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Both. all democrats vote for that budget revolution. its the one that sinema and manchin voted for that thing. well negotiate and use their leverage later. >> here we are at a pile with the same analysis, i dont think there is a lot right now, a lot of democrats who have gone through the process and gotten this point. most of them think eventually they believe this and i am not saying its true, both these bills will get passed. they have to come together if they want to get it done. i dont think...

Used our leverage later. and here we are, i would like to add that a little bit of the same analysis, and i think you know that there is a lot right now, a lot of democrats of gone through this progress and got in this point. i number one think that they all think eventually, im think they believe this i dont think its true, but they vote that both these bills will get. pass but theres also not a lot of them will have an enormous sense of momentum, and theres a lot of trust between the two sides...

Proof of vaccination. i thought i would get at least a dennys grand slam breakfast out of it. but lets talk about truckers. even in bad economic times, you always see on the back of the 18 wheelers, signs, benefits, the ultimate freedom of the roads type job. whatever the "x" factor is coming out of this great pandemic economy where theyre calling it the great resignation, i think people are just going to hold out for far higher wages. and at a time after decades when workers did not have the le...

But theres a larger issue there, which is china knows the price it would pay if something like this were to happen. and the task of american diplomacy is to rally the world and to make sure that china understands that if it were to engage in something like an invasion of taiwan, thats the end of normal relations with the united states, with europe, with most of its asian trading partners. that is a very big cost. remember, china is a big part of the world economy. so i think we have a lot of lev...

Theres deep concern in europe about the leverage that gives moscow. are you prepared right now to alleviate those concerns? very much so. in fact, this is exactly what we have done in recent days and weeks, including with direct and personal involvement of president putin, who spoke very forcefully in favour of doing maximum on the part of russia to stabilise this market. we are the most secure, reliable and forward—looking supplier of natural energy to europe. we have always been such a suppl...

Competitive areas. they are in the no-mans-land. they cant win with him or without him. that seems to be -- that seems to be their calculation. i think its a miscalculation. i think they need to, you know, distance themselves quickly from former president trump because elections are about the future, not about the past, but donald trump, of course, wants to play a very destructive role within the party and certainly within the primary. donald trump realizes he has leverage and hes using it and t...

Willing to burn the whole place down if they dont get their way. so that their stubborn nileism is supposed to give them political leverage. they really will shut down the government or make america default. thats what the narrative says then that kind of hostage taking will get rewarded because the d.c. people and the people who write the narrative believe it, that the republicans wont back down or blink so somebody has to. well, why am i talking about this tonight? you can add that in a list o...

Transactional relationship between the united states and taliban. we want to get people out safely and we want to see the taliban meeting some pledges of fighting terrorism. the taliban really worked. its something else that have to govern a country and they face enormous challenges from millions of internally displaced people to simply making the economy work and also theyre battling groups like isis and al-qaida. now they got to decide what the do with afghanistan. the idea that there may be p...

>> first we have to acknowledge the insane position that were in right now as a nation. i mean, we are basically hoping that one terrorist organization will stop another terrorist organization from being active in the region. i mean, this is crazy. how do we respond to that? we have to be strong, in the military we have to project strength. thats what our enemy understands, its the only thing they understand, its strength. the biden administration has weakened us in so many different ways. we ha...

His recovery plan appears to be in trouble not because of republicans but because of members of congress on his own side. jef, walk us through some of these problems hes facing, particularly in congress. i think youll have to look at his problems in three dimensions, starting closest in. yes, there are problems among his own caucus. this is inevitable because they are divided, but theyre still talking, and i think they are ideologically in some ways not compatible. but of course, the bigger thre...