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Side are threatening to delay president bidens economic agenda further joining me too weigh in republican congressman steve ferguson, the chief deputy whip of the house republican conference and a member of the house ways and means committee, do republicans have any role to play in this in nancy pelosis congress and in the democratic led senate? >> we do have an important role to play and were telling the american people what is in this bill and every time we expose more and more of whats in the...

Restaurant is molasses slow. why is all of this happening? well look at the massive logjam of container ships off americas coast. and well ask about the help wanted signs youre seeing everywhere. why arent americans getting back to work? also, a new warsaw uprising. tens of thousands of pols have turned out to express their anger, this time against their own government. i will ask anne applebaum what is happening in a country that many fear has turned into an illiberal democracy. finally, fo...

Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. is it still important to broadcast daily the statistics on covid cases, deaths and vaccinations? and for the second time in a fortnight, bbc news is accused of encouraging panic buying, this time over a logjam at ports. first, on wednesday, the star trek actor william shatner became the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the blue 0rigin sub—orbital capsule. the 90—year—old, who played captainjames t kirk in the series...

Have a special committee investigate this. dont expect to hear from the media mob about this. thats all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. set your dvr so you never miss an episode. have a great weekend. "the ingraham angle" is next. well see you back here monday. >> laura: im laura: this is the ingraham angle from washington. thanks to the logjam in the near sports. the cost of renting a home and apartment soaring. the energy crisis made worse by the cli...

Its progress. all these things help. we have a much larger issue. it will take us a long time to unwind. >> by doing black friday early, it moves that inventory out and helps to clear up some of the logjam. well leave it there. steve, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> have a great morning. >> now i have to plan and im not going to get any deals. >> you can go early. you can go to 7-eleven and cvs. >> maybe write me a card this year. you dont have to get me anything. >> thats more than youve...

>> reporter: american retailers depending on those trucks to deliver billions of dollars of goods, now trapped on these massive cargo ships sitting idle in a floating logjam. our martha raddatz is in los angeles, where 25 more ships are expected in the coming days. >> reporter: right now in the port of long beach, there are more than 60 container ships anchored here. normally there wouldnt be any. and these are the ones we can see. out beyond here, there are dozens more waiting to anchor. >> rep...

Logjam? national correspondent william la jeunesse reports from the california coast. >> with all due respect to president biden, too little, too late. >> the supply chain crisis running hard against the calendar. >> only 73 days left to fix it, whether the ports are open 24 hours a day or 48 hours a day, you cannot get labor. >> critics blame the biden administration policy of paying people not to work, the labor department says there are 537,000 jobs openings in the trucking sector. >> this is...

California, congresswoman, you know any time youll come on msnbc for an interview, you know were going to ask, what goes? how do you make those tough decisions here about what stays and what goes? >> sure, and i dont really think this is a logjam. let me just remind, the last four years were really filled with a trump strategy of my way or the highway in terms of a very dictatorial type of presidential agenda. what youre seeing now is democracy at work. this is how we craft legislation. were goi...

To have fewer programs and do them over a longer term period which is have speaker pelosi seems to be coming down, and the other, backed by progressives, is to do many programs and have them expire earlier if they need to, they dont want to cut any of those programs. but when speaker pelosi tries to nudge them in the direction of fewer programs, she gets that pushback from the progressive caucus. something has to give here, theres a logjam that needs to be broken and the white house is strugglin...

There is this procedural logjam on capitol hill thats kept everything stranded right now where the progressives are demanding that the centrist holdouts, specifically manchin and sinema, come forward and say what they support and what they dont support. they want to have that debate. manchin and sinema have a different view, that theyve conveyed their preferences, either publicly or in the case of sinema, to the white house, and they want party leaders to build the packages around those perspect...