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virus control official Doktor Anthony, fell, cheap, says the corona virus is spreading and America may need to take time
stick actions. What are we dealing with with
corona virus covert. Nineteen with dealing with clearly
and emerging infectious disease that is now reached outbreak proportions
likely pandemic proportions. If we get a major outbreak
this corona virus in this country. That would mean
closing schools temporarily getting people to do.
What working
cancelling events where there
a lot of crowds in confine places, cans,
in unnecessary travel so that you're not on an aeroplane for five hours with a bunch of people who might be infected. That would be a huge,
who would have enormous economic, societal, psychological, in which case it would put it would be temporary, but it would be necessary. Wow,
a fascinating time. Capsule from one year ago, today, guys Doktor Anthony found she warned
The nation water was up against and what a year it is
Well, I he predicted it to a tea, and things got worse because of how badly
Things were run trying to to counter the pandemic,
It's amazing! Isn't it to listen to that? That was one year ago today, and then you look down at the lower right side of your screen and see five hundred and sixteen thousand Americans more than that have died. Because of this.
And all the things doktor Frank, you said there was interesting what you had to introduce them, who doctor
She was a year ago now these become such a part of the furniture of our lives every day, but he's talking about school, closing
Actually, cancelling events may be some tell a working here. We are now a year later shut down at us and in the meantime, we pass all these other anniversaries, we're former president from said it was going to disappear that it was one person coming in from China. So while people are like doktor
two were sounding the alarm. A year ago we were still getting from
top of our government. The message that it was going to be ok if we
closed their eyes and let it disappear. Will you
an end just to put things in proper perspective, because I know
February Marge April seem to be a blur, the two to so many hours. The doctrine
she said that in March the second
leader, was in February, where Bob Woodward had sat down with Donald Trump already was saying this
it's going to be a killer virus. It was going to affect the old and the young. It was five times as bad as the flu that it was
was really badly in a big problem and it
actually more than a month before that the Joe Biden Road and not bad, and they
as stated in the USA today and in that that
bad. He said we are not prepared for the pandemic,
and the president would do well to listen to his scientists and researchers. Of course, talking about then Present Donald Trump and that
never happen and Willie. The consequences are really hard to fathom
is you know if we will pass the five hundred thousand dollar suit me. Five hundred thousand death mark half a million
a few days ago, a member. We sat here and said a year ago
on top of a hundred thousand, maybe two hundred forty thousand deaths on the high end and that seemed unthinkable impossible and now we ve March well past half a million deaths, so our life
been completely up ended and it takes a moment like that to watch that a year ago, it's hard to even remember a time when we are speculating that schools might have to closed for a short period of time. Maybe some avenge would be cancelled since then make a businesses
those children have lost a year of education. People have lost loved ones. It has completely changed this country over
years year since that interview took place.
Really has along with Joe willing and may we have Roger
chair and the american presidency at Vanderbilt University Pulitzer Prize when it gets
and John Major em he occasionally unofficial,
vice President Joe Biden and we
have a lot to get to this morning on the virus. The first doses of Johnson and Johnson's vaccine are rolling out across the country as the city
see director warrants it's not time to ease up on restrictions, yet social did
sing and mask wearing. The Senate is expected to vote this week on President Biden, corona virus relief bill a bill that,
among the most popular bills in decades will show you the numbers on that. Also
morning, a third woman, has come forward.
a harassment allegation against nature.
Governor Andrew Cuomo,
and now some Democrats are calling for him to resign. Also,
U S. Sanctions on Russia are expected as early as today we're going to get the new reporting on vat, but Joe a lot to get too because,
You know I was so interesting over the weekend.
Back event and former president Trump stage it was almost like he walked.
the stage and, like you,
invisible again everything everything's of fell flat. I dont think you got the reaction that he wanted and all the disks
since that we have about the party and the impact
having on the party, it's also sort of interesting
watch just general reaction to him, I'm just not,
why you gotta say getting reporting a day later. He wasn't pleased with the speech you
the first hour on teleprompter, but he was inside somebody. There described it as so much
sound check for a ban,
you're inside this Big hall yeah, it's a third fall, and that's because of covered it.
Washington it's down in Orlando and the who
things seemed very small. They have, and he was here.
