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Expensive stuff including a worldwide minimum corporate tax of 15% they hope to have instituted by 2023, sooner than thought. we are monitoring each of these elements from half a world away from president in key states. polls are narrowing and it is not a given even in new jersey the democratic governor is a layup. we are following this development with a special one on one, the former governor of virginia is not surprised the race has turned to his favor. doug wilder is here, the candidate crea...

Of the sheriffs departments investigation. that narrowing, too, the two people that handled that firearm and handed it to alec baldwin, that according to the sheriff speaking to the "today" show, those two staff members, the assistant director dave halls as well as the armorer, hannah gutierrez, the people of the investigation as officials try to make the decision how the live rounds got into the firearm that took the life of halyna hutchins. >> thanks for joining us. joining us is former federa...

Loyalty to donald trump but whats really interesting to me, he wont stand next to donald trump now that the campaign is on. think about it. he wont allow donald trump to campaign for him in this state. and hes willing to pledge his loyalty to trump in private, why not in public. whats he trying to hide? is there a problem with trump being here? is he embarrassed? >> sounds like the president trying to go, president trump to come to virginia, and they think that would help terry mcauliffe. is thi...

Of our democracy and as ive said many times it is the central pillar that allows all other rights to proceed from it. the justice department was established in part to protect the rights of guaranteed under the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment to vote. voting rights act gave us further authorities in that respect. we are doing, as you say, everything we can. we have doubled the size of the voting rights section and brought a section 2 case but there are limitations on our authority the supreme cour...

Century here. when you look at the recent history, since 2000 republicans have been winning this county by double digits. in 2020 the margin for trump here narrowed by more than nine points. there are a couple factors at play here. one the population is just exploding. this is the fastest dproeg county in ohio. a lot of that growth is coming from columbus just south of here more urban, more liberal area. when were talking about this project and these key slices of the electorate, youve said this...

>> charles: thanks, jacqui. lets get the read from lee carter. what is the impact of president biden? these are free falling approval numbers, particularly amongst independents in the key governor races. >> its staggering to see the level at which the approval ratings have fallen. youre looking at a 30-point drop in a matter of months. you cant point to one thing. its everything. in general, independents and republicans and democrats are feeling the country is going in the wrong direction, a lot...

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Unsustainable pressure. and as we consider these differing analyses, here is a word of caution on being too definitive from professor paul hunter. at the moment, its not clear whether what were seeing at the moment will continue to increase as we move towards christmas or, as some modellers have suggested, will peak sometime this month and then start to decline. what is more certain is that we are seeing two relatively clear schools of thought. there is the uk government, with its focus on the v...

That race, the gap is narrowing. the governments strategy injuly, the strategy now, rests almost entirely on the vaccine, and thats not what the world health organization is recommending. the whos position is that we cant only rely on vaccination at the moment, due to the threat of the virus, that we need to continue to bring transmission of covid—19 down, especially as we enter the winter period. but sincejuly, that is almost exactly what has happened in england. life in many ways has gone ba...