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Wind at its back because of midterm results. and, you know, you have democrats saying they expect now joe biden to run for re-election. but he does have some big issues, including the border and these new numbers are staggering. we kind of glaze over when we hear them. but they really are amazing. 617,000 total migrant encounters in the past 90 days. 186 expelled under title 42. but 430,000 released into the country and 240,000 known got-aways. in other words, they saw them but they didn't interject or didn't stop them. those are massive numbers, josh. >> those are huge numbers. and immigratio...

Turns out big problems are a lot safer to talk about in speeches because you can't actually do anything about them because there's no expectations. roads, bridges, buildings are very different. things that are expensive or hard to do. buildings roads and bridges are falling apart. according to the american society of civil engineers that keeps tracks of these things, there's more than 617,000 bridges in this country read as of tonight, more than 46,000 of those bridges are considered "structurally deficient." that means they are in terrible shape. kind of a big deal for a bridge. as far roads,...

Replicate what we have done 50 years ago. >> so when the president says, you know, we are going to fix all of them, those were his words yesterday, what does that usually constitute? >> well, i mean, i wouldn't be able to kind of assess, you know, how the dollar values will end up being to how many bridges will be fixed, because that's a very complex equation. as you might imagine, we have 617,000 bridges in the u.s., and we also have different conditions. but it's really exciting time to make the investments in our bridges to take them to the next level, so next-generation bridges that will b...

Terribly at the hands of covid. i've talked about the official figure of 617,000 dead, but the economist magazine has looked at mortality figures in brazil and reckons the real figure is probably over 700,000. i have seen the video reports from particularly some of the indigenous communities in the amazon region of brazil, where people have felt utterly abandoned in the face ofa raging pandemic and have felt the government simply gave up on them, did not care about their fate. do you feel any sense of shame that you were part of that government for more than two years? not at all. the governme...

I've talked about the official figure of 617,000 dead, but the economist magazine has looked at mortality figures in brazil and reckons the real figure is probably over 700,000. i have seen the video reports from particularly some of the indigenous communities in the amazon region of brazil, where people have felt utterly abandoned in the face ofa raging pandemic and have felt the government simply gave up on them, did not care about their fate. do you feel any sense of shame that you were part of that government for more than two years? not at all. the government did a good job in facing the ...