It stated that he didn't give them reaction. He why didn't get the re actually wanted, then after an hour, he went off. Script.
and when he went off scrapped, that's when he really started churning out the conspiracy theories which upset people their upset, his people there who
thought he really needed to stay away from the conspiracy theories.
all in all it
go well and then, of course, make I saw last night
the Wall Street Journal opinion page who we ve been following
very closely because at times they theyve seemed for two new. Well, they kaliko
Donald Trump attacked, but there have been other times where they have drawn a line in the sand and been very tough.
and it certainly seems like this morning's up ad- is one of them
times were wise. Data is
is a vain had enough, and I I
I'm gonna, say Democrats and
the media,
ring their hands when Donald Trump comes out. Now what we talked about it yesterday and
and the Wall Street Journal is saying- and I think that maybe right that actually Donald Trump when he comes out
something democratic should share about cause, he's genuinely bad for their party and
and end the senatorial, let's wait a little bit an editorial me get this editorial, I think really is
it has to be. They must read, especially for republican some cap oil that yeah ok. So it's entitled the grievances of trumpets passed in which they ask if he was so great politically for the GEO P. Why
party now out of power and the board rights in part. This mister
said Sunday, I won't former third party because it
divide the centre right coalition and, unlike Democrats,
but he also laid out his political enemies list and is clearly
and on revenge against anyone who voted to impeach or convict him or disagree.
with his election claims these interim party fight
well sap, geothermal energy and resources when they
Priority now should be re taking Congress and twenty twenty two mister
the base of support means, he will play an important role in the GEO peep, but as the five months roll on and the policy com,
the contents of the twenty twenty two feet become stark. Perhaps the parties ground,
routes will begin to look past the Trump era to it.
generation of potential standard break bearers, as
as Republicans focus on grievances trunk passed, they won't be a governor
majorities soda Joe. What they're saying is Trump.
Losing money.
As every any there. The party of grievance
and, as the Wall Street Journal said, the Party of grievance Past and won't you to compare the Democratic Party right now
republican Party right now, you have the democratic
the wind up behind a candidate where you're looking like Bledsoe about Bernie Sanders, and they say they lined up behind a candidate job
and who, as I see said aunt em for any other country, would be in another party from her
very little in common bacon setter, Joe Biden to be a relic from a different aim:
ideologically democratic party past? And yet what did they do? They were
around the clock to get him elected. You talked him by people buy off the record. They would say the burning
Saunders work, hard is hard, is any body ticket,
them alive. Today I see worked hard as well other progressive to disagree
Joe Biden on a lot of issues,
even now democratic trying to figure out how to come together from
Bernie Sanders did Joe Mansion to pass a bill. That
seventy six percent of american support and the republic
parties opposing that Bill Democrat the Democratic Party, is acting, and I
I know republic
I understand that Sunday, Hill, the democratic
right now is acting like a governing majority. There acting like a party that wants to pass legislation who
to make a difference who wants to
vats. Their causes that are
here and there to them and guess what their willing to compromise
even with Joe Mansion
with Bernie Sanders. They want to move
all down the film many of the Republican Party that has to
and into a party of gestures, empty gestures and grievance hangar. This is not a contest. This is not clear
the Republican Party, unless they actually read the Wall Street Journal editorial today and take it to heart.
And figure out how to start being constructive and understand, said this yes
this is so important.
understand that this is not two thousand nine, the battlefields always changing. You lose.
fighting the last war, that's an old saying Joe Biden has not Brok Obama, you can't just of straw.
In two thousand twenty one, and then you can get the same results you get from two thousand and nine,
two thousand sixteen it's not going to work they're going to
Ass legislation they're going to run over you, they're gonna, ruin around you you're, going to run
through you all day,
because they know what you did in two thousand. I two thousand ten two thousand eleven, two thousand twelve, two thousand. They understand they understand it, even when Donald Trump get elected your heartily
asked any landmark legislation you pass attacks, got yes, good free, you good for you, you you made tat
billionaires, even richer. You made sure that Amazon paid zero,
in tax, as you made sure that all the people you-
claimed a hate mail Billy,
in billions and billions of dollars during this,
the crisis, while working class
arrogance and middle class. Americans were suffering so badly. So yeah you did that and of course, Donald Trump. Is you
I went down to more alike on brag does billionaire friends. I made you all a lot Richard Wright, so yet you get that! Ok, great! So that's one thing you ve die legislatively
two thousand, I snuck gonna cut it
so the rest is grievance. Did you guys go
If you Ivy League boys going up attacking ivy
schools.
