$300 from $400. they didn t get closer to the $618 billion package. the $1.9 trillion bill includes 350 billion for state and local governments and a portion of the money tied to unemployment rates. they took issue with the $130 billion in emergency funding for schools, the majority won t be spend for 1 to 7 years and a third round of $1,400 stimulus checks which will go to felons like the boston bomber. senator tom cotton tried to stop it but every democrat voted it down. senator tom cotton voted in favor of the last bill and we asked for him comment on that. while no republicans supported it, joe manchin sided with the republicans about trimming back unemployment. now the white house is working the phones. biden is ready to go when it passes. our legislative team are certainly not taking anything for granted. they re checking in with officers, making sure they have the questions answered. the house is expected to vote on this tomorrow and then it should head to the pres
certainly, the internal documents we got a handle on were talking about trans rights, parental right, religion in public squaur s publicquares, schools and town meetings, same-sex marriage. this is the start of a series of cases on these issues that will wind their way through the court. this is exactly what i wanted to ask about. there s this fetal personhood. i say embryonic personhood. you know, i m on the opinion side. but can you make this make sense in the broader context of the fall of roe? sure. look, i think for this anti-abortion movement, the fall of roe was not the end. it was the beginning of the end, right? the goal here is to eliminate all abortion, if they believe it is morally wrong, contradictory to many of their conservative faiths. they want to eliminate it. of course, something like fetal personhood, which is basically the granting of constitutional
two interpretations, biden trump make both the january six not of political rallying cry, and perhaps the most offensive you call that was from usa today. biden and trump split over january six is as divisive as it is for voters. i, mean media also continues to have responsibility to make sure that we don t both sides autocracy, right? yes, for sure. look, i am on the opinion side, and so for me it s a lot easier. it s very hard as a straight reporter who is meant to appear nonpartisan to cover something like this, and that is why the straight reporters need to be, and margaret sullivan talked about this a lot, pro democracy. they need to focus on democratic norms, right? and to explain that when one candidate is flooding those norms, and that s what we see with donald trump. i mean, you know, when i was watching that clip reel, i was thinking about all of the institutions that donald trump has attacked and degraded, right? from the mainstream media to
but certainly when you re dealing with attacks, when you re dealing with political framing, it s really important not to consider or even treat trump and trumpism as business as usual because you and i both know it s very much not. so it is headlines you re talking about? is it give us some specifics what you see happening and what you think shouldn t happen. yeah, so i think the problem is ultimately not with the opinion side, which is what i am or, you know, a lot of news hosts are on the opinion side but more with the sort of straight news reporting where you re trying to appear nonpartisan. and the problem is this, when you have a candidate in this case part of the republican party, a large part of the republican party that no longer believes in democratic norms, that cannot be normalized, right? because we need to hold onto democracy, so the great margaret sullivan who teaches, she says
has been the shortest tenure of a university president in history. what about the weight and the power of your paper? you did publish an anonymous essay from a student who said, listen, our professors, our administration needs to adhere to the same policies, the same rules that the students to, and said she should resign. that had an impact. how do you feel about that? i have heard a lot of talk about on twitter and elsewhere about student journalism needing to be celebrated, and what i would say to that is, it s nice. but this is real journalism, this is not student journalism. this is the highest standard. we were skipping national publications on the news side, and on the opinion side, yes, we are shaping the discourse on what has been an issue that is important to the nation because it brings a lot of other important themes to light, questions about merit, about diversity, and about this really intense and divisive geopolitical conflict. regarding the anonymous op-ed, yes,