that nature. so i am very disappointed in hoff. he is usually professional. this is an absolute political move on his part. there really is no there shouldn t be opposition from people in the military. we are giving an order, take your shot. if you don t want to take your shot, leave the military. lots of people want to take your spot. duly noted. arizona congressman ruben gallego. next, political strategists weighing in on the blowback this week for senator kyrsten sinema over the president s spending bill. we ll be right back. ll be righ. fall in love with iphone. now new and existing customers can get the powerful new iphone on us.
something and the shelf is empty. i think a lot of this is also the function that a lot of people have not got back to work. even though it looks like we passed through the worst hoff the covid crisis. people should be going back in to the economy. the economy should be humming. that s not happening. if you look at the latest job stats, forget the stats themselves. look at the labor force participation rate, which suggests a lot of people have decided to permanently opt out of the work force. that makes it word. you reported on this. we have almost 11 million jobs that go begging right now. only 194,000 americans took employers up on that last month. what is keeping them from at least looking in to those jobs? well, people are asking all sorts of questions. normally the answer is for employers to raise wages and
ultimately concluded that there was nothing to that allegation. but it s within that context that this lawyer, michael sussman that represented the dnc, went to see his old front, james baker, the general counsel for the fbi to press this theory on him about the potential that russia and the trump campaign were communicating through alpha bank. i think there s one interesting thing, martha, christopher steele, the source of the dossier, is being sued in england for libel by the head hoff the people that run alpha bank for things that he put in the dossier about alpha bank. steele testified in the british proceeding that it was sussman that gave him the information about alpha bank that he pressed on the fbi. martha: that is interesting. there s a frustration on the part of those that watch this
defend taiwan and ukraine. next question. not talking about the arms and munitions. all the aircraft is gps tracked. we can identify this. why did we not destroy it or don t we destroy it now? thank you. so let me say this. i know my colleagues from the defense department, joint chiefs will have an opportunity to speak to congress in the weeks ahead. they re the experts on this. about since 2004, roughly, something like $80 billion in defense articles was provided to afghanistan. that goes back the last sir, i m only asking you about the gps tracking. we know the location of this equipment that we have seen fall into the hands hoff terrorists. are we going to destroy it or not? much of this equipment is inoperable or will soon be inoperable because it can t be maintained. as i ve seen it, there s nothing
to the press in a cynical way and said we re not going to talk about afghanistan. we think the voters will forget this and we re going to focus on human infrastructure, free community college, free this, free that. we think voters will reward us at the polls in the 2020 mid-terms. incredibly cynical. they cannot avoid talking about afghanistan. the afghanistan will continue to be part of our national i was looking at a list of the members in the new government. the acting prime minister is the head hoff the taliban leadership council, this is the group that sanctioned al-quaida being in afghanistan being a safe haven for al-quaida and attacking the united states. the deputy prime minister is abdul barada, who is the taliban co-founder. he was the pakistanis consider him a terrorist. the prime minister is designated