is an extremely powerful force in russia, and that remains true, does it not? er, it s not really so. and it doesn t work against ukraine. i mean, ukraine is our neighbours. 50 million ethnic ukrainians live in russia. almost every. almost every family in russia has relatives or close friends, or both, in ukraine. you just can t sell this nationalist idea, even through the most powerful propaganda machine, even through putin s propaganda machine. it wouldn t work. leonid volkov, we have to end there. but i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from california. thank you.
you just can t sell this nationalist idea, even through the most powerful propaganda machine, even through putin s propaganda machine. it wouldn t work. leonid volkov, we have to end there. but i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from california. thank you. well, we have some pretty good weather on the way for this weekend. lots of sunshine across england and wales. a little bit more cloud for scotland and northern ireland but, on the whole, it is still going to be a dry one. so, let s have a look at the big picture at the moment.
there was some political drama because of president biden s vaccine mandates. . a small number threatened to hold up the vote. they see fighting vaccine as a winning political play, obviously. it comes as we see a dramatic measure out of germany where the unvaccinated are essentially being banned from public lives a the country deals with a surge. a considerable one. it shows patience has completely run out with those refusing a shot, very similar to what s happening in the u.s. as the winter months begin. joining us now is michael smerconish, host of cnn s smerconish. what do you think about what germany is doing, and can you imagine that being done in the u.s.? i imagine it not being tried here. and it wouldn t work, brianna, if it were to be tried. we narrowly averted a government shutdown because of continued opposition among republicans, red state else, rural representatives to vaccine mandates. and the president s announcement yesterday of increased emphasis
embrace hegel marks the sort of thing. who really do insist that basically they destroy the existing society to get to the problems land. we ve heard that before. the modern incarnation of this, of this attitude and belief system, the progressives. this so-called democratic socialist, isn t this where they re dragging countries, are not dragging them where people want to go in these various countries. sure everybody was to go there provided they can go there without any personal inconvenience. me too. i m not objecting to universal healthcare. it wouldn t work. it would work for me that s all i care about. and if you have 30 million other people is exactly same thing you will have a system exactly like the socialist system of france. which i must say did a great job on me.
to care in most states. and in medicare where medicare advantage also exists. that is a managed care system. we can t just blew the system u up. melissa: it wouldn t work. even if you blew up the system and you took away insurance companies, you still can t give every human being every health care possible every treatment possible, right when they needed, unless the doctors are going to work for free for the hospitals are going to give away stuff for free. or somebody s going to be doing it for free. harris: would you want it for free? katie: then there is no doctors. guy: the government will ration care. they will be longer wait times. we seen this in canada in the u.k. harris: not really free. time is everything. guy: the federal government spent $4 trillion last year 2018. we ran an $800 billion deficit almost. so we are already in trouble paying for what we are already spending. you add 75 or 80% of that