it used to be a political cohesion when we needed one, how concerned are you with the state of politics in the body we used to serve in. we talked about threat to our national security, one of the worst threat is the disfunction that we see in washington in terps of the inability of both parties to be willing to work together and try to resolve the issues that face our nation, i have said in my 50 years in public life, i have seen washington at its best and washington at its worst, i have seen washington work, i have seen republicans and democrats willing to work together on issues. we have our political differences but there was a will to confront major issues and work together. today, there is a deep partisanship, an anger, frustration, between the
risks. for instance, with flooding knowing if you are in a high-risk area to flooding, and fortifying our defenses. one of the success stories out of hurricane ida was the improved levy system in new orleans after hurricane katrina, which held up during the intense winds and storm surge and prevented flooding within the city limits itself. when you look forward, when you pull the thread forward, it seems to me it has been clear to folks like yourself what is coming and it has been more of the disfunction in our politics prevented us from acting. when you look forward now, what do you see? so in terms of heavy rainfall like we saw in new york city last night, which was completely awful and terrible, we can expect more of that to happen. as the earth s atmosphere warms, it can hold more water vapor, more moisture, and that moisture is going to then be causing heavier rainfall events and
taken for a year and a half. they want to go back to work. to mostly we re just trying to control the virus so that the economy can get back to normal. now, i have been a big fan for many years of investments in infrastructure, and i m a fan of the infrastructure, both of the bills. the important thing to recognize is those are ten-year packages that are about making big investments that the country has neglected for a long time. those aren t really about turning us around in the next couple of months. in the next couple of months, by far the most important thing is to try to reduce the rate of spread of that virus and to not mess up anything else. short run, immediate increases in the interest rate, or big cuts or washington disfunction, shutting the government, things like that would throw us off the path in a disturbing way. the top line, don t mess it
talks to the new prime minister of israel, naftali bennett. what did president biden and bennett discuss? well, the two got on the phone rally quickly after naftali bennett was sworn in, and president biden offered his warm welcome, and one name the white house did not mention today, benjamin netanyahu, after 12 years the man known as the ultimate political survivor by some even king bb was finally dethroned. the balloons were left hanging as netanyahu waved good-bye from what might have been the final election night. his party won enough seats, but not enough to break israel s political disfunction, four elections in two years. as he left the stage the many political enemies he collected