The biden American Rescue plan. The next will be recovery. We call it reconciliation. Theres nothing in reconciliation that precludes republicans from voting for it. Good morn, everybody. Im tiffany cross, and we have a lot of news to get to this morning on Cross Connection, so strap in. President bidens 1. 9 trillion rescue plan is on a fast track to approval after the house and Senate Passed a Budge Bill Yesterday and democrats pretty much tossed the deuces to the republicans warning they maybepass them altogether. Its good news for struggling americans who cant even afford to put gas in the car or go to a job they no longer have. Meanwhile capitol hill is preparing for Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial to kick off on tuesday. And at least as of this morning, it looks unlikely that a minimum of 17 republicans will vote with the dems to convict trump. Now, the irony doesnt even seem lost on them that as they make these bow was calls for unity, theyre increasingly unwilling to hol
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human being to human being it would be the same but i think our media is so much different. my belief is that 9/11 accelerated a splintering in the media that had already started. i think it goes back to really the clinton years and impeachment and then 9/11 think about the cable news wars, think about the debates over the patriot act with us or against us. are you really a patriot? are you for our troops? all that stuff happens. in the media alone, you know, wearing of the pin. should you wear it on the air or not? i mean, all of that stuff. the flag pin. an acceleration yeah, the flag pin. now our politicians wear it all the time and obama didn t want to initially and realized he had to. at nbc, i had a colleague, you know, our former colleague terry moran who did wear a flag pin and i remember tom brokaw saying, look. we re just not going to start doing that because it was true
my belief is that 9/11 accelerated a splintering in the media that had already started. i think it goes back to really the clinton years and impeachment, and then 9/11, think about the cable news wars, think about the debates over the patriot act, with us or against us, are you really a patriot, are you for our troops? all that stuff happens. in the media alone, you know, wearing of the pin. should you wear it on the air or not? i mean, all of that stuff. the flag pin. an acceleration yeah, the flag pin. now our politicians wear it all the time and obama didn t want to wear it initially and realized that he had to. at nbc, i had a colleague, you know, our former colleague terry moran who did wear a flag pin, and i remember tom brokaw saying, look, we re just not going to start doing that. because it was true. that became not just kind of patriotism, but it became an