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Want to say is this group of folks here are the epitome of resiliency and were here with you. were going to continue to be here with you. again i want to thank the governor, and senator schumer and the mayor, just for the collaboration of resources that are going to be here in queens. we want to make sure that were all here to make sure that this is done equitably and that these folks here that have been suffering so long suffer no more. thank you. >> at this point, well take questions. but i al...

Different tone, a different era of collaboration and i served as a council member for 14 years so ive been in the streets for a long time to know what it takes to get the job done. you dont just show up one day you show up until the job is done. with that well take questions. >> im going to go. >> thank you, senator. >> also want to acknowledge the presence of jim annie williams and senator john lewis joins us. i can t hear. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> excellent questions. those are my questio...

Pennsylvania, the governors of new jersey setting declarations of emergency in all counties. there morning governor hochul calling for the declaration alongside schumer and mayor de blasio. they say to make sure that the infrastructure is shored up to prevent this level of catastrophe in the future. i was getting alerts all night long that said stay in place because of the flash flooding in manhattan. do not leave at all. thats in contrast to what the president said. it remains to be seen likely...

Any random liberal pundit, like one of the joys, bay har or reed, petty and trivial. even trump hating bill crystal. >> end of the 20 year war you should give a presidential speech reflect on what it meant. instead it was a defense of debating points in a way on what he had done over the last few weeks. the impression is, hes not quite leading the moment i think. >> laura: first of all, i never thought i would ever agree with him again in my life, nor did i ever think i would play a sound bite f...

The confidence in military leadership. he was one of the least favorite generals we had serving under president trump. his credibility cratered then because of his handling of a situation in the middle east and now he is running to the podium to try to gain political favor with the media and try to brush over his failures -- and they are his failures. he is the commanding general for afghanistan, and on top of chairman milley and secretary austin, it all they want to talk about his deflections a...

We going to see this week? >> according to the nancy pelosi and the people close to her, her staff, shes going to be able to jam these nine centrists saying were not moving forward on the $3.5 trillion budget unless you pass the infrastructure first. its a staring contest, i dont think well see pelosi blink first but we have quotes from these nine lawmakers saying theyre not going to bend. this is going to come to a fore in the next 24, 48 hours and sort of a version of the play well see through...

Melanies view that the congress will adopt the john lewis voting rights advancement act. after all, all 50 democrat fls the senate support the bill. they have expressions of interest from lisa murkowski and a few other republicans that have supported the bill in the past. this bill has always been supported by bipartisan group of senators and congressmen and two republican presidents signed the last three authorizations into law. im quite confident the bill will be adopted. where theres a will, ...

The old hr4. in other words, the big anti voters arrest suppression and -- as well as manchin apparently is working on this. hes working constantly with other sponsors of the legislation and schumer. if they can get 50 votes for that, i dont know if they can get republicans, maybe one or two. then they can break the filibuster. so, there is some chance filled happen. one of the additional reasons to be upset about whats happening in kabul, apart from its own importance, is just it weakens joe bi...

Making several stops across Upstate New York, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer laid out a time line for the arrival of billions of dollars in infrastructure improvement funds.

Under a trump presidency. how different would be the reaction from democrats be? >> laura: the press may be surprised, but we are not. the incompetence on display for the world to see is what we expected from biden who has been bungling his way across washington for 5 decades. the stakes here are high. unfortunately the guy the democrats nominate side the one person who could not function as a real president. he is just an old guy who comes out from time to time and read statements that other pe...