what some think america needs to do. that is, write a new constitution. and then he ll speak to one of the top scientists responsible for the web telescope and those awesome images it has captured. these videos show explosions that have happened in the last two weeks at russian military facilities in crimea, which has been occupied by russian forces since 2014. one attack at an air base destroyed at least seven russian warplanes. ukraine has claimed responsibility for that attack and two others, according to an internal ukrainian government document obtained by cnn. is this evidence that kyiv is launching a counteroffensive against russia? and could it gain back territory illegally overtaken by moscow? joining me now is retired u.s. army general mark hurtling, a national security and military analyst for cnn. good to have you on this morning. great to be on this morning, jim. first, let s speak about these attacks in crimea, territory controlled by russia for some eight
because a future of the biden administration is hanging in the balance. along of course with democrats congressional majorities. but it is in that senate particularly that democratic leaders are trying to stave off losses. president biden is back in philadelphia tonight along with former president barack obama. both slated to take the rallies siege shortly in support of democratic senate hopeful john fetterman in his tight race against doctor a mehmet oz. who will be joined by donald trump for a campaign rally in a few hours. we have a busy full hour of news and analysis ahead, and we start in pennsylvania where nbc news reporter mike emily is standing ahead of the biden and obama party taking the stage together. mike, set the scene for us
that chile was an east asian country that just happened to be in latin america. do you think that robust economic performance would be imperilled if this new constitution came into being? the answer is yes. but chile s economic and political performance has been declining in say the last half decade or decade. the really fast growth happened in the 90s and in the beginning of this century. chilean growth has been declining, stagnating even you might say. and part of it has to do with decline of politics. even under current arrangements, you have a president who is elected, you know, for a fixed term of office, like the american president. but it is very hard to put together congressional majorities. as a result, it is very hard to put together coalitions to perform whatever needs performing. again, it s all about the rules of engagement, the rules of the
is to blame for the death of build back better? in our government, the president is not only the head of state and commander in chief, he s the leader of his or her party. joe biden is the leader of the democratic party. it s on him to corral the narrowest of congressional majorities. he did so in the opening months of his presidency, passing the american rescue plan, passing this sweeping bill for infrastructure, but he could not find the votes to get this bill passed. was there a deal to be done? joe manchin effectively killed the bill or put on hold in mid december. it s now may 1st. where has biden been since then? this is what democrats and congress are asking is, what s the plan and what s the strategy and there effectively is no game plan and there is no confidence in the white house that they can get manchin to any kind of a yes, and the clock is ticking. alex, you also note in the book that seems to be a more serious effort to get joe manchin to switch parties. here s
well-funded priorities or whether you trim back the funding for a bunch of things and try to get them started and see if you can build public support for them. the challenge is that democrats are trying to do this with the narrowest of congressional majorities, zero margin for error in the senate. very small margin for error in the house. usually you count on in a situation like this people recognizing that politics, partisan politics is a team game and that people will ultimately come together behind the shared interests of their team and their president. but in this case, you ve got a couple of senators in joe manchin, and kyrsten sinema who are extremely intoxicated with their individual power to hold up particular elements and that is creating this herky-jerky mess at the end where sinema, for example, says even though there s no economic reason to do it i don t want to raise the individual or corporate tax late, so let s do some other