TED grows, going up, attacking parties of country clubs when TAT cruises, worshipping a guy
is really sad. Shrilly weaken pathetic, but
he's continued the worship, a guy politically, who acts
lives in his own country club and spend a lot of
presidency in his own country clubs that he
in Germany too. There's a part of this that I just think cut
to the quick, Republicans or thousand two thousand eighteen, a suburban voters, fled to check Mr Tromp, you proceeded to lose
White House in November. Third, any cause the GEO B to Georgia's and it raises on January, fit as he made his claims of election fraud. The main issue, rather than checking Mr Biden Betsy Policy MR
essentially told Georgia supporters that their votes state matter and they stayed home so
Ethiopia losses in MR trumps as the Wall Street Journal. Editorial page is now
Trying to we write is history as someone else's fault Democrat
Sue cheated report
against you won't quote fight a cowardly
cream Court, that includes three of his appointees any body but himself
This isn't true as another tromp pollster
four breathe easy. I made clear in this post election analysis, MR
I'll bet. Wine landmark victory in two thousand sixteen, but he has caused the GEO pay dearly sense well, Jim,
made them from the famous words
determined to get off the train and a guy scream Beddington for ten minutes and said that
If you were the last man on earth, he would never vote for Harry Truman term and said
Marcie down is undecided then and walked on waste. More video Wall Street Journal editorial pigs down is undecided here, but then again, there they're telling
truth that I dont think even Democrats,
Your stand right now, which is tromp at this point, is actually good for them
building their majorities. Perhaps
You know the direct to meet their cup,
divisions just looking at his clinically in the broad trunk coalition right you don't.
The seventy four million people with just them
here's the Wall Street Journal editorial page or just the negative votes that you saw in the year in Orlando and and
Yeah it's this is it. This is fusion of a couple of different things and
one of the things that I think has been puzzling to to
a lot of those who have followed and is
always admired the Republican Party
eyes an hour and Reagan, and the bushes is that what is it about the culture of grievance
he was demagogic self. Evidently, culture personality, tromp appeal
I'm gonna get you. You know the thirty five forty percent, perhaps that the German,
the thirty five percent of the country after he was censured. Ah you know you.
in forty percent of the country's they almost in. But where that
the twelve percent and I'm not sure what the millions would be in the seventy four million people who voted for Donald Trump, pointing out that eighty one million people voted for job. It's it's
people you- and I know that you and I like who were wrong
Hey, Republicans were wrongly
applicants were Jim Bush Republicans
till all of a sudden down trunk becomes denominate.
And then there they matter
all in culturally.
They're all in when it matters which is voting, and then these
have to be some of the folks who are saying Joe Biden, wasn't at legitimately elected president.
Because what usually get an under count of the tropical right, so you just need to get more than fifty percent.
Republican saying oh times
through president, that's not just
the paranoid style american politics, people that those people we talked and no
and so I just what I'm wondering is less
run the evidence. I think the court.
Friend Michael Bash loss. We remain in a national emergency about the durability of democracy.
one of the concerns I've heard from Republicans the kind that Johns talking about John Mccain, Republicans, George W Bush Reagan, Republicans
That we all know is that even if Donald Trump doesn't run again, even
he's pushed to the side and forgotten in some ways over the next few years. It's all the many trumps or coming up through
system, having learned a lesson that the way to get elected the way to become press, the United States and trumps
case, is to be seen as fighting constantly being a perpetual state of combat, not
mired down in policy discussions and debates in the Senate, but you always
He agreed to always
seen as fighting
we see that with people like TED crews, but also with a bunch of freshmen members, membership come in this year too,
now. I understand that
think I I'm in the distance
minority when I say
this I dont think Tromp ISM is transferable as a national message.
They may cause after eight years of run,
Reagan Republicans were sure that they were going to be able.
