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Concerned about the pentagon report is the claim china intends to have at least a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030. that is a dramatic increase from last year. officials are worried about the intent behind this buildup. china maintains this no first use policy when it comes to nuclear weapons, but a senior u.s. official briefing reporters on this report said china has suggested there are situations in which that would not apply, and this, of course, comes on top of reports that china tested thi...

Right. hes trying to pull out all the stops. if he thinks this might be one of the things that can push over a mom thats worried that her teenager is having nightmares from reading about slavery, guess shell do it. zack, appreciate you getting up to talk with me this morning. thank you. all right. so as weve been discussing all morning, president biden is hoping to wrap up a congressional deal on his economic agenda before he heads overseas for the un climate conference in glasgow, scotland. a...

What matters newsletter that tries to make sense of all of this for you. all of your top stories. zack, good morning. lets start here with how lawmakers are proposing to pay for the build back better plan. one part of the potential options here would be the so-called billionaires tax, essentially having ten billionaires, like elon musk, jeff bezos cover the bulk of the democratic social safety net plan. are democrats framing this the right way politically in your view? >> i think so. from a poli...

Its 30 minutes past the hour here in new york. so, will democrats tax the rich? as democrats inch closer to a deal on president bidens social spending plan, it appears lawmakers finally have a way to pay for it. senate democrats are proposing a new corporate minimum tax rate. it would apply to about 200 companies that report over a billion dollars a year in profits to shareholders. this minimum tax on profits would be 15% and would have some carveouts to preserve business credits for things li...

And make a personal connection with you. he views people as people and not as data. and i think that we see that come through a lot in answers like that. >> the broken spirit, i mean, when you think about all these people trying to get back into the labor market, so many things happening, i think thats a really interesting way, the broken spirit of the labor market in. zack wolf, senior politics writer, have a great weekend. the cornerstone of that build back better, investing in workers paid ...

Confusing thing i think to understand. it was also interesting to me how in the weeds he was on some of this stuff, specifically like theyre talking about, you know, enrollment time for a lot of people right now in the fall as they get ready for their health insurance. theyre doing enrollment for all of medicare right now. are they going to extend, you know, hearing or vision? and these are very important things that affect millions of peoples lives. but its three people around the conference ro...

Be ready in the near term, meaning, weeks, not months and months. >> are you saying once you get this current agenda passed on spending and social programs, that you would be open to fundamentally altering the filibuster if were doing away -- or doing away with it? >> well, that remains to be seen exactly what that means in terms of fundamentally, whether or not we end the filibuster straight up. >> when it comes to voting rights, so im clear, though, you would entertain the notion of doing away...

Spewing into the atmosphere. you know we have a world, right. so the world is tiny compared to the universe. ive seen the most beautiful fields, farms, fields, most gorgeous things youve ever seen and then you have these ugly things going up. if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50% of the price. theyre noisy, they kill the birds. you want to see a bird graveyard, just go and take a look. a brird graveyard. go under a windmill some day. >> the president...

Already getting a lot of attention for proposing big overhauls of american policies, green new deal, eliminating private insurance, guaranteed minimum salaries, but some democrats are taking a more comprehensive approach suggesting ways this country should rewrite the way the federal government works all together. chris cillizza is our editor at large. how much of these changes have to do with democrats gaining an advantage? >> some let me nod first to the piece by zack wolf which lays this out ...

Particularly, you know, a key part of his political brand which is that he is this master negotiator. >> how could he not be aware of this p.r. battle that hes losing? he is indeed aware. hes back at the white house looking at all these numbers and he has to know this does not look good for him. stand by for me, lisa and tim and david. i want to bring in zack wolf. hes the digital producer at cnn politics and so just, zack, what happened? this is president trump, many art of the deal, i thought ...