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Scale social spending package and the idea of some progressives, ocasio-cortez, was to hold off on the infrastructure package until they had this larger package set. that would have been with hindsight a better strategy to force manchin and the president and all those folks to come to the table with what the package to look like at the end of the day and now given that leverage and manchin holds the cards here and something that progressives struggle with. op-eds wont change that. im not sure wh...

Anniversary of the insurrection itself. but betsy, there were members of congress who were in contact with the expresident who are sure to be in the interest of the committee lawyering up. >> i havent been asking folks whether or not mccarthys legal strategy is changed. my sense is that hes moving forward, ahead, and hasnt really telegraphed any concerns about the fact that the committee has now asked him to participate in their investigation. the statement that he put out, of course, very much ...

The brink of starvation. the administrations reply, throw money at the problem. lets talk about what they should do with the money. why are they not giving a portion of the money to the veterans groups that have so heroically stepped up when their government failed and still to this day keeping thousands of afghans who are being targeted by the taliban safe in safe houses with medical treatment, transportation, moving them so theyre not hunted down, taking care of girls and woman that are barred...

I dont anticipate that will happen, though, for a few reasons. one is that she has to give up a lot. everything basically you have to go in and tell them everything youve known including everything that youve done that is illegal. im not sure prosecutors would want to cooperate her at this point. she had more leverage before she was convicted and facing perhaps the rest of her life in prison. the other issue is what can she cooperate on? even if she is willing to give up names of people involved...

And concerned. >> today school and health officials acknowledge the concerns but the data and the science doesnt support them given 91% of public school staff is vaccinated and nearly one-third of students have received one dose. >> and adults with a booster vaccine, it is near zero. >> there is no evidence in the schools throughout the whole semester, whole entire semester and complaints with all exist about what we didnt have. >> we just didnt see it. >> health experts maintained schools are a...

Going to get -- im not being critical of any of you. its always going to get front page. its always good-bye to be the top of the news. lets put it in perspective. 95%, as high as 98% of the schools in america are open. functioning. and capable of doing the job. how about jenna epstein, bloomberg. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you. your top foreign policy advisers have warned that russia is now ready to attack ukraine but theres still little unity among european allies about what a paction ...

Russian troops now having been sent there. but the biggest deployment since post-war history, amassing on the russian side of the border with ukraine. with more than 100,000 troops that vladimir putin has been building up, as part of this ongoing diplomatic leverage, kristi, that hes being trying to achieve to essentially get nato to push back on its boundaries, to get nato to shrink back in some way towards the post-soviet time. because, of course, nato has expanded quite significantly since th...

Is going to cease to be a democracy in nine months. if anything he has more leverage. next time we try lecture him about democracy, he can just cite bidens georgia speech. democracy is dysfunctional. its on the brink. now, this was precisely the tactic used by the chinese in alaska last year when they sat across the table from secretary of anthony blinken. >> we hope the united states will do better on human rights. the fact is, that there are many problems within the united states regarding hum...

Strongest growth of the year. and it is really just the latest evidence of a lot of strength in the jobs market. first time jobless claims are hovering near the lowest level in half a century. the unemployment rate is down to 4.2%. remember, back in the spring of 2020, when the economy shut down, the unemployment rate skyrocketed to nearly 15%. today, it is almost at 4%. not only is firing very low, but demand for workers is really, really strong. yesterday we learned that 4.5 million americans ...

Excuse me. >> asking about progressives? theyre going to continue employing the leverage they have as caucus. the progressive caucus has been moving as block in the entire session and dont see that going anymore with congresswoman jayapal a leader in the movement. voting rights they have the backing of the voting rights leaders, civil rights leaders, activists and members of the king family. theres no reason to capitulate at this point. >> at some point joe manchin and progressives have to get o...