right. it obviously extends to people elastic. yes, it is. it extends to people who might have bagels together at breakfast in the morning and slit each other s throats by lunch and then call each other friends at night still. i think in the current day, polarized washington that s what amounts to a friendship. they can sit down in a room and not hate each other, that doesn t mean they re going to agree on things, they don t have separate and competing priorities and dynamics pushing them in opposite directions. i think what you should look at at a biden/mcconnell friendship or relationship is one that avoids some of the most toxic versions of this that we ve seen in washington over the years. mcconnell is not going to want to raise jihad against biden. but that doesn t mean he s going to help his agenda if he doesn t see it s in his interest.
make that compromise? this 55 vote threshold instead of 60, we ve had some democrats open to that and ross conservative writer at the times, is that a compromise or is that to radioactive for some. it is not like the founding fathers chiseled 60 into the stone tablet of the constitution. it was three-fourths and then it became three-fifths. so they have the complexibility to change it. but the question is, is the appetite there to do it. and the op-ed suggests it is not just the filibuster but it is 60 that she s committed to at this point is that a negotiating posture or is she solid. time will tell. i think this emphasis on whether manchin is with the 50. let s say he is. it still doesn t mean he s going
let s hug and love each other. but it s clearly not in anybody s interest, your country or mine, for us to be in a situation where we re in a new cold war. i truly believe he thinks that, he understands that but that doesn t mean he s ready to, quote, lay down his arms and say come on. he still is, i believe, concerned about being, quote, in circle. he still is concerned that we, in fact, are looking to take you down, he still has those concerns. but i don t think they re the driving force of the kind of relationship he s looking for with the united states. jennifer jacobs. thank you, mr. president. is there a particular reason why the summit lasted only about three hours? we know you allotted four to five hours? was there any reason it ran shorter? also president putin said that there were no threats or scare
0 so president biden has shown his willingness to engage putin where he can. and i think if we don t see any reciprocity, if putin doesn t want for play then this mix that president biden has offered is going to have to skew much more heavily towards the confrontation side so he gets the last word. stick with us, andrea, as we await president biden, he s set to begin his press conference in a few minutes. we re at the top of the hour. we ve been discussing what will president putin said in his press conference. he spent a lot of time doing what about-isms, denying, deflecting any criticism going his way. but trying to create the condition saying, hey, we re creating a stable situation with president biden. let me bring in mike memoli, of course, traveling with the president. mike, i m curious, i know you ve been doing some reporting as putin s press conference was going on. what s your sense of the balance they re going to strike with trying to sort of how much they respond directl
now they think that he s addressed his offending. a few years ago, they concluded there was no more work needed to be done on his offending within prison because he d reached a certain point of rehabilitation there, and they concluded, the parole board, that he could be safely managed in the community. now, that doesn t mean he s free because he s subject to 30+ conditions on his movements. he has to wear a tag, he has to talk regularly to probation officers, he can t have any supervised conduct with children. these kind of things. and it s obviously a very, very difficult balancing exercise, but the parole board think, in this case, it is no longer necessary to hold him actually inside the jail. the prime minister has backed culture secretary 0liver dowden in saying the england and wales cricket board has gone over the top by suspending 0llie robinson for old sexist and racist messages posted on social media. in a tweet, 0liver dowden said the texts were offensive and wrong