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Podcast: The 3WHH—”Cocktails Against Communism”? So for this episode “Lucretia” and I were going to discuss, and ask for audience input on, whether we should change the name of our format to “Cocktails Against Communism,” but owing to some technical glitches that we seamlessly fixed over an extra glass of single malt so that you won’t even be able to guess where the patches are, we completely forgot! Maybe next week. In the meantime, we decided to take up some listener suggestio...

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Organisers of the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival remain hopeful this year’s event can go ahead – but stressed safety must come first. With the recent cancellation of Glastonbury and other outdoor gigs, there has been a lot of speculation around the likelihood of any live events taking place this summer. However, the bosses behind the Highland’s biggest summer concer...

Submitting... The 20,000-capacity festival said it was “able to adapt quicker to the fast moving and hopefully improving COVID-19 situation as we move into summer.” The messaging over Belladrum is similar to the response of Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival to the Glastonbury cancellation. Festival director Geoff Ellis pointed out that it takes “days rather than months to build” and insisted there was “reason to be optimistic” about major events going ahead in the summer. However First Mi...

That she knows what she is doing. >> when we talk about the magic numbers that democrats need to get to to have a save, everyone knows it will be a tough battle, maybe impossible to get a conviction, but what is the process to shape this process? >> it is a very interesting question. we only had two senate trials in our history involving the impeachment of a president and this is an open question to some extend. so there are very details rules, but nothing in the rules answer your question. so i...

More days before something close to a resolution occurs. >> your magic numbers, 13 at least. geoff, i wont ask you for a number, although you can put one out there if you like, my friend. what are we seeing from the president in terms of his messaging? because thats clearly whats happening, the battle of the messages. >> today hes acknowledging for the first time the deaths of those two migrant children who died while in federal custody. the presidents approach has been to distance himself from ...

Secretary mnuchin appears to have screwed this up and appears there are no magic numbers coming this their rescue. this thing did get stopped in its tracks tonight. will it stay stopped? joining us now is jared bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to joe biden. nice to see you, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> it turns out that the treasury department didnt do any analysis of what this bill would do. that fact alone, is that weird? >> ah, it is weird,...

Deficit. to combat that deadly argument, republicans are supposed to be getting magic numbers from steve mnuchin that says, its fine, its free. hes been saying for months he has more than 100 people working around the clock to produce these magic numbers to say this is free and doesnt add anything to the deficit. turns out nobody has been working on these magic numbers and its not just an abstract problem. they have promised that they would get these magic numbers to specific republican senators...

Bad numbers that have come out and continued to come out because they thought they would get magic numbers that made it look good tonight. well, that was what we thought was going to happen over the course of today into tonight until things went off the rails at the last minute. here is what happened and what went wrong and that has to do with the treasury secretary. fighting about numbers, fighting about math is something everybody in washington has done a lot of. usually what happens when one ...

Bipartisan analysis saying even in a best case optimistic scenario, this will add a trillion dollars to the deficit, now that that happened tonight, republicans got stopped in their tracks looking like a plan to pass this tonight rushing it through. secretary mnuchin appears to have screwed this up and appears there are no magic numbers coming this their rescue. this thing did get stopped in its tracks tonight. will it stay stopped? joining us is fellow center chief economist and economic policy...

They have been doing and now this is a big problem for the trump administration and republican party because all the outside groups and bipartisan groups are saying what the republicans are doing with this tax thing is going to add a trillion dollars or a trillion and a half dollars to the deficit. to combat that deadly argument, republicans are supposed to get magic numbers from steve mnuchin saying everything is free. hes been saying for months he has more than 100 people working around the cl...