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- i think the commonwealth is a farce. and it's just a fancy term that is employed to hide the fact that we're a colony. i feel like when you take a nation and you impoverish them, and you, like, destroy their education system, there's a lot of poverty. there's a lot of, like, hunger. and so, like, we're-- we get violent. all of that ties back to the fact that we're not an educated population. i'm, like, giving you a crash course of, like-- - yeah, no, i know. and i love it. i love it. - --why puerto rico is so fucked up. - please do. puerto rico for dummies. - you know, it doesn't get to, lik...

We've also been very inclined into the arts because it's-- they've been a diversion from our problems. - and that's where great art comes from. it-- it is, sort of, a release valve. - sadly. [chuckles] - yeah, you know, an escapist. - yeah, it is a lot of escapism. - yeah. - that's the precise word. - yeah. - i feel like what we do in our music and a lot of puerto ricans do regardless is just, we make the story prettier and more attractive. - yeah. - and, like, there's this magic to it. - magical realism. - or artist, yeah. - making life a little more fun, more exciting than it really was. - y...

The y and we'll get to 218. hakeem jeffries is ready to do that. he can do that. the question is, is kevin mccarthy ready and willing to do that? >> yeah, and i mean, house republicans are preparing a broad inquiry into the fbi. how could this go over with a large swath of americans, the fbi thing and other security institutions? >> they're going to have a hard time legislating. there's a lot of things that republicans want to do through bills that they're not going to be able to do. kevin mccarthy needs a release valve. he's going to have to compromise. despite what a lot of the numbers think...

Claire, what is in this decree that putin just signed? is. >> russia promised a response to the eu price cap that came in. it took three weeks to get that response. on the face of it, it is the promise they said. it's the retaliation they promised. they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot and cut off the biggest exporter. they say oil sales are banned. perhaps if it's not mentioned in the contract, it can still go ahead. it's temporary. it's enforced from the first of february to the first of july next year. just five months. there is a clause that the president himself can essentially ...

Even harder stances to quell these insurrections. >> florida congressman michael waltz is a member of the house armed services committee and a former green beret commander joins us now. congressman, politico out with important reporting saying u.s. government communications describe the protests as dispirit, unorganized and largely leaderless that makes it unlikely the demonstrations will lead to a larger or more organized movement. so, what politico is saying is that the united states believes that this is a flash in the pain. that xi jinping is going to survive. this these protesters are goi...