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Diplomacy. so i think theyre making that case. and, look, marc and i actually dont disagree on this point, that strong economic sanctions and strong and very clear ramifications are critical. but when you look at something like nord 2, if we can go ahead and sanction it now to the bill that senator ernst was referencing and take away our leverage in this, right now the pipeline isnt operational. so putin doesnt have any if leverage with it. we do. and so if we sanction it now, we lose our levera...

Old. lets have a scuffle and decide this thing, lets hit the pavement. i think that was the larger of what he was saying today. and i think it laid down a marker. it was extraordinarily long. very few people, only the people in the news business that have to would watch the whole hour and 52 minutes. and he laid down markers. people talk about the democratic base. if we dont care that child poverty has been reduced by 40%, or you dont care that hourly workers have more leverage than theyve ever ...

Russia to germany, it has been an operation for about a decade. nord stream two is a parallel pipeline that has been built, but it is not yet operational, or online as they say. it is now potential leverage in the negotiations with russia. if nord stream 2 goes on a line, that would mean much more gas going from russia to germany, which actually could affect ukraine, it is not anywhere close to it in several ways. for more on that, i want to bring in chris miller, he is the author of putin onyx,...

This do you think? we could look at the time and. _ this do you think? we could look at the time and, i _ this do you think? we could look at the time and, i think. _ this do you think? we could look at the time and, i think. the - the time and, i think. the geopolitical atmospheres are fairly conducive to provocations. as you mentioned previously we have the potential for russia to invade ukraine, we have covid—i9, the soaker elections coming up we also have the beijing olympics. domestically...

Its all about developing your power infrastructure — you simply dont need to enrich uranium to that level to have the power capacity you want. its quite clear, and i think you know this as well as i, that iran has expanded its peaceful nuclear programme because the only way to force the americans and the europeans to abide by their commitments is for the iranians to gain leverage. you know this as well as i — the americans and the europeans are brutal. the sanctions that they impose on ordin...

Bill. and the republicans said, we have no interest in amendments. and to be able to consider even a single amendment takes republican cooperation. you have to get 60 votes to close debate on an amendment. and so with the republicans saying they had no interest and no willingness to engage, the majority leader said in that situation, when its impossible to consider amendments, we are going to go to the question of final passage of this bill, because thats the only option open to us. so that was ...

Have been in certainly in myti entire lifetime. all right. were goingon to w in have to lu both go. good to see you.. by the way, mirandas book,>> the laptop from is a greatce read if you havent had a chance to read it. thank you . all right. steven miller, miranda devine.. now to afghanistan. biden is turned the page. he hasas no apologies. we will not turn the page. americans held hostage hovind behind enemy lines to one hundred andne sixty day one sixty and one hundred and seventy three days ...

Talking about here and the fact as you pointed out that i raise in the book. that hunter went to the secret service and said "i dont want you traveling with me when i go overseas. "just raises another level of question about precisely what was going on and do the chinese in fact have leverage and are the biden administration compromised? its a question we have to start asking now. >> jesse: yeah, are they being blackmailed because the financial entanglements with the chinese communist and intel ...

Troops doing on the border and why have they been massed in that case? >> the goal is to attract the attention of the west to russian concerns about the security system in europe and putin stated it quite bluntly, that the west doesnt want to listen to us, so we need to do something dramatic to get the western attention. there might be another goal, however. i think that in the kremlin theyre concerned that at some point the ukrainian leadership might walk out of the minsk agreements and it migh...

Wages to rise. so you know, i think if everything sticks to script, wage growth will moderate, and inflation will moderate, but real wage growth, thats wage growth after inflation, should be pretty good. i think solid. you know, because the labor market is tight. unemployment is low. and workers have some leverage here. >> yeah. a very typical barometer is gas prices and at this point right now, they remain up almost a dollar for regular from where they were a year ago, and higher gas prices, th...