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To. and that means the administration has to consider other options. but dont forget in afghanistan that the era, the administration is trying to focus on the ride of china and asia and they dont want to be drawn into a war in the middle east. and israel is not in a position to take military action, at least for the time being. and so they have to look at other diplomatic options. deterrent options, to see if it is possible to slow the iranians down and hold them at least at the threshold of a n...

School, local public high school. so that would stay universal. is there means testing for anything else because obviously senator manchin has been pushing for that. >> that will be universal and thats a big win. there will be means testing for the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. as you know, there was means testing for those programs even in the american rescue plan we passed. the question is, what is the threshold going to be? i believe it will be higher than the $60,000 tha...

The u.s. has crossed another pandemic threshold, 45 million cases, and still were seeing misinformation and disinformation and resistance when it comes to vaccines. in washington a deadline to get vaccinated has come and gone for state employees, and those who havent gotten the shot are losing their jobs. that includes the states highest paid employee, washington state university head football coach nick rolovich, who makes $3 million a year. he was fired along with four assistants. from washing...

This irs snooping. people are infuriated. now we hear democrats are considering raising the threshold for this irs bank reporting, which right now $600. theyre going to go way up to $10,000. i want you to take a listen to what two gop senators think about that. >> youre literally talking about an irs drag net across the bank accounts of every single american. even if its $10,000, its still going to capture thousands, millions of americans with this. >> republicans arent perfect. but this stuff i...

Presidents multi-trillion dollar social spending plan. after intense push back from banks and republicans, democrats have raised the threshold to $10,000. the change will exempt all wage earns on payrolls and anybody on federal programs like social security. republicans are worried about the impacts on small businesses. however, in the grand scheme of things, the number doesnt matter to them. they say this is a privacy issue. listen. >> do you folks really want to live in a state where the gover...

The voter suppression laws? well, theyre so bad that major league baseball moved the all-star game out of georgia at the beginning of the conversation. in some ways, its remarkable that major league baseball did more than just about anybody else to protest voter suppression laws but thats where we were. where are we now, jake? >> well, let me just respond to a couple things that the congressman said. i have a lot of respect for him but i think we get into this, we, as a political people who foll...

Of which im a part, but id like to think were not guilty of this, but, like, joe manchin is a supporter of the filibuster. he has said a million times hes not changing the filibuster. hes not changing the 60-vote threshold. this legislation is going nowhere. i dont know -- like, i dont know if theres a better way to understand this, but joe manchin is supporting the filibuster, and i just think that people, you know -- i understand the importance or what democrats consider the importance of this...

Winter. they went crazy. theyre proposing -- they were at the point of having $8 trillion of new spending with no consensus -- forget the democratic base. there was no mandate to do any of this from the american people writ large. >> theyre locked in structurally, right? you cant do voting rights with a 50-vote threshold. you cant pass a guns bill with a 50-vote threshold. you can spend money with a 50-vote threshold. you have to say the price tag first. thats the way reconciliation works. they ...

The thing i think is missing from this conversation, guys, is that i havent heard kyrie provide what his threshold would be to actually be convinced. and i think thats an important part of this conversation. we all have our own vaccine hesitancy. does he want to talk to the scientists? what is it going to take from a data, research, science point of view that could persuade him, and would he be willing to have those conversations? i havent heard him say that yet. it raises an interesting point a...

Is he really wants everything to be bipartisan. hes made that very, very clear through out the process. the problem is right now were at a point where theres very, very little that democrats and republicans agree on on a national level when it comes to voting policy. ive been reporting on this exact issue from the halls of the senate for the summer and fall. it doesnt seem anyones position has changed on this. when it comes to the filibuster, manchin made it clear many, many times, not only does...