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On the other hand when its not the only thing you hear about the economy, its influencing the people who watch fox and related outlets and becomes the prevailing wisdom about the economy. there are other things happening in the economy. there are young people that are getting jobs at $15 to $18 an hour that played $11 a couple years ago. there are millions of families that are able to get out of food insecurity because theyre getting the child tax credit that was passed and signed into law by pr...

>> thanks again. turning now to the fight for voting rights ahead of next years mid terms. a vicious partisan and legal fight is already underway over redistricting. these are headlines about redistricting lawsuits from just last week regarding suits filed in five states including texas where the justice department accuses gop lawmakers of violating the voting rights act with their new proposed map. joining me now, eric holder who served as attorney general of the united states during the obam...

News production would be really important. final thing i would recommend is some sort of urgency index, by which i mean we have to know how far away from the disaster of a collapsed democracy are we? are we making progress towards that collapse? or are things getting marginally better? we need some way of locating where we are in political space as whats called democratic backsliding progresses. and here it might be smart for journalists to call on the wisdom and knowledge of political scientist...

A 2018 study found in fiscal year 2016 the renewable energy industry received almost half of all federal energy subsidies while generating just only 1/8 of the energy produced in the united states. this is as it should be. green energy is the future after all. lets be clear, if all subsidies were eliminated, it is green energy that would suffer the most. musks comments on the budget were also disappointing. they seemed to parrot conventional wisdom about budget deficits that has not been vindica...

The following passage in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 is familiar to many people:

They created a special process to, in fact, lift the debt ceiling this week. and they suspended the filibuster to do it. they what? yes. heres the part where i want you to pay attention to the wisdom of senator ted cruz of texas. he tells nbc news this week that suspending the filibuster in this manner creates a, quote, disturbing precedent, as it, quote, opens the door for democrats to try to do that in the future on progressive priorities. ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. correct, sir...

Democrats in the senate hostage with the filibuster, and we get a week of political coverage of the nation in crisis heading toward this stupid self-inflicted wound. were going to rip a huge hole in our economy for no reason. this time this week senate democrats decided they were not going to allow the country to be brought to that brink again. they created a special process to, in fact, lift the debt ceiling this week. and they suspended the filibuster to do it. they what? yes. heres the part w...

Things. we still found a way to work together. may we follow his wisdom and his timeless truth and reach consensus. the basic fundamental principles we all agree on. >> democracy itself used to be something about which we all agreed but both here and around the world, its being confronted by powerful forces of autocracy. and thats our global challenge tonight. i want to know what you think. i want to know what your level of concern is about the fate and future of democracy. so reach out to me du...

That this is a genuine national emergency. michael beschloss, same question. >> it is. but the genuine national emergency is that brian williams is leading the 11th hour. so let me just say my piece and then will get on to democracy. two subjects are connected. brian, as historians, we know tonight you found it astounding 28 years on nbc news, very difficult to believe. thats more than a quarter of the history of the nbc national broadcasting company. more than a third of the length of serious t...

Continue to say i am not going to give up or retire. >> resilience, you learn wisdom through that. at a much different emotional level than you are when you are sailing through and doing well everyday. >> shes got a lot to say on the resilience and a lot more. you can see that interview on "sunday today." a federal repeals court denied donald trumps request of archives for the january 6th committee. the court gave the former president 14 days to file an appeal. in a 68-page opinion, the panel ...