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About those original images, china said it knew nothing about them. china and russia have been simultaneously modernizing their military for decades. in 2000, america spent $475 billion on defense. china $41 billion. russia barely made it to the top ten big spenders. by 2020, american defense spending was up around 50% to $767 billion. china was spending five times more than it did 20 years before, $245 billion. russia has become the world's fifth biggest defense spender. these pictures show the russia and chinese navies in a joint drill in the indian ocean last month. the images were produced...

To $367 billion is in red ink. the real bill they say is 4.7 trillion in spending and $3.367 trillion in red ink. added to the national deficit. why? because of the gimmicks in the bill. this is what joe manchin has been concerned about all along. it has ten years of revenue. in the existing b.b.b. bill, it says we're going to pay for three programs for one year out of the ten years. we have one program to pay for for two years. nine programs for three years. one program for four, one for five and two programs we're going to set "various years of spending." which joe manchin is saying this is ...

$3 trillion over the next decade. three trillion dollars. as the bill is currently written, the cbo estimates it would only add $367 billion to the bunlt deficit over a decade. okay? so 3 trillion, versus 367 billion. okay. that is night and day and it is dramatic. and the thing here is that is because as the bill was written, it was written over a ten-year time horizon but to make the math work, they assumed certain programs would only be around for a year. like the child tax credit. that key program lasts only one year in the bill the way they wrote it. so put it in there, it's there for one...

Protection, $25 million for environmental justice initiatives, $150 billion in housing grants which would be available to felons, actually. it expands medicaid and eligibility to the inches cars rated and makes felons and illegal immigrants eligible for up to $45,000 a year in federal benefits. they predict it would add $367 billion to the national deficit over 10 years and speaking of debt, the debt ceiling was pushed back in october. it must either be pushed back again or boosted because the deadline is this friday. carley, todd. todd: no time for a christmas break. they've got work to do. c...

And tried to incorporate more divergent views and that makes close votes like this more difficult because when you've got 50 votes in the senate. 50 vetoes. i think on a technical matter i don't think aoc's claim that they -- that the house only voted for it from promises in the senate. if you remember, joe manchin said at the time he would not pre-commit to a bill but he didn't know what was going to be in it and they hadn't specified what was in it. he wanted to get a cbo score. it will be smaller than what the house passed for sure and we'll have to see what it is. >> benjamin: that cbo sco...