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This week. attention seeking house republicans who we wont give extra attention by naming them, are fawning over hiring rittenhouse as their congressional intern. and get this, one especially -- attention seeker wants to award rittenhouse a congressional gold medal. and the spiritual leader of the republican party, the very fine people on both sides of a nazi rally guy donald trump, welcome donald rittenhouse to his home in florida. and is now calling him, quote, a really good young guy. >> join...

Applying for unemployment benefits just fell to the lowest levels since 1969, dropping 299,000. president biden says those numbers reinforce, quote, the historic economic progress we are making and the importance of building on that progress. much of the countrys economic progress is due to the democrats the relief package, the biden administration hopes to build upon that progress with the bipartisan infrastructure law, and the democrats build back better act which passed the house last week. m...

And show the world that it is 2021, and in glenn county a black man can finally get equal justice under the law. >> well, kirk, lets talk more about race. the judge pointed out racial bias in jurys election and vice president kamala harris noticed the racist tropes used by the defense saying, quote, the defense council chose to set a tone that has the attendance of ministers at the trial as intimidation and dehumanized a young black man with racist tropes. the jury arrived at its verdict despite...

Programs for three-year-olds. less than one out of five latino children in america have the privilege of pre-k programs. we now have a funded child care for working class families. we did a lot for our seniors, finally for the first time in american history negotiating pharmaceutical prices. insulin which is huge in the latino community, we have a lot of diabetes in south texas, 35 dollar cap on insulin shots. max $2,000 a year out of pocket. these are transformative changes that havent ever bee...

>> we [inaudible] i never thought this day would come. but god is good. >> yes he has. >> and i want to tell everybody, thank you, thank you, thank you. in our prayers, i knew him as ahmaud, he will now rest in peace. >> a man. >> in a statement, vice president kamala harris praised the verdict, adding quote, we feel the weight of grief. ahmaud arbery should be alive. ahmaud arbery was a son. he was a brother. he was a friend. his life had meaning. we will not forget him. we honor him best by co...

Congressional black caucus. and a member of the house judiciary committee. congresswoman bass, great to see you again. we just heard benjamin crump, the attorney for the family of ahmed aubry saying that, quote, the spirit of ahmaud defeated the lynch mob. you said, in your statement today, quote, would happen to ahmed was a modern day lynching. you also noted that legislation to make lynching a federal crime still hasnt been passed in the senate. how do you square todays verdict with? that >> e...

Where theyre hedging those investments to get that benefit of carried interest which is not what carried interest was designed to do. its for long-term positions. thats where the three-year holding period is good reform. at least a step the senate can improve on that. i look forward to that. thats the latest sausage making progress. >> tom reed is a member of the republican congress in new york and on the ways and means committee. >> thank you. >> i do appreciate he comes for discussion. >> tom ...