the final product. there will be changes that need to be made to win over senators on the senate side. and that s because they can t afford to lose a single democrat. so, now, all eyes turn to joe manchin. that centrist from west virginia. he has concerns with the paid family leave provisions. he s also raised concerns about inflation and the long-term economic and fiscal impacts of this bill. and the other side of the spectrum, you have bernie sanders. the leading progressive. he also has issues with some of the tax provisions in the bill that would help high-income earners and he is also still fighting to expand medicare to include dental, hearing, and vision. right now, it only includes the hearing services. so, it s still a long road ahead. they are trying to wrap it up before the end of this year but i will tell you, erin, that democrats here on capitol hill are feeling pretty good about where things are. and it was certainly a celebration atmosphere today, this morning when it pa
republican congressman adam kinzinger he tweeted now is a good time for kyle rittenhouse to turn his life around. i would certainly hope he does not become a prop for those who would like to abuse him for political gain, then throw him out. i believe in redemption. okay. yet, you know, i mentioned congres congressman gaetz and cawthorn. you also have paul gosar thrilled to jump in on this after being censured and stripped of his committees, right, for threatening another member with death. tweeted a response to that gaetz offering an internship, i will arm wrestle matt gaetz to get dibs for kyle as an intern. so they are in a sense making it into a sick a sick game. but how how does rittenhouse not become a right-wing prop and really fulfill every narrative that both sides have at this point? the best thing that i read about this case was a couple days ago in the atlantic, david french wrote it and in anticipation of a potential
beyond the earth and that, in fact, is really exciting. and deeply profound. i mean, you have dedicated your your entire career to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. what does this mission mean to you? do you feel that it s finally, you know, within your grasp? well, the fact that we will be able to interrogate nearby exoplanets is really stunning and exciting. there has been so much technology that was required to be developed to make this telescope work. that it s taken a great deal of time. and it will be able to do things that other telescopes can t. looking for intelligent life, looking for what we call techno signatures, we tend to use other ground-based telescopes. but it could show us life on a nearby planet and that would be stunning. it it would be. and i know that emphasis on just
groundbreaking mission. do you think there is life out there? you know, nathaniel, whatever i think about life beyond earth doesn t matter a bit. you know, for millennia, we asked the priests, the philosophers, whoever we thought was wise, what we should believe. well, we can now change that verb into the verb to explore. anything else is religion. and we are not doing religion here. we re doing science. so, the woman you just saw in that clip, jill tarter, she joins me now. she is the chair atemeritus and your work was depicted in the movie contact. your character was played of course by jodi foster. it was sort of a life-changing movie for me. i loved it. so, jill, i m i m so honored to get to talk to you as a person who inspired that and has spent your life on this. