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affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, were one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president b...

you might have gone to get your coffee, seen your friends. i was here at 30 rock with my entire staff. i went to a school play that day. but by the end of the evening the w.h.o. had declared covid a pandemic. seattle shut down their school system, the first major district to do so, the stock market fell off a cliff. the sign of a lot more pain to come. the first case of covid popped up on capitol hill and the nba suspended its season leading all the rest of major sports to follow suit....

sign it tomorrow after he was going to speak in prime time. this makes more sense on the timeline, getting to talk about already having signed it for his speech tonight. this is a singular achievement for his first 100 days in the agenda. as we keep talking about, a year ago today, a freight train was essentially about to hit this country. >> we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore met the ass...

>> president trump tweeting a call to, quote, liberate several states. >> you single virginia, michigan. they dont have a declining case is yet but if you tweeted out today that youd like to liberate them. >> well, theyre very, very, very, what theyve done is very powerful in terms of, i think -- you know, you can get the same result out of doing a little bit less. what theyve done to some people is very unfair. >> encouraging protesters a day after saying governors were called the shocks of lif...

Food stamps in particular even those who get federal and state aid are nearly all workers, workers like the clerk at the dollar store or the greeter at your local walmart the local beautician, preschoolteacher, or the farm hand or the meat-packing workers whose jobs they do on their feet for eight hours or more dont provide health care or pay them enough to afford to buy it. when it comes to medicaid recipients who arent working may be disabled or taking care of someone whos disabled or theyre e...

269 meat packing workers would die of covid and nearly 60,000 would contract the virus. joining me now is congressman, member of the select committee that issued todays report. im glad youre here. i know theres a lot of focus on the committees involving january 6th. this is a big story. its one you have to think about what was at take and the calculated risks taken on behalf of employees but could it really be that we were duped into thinking there were going to be shortages as a way to keep the...

Meat packing workers. the report said infections and deaths were three times higher than estimated yet trump made a political decision to protect their workers. trumps chaos and lies have left an awful hand print on how the pandemic is experienced today. its like how we live in two countries, one who cares about surviving covid and one that is simply over it. according to a poll 96% of democrats received the vaccine compared to 54% of republicans. 30% will never get vaccinated. even as omicron b...

Meatpacking plants have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, yet thousands of workers at southwestern Kansas meat plants are still waiting to hear when they’ll be vaccinated.

See an economic crisis. >> reporter: across the country, more than 6,500 meat packing workers infected with covid-19. the virus killing at least 20 of them, including at least six from this beef plant in colorado. at least 22 meat processing plants shut down nationwide just over the past two months. concerned the shutdowns would trigger food shortages in america, the trump administration on tuesday giving meat packing plants wide latitude to reopen, as long as they follow federal guidelines. >> ...

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