, again, police ma made -- misleading the public. same lies. also, someone who is perpetrated, i must say, the fraud of the century. >> reporter: now netanyahu, of course, hes no longer in power could be in some t...