their unique dog tags. cnn couldn t independently corroborate the account. we need to find all of these people and they need to go to the court. they absolutely illegal. reporter: contractors surfaced in eastern ukraine in 2014 exposed by research groups and cnn investigations. their operations span the middle east and africa. u.s. officials accuse them of multiple human rights abuses in multiple countries. in this disturbing 2017 video, investigated by cnn, mercenaries appear to be torturing and murdering a syrian man as they make jokes. the kremlin said the incident had nothing to do with the russian military operations in syria and they ve repeatedly denied any links to the group. u.s. officials say that it was started by this man, a veteran of the chechen conflict.
news accused him of sex harassment. that was the second woman. cnn media analyst last week said chris cuomo could be back on the air in a few weeks. wrong. this about a confluence of factors. about a series of headaches that seemed like they were never going to end. it seems like a case of death by a thousand cuts. this was about not any single headache but many headaches that continued to pile up. harris: i don t know if i would pick that guy to sell it. it is a network problem. you need a big name at the network. howie kurtz is live in washington, d.c. so howie, what do you make of how this rolled out and how long it actually took when you go back years with some of the controversies for chris cuomo? what a sudden about face. cnn couldn t wait to rush out an announcement it fired chris cuomo days after he was suspended and after months of
meanwhile, you ve got people like manchin and sinema, senators in the democratic party saying they aren t going to vote for a 3 1/2 trillion dollar bill. i don t see any to the best of my knowledge there has been no movement. all you have is people talking, gossiping, leaking, but in fact they re about the same place they were two months ago and the reason is pretty straight forward. the american people do not want bigger government. gallup reports now we re back where we used to be about 58% want smaller government. when you tell them about these bills they think it adds to inflation and inflation is what will kill the democrats next year. but the new york times is right and we have the most expensive thanksgiving. it doesn t matter because you can t afford the gasoline and then you can t buy christmas gifts because they re on a ship off long beach which biden the other night on cnn couldn t
can t even work together anymore. there are politicians out there who their goal is to not bring people together. their goal often seems to be to divide people. whether it s based on race or whatever. what do you think of them? there is no team anywhere. cnn couldn t run like that, the military couldn t run like that, a business couldn t run like that. it would be dysfunctional. it would fail. and our system was set up with three coequal branches of government. and joust to make it a little more difficult, we made a bicameral legislature. and they all have to work together in order to make this work. what we re doing right now is we constantly are dividing. now, i understand, when you have an election, it can be brutal. it can be pretty hard. i m smart, you re dumb. i know what s right, you re all wrong. you divide. and you try to get yourself elected. okay, that s democracy. but when the election s over, you don t continue to divide. then you have to govern. so, one, elections takes