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Infrastructure and human infrastructure or nothing. there was a suggestion this morning that was oh well, if we get infrastructure through we'll go back for human infrastructure and do it without the two senators meaning manchin and sinema. how would that work? >> their logic and math doesn't really work out. all of that said look, i'm thrilled to see that the democratic party is disassembling in this way. they've overreached their hand. you stated it perfectly a moment ago. they overplayed and overimagined their own majority. it is only a 50/50 majority in the senate. in the house it is the t...

Solution that doesn't require such a far, far flung global supply chain? >> there's a lot of talk about it. there's a lot of talk of what happens near shoring of bringing factories if not all the way back to the united states, perhaps to places like mexico. but there's no perfect solution to this problem other than ending the pandemic. if we can end or completely contain covid and our spending patterns return to normal. we start going out to restaurants more, start going back to concerts, start doing more of the travel and leisure spending that's been -- that's taken a big hit during the pande...

Ahead of that potential disruption. >> is there a way to kind of narrow the supply chain? is anyone talking about a solution that doesn't require such a far, far flung global spy chain? >> there's a lot of talk about it. there's a lot of talk of what happens near shoring of bringing factories if not all the way back to the united states, perhaps to places like mexico. but there's no perfect solution to this problem other than ending the pandemic. if we can end or completely contain covid and our spending patterns return to normal. we start going out to restaurants more, start going back to con...

Study finds Israel early on offered better social policies, income support to its struggling households than U.S. March 9, 2021 SHARE The pandemic is exacerbating preexisting social and economic inequalities in the United States and abroad, finds a new study from the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St. Louis. The study, “Household Spending Patterns and Hardships during COVID-19: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Israel,” draws on national surveys conducted early in the pandemic to investigate COVID-19’s effects on self-reported consumer spending behavior...

Going to impact virginia and going to go into georgia perhaps. and we're confronting that with the understanding that there is a gaggle of incompetence in the white house. >> just because the white house is a hot mess and rob porter and gary cohn come out and say bob woodward's book was disingenuous, but neither deny a single quote in there, can we say the white house is a mess so this is a mess? >> not really. it does distract from public trust in government. but what really distracts from public trust in government is government the tasked with so many things. it is so enormous. its spending...