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Its a blow. its a blow on multiple levels. its a blow because as josh ledderman rightly pointed out, this is president bidens full agenda. its all right there in that bill. thats the vehicle. and if senator manchin now absolutely wont support it, its just a huge, huge strike against what president biden and many people in his party were trying to push for. but secondly, its a blow in terms of that working relationship, which as you just read out, alex, in that statement. if they met at president...

They were going to be able to get build back better the way they saw it, across the finish line and to president joe bidens desk. lets listen to what cori bush said earlier on our air. >> when i think about this "no," this was a "no" all along. so what we had was a bit of leverage, which was having the coupling of the two bills, the infrastructure package, as well as the build back better act. having those couple together was the only leverage we had, and what did the caucus do? we tossed it. an...

There. >> reporter: thats right, alex. covid cases have reached record levels here in the uk, as you mentioned, 82,000 cases a day. 90,000 cases in every 24-hour period, in the previous two days. the omicron variant is spreading at an alarming pace through the uk. people who are contracting omicron is doubling every 42 hours. london is the epicenter for that variant. londons mayor declaring a state of emergency and saying that restrictions are inevitable. so far, the government has been reluctan...

To reach that common ground. if his comments on fox and written statements indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments in the senate. the white house pointing out not once but twice in that statement that manchin chose to go on fox news to make that announcement. but heres what manchin said in that interview about the reasoning behind his decision. >> when this all came about and i went and spoke to the leader ...

These draconian laws being passed. >> all right, president of the drum major institute, and member of the illustrious king family, andrea waters king. happy holidays to you and family. appreciate your time. so what to make with major u.s. cities here in the u.s. grappling with a major rise in crime and how to put a stop to it, well talk about it next. po it, well talk about it next od,. mm, smooth. uh, they are a little tight. like, too tight? might just need to break em in a little bit. you d...

Legislatures, et cetera. so i dont know that theres any turning back here, unless some very high-level people begin to be held accountable. and whether or not donald will are up, if hes given the opportunity to, of course he will. you know, he needs the powers and protections of the oval office to get him out of the considerable trouble he could potentially be in the next two to three years. the real question, though, is why is being allowed to run if indeed he does? >> that is a question i thin...

To implement this, do it in a haphazard fashion to create chaos and ogs po it. >> i would like to see concrete legislation happening. we know that in terms of -- >> from where? >> in congress, for example, there is the house passed stem legislation supposed to give visas to highly educated immigrants in the country but takes away money from less educated immy grants. thats not going to pass the senate. everybody needs to understand that bipartisan legislation that had bipartisan support needs to...

Do you think hes an effective ambassador and as luke says, would that suggestion that congress relying distinguish power over the debt ceiling be even more unpalatable had it been jack lew presenting it? >> i think that would have been unpalatable no matter what. that came out of left field and everybody was surprised, republicans were surprised. on the other hand what the president was trying do is avoid everything we went through last summer which was terrible and as bad as this is, you know, ...

Speakers come to them and deliver the my little pony conventional party -- >> the party line. >> yeah. the party line. but theres also a complicated repullion that happens to that as well. >> sure. >> what was interesting is when the state department, i mean i spoke with him, our representative, ill keep his name confidential because hes gotten in a lot of trouble apparent lly which is more absu, but monday when we had our phone call we went over how to present this trip, you know, part of an am...

Lot of buzz in the building about the fact youre here. we didnt know what to expect but were happy to have you here. the first thing i have to ask you, what to your mind went down? you had this invite, prepared to go to bahrain, tell us what you wanted to do over there. i think theres a lot of misinformation about what you sort of the message you were going to spread. >> for sure. its been per lexing to me as well. i was as shocked, perhaps even more shocked, than anybody to be asked going back ...