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Winning. of. hopefully that changes in our lifetime. >> tonight we have a question from elvia in texas who wrote: >> with a lot of hard work. i have never been good at math, i took trigonometry in high school, and made a gentlemans d, i never understood why we multiply or divide fractions, i gave up on math, i i dont understand how 3 times zero is nothing. this is math.

Possibly can. the question is, do mitch mcconnell and republicans want to slow this process down? >> good afternoon, trace. confirmation of a supreme court justice is going to hinge on one thing, the math. democrats have never had the opportunity to confirm a justice with the bar lowered to a simple majority over a filibuster, mcconnell in 2017, he dropped the threshold to end the filibuster from supreme court justices from 60 votes to a simple majority, nuclear option two, and then gorsuch, kav...

Republican input, they werent interested in doing right away. so i think this is a problem that afflicts both sides of the aisle. clearly, we see it here, in particular, with republicans. >> well, for democrats, theyre either going to figure out they have a 50/50 split in the senate or theyre going to keep getting frustrated. they can go for $6 trillion bills if they want so. theyll never pass. they can try to get 87 things into a $1.75 trillion bill. itll never pass. if they go for universal pr...

San francisco bay area reported a 567% increase in anti-asian hate crimes. and yet everyone loses a because of -- i understand the hyperbole. i understand getting out of the lane. but unfortunately, the real message was totally lost. and somehow misdemeanors on-air is fine and everyone can slap each other and do all the what i think she goes against the political current, then that is when she has to get canned. >> greg: joe, where are you on this question might fire, no fire? >> i dont watch th...

Issues that are front and center for the american people, trying to get inflation under control so that the things that theyre buying in their daily lives are not costing so much that theyre exceeding the amount of pay increases that they may be getting year to year. >> charles: its excruciatingly painful. we know that. every time president biden speaks, he says build back better would bring inflation down. what do you say to that? >> right. i have no idea where thats coming from. its economics ...

On the other side, a lot oft people in the middle. i think thats ra a goody thing. but they dont want to portray it that way. the media does not. so so laura apolinar, democrats come in here, republicans comee, in here. libertarians come in here. they actually sit down and talk with each other because this has been a place where everybodys always beenn welcome . so they come in ,oo they have a good time, their friends, i , i meet them and theyre like,al wow, i cant believeik i liked this person ...

Of their police budgets. the other six actually increased police spending. that makes the rights narrative a little harder to spal low. im not good at math. but it does tell a more comprehensive picture. plus, two of those cities i mentioned that diverted or decreased spending after the defund the police movement, portland and austin, have since increased their police funding. but heres the thing. in the cities that did divert spending, its actually too early to tell what impact that had on the ...

Theyre never to question anything the ruler says you get you get it. you know, you get what theyre doing now we invited that superintended on to explain his comments, but he declined. but as media director didec respond with the following, tacos role is to liaison with our local and state health departments and share the information that they provided to our local board of education. if you have any questions about the medical recommendations provided, nancy health department, it would be best t...

Digital. no more scratch paper, number two pencils, filling in those little bubbles. instead, students will take the shorter test online in their classrooms. and this time, you get a calculator to do the math. thats like a dream for me! here to break down these changes, priscilla rodriguez, vice president of college readiness assessments at the college board. priscilla, i remember, i wish i could say fondly, preparing for months, going to school on a saturday, with my snack in a paper bag, with ...

Going to vote for filibuster changes. congressional correspondent chad pergram following all of that for us tonight on capitol hill. >> build back better stalled. new voting rights gridlocked. democrats tangling with each other. democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema wont change the filibuster icing voting rights the. the majority leader calling them out but not by name. >> there is some in our caucus who believes it helps bring us together. i dont see that evidence, evidence of that at all. >...