ultimately joe biden s word as a biden, as he called it, isn t worth that much. if anything. but we will not stop our countdown until every american is home safely. we begin tonight with some troubling news. just released numbers now show over 1 million americans have contracted covid-19 just over the last couple of days. some of the highest numbers ever. we begin the new year knowing biden s first year as president who has been a disaster, a failure and almost every single thing he uttered was dead wrong. even joe s entire closing argument 2020 on the campaign trail was a big lie. on october 15th, 2020, biden announced we are eight months into this pandemic and donald trump still doesn t have a plan to get the virus under control. i do. on october 23rd, 24th, 28, 29th, and 30th, biden vowed that he would shut down that virus despite inheriting not one, not
may say this isn t worth my time or i have to get back to work. this is how it happens. this is how democracy unfolds. good to see you this morning for all the wrong reasons. democratic congressman juaquin castro of texas. the situation on the ukraine border intensifies, experts are saying a russian invasion seems not just likely but imminent. admiral james breaks this down. after the break we will head to ukraine for a report on the ground from nbc s correspondent richard engel. ground from nbc s correspondent ground from nbc s correspondent richard engel. are you ready when you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most.
medicines have risen, people wait for hours at gas stations at pharmacies. power cuts have lasted as long as 23 hours. banks have limited how much money people can withdraw from their accounts and the currency crash means their pay isn t worth much anyway. reuters notes that a soldier s salary used to be worth $900 a month. it is now worth $50. why is this happening? the world bank puts it uncharacteristically bluntly. it calls this a deliberate depression orchestrated by the country s elite. that s the political elite that has since the end of the civil war in the early 1990s milked the state for whatever money it could extract with no apparent concern for the survival of the lebanese people. the war pitted christian against muslim, sect against sect, it s solution was a fraction ous power-sharing agreement, the
power cuts have lasted as long as 23 hours. banks have limited how much money people can withdraw from their accounts, and the currency crash means their pay isn t worth much anyway. reuters notes that a soldier s salary used to be worth $900 a month. it is now worth $50. why is this happening? the world bank puts it uncharacteristically bluntly. it calls this a deliberate depression orchestrated by the country s elite. that s the political elite that has, since the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, milked the state for whatever money it could extract with no apparent concern for the survival of the lebanese people. the war pitted christian against muslim, sect against sect. it s solution was a fractious power-sharing agreement, the government was split.
a bloody insurgency by the u.s. and western countries or, you know, they pull out again ukraine and it goes right back to a pro western and even more militant pro western government because of this very in innovation. you know, i worry at this point that even if zelensky, for example, or the ukrainian government were to say, you know what, never mind. joining nato isn t worth it, it is not worth risk a major war and occupation by russia, let s just table this nato thing and we will drop our membership bid. i worry because of everything that happened in the last eight years, and especially in the last three months, that the population won t accept it, will push him out of power, and bring in an even more pro-western, pro-nato government. so russia has as much as putin is seen as a master strategist here in the west, he has really put into force and put into movement consequences that he