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The point. you need to protect that right because its sacred. >> john, so many things that joe manchin said in what i guess he thought was a private discussion thats been leaked talking about in the past when the senate changed the threshold to a 60 vote threshold and entertained the possibility to lower it maybe to 55. theres a lot of big potential changes that he at the moment has said he is willing to consider. >> right. there is. i think a thing thats interesting about this conversation that...

To cyberspace and even space as a new frontier for nato and yet nato is still not financing itself in terms of commitments from its member states. most member states are still not meeting the threshold that nato requires for defence spending. ambition is one thing, reality is another, isnt it? 0ur allies are delivering. we made the commitment in 2014 to increase defence spending and since then we have had seven consecutive years of increased defence spending across europe and canada and that has...

Vladimir putin is ramping up military deployments in the arctic. nothing that nato has done in terms of deterrence have changed vladimir putins strategy. well, the main purpose of nato is to make sure that no nato ally suffers the same kind of aggressive actions that we have seen against the ukraine and georgia. we have been unable to protect, preserve and protect peace and since 2014, when we saw the legal annexation of crimea. that is the success of nato. we prevent anything similar happening ...

Change the rules of the senate after appearing in most of his comments to be completely inflexible about that. the intercept has obtained a recording of a zoom conference that senator manchin participated in with a non partisan group called no labels. senator manchin made it very clear in that discussion that he is now open to changing the 60 vote procedural threshold in the senate. quote, i looked back when it went from 67 votes to 60 votes and also what was happening, what made them think that...

Vote threshold down to a 60 vote threshold, he entertain the possibility of lowering it from 60, maybe down to 55. theres a lot of big potential changes that he, at the moment, has said he is willing to consider. >> right. there is, i think one of the things thats interesting about this conversation, the one youve been having all night about manchin, is that it is a conversation about taking joe manchin for what he is. understanding that his politics are what they are. whether you like them are ...

Get something done on infrastructure as well as voting rights, the big domestic issue on his agenda right now. >> garrett, lets talk about those two areas, infrastructure and voting rights. lets start with infrastructure. there has been some potentially significant bipartisan movement on that front. i know you have expressed your skepticism in the past on where all of this may end up. where are we now? >> josh lays it out nicely. weve got 11 republicans who say they are supportive of this bipart...

Vaccinations. experts agree that were most likely not to reach the 70% vaccinated goal by president bidens july 4th deadline. what does it mean if were stuck where we are in terms of vaccinations. is there a demonstrable difference between being stuck at 61%, 72% or an percentage of americans being vaccinated. >> there is probably a threshold in the 70s or 80s that would make a drastic difference and the pandemic would really get under control in the united states. if were in the 60s, it will ...

Those national figures, significant increase, but, behind those nationalfigures, some bigger —— some big regional differences. the south—east of england for example, around 16% of children qualify for free school meals. look at the north—east, and it is 27.5%. they have also seen one of the sharpest increases. close to one third of the children there are relying on free school meals, and that, of course, is only those whose parents are on benefit, not those iugghng parents are on benefit...

Despite all the pressures that the west is trying to bring to bear on that situation, vladimir putin is ramping up military deployments in the arctic. nothing that nato has donein arctic. nothing that nato has done in terms of deterrence have changed vladimir putins strategy. have changed vladimir putins strate: . ~ ., strategy. well, the main purpose _ strategy. well, the main purpose of _ strategy. well, the main purpose of nato - strategy. well, the main purpose of nato is - strategy. well, t...

What could pass the current congress as we know them? >> so this is the sandwich. you have to put two things together. have you to have this watered down version of the john lewis voting rights act which more or less creates preclearance which means when states want to change things about voting like wisconsin where you go from 180 polling stations to five it would mean you have to get justification and move it through the justice department though it is weakened in the current john lewis voting...