msnbc insight into where this puts negotiations in the senate. we know that we don t have the votes for the package that was talked about at the end of the year. but the elements have support. and so what we ve got to do is put together the elements that we can pass and it will be very significant for people. now let s go to nbc s josh letterman at the white house. given the very busy week ahead, let s just look chronologically at tomorrow. the upcoming talks between uggs and the u.s. what do we know about them? typically ahead of high-stakes diplomatic negotiations, alex, the u.s. likes to keep its cards pretty close to the vest. but in this case, the biden administration is really taking the opposite approach. they are laying out publicly in advance a set of carrots and sticks. the carrots are what could be on the table for these negotiations, including scaling back or limiting a u.s. and nato military exercises in europe as
testing positive for a banned heart drug in december. her defense, her attorney now claims the test was contaminated with a drug her grandfather was taking. whatever happened, the ioc says if she wins no one gets a medal until a full investigation is complete. of course bad news for all the other skaters who will not get their podium moment in beijing, including american alysa liu who is in eighth place and uggs favorite karen chen, who, despite falling in the short program, will look for a big score in the free skate. i want to bring in gadi schwartz, who has been covering this story for us. u.s. olympian scott hamilton, gold medalist from 1984 in sarajevo. he is also an nbc figure skating analyst. great to have you here. gadi, bring us up to date. yeah. chris, the latest is coming from the ioc, one of the commissioners who says kamila valiyeva claimed she had the drug in her system after some sort of cross-contamination from medication her grandfather was
costs, rising labor costs. for investors, oftentimes you re buying a stock in a company because you think they ll grow their profits and their share of the company s profits becomes more valuable over time. if those profits are threatened, you re maybe not as likely to invest in a company s stock, so there is a reason why a lot of folks from main street to wall street to k street are hyperfocused on that threat of rising prices. and by the way, don t forget the uggs has around, what, roughly $30 trillion of national debt. a lot of that debt is structural and needs to get refinanced periodically. if rates go higher, it will cost our country more to pay interest on that debt. a lot of concerns. i want to play what president biden had to say during his interview with lester holt specifically about inflation. watch this. it s going to taper off through this year. i think what you re going to see is a gradual reduction in inflation over time. in the meantime, i m going to do
MORGANTOWN — It is a two-edged sword, this passion that drives West Virginia s fifth-year senior forward Gabe Osabuohien, one that often leaves the Mountaineers opponents bleeding and, at the same