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good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian. we got all eyes on capitol hill. high drama, frantic activity, ahead of this midnight deadline. right, ten hours away. to a possible shutdown of the government. and vote expected to start any moment now. in the house. kevin mccarthy put forward what he calls a clean continuing resolution to end a shutdown crisis that he created. hoping democrats will be forced to vote for. it daring far-right members to vote against. it and trying to throw the blame and the problem in the senate slap. anybody who has watched what has been going on in the past few days knows that the senate did its job in a bipartisan way. i don t know what he s talking about, i have no idea what he s talking about. by the, way as you have these politicians bickering back and forth, millions of people who will be impacted by this potential shutdown, military, border urged, air traffic controllers, all willing to find out if their lives are gonna be upended. ye ....
while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus v ....
Is unacceptable, and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action. biden also announced that the us would send nuclear ballistic missile submarines to dock in south korea for the first time in decades. and joining us to discuss isjean lee who was formerly based in pyongyang. she s the host of bbc s the lazarus heist podcast that dives into an elite north korean hacking ring responsible for the theft of billions of dollars. it is great to see you and good to have you back on the show. south korea and the us have had an alliance for seventy yea rs. why did president biden feel he needed to do this now? i think this reflects the changing nature of the threat from north korea and the conflict on the korean peninsula. we have to remember this visit comesjust peninsula. we have to remember this visit comes just after north korea launched a new ....
Will hold a joint press conference any moment. right now they are doing formalities, the iran nuclear deal set to be center stage where there is friction between the two governments. this is a somewhat high stakes trip to the middle east. the biggest stop arguably will be saudi arabia. that will be next. [applause] brian: and the crowd roars they have been making president biden feel quite welcome although it s hard to imagine a policy more friendly than donald trump brought to the table. talk about bringing to the table both men seem to be getting behind the podium. they will probably make some opening statements and take some questions from the world press should we bring in senator mike lee to get a quite take? senator mike lee, great to see you. what do you expect to hear today and what question do you hope is asked of the president? i would hope that the president would be asked of the president are you going to maintain an undivided embassy in jerusalem for the united states? ....
Drawdown of us forces they didn t have enough in the country to fight a war, a resurgent taliban, in the middle of the fighting season. if he would have not withdrawn, he would have had to escalate troops. was the status quo impossible? a lot of people in britain say, for a moderate nato force, the status quo could have been maintained. it is imortant could have been maintained. it is important to could have been maintained. it is important to note that very few of those important to note that very few of those troops that were in their were actually those troops that were in their were actually engaged in combat. i find that argument somewhat flat very simply that argument somewhat flat very simply because his predecessor, president simply because his predecessor, president trump, felt no obligation to live president trump, felt no obligation to live up president trump, felt no obligation to live up to the commitments made by president 0bama so why would president by pre ....