To extend Reagan ISM over the next decade, as far as I can
going to win the White House after Reagan and Bush, what is dead?
the crowds of one seven and eight popular votes soaring in eighteen. Ninety two,
Obama ISM the Obama coalition. That we heard was the new rising coalition that was gonna forever dominate american politics.
two thousand eight that was not transferable either Bill Clinton
I his success was not transferable, so I'm just
sure meagre F, F
there's another person that road wrote a book in the nineteen eighties about
excess when he was the biggest loser,
history of the United States regarding the IRS lots, more money to new areas and then add a celebrity show every went bankrupt about twenty times. I exaggerate yeah end in casinos, yeah
I can get in Atlantic City and and then ran for president to adjust. Holly can't pull that off. Like ten crews
tat. Crews barely be better a roared in tax as a couple of years ago. I just I, don't see it as being transferred
I may be very naive. I do believe, though, that what
past four years have shown. Is that I
very naive as it pertains to the threats to democracy I agree with,
John meets him? Several Michael Bagshawe said we need to
a vigilant because
We have seen over the past four years that the very
we'll challenges to our constitutional republic and what we need to be on guard for as we move forward,
the twenty first century, the iron. You know you mention day I see in being for binding, even though she was ass. Far away within the party is possible and.
had crews being oppose refer, tromp air safety
working for taxes when TAT grows was out of taxes in Cancun and it's not a low blow. My point is that Democrats are our work.
King, on their issues like I'm or not, and their performing public service doing their jobs. I dont know what these Republicans are doing
their angry, their undermining and there
always lying there trying to sort of adopt the Trump mythology. But it's not
working as much or maybe it won't better than the worrying me is that in our trump got by everybody,
member of the thing is Willie Tramp Tramp win.
Put out onstage and still the same
These lay yet out. I said his sight with no disrespect to the king
he's, like Elvis in the final year, you, like you, know, he's doing everything but intelligent suit, lazily jump sued, lazily, throwing the scarf off into the audience. It's really my all sweaty. Now on my fight, you know
say, Tromp was able to fill state
stronger was able to fill arenas trial or not from one thing. We
never said about Donald Trump. Is he means acting last year, but because P,
believed tat. It was
all Alai, it would all be as but you look at TED crows, I'm so glad you
Here yesterday, will you were spared of watching TED Cruises, MEL Gibson? It was awful. I saw all my guy it with horror.
And Josh Holly Dog dawned on it
since all poor Joe?
go away
it's really I be these guys terrible. You look at me. I really am
Do you want us to consider starting it go fund
beside for their acting like.
that's Khazars, so bad, but that we say that just say you can. What Donald Trump was able to do and to fail?
in sixteen forty lost every election. After that, none of these other people can do
They just look like Clown
when they try to pay its procedures as we go. My pack ass wise is happening all be talking with Aaron debate about the theory and practice of the minimum wage, a minimum wage hikes. It turns out that for southern players, if you actually
the forest and pr which you may
end up having more workers, and that sounds kind of crazy, because why would you have more workers will have to pay higher wage? It's because if you are completely constrained by that supply of workers,
that how many workers are willing to take this really enough, maybe not such a great job. Well, I have to pay higher
Wage- I'm not happy about that, but I can get more workers because actually wanted to feel more vacancies before anyway. So what I ended up doing is partly review
seeing. The number of vacancies is poised to killing jobs, that this week on wisest
running, search for wise is happening, reverie listing right now and subscribe, and so many people have looked like clown,
over the years member during the two thousand sixteen campaign, when marker Rubio tried the Trump ACT for a couple of days there ass it just doesn't work unless, unless you're Donald, Trump and down could
those stadiums and he can fly and on his plane and dip his wings and Mobile Alabama act the place. None of these other guys can do that, but their trial.
