outbreak began in 2002. the other possibility is it came from this lab, the wuhan instituteof virology. the theory is not that the chinese deliberately engineered some kind of bioweapon and then purposely put it out to infect people. rather, that the kinds of research that was going on in that lab for many years, principally on coronaviruses, with an aim toward trying to prevent future outbreaks, that there may have been sloppy or reckless research that inadvertently collected the sars-cov-2 virus, maybe they didn t realize an animal had it, a lab worker gets sick, takes it home, takes it to a restaurant, and the virus spreads. the president wants to go back and look at the necessarily and say, does it tell us whether that scenario is more likely than the natural scenario. so door number one is bats
fears in this country to distract from his own problems, which by the way, is a metaphor for the larger gop, which is, they are constantly trying to stoke these cultural fires, talking about cancel culture, you know, we ve talked endlessly about how obsessed they are with dr. seuss and mr. potato head and all these other sort of things, to really just distract from their lack of policies, their lack of solutions for the future of the country. and, you know, i think that that s really what a lot of this discussion is about. the gop did a political calculation. they re looking to win five house seats by just ginning up the maga base. but they re also looking to move forward in a policy-free direction that for them is quite a lot of fun. and that is very enjoyable, because it doesn t require them to do the hard work and the hard thinking that democrats, joe biden, and even some republicans
versus a progressive one. first it was clinton versus sanders and then biden versus sanders. they had been engaging in vigorous policy debate. joe has voted for terrible trade agreements. i don t know that there s any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense. joe and i have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven t noticed. [ laughter ] obviously the paris accord is useful but talks to doesn t go anywhere if you re laughing, joe, you re missing the point. this is an existential crisis. about a year later, biden s governing from the core and base of the democratic party. the progressive base, pushing the liberal plans i just mentioned, spending that outstrips anything from the early days of the obama/biden administration, pushing higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and joe biden taking sides with labor more than he did in past decades or
was summoned to new york. i was first put in a room with robert and harvey. and they said, these numbers don t won t work, we can t go backwards, the numbers have to go up. i said, well, we re having a 20% increase in capacity, everybody s numbers are going to go down. they said, can t have it. allen won t accept it, donald won t accept it, have to redo the numbers. after that meeting, i then the went into donald s office, and donald said, did robert and harvey talk to you about the numbers? and i said, yes, they did. but let me explain why i can t redo the numbers, because they won t be true. and he just said, we need new numbers. we need new numbers. perhaps coming to a grand jury room near you. we have a lot more in our hour here. up next, how is president biden consolidating all the democratic party to put mitch mcconnell in a bind? when we come back. eat tasting.
he s about ten years late on that. you re saying the medium is out of style, the politician is out of style, recently rebuffed. why do you think they blew this this badly, when the one thing he s allegedly supposed to be good at is pr? yeah, this kind of pr is a little bit more complicated than the pr he s good at which is getting on a phone and yelling things at journalists, typing a few sentences down and having mainstream journalists report it out. a lot of times he ll call out individual media outlets and all the media outlets circle the wagons and try to defend that media outlet. that s been a reliable way for him to get in the headlines. i feel like this demonstrates, building a blogging following takes a lot of work, it s hard. and donald trump is not a very hard worker. when he was president, he spent a lot of time golfing. most of the buildings that say trump on them are not buildings he s built. he s better at branding things than at actually doing the work.