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Authorization of the secretary of defense not only to talk to them but to express the message that he positively expressed then we have a real problem. >> bill: a couple things here, chris miller was the acting defense secretary of the time, and he said if the reporting and woodward's book is accurate, it represents a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the nation's top military officer. a lesser ranking officer accused of such behavior would be immediately relieved of pending a thorough and independent investigation. now i will go to the director of national intelligence a...

Like something more on this, if you look at 2022 we could see a massive slowdown. >> we are in the midst of a massive slowdown for rent in the united states rising 17%, hard for us households. we see confidence collapsed in the space of the last 3 weeks, unemployment benefits run two weeks and use the money supply in the country begin to contract so we -- there are a lot of crosscurrents but it does not bode well for the future of consumption. the united states is 2 thirds spending consumption so we cannot contend that the slowdown.

Did say that it was permissible, will they actively promote it in the way that the afghan government and the u.s. here, to the extent of its presence, have been actively trying to do for the last two decades? or will we, as the fear is, the very real fear and probably the more likely scenario is, see a huge decline in women's education, once again? >> yeah. i mean, the fear in that young man's voice talking to you, staying at home with his sister. his parents, dead. it's -- it's just so sad. clarissa ward, thank you for being there. please, be careful. let's get perspective now from thomas f...

Point. it will be bipartisan. it could have as much as 70 senators signed on to this thing, which would be quite the accomplishment, given the lack of such legislation than we've seen over the past i don't know how many years, four, five, six. so in would be a big accomplishment and something the white house will be quite proud of. but then this bill move others to the house where it gets enmeshed with this much larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. and that's going to be the budget package. that's going to be a much harder sell. don't forget the margin in the house for democrats remain...

>> i know this is an impossibly large question, but if somebody were to ask you, what is the state of american race relations today, how would you answer? >> well, i think it's like a river. there is a surface and a deep part of it that could be going with crosscurrents. i think we're sort of at an interesting time because we see the growth in white nationalism, we see a growth in efforts to suppress the vote, which, in many instances, means suppressing the black vote. on the other hand, we go through our daily lives and we seem to get along. there is not a race war going on, but there seem to...