and they're trying to get in the way. Right now of corporate relief Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumacher, announced yesterday, the Senate will take up the covert relief plan for passage this week. The house version passed over the weekend with
fifteen dollar minimum wage in it, but so
majority whip Dick Durban says this Senate Democrats will
Overall, the parliamentarian who ruled the measure was not permissible under the rules of budget
celebration. Nbc news report, the cinema
material will allow pension plant protection and assistance with paying cobra premiums to remain in the bill. Let's Brian
thereof the Washington Post early morning, newsletter power up Jacqueline albanian data journalist for the economist Elliot more ass, good,
table Jackie. Let me start with you, so how was
Gonna roll out this week are they can appeal off the fifteen dollar minimum wage and pass it through reconciliation with just democratic boats,
it's a really good question, Willie, I'm, and that still something has happened here. We know that the chairman of the budgets committee since in the Bernie Sanders, is pushing this minimum wage provision, despite the Senate parliamentarians ruling, but it can't be protected by budget reconciliation, but overruling the Senate parliamentarian would be quite dramatic and something that the White House has said that there are against that being said, sender centres that he's going to raise it as an amendment in a sense,
daring set people like sender, Joe Mansion, who have said that they don't want to overrule the parliamentarian to vote on the fifteen dollar minimum wage height in the boat. Aroma. That's going to begin as the Senate begins to debate this final covered package, but look. The White House has also said that they are against overruling the son, a parliamentarian when you had Republicans fire bogged down the parliamentarian. Two thousand one people disk
written me as a pretty shop
the situation. There was almost unprecedented. It's hard to imagine, Democrats doing it, but you have progressives
people like senders and senator warring pressing this ahead, calling for what
overruling the parliamentarian or to eliminating the filibuster so Jackie, if you ve, got powerful so
nurse Light Senator Warren and senators analysing this has to be in or at least we have to pass this by some
other means. Where does that leave the White House? What are they say to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth warm? Yet
You know it is unclear what that debate looks like internally right now, but from a public perspective. We just had both sides
sticking with there. You know it
their proclamations, that they are not binding,
either way, but right now,
Was it stand? Democrats don't really have a way forward and delivering a signature policy proposal that David promising of hiking the minimum wage because it doesn't cost.
and had the votes, stem sorry democratic senders, don't have the vote on the republican side to pass this as a stand alone Bell because
renders having agreed to tenders like Joe Mansion and Christian Cinema haven't agree to eliminate the filibuster is unclear who's going to bug sheer the white. I so far has done a pretty good job at accommodating it progressive leftist flank on these sorts of provisions, perhaps they'll by John Indifferent,
vision here like increasing
women insurance extending in a month or two, but that something that we're gonna see play out on the hill starting today Boy Elliot
look at appalling on this. I know you ve been studying it. This is one of the most popular pieces of legislation we ve seen in a long time. Obviously it helps people get back on.
feet in many ways it pushes us closer
schools reopen whether your democratic republic in theirs, obviously
something in here. For you,
That's right and I should say we compared this pulling data just said. The sources from Chris Warsaw political scientist at George Washington University
We found that on average of the polls that have our support
covered release. Tell about seventy percent
americans- is highest. Seventy six percent, depending on the ball,
support buying and Democrats.
Measures and next higher. Even then, the support that
The two thousand seven minimum wage tiger, two thousand nine minimum wage, like God that's
support and in any
trumps legislation from past.
Four and a half
years, and this is
as staggeringly popular bill, Americans quite might argue, Levine relief
The answer we have also asked the question of why this isn't being exploited in the Senate. My servants,
No barriers could could be, could be stalling progress.
yeah you John, these summits is fascinating, that that republic answer are all lined up against this.
I understand some of those concerns that actually I've had over the past four years and none of them have had, I dont think, which, as I dont think its is focused as it should be. I think they could probably
by with about a trillion dollars last in this two trillion dollar bill, but again the national debts, not something the tropical
the worry about it also really start from complaining about it now,
You do sit and watch how? How does this party, if there
filling the bow and scraped Donald Trump for four years, how
This party turned their backs on one of the most popular bills. In my gosh, the past
two years, a bill that seventy six percent of Americans support and a majority of republican support is this
is this once again, the Republican Party playing off of an old playbook,
think so, I think they're gonna call it. Socialism even have already voted for similar stuff.
Gonna be a kind of functional
Weapon ized cynicism about this and near at hand,
because this bill is popular because it is part of a fight
New administration push to vaccinate the country to try to stop the dreaded
soften the economic paying, so many people are feeling. I think that
Even they are capable of seeing the logic that, if a democratic president
successfully backs annexes and six
Hopefully there
ameliorate the difficulties that so many people are facing he's gonna
Having a case of a case to take to the people,
for other things. He wants to do right, it's not simply
walking into a ball room and yapping about it
not simply waiting about it.
