attitude and, paul, you have been behind the scenes in many strategy sessions like this. but they seem tong the economic package is simply too big to fail and that s going to win the day. that everyone at the end of the day will come around and say if we don t get this over the finish line, then that s it for the biden agenda and, therefore, for our electoral prospects come the midterm elections. i am just not sure if that s going to hold considering how dug in people are right now and how it seems so difficult to actually get to an agreement here. i was speaking with a democratic pollster who does a lot of polling for a lot of candidates. the argument is that biden has to succeed. if he fails, you fail. yes, exactly. and we re all in this together. and so, if infrastructure doesn t get passed or some form of build back better doesn t get passed, it s not going to be everything you want. but if the president is perceived as a failure, then his popularity, which is already going d
mark which is great for everyone to get a break. will we ll stay in the 90s. but you know, this region of the country, we keep repeating, just isn t prepared for this type of heat. the infrastructure doesn t exist. people just are not used to the temperatures. so the to these temperatures. so the people in portland were just trying to eape any way they could. a lot of people don t have ac in their homes and a lot of businesses don t have ac. those that have air conditioning tried using the air conditioning and there was a lot of issues. i can tell you that the hotel we were staying at the second day had issues so we had to switch hotels. you also had a large homeless population, thousands of people living in the streets in portland that had to go to these cooling centers. families would go to museums, shopping malls, stores that did have air conditioning. basically anywhere you could escape the heat, some people left the city and went to bodies of water, went to the beach but it was ju
quite literally not worth passing. probably worse than nothing. climate is the essential infrastructure challenge we face, obviously. remember last month one of the largest pipelines was hacked and shut down for days? what does that carry? fossil fuel transmission pipeline supplies, also fuel most of the east coast. remember texas during the winter storm? that was energy infrastructure. what drives on roads and bridges? vehicles entirely powered by the fossil fuel that we have to keep burning so we don t hate the planet to a crisp. the infrastructure doesn t live outside the energy and climate system. it is the backbone to that system not only that but if you strip the climate plan out of the bill you are going to lose a lot of democratic senators and will be left with nothing to pass. at a markey who co-sponsor the resolution green new deal told the new york times the planet cannot survive another successful republican obstructionist strategy. we have to have climate at the center of
reputation in the world as the world s greatest democracy. why infrastructure doesn t get done in this country and we have congressional dysfunction back in washington, d.c. but you cannot talk about the swamp without talking about the president s conflicts of interest and whether or not he s profiting off the presidency. and when it comes to mar-a-lago, we just don t know. there is virtually no transparency. the president over the course of the last two years has said basically from foreign governments whether it s at his d.c. hotel or mar-a-lago, made something like $300,000. we don t have the receipts. don t know what goes into the $300,000. there are so many more layers that we get into in the documentary that you ll see this weekend off 9:00. he s profiting off the secret service staying at this properties. when you look the at it as a wh the man who was elected by talking about blowing up the system is doing, frankly, the exact opposite and putting money in his pocket by playing
homes shoppers and traders flee making any economic activity impossible for the rest of the day this is important is because not true a lot of the potential of the space as the dubai of africa they were approach is more enforcement it is not development they have not provided to the infrastructure that is required to make this a shocking that it could be. an average cross border shop to spend twelve hundred year is pushing trip to johannesburg that goods to carry time in packs and in suitcases on board of buses departing from backyard terminals. thousands of them arrive every day but they may stop coming if infrastructure doesn t improve and security remains fragile and that was all we can review.