throughout the country. we also are investing approximately 150 billion dollars in the creation and preservation of affordable housing. so we will be lowering housing cost as well. and, not only is the bill not going to add to the kurd inflation issue that we got to deal with, and hopefully we will see enhanced monetary policy coming out of the federal reserve to deal with this dynamic, but it is also been a lower cost in critical errors for the american people. congresswoman jayapal told rachel maddow in the previous hour, that not everything in this bill that you are going to vote on tonight has been wired already with the united states senate. that there could be some changes forced on the senate. what will that do to the procedure if the senate makes changes? well lawrence i have great respect for the institution where you want to serve the people of this great country, but i have learned that my full plus terms in congress is not
idealistic, strategic and we interested in getting results. it was beautiful. meeting and proud of. them the house and senate are very different worlds. speaker pelosi says she will never bring up a bill to the floor if she doesn t have the votes to pass it. today, chuck schumer brought a bill to the floor knowing he didn t have the votes, knowing he didn t have the 60 votes necessary to clear the procedural threshold that would then allow a vote on the actual bill itself. chuck schumer knew that he would need and not get ten republicans to cast what used to be a routine vote in the senate can simply continue government funding levels for a couple of months and raise the debt ceiling to cover the increase in the debt already incurred by the government, in this case, and kurd by the tax cuts of donald trump and the covid relief package is signed
now. also was a firefighter. he was off duty that day but got in a truck and headed to new york city like so many of his firefighter brothers. 343 were lost on september 11th. ken, thank you very much for being here. i know this must be always a tough day, right? it is. it s surreal to think that 20 years have passed. but for those that lost someone on 9-11, it s with you every day. not just on the anniversary. i remember all the good things my brother did and i appreciate the way you described them. martha: as you came in that day, obviously you understood that this was a really dire situation. what was going through your mind? yeah, i remember right after the collapse to kurd, i turned to one of the guys, i said we re all going to know somebody that just died. i thought how prophetic that
he announced it, it wouldn t be a conditions-based withdrawal from afghanistan. if we waited for the right conditions we would never leave. it sent a message to the taliban you have green light to do whatever you want in afghanistan. gave them a green light for the offensive taking place. they knew no matter what they did, no matter how they responded, we were leaving no matter what. and so biden is responsible for unleashing this taliban assault that is so devastated and taken over the country. bill: if you went back to 2009 12 years ago when president obama was making the decision to beef up forces or not. he chose to beef up forces. his vice president joe biden at the time disagreed with that. strike force was more appropriate to fight the battle. prior to that he thought you should break up iraq to three different parts. sunni, shiite and kurd and ambassador crocker, ryan crocker, he spent the last 20 years of his life in these places.
and essentially they banned the muslims from living in the city. of course the muslims of the region want to throw out the westerners. and so this is what prompted the rise of saladin, to take back jerusalem from the christians who had taken it from the muslims. saladin was a kurd, an ethnic kurd, who was born in the city of tikrit. he s famous for his generosity. in fact, his administrators say, we ve got to hide money from him because if he knows he s got it, he s going to give it away. saladin wants to conquer jerusalem. but in order to conquer jerusalem, he s first got to unite all of the disparate arab armies into one. meaning he spent a lot of his