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Go. the new halloween deadline is not far away. any signs of progress toward con cuneatus on the hill? >> its really unclear at this point. yesterday, progressives, led by jayapal, told our colleague dana bash she would not accept the $1.5 trillion number that joe manchin has said is his number. they called on him to move up. moments ago, we caught up with joe manchin and asked if he is willing to go higher than $1.5 trillion. >> weve been very clear where we are. very, very clear. >> thank you....

Which is kind of a stock thing they can go back to on any of these policy issues but they are not going tit for tat with house democrats on policy elements of this bill in part because they havent had to. thats not even the focus on the democratic argument on a broad national scale. they have largely been on the sidelines of this particular debate. >> we are lucky on days like today to draw on all of our friends and reporters, claire mccaskill, garrett haake -- thank you for starting us off. all...

Tougher tone, particularly towards china. for example, he talked a lot about wanting to work with other liberal democracies to gain influence and counter chinas assertiveness. he also talked about appointing a special adviser on human rights, whose portfolio will include chinas human rights abuses. he is calibrating his position a bit on those points. the pandemic has also been _ on those points. the pandemic has also been a _ on those points. the pandemic has also been a major - on those points...

To happen is they will be able to happen is they will be able to resolve these policy issues between the ecology and taxes and they will come up with some form of bargain and then will be able tojoin form of bargain and then will be able to join a coalition because the alternative would because the alternative would be a grand coalition between the two main parties and everyone said. {iii the two main parties and everyone said.— the two main parties and eve one said. , , everyone said. of the ...

Have to join any form of coalition whether it is with the sdp, the traffic light coalition or the jamaica coalition, in germany. so i think we are looking at a very long period of negotiations first between the smaller parties and then at one point the bigger parties are trying to step in and one can make at this point no prediction of how this point no prediction of how this is going to go down. white might be ftp and the greens, policy issues that the smaller parties would clash over. would th...

Policy issues. and you write in the book as republicans weve simply lost our minds on the issue of science. how can there be any logic entrusting with our lives the science of the miracles of modern medicine and when the same science applies to the planet we should embrace it. we need to embrace science wherever it might lead. why is the current republican party, four years of trump, climate change was a oh, the science didnt prove anything. why were is the republican party still silent in the d...

Theyre not challenging the election misinformation because they dont want to make him mad. and at this point the republican party, the central tenet is are you on trumps good side or not? >> yeah. and i know that youre not a republican, but when you look at congressman gonzalez basically leaving. and, again, you probably disagree with everything he stands for when it comes to policy issues. but he bravely stood up and said this is a lie and my partys infected with a lie and its bad for the count...

>> and nicole. >> well, sports teams unite america. twenty years after 9/11, the patriotic messages from the field to the racetrack. >> but first, californias recall election is less than 48 hours away. voters will then decide if governor gavin newsom will be forced to give up his job. the leading republican candidate is radio host larry elder. weed asked people in -- we asked people in los angeles what they think about the race to the recall. watch. >> he was dishonest to people. politicians sh...

The supreme court, what do people think would be happening at the federal level? republicans would be codifying bans on abortion. they would be codifying voter restrictions based on the big lie. they would be writing into law -- and they would be daring the supreme court to overrule them. they would be happy to wait for these things to run into legal challenges. democrats privately say, oh, we cant do anything about texas because the court, the court. why wont they get out of the gate and try? b...

Years, a very tough group of people to deal with. whatever the messaging and rhetoric, i feel that its hardly a reflection of the changes they want people to believe in that they are not the taliban of the 90s and also of their mindset now and their viewpoints and their perspective on policy issues, womens rights, the future of the economy, how they want the international community to be involved with the reconstruction of afghanistan. so they have really, i think, learned some lessons. but the ...