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Climate activists off the roadblocking the entrance to burningman festival creating a miles long traffic jam. jonathan hunt with that. good morning, bret. when you drive into the desert side of the annual burning m man fest i val it s one way in and one way out. when it s blocked it causes chaos. that s what the climate activists wanted. with signs reading abolish capitalism, general strike for climate and ban private jets the climate protestors put a trailer across the road and refused to move. apparently the burning m man festival. it upset the activist because it is popular with affluent people who don t live the stated values ....
Birthday. he s also an msnbc political contributor. jake, republicans aren t the only ones who are roadblocking that are facing democratic senators. we re talking about, for example, manchin and sinema. they ve always been brought up, and have said they are opposed to changing the filibuster? here s what schumer said on joy reid i m sorry, excuse me. here s what senator schumer said on joy reid last night about efforts to get them onboard. we are having active discussions with them, several a day. i just spoke to senator man c.h.i.p. three or four hours ago. and even over the holiday break, the new year s and christmas break, we ve been talking constantly. we ve got to start pressing them and pressing them and pressing them until they do. there is too much at risk here. if obviously they were saying yes to us, we wouldn t have to worry about this. jake, obviously, the fact that they haven t said yes to them continues. thank you, jose, for the ....
Mitch mcconnell says there will be no gop legislative agenda announce inside the senate but roadblocking they have gone deep on. they tried to block tr government funding yesterday by going after vaccine mandates. is that a brand? can it be a policy? can it be a governing idea? it could be an election idea. running against the incumbent and criticizing the president s platform without laying out the specifics. that s a strategy that s assessed in the past. elections that we ll see in the midterms, i think next year are the people who are in power at the moment is democrats. that s a strategy that republicans have decided to pursue. if they win control of congress as they hope to do, it does not ....
John f the voting rights thing is a higher bar, tell us about infrastructure. because that s another one where we have heard so many times, we are just about there, right? and we are on plan, c, d, e, f, g not quite sure where. is it going to be a reality? this is the long slog portion of joe biden s first year. obviously he got very rapid success with his covid relief bill. i still think on voting rights you can t rule out what ron brown steen said in the last hour that over time a united democratic party seeing roadblocking from republicans may cause democrats to move forward to move forward in some way the side step or alter the filibuster. but they may already have a way. the budget reconciliation offer. on this plan, they have made progress. there is significantly more ....
My producer and i were driving and we had to find other ways. there are trees in the roadblocking them completely. sheets of metal have been ripped off roof tops are blocking roads and neighborhoods. trailers have been pushed over. this middle school was gutted. the gym. all you see is the backboard of the basketball hoop up on the ceiling. what s left of volleyball nets. everything else is gone. walls are missing. to get to it was difficult. it took a lot longer than it should have. according to the map, it should have taken two minutes and it to be probably three, four, five times that to find our way around because of everything in the road. you see people are driving around and this is a main stretch. they had small bulldozers taking all the metal in the roads. where the cars are now where jonathan is shooting. ....