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Year. last month, john deere workers, able to secure a landmark deal after going on strike for more than a month. capping off a year where we saw a real uptick in organized labor activity, even in nonunion businesses. workers were able to use newfound leverage to lobby successfully for more pay, better treatment, and additionar benefits. ayman, your take. >> im keeping an eye overseas and for me its all the people speaking up about whats going on in china. and you had my man ennis canter from th...

Person in the building. >> so expand on this, jake, being the reality check for us. seems like jayapal is the reality check in the op-ed in "the washington post" and i want to understand this negotiation process. we cant be naive ant the difficulty of negotiating with someone who has not kept his commitments. not mentioning manchin by name but everybody knows who she is talking about and seems that the progressive caucus is going into this eyes wide open. >> they lost the leverage. they have giv...

Adding nato and g7 are united in supporting ukraine. another topic that came up at that press conference was energy. the price of gas on the wholesale markets hit record levels this week, and while thats happening, russia has been reducing its supply to europe. thats led to accusations moscow is using its pipelines for political leverage, something president putin denies. translation: many factors are to blame a cold lon- many factors are to blame a cold long spring, the pumping into the storage...

The committee, so much of this is already in the public record. i mean, him being at the center of this is not in dispute at all. him knowing things that the committee would want to know about is not in dispute. there is no hiding here. so much of this transpired fully in public view. >> the committee is leverage with mccarthy is quite limited. if they sue to get him to come in, it would be in court for more than a year. as they asked the justice department to prosecute him after they potentiall...

Strength, we win. without a war. it is when we doddle that putin takes advantage. >> the gas pipeline that is done and full and ready, you know, for the spigot to be turned on if you will, how does that play into all of this? it appears to me listening to the white house, jake sullivan saying, well, it gives us a lot of leverage because if they invade ukraine, the west will cut it off. and russia sees it the other way as it having leverage because the thing is complete. >> i think that the admin...

Will withdraw its troops. peace talks have so far failed to reach an agreement and the government accuses the taliban of using violence as leverage, but the taliban deny involvement. the fear is that if these targeted killings continue, the democratic gains of the last 20 years could all be lost. this school, for children with learning difficulties, was born out of tragedy. it was opened in the name of fatima �*natasha khalil, a human rights activist. aged 2a, she was

Sending pair radio troopers to the country as part of a military peace keeping alliance. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken spoke with kazakhstans foreign minister to discuss the need for a peaceful resolution making a reference to the biden administration policies of promoting stability. the united states has very limited leverage over kazakhstan and will have to rely on countries like russia to find a solution that respects human rights and the voices of the people. bret? >> bret: trey yin...

Turn the tides. >> sorry for interrupting. thats the great question for the white house. how much do they think we need to prove we can get things done in washington and how much is covid exhaustion, the psychological impact on mefrmts again, this is our third cove january, the president has some control over because he has leverage of government and of course its a pandemic and he cant control it in a lot of ways. >> a lot that is not in his control. as president and as the white house i dont t...

Heres the thing, philosophically the democrats and the caucus have a variety of perspectives. ive argued, for example, lets restore the filibuster. if you have the leverage that comes from slowing things down, you have to be on the floor giving speeches. its a public act. you did it in front of america and america can weigh in. are you heroes or are you bums. i argued that we should imply the two speech rule that has been in our rule since we were founded as a senate ask still in our rules today...

Sunday, treated him with respect, and find himself in agreement with the party he was caucusing with most of the time. he would be a lot more comfortable on our side. that is a better question for you to ask him. >> first of all, every time mcconnell talks about this he gets an impish look on his face. every time he talks about it he says i dont think its going to happen. >> yeah. somebody should do a mashup of darth vader beckoning luke in one of these mcconnell appeals to manchin. anything can...