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Its obvious in the party at large, but obvious when youre seeing lawmakers retire and leave congress. >> heres the thing, robert gibbs, you see enough of those kinds of videos, it would seem to lay out a bit of a vision of sorts. do you think were done hearing from adam kinzinger once he retires, robert gibs? >> i doubt it. i think hes got a bright future as somebody who can talk about it, as he said in there, putting country above party and trying to bridge the policy differences. i think the b...

Transmission but as they note, the data right now suggests that this is not a major driver of case numbers in the uk. here he despite some policy differences, including some mandatory mask wearing, we are seeing similar covid—19 patterns for all of the uk. in those patterns are leading some nhs leaders to call for a range of measures to be brought back. they say it is time for the governments plan b. say it is time for the governments lan b. , , ., plan b. they said they would enacted if the p...

The key players are talking more all of a sudden but theres no evidence yet key policy differences are being bridged as democrats try, try and try to put together a giant social safety net package. for example, senator joe manchin wants to include means testing. what you earn, the senator says, should determine whether youre entitled to some government benefit, but progressives call that bad policy and bad politics. joining me now one of those progressives, the democrat from new york, congress m...

Jayapal he says progressives are holding firm in their demands to not cut policies from that proposal. melanie zanona joins us. weve asked the question so many times. are we going anywhere? is the october 31st deadline getting wobbly? >> to answer the first question, no. there have been no signs of progress or breakthroughs. they havent agreed on a top-line number yet, yet alone the policy differences. the october 31st deadline, its looking increasingly likely theyll blow by it. even some demirs...

His use of the word "entitlement." >> right. >> that is a word that so many people see as stereotyping african-americans, as calling some sections of americans lazy. i think youre seeing both a passion in people having real policy differences, but also this real feeling that there are americans who feel as though theyre being again criminalized and stereotyped as being locked out of the american dream. >> david french, i want you to react to something matthew cot anity wrote. its something you c...

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Where joe bidens privately proposing, anywhere from 1.9 to $2.2 trillion. and he indicated hes not ruling this out. but there are so many policy differences that they have to sort through, exactly what to cut, how to deal with the issues of means testing to limit the eligibility of key social programs in this bill. how to deal with climate change. one issue that divides joe manchin with the progressives. and its important because they need all 50 democrats on board in the senate. they have just ...

That has the most clicks on -- you know, its -- on any of these websites. you look at the headlines, and often the headlines are incr incredibly salacious or they are all about anger. this person attacked this person. then, you read the article and often its very different than what the headline says. um, i know youve received a copy of your clients -- go ahead. >> well, in europe, political parties actually came to facebook researchers and said we -- in order to get things to go viral on facebo...

I know youve received a copy of your clients -- go ahead. >> well, in europe, political parties actually came to facebook researchers and said in order to get things to go viral on facebook now after the algorithm changed in 2018, we have to take more angry positions. more -- positions that we dont even necessarily agree with if were going to get any traction on your site. and so, they very clearly tied these algorithms to -- to -- to policy differences in the political system in europe. >> you ...

Difficult to do by thursday because there are a series of policy differences and disputes over the price tag to resolve. in addition, house and senate leaders have said they will not bring a bill to the floor unless it has the support of democrats in both chambers these are wafer thin majorities that theyre trying to get this through. the one thing to zoom out and look at democrats propelling on these two big items is that failure would be mutually assured destruction for the democratic party t ...