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Was seen as relinquishing leverage, of offering concessions to the taliban, not least over their demand that 5000 taliban prisoners be released from jail throughout the country. there are those who say that he was facing an impossible task, being sandwiched between two american presidents, and an impossible situation with both those presidents are keen to withdraw american forces and to end americas longest war. but he has now resigned, stepped down from his post, just two months after the talib...

From the justice department. he sort of exited humiliated because he wasnt entirely loyal to trump and because of that, because sessions wasnt so deeply loyal to trump, his political career was ended. he was not able to get re-elected to senate back in alabama. trump very much made an example of sessions. punishing him for the fact he just deferred to basic ethics guidance. that punishment that sessions face absolutely send a warning sign to the folks now who are trying to connect themselves to ...

Referring him to the justice department for criminal contempt charges. so, right? they are going to go ahead, i am going to assume and go ahead and do that. what is the likelihood, though, that the committee when all of this is said and done ever hears from steve bannon? >> yeah. so ultimately, the decision about whether to charge this criminally will be merrick garlands. one important thing to note, even if they do bring a criminal charge against steve bannon and he is convicted, his punishment...

Districts for -- giving speeches, talking about whats in the plan. but thats not enough for a lot of democrats. >> no. but the briefing today, a whole section at the top of it about all jen psaki listing all the various meetings that biden is having and the phone calls he will have when he goes abroad. for some democrats its never going to be enough. but they keep zeroing in. the other thing that was interesting during this briefing, theres definitely some impatience. whether they have leverage ...

He has a ton of leverage. this policy of clean electricity program, it really is the core of the climate provision. its designed to pay electricity to shutdown coal and gas plants and sort of slowly year over year transition to win solar nuclear clean energy. end game for this program is cut the use of the fossil fuels that is are apart of his home state economy and you know i think for several weeks, there was a sense that maybe senator manchin would be able to -- that would kind of throw a lif...

For the year, and we are seeing power cuts causing slumps and the market, are you seeing a drag down in growth ahead? it depends on your expectations for the entire year. certainly, there is enough tolerance. at there is enough tolerance. at the moment that a zero tolerance for high—risk sectors, particularly in the property sector but incredibly, in terms of the tolerance for reckless investment and leverage is certainly evidence to suggest policymakers wont act too quickly to support the eco...

Pharma should have to negotiate here prices. thats something sinema opposes and is standing in the way of. yes, its outrageous that big pharma gets a free pass, the united states government wheeling extraordinary leverage for any industry wants to get that market share and the fact that we are not getting rock bottom prices is outrageous and its so corrupt and cynical. i could not agree with you more. i want to finish off the segment donny and i went on and on about how progressives, the democra...

The goods of our economy. >> to complicate matters more, liberal democrats say they will hold off voting on yet another piece of legislation, the one trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure plan as leverage to negotiate, keeping what they want in the larger spending package. >> im not going to predict legislative mechanics. what i will say is weve got to get this done. >> i hope for democrat gridlock. off times in washington d.c. gridlock is the better alternative but when st democrat gridlock...

Welcome welcome back. kimberly, workers have never had more leverage. when you look around -- this is like one of those things, every national news organization discovered strikes this week. but the fact is, it is happening, and it has been -- youve seen, weve seen it in our own organization, more openness to organizing, more openness to unions. this is one of the more interesting consequences of covid. >> i think its an accelerator actually. we saw that sort of movement in places like newsroo...

What tom said, i do think it makes settlement more likely because we are now, everybody, going to see this deposition. its designed to be played at trial if theres a trial. and the only way to keep it from now being made public is if he settles the case at a pretty penny, i would think, because the plaintiffs now know they have some sort of leverage over him. >> we will watch this space with your help. nbcs tom winter and harry litman, thank you so much for spending time with us on it. the nex...