Simply pushing
culture a grievance and victim, but one of them
Ray I rebates
in our political life- is a party that disdains victimhood has embraced it right. They are victims,
big tat. They are vague idea issues.
on and on and on, and I ate some apparent radically
one of them that didn't see a lot of attention paid to it his ears.
it's not the Supreme Court and the courts.
Sunday are incredibly revealing because
one of the ways the republic survived and that
not hyperbole, it's not hyperbole, one of the way
the Republic survive. Is that one of them
three branches of the council
laid out in the constitution did the right thing, and that was the courts.
And we haven't paid a lot of attention to it, and I even here sounds
a full time. Marine even hesitate to say, but the court's played there
their constitutional role
but when the president was not, he was self
evidently and doubly undermining the Democratic Republic
He had, and so many allies in Congress who were willing to do with it.
and so
I don't want to go so far as to say the Supreme Court saved America, but it came from,
damn close?
and what would have happened if they had granted
to one of those cases and somehow or another and a five for decision, they refused us
finally, electors from Pennsylvania. The whole thing falls apart. I bet the whole thing here.
I really think one of the unwritten stories of the past year, and I I also we talked about it actually John before other than the fact that Jim Kleiber was probably
the man who moved history more than anybody else, and twenty twenty for four reasons,
really should be self evident to everyone. He had as much to do with Donald Trump losing anybody else
but as far as holding the line for this constitutional republic, that there has to be one day, a story written a book written and not just about the United States Supreme Court and what they, what they did, the line they held during the twenty twenty election, but the entire federal court system, and not just at the end. But you can go all the way back
February of two thousand seventeen. When a Washington state Judge put an injunction on, I believe it was trumps so called
muslim ban and done
prompt challenged that that Bush avoided judge, call him a so called judge question his integrity immediately federal judges or whether they were
liberals whether they were federalist society judges all all understood at that moment that the independence of the federal judiciary was at risk and they they they they.
Accordingly over the next four years, and it is an extraordinary story or a constitutional republic.
survived so many of the challenges and, if you believe like I do, the things could have gone extra
early badly and and we could have lost.
Mark receive that we came. The Recognise, John. I think we we
those of us who believe that oh federal judges,
of all stripes a great debt of gratitude.
Federal judges, absolutely it's like. They say
There are some heroes and civil rights era right of these, and these
a democratic and point he didn't around a boy,
district judges who were brave and in the end the maelstrom, the other is the secretaries of state
These late officials, the election officials who stood up
remarkable political pressure and
we talk so much about what goes wrong understandably, but
this is a case where the constitution only works,
If there's human agency and a kind of
often unseen but clear
felt devotion to it at those those
Those who were guardians of the democracy
I don't mean to be overly grand about it, but but blocked by watching it again. Watch
again. The other day
Almighty. We came so clubs and
and here blessedly less at them
to bring all this up again cause blessedly you're talking about the colored relief, though you're talking about what our backs your showing vouchers,
it were actually governing a big, complicated, disputations, multi, ethnic, diverse country again, but that force
that almost rector's and that sent
Go into the capital is
not going away. It's a perennial force
and then it flows,
during the Trump years,
God willing were done with the Trump years, but I dont think anybody who is concerned
about the future of democracy, the future of our prosperity, the future of what
It has made us more perfect union can afford to rest I'll write
John Mitchell, that was actually not boring at all. Thank you for that. Didn't internalized data journalist or the economist Elliot Morrison, the Washington Post, Jacqueline
our main thank you both for your reporting and
analysis. This morning, now too
Multiple sources telling NBC News that the? U S
The European Union are expected to impose Co. Warden
sanctions on Russia as
really, as today, the same
calm after the poisoning of russian opposition leader Alexei Novotny and his arrest.
The attention that followed and will be the first to target Moscow. Since Biden became president when he
the comprehensive review of. U S. Russia policy, including the Kremlin's
Sean's against Novotny Interference.
The? U S, election, the soul
wins, hack and reported bounties offered.
the Taliban linked groups to target. You
forces in Afghanistan. That's a lot! That's been happening over the past
dearest. Let's bring in White House correspondent for let it go, and
Some basic contributor Natasha Bear Trend,
it's been following. All of this Natasha good to have you
on the show, tell us the latest, with the sanctions and on Nepal. Knee
Yes, we are expecting men as soon as today, there is going to be kind of more discussions among the White House officials about how to rule this out in coordination with the European Union. This is something that they had been discussing since Biden came into office. They were doing this massive Russia Review and they were trying to figure out the best way to penalize Russia for its human rights abuses. Of course, poisoning relaxing of all me the espionage campaign that targets so many federal agencies in the United States and the reports that Russia Russians were putting bounties on american troops. Heads in Afghanistan, so
happening now is there was act
the aid packages thinks it's Texans sanctions package left by the Trump Administration for the by the administration that never got passed at the end of the presidency on the president's last couple days office and they ve been deciding whether or not to use part of that single sanctions package or whether to just you no kind of
re establish their own parameters for penalizing Russia looks like they wanted this to be more multi lateral. They wanted to work war with the European Union on this and that's what we're going to see this week, but it is an important
first step and in the binding administrations. I plans to whole brush accountable for these mine activities. Natasha, obviously put in Gothenburg comfortable the last four years under down
of knowing their we're going to be many consequences for his actions, and we see now why he worked so hard to get Donald Trump elected because we're seeing the opposite.
How was Putin viewing this new by the administration and how seriously, as you take any sanctions, it's well or share, I mean they're United States ties
course impose sanctions many times on Russia, and it has yet to really change bottom Moutans behaviour, one of the big things that activists in that foreign policy expert than that
former administration officials say could change. Its behaviour, of course, is mixing Nord stream to which is that gas pipeline in Germany TAT to Russia. That is something that,
allies of the United States, including Ukraine, who are foes of Russia, are really pushing Biden to consider
taking harsher steps to you know just completely
Lee impede the construction of the pipeline. It doesn't look like that's going to happen and that is kind of working you as allies again like Ukraine, who are cut it
crosshairs of russian aggression at this point, but the sanctions are an important first step, of course, or signalling to the Russians
this administration is willing to hold them accountable in a way that at least the former presidents wasn't a horse. He never confronted by Putin directly on anything
all right, Natasha Bertrand. Thank you very much for that update this morning. We appreciated, and still I had on morning, Joe the impact of
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forty five past the hour, a third woman has come forward to accuse New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of an unwanted advance according to the
our times and our roof met the governor at a friend's wedding in twenty nineteen, the now thirty three year old claims,
Mama approached her and put his hand on her bare lower back according to rule when she removed his hand with her own hands
the governor allegedly said that she seemed quote aggressive and play
his hands on her cheeks. She claims
they Cuomo asked if he could kisser
loudly enough. Fourth friends stand
thereby to hear she then
the way as the governor drew. Closer spokesmen for Cuomo did not directly address the account and
dead refer to the times. As to a general statement released on Sunday acknowledging
that some things he had said quote may have been misinterpreted
as an unwanted flirtation
and they see news also contacted Cromwell S office for comment, but has not heard back.
Meanwhile, the New York attorney General's office is investigating the to sexual harassment. Allegations levelled against Governor Cuomo by two former female
employees attorney general.
Latisha James confirmed yesterday that she received the
Sorry were first letter from Cuomo to begin the process. The governor
initially suggested investigation by a lawyer of his choosing and then under immense political pressure. So
it allow a review to take place by a person chosen by James Andy, Cuomo, appointed judge the
our continues to don't deny the allegations and some day
grants are calling on governor, promote to step down. Congresswoman Catholics
Rice, who represents a district on Long Island posted the
our times report about the third Cuomo allegation and wrote the tie.
this calm, the governor, must resign New York City.
air build. The plaza also suggested the governor should step down if an investigation
corroborates the accusations being issued low. Yesterday, this apology- I guess you could call an apology, saying if my kidding was misinterpreted- that I'm sorry that you misinterpreted that why? What what did you think? That's not an apology.
He seemed to be saying eyes just kidding around sexual harassment. Not funny is sick.
this has to be taken seriously. If someone purposely tried to use their power to force a woman to have sex with them. Of course,.
that? Someone who should no longer be in public service at a White House, breathing asked
I pressed Secretary General Saki was asked again about the allegations
interview has been consistent and clear.
that every woman coming forward should between treated with dignity and respect.
applies to Charlotte. That applies to Lindsey and any women coming forward. There is a process.
Of revealing, as you know it
dependent investigation. We will leave it to that process through the attorney general to make it
nation, the path forward all right, walking
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