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Number of sticking points. your sense of where this lands? what it is that ultimately gets compromised? >> well, theres a couple of pieces, right? one is, as senator booker was asked, the $3.5 trillion figure. will there be a compromise on that? you know, i want to start that conversation by acknowledging that $3.5 trillion figure is already a compromise. the original proposal not just by senator sanders but by the budget committee of which i am a member of was closer to 6 trillion and we can ju...

Mentions under my tweets. isee... i have the two different lists. i have the blue—tick people and that might might get a notification from them if i actually follow them. thats about the people i actually see. so, which is a shame because i think the abusive nature of some people ruins it for everyone else because most people, the vast majority of people, in this country are really good people. and kind. we just get that tiny percentage of the people on twitter that could upset you if you read...

You see countries in the region beefing up their defence capabilities now as a result of this? in particular, im thinking china, that already has extremely strong defence capabilities, but also other countries in this part of the world. chinas already been expanding its navy at an incredibly rapid pace. more ships, more submarines, more advanced technology, more drones, more autonomous military equipment, but weve also seen something similar on a smaller scale from southeast asian nations. vietn...

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They are a frontal challenge to chinese naval supremacy. china knows it. the united states knows it. france knows it. but france doesnt want to be in the middle of that might, and thats another subtext to whats happening here. >> jonathan, while looking atd the biden package, you said something interesting about chinas leader, xi. >> yeah. the chinese, of course, are the forefront of the biden foreign policy. there had been hopes to have a meeting on the sidelines of the g-20 in italy next month...

Send it home on dry ice to me so i can take it down and show the president. and i looked at him, thinking, this guys, is he serious? is he pulling my leg here? and he said, no, im serious. and i said, well, i think i can do that. i think our guys, we can do that, but cutting his head off, that might and little iffy. i dont know if i can do that. but the real problem is, where do i get dry ice in afghanistan? >> shrhone was in afghanistan a week later telling his old partners in the mujahideen th...

I think it is a nice virtuous circle to have then if you can raise incomes, they are more likely to stay. i think you with a labour health secretary would say poverty as part of the reason we are committed to reducing poverty but there are other things a government can do. you are recommended not so many weeks ago before you became health secretary of a report commissioned by the government saying one of the big diseases of poverty, the city, the way to deal with it is a salt and sugar tax, get ...

Rights, look at the uighur crisis, for example" — but on the other hand, this is also a strategic thing, as well, because the us is the worlds greatest superpower. and when you are in that position, you want to stay that way. and they look at china as a challenge. so, all these flashpoints become more concrete concerns — so trade, whats happening in the south china sea, the military might of china — these are all things that america takes really seriously, its really concerned about, not j...

Back to some resemblance of norn normal, it would be nice for elderly to get their additional dose. what we really need is the first dose in the quarter of the population that has not gotten a dose. thats what we need to get these numbers down. >> so, one big chunk of the population that has not been vaccinated are children under 12, right, because it has not gotten that emergency use authorization. does it appear thats the direction we are moving, perhaps as soon as the end of next month? how i...

But were in the era of the great power rivalry — so on the one hand, you have the west saying, "look, china is an undemocratic country, they dont play by the rules like the rest of us, they dont respect human rights, look at the uighur crisis, for example" — but on the other hand, this is also a strategic thing, as well, because the us is the worlds greatest superpower. and when you are in that position, you want to stay that way. and they look at china as a challenge. so, all these flashpoi...