of vladimir putin. what is putin thinking? i think he might have expected that republicans and democrats weren t so unified. this must have been a bit of a wakeup call. absolutely. look, the entire response of nato and the west, brianna, has been a wakeup call for vladimir putin. it s been a wakeup call for many of us ourselves who have been participating in the media discussion. there was a lot of concern that the west was not going to be as strong and united as it s been. just remember a week ago the concern how strong are the sanctions going to be imposed? are they going to go after the biggest russian financial institutions, the central bank. people thought, well, no, the
of vladimir putin. what is putin thinking? i think he might have expected that republicans and democrats weren t so unified. this must have been a bit of a wakeup call. absolutely. look, the entire response of nato and the west, brianna, has been a wakeup call for vladimir putin. it s been a wakeup call for many of us ourselves who have been participating in the media discussion. there was a lot of concern that the west was not going to be as strong and united as it s been. just remember a week ago the concern how strong are the sanctions going to be imposed? are they going to go after the biggest russian financial institutions, the central bank. people thought, well, no, the blowpack on western economies is
think it can bring in about $200 billion. democrats, the white house, the treasury department think that number is actually close to 400. there are lots of technical reasons why they disagree on this. i won t bore you with all of them, but the bottom line is the white house and the treasury department think that provision will simply be more effective. now, this debate s been going on for quite some time, long before actually we were even talking about it in this bill because originally these tax provisions were part of how they were going to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. this discussion has been going on for quite a long time, which is why democrats weren t surprised to see these numbers, though they may still be disappointed by them. i ll leave this as a possibility we may see in the senate. one of the provisions that was added back was paid family leave. costs about $200 billion. this is something that joe manchin does not support in this bill. you take this out as joe
attention? well, it is really both. this wasn t a five alarm fire for democrats, nothing will be. this was, of course, local in the sense that you have local issues that make a difference and stir the party base on both sides. particularly republicans. but the national dimension is impossible to ignore. the fact is that president biden, with a 54% win last year manages to get below 45 and approval and as a result and a result also of the inaction of the house and the senate democrats on the two big proposals that president biden has on the table, democrats weren t excited. i saw that in going through all the votes. the republican turnouts were unbelievable, particularly in rural counties. it wasn t just the absolute number. a lot of them were small counties without a lot of votes. but when you add them together, and the republican nominees were
down on the economy, on security, on the school. and then every time he landed it s like, i m going to climb this little ladder and talk about grocery taxes. how am going to climb this when i m going to talk about he had an applause line about bringing advanced maps to every school in virginia. that was an applause line pete he was stuck at about the issues, the democrats weren t, and that is why they are surprised. i m going to take geraldo s $20 and i m going to go buy something. it s not going to be able to get what it used to get, because of biden inflation, but i disagree. the stock market is at record highs. all i know is that the economy depends on who you ask. i think i m going to get the drink instead. okay. grab your popcorn, the liberal media is freaking out about an amazing night for republicans and blaming everything on racism.