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A burning man mess, thousands of festival goers, theyre not going anywhere after rain turned the Nevada Desert into miles of impassable sludge. But organizers say there could be movement soon. And in a labor day speech, President Biden touting his handling of the economy with low unemployment and inflation trending down. He says bidenomics trumps his predecessors records, but new polls show most americans arent buying it. And welcome back to earth, nasa astronauts splashing down after six months...

When the 118th Congress convened this week, a little more than 27% of the members were women.

For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.

Use twitter. that compares to 17% of republicans, creating a 15-point partisan gap. facebook comes closest to having a balanced audience. musk has said he plans to reinstitution trumps account, and enhance its paid subscription options. so the question is, if musk succeeds, how will his changes affect twitter as a platform and its relevance to american politics today. when we come back, a look back at donald trumps changing views on abortion, reversing the position he once made right here on thi...

Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey says IfNotNow attacks on politicians for supporting Israel are causing those colleagues to “lay low” rather than speak up for Israel’s actions.

Now look at those who have gotten the booster. its less than 20%. obviously the race to get people boosted up has only just begun, but even if you look at the polling -- theres new polling from the kaiser family foundation. what does it show? 53% of adults say they have gotten or will likely get the booster, and thats only a little changed from last month with 50% -- or two months ago, october, 50%. weve got first doses but when it comes to boosters were a long ways off. >> also break down polit...

What does it show? 53% of adults say they have gotten or will likely get the booster, and thats only a little changed from last month with 50% -- or two month ago, october, 50%. weve got first doses but when it comes to boosters were a long ways off. >> also break down politically by state, red state/blue state. >> it absolutely does. if you look among those fully vaccinated, over 50% of republicans are, but with democrats its significantly higher. and you have about a 0 point gap. now look at t...

You were sort of hinting at it. were not going to reach that 70% threshold. the reason were not is take a look at the rate in which weve been vaccinating the last few months and over the last few weeks. what do we see? we see that, in fact, that at least at this particular point were around 64%. but look where we were three months ago. we were at 27% and jumped up 19 points two months ago. then we started slowing down from two months to one month. and you know, right now at this point it looks l...

>> others did. it was true. they said they were going to do it and they did it. more importantly, the dramatic change in terms of how they think about politics. in 2000 as many young people voted for bush as gore. okay? it was such a 50/50. in fact, older people were more progressive in the 2000 election. now it is a 36/38-point partisan gap. more engaged and far more progressive than any other generation weve measured since ive been doing this at harvard for 20 years. >> all right. polling show...

President obama and wiretapping. that might have brought him down, but you know what, this looks like the campaign did on a good day, donald trump and the race against hillary would be mid-40s, low 40s, he could drop down to the 30s. it looks like in many ways when it comes to public opinion and trump, its a repeat of the campaign. and this is one thing -- you look at a republican like susan collins, why does she, you know, have a qualified defense of trump? a lot of it is republicans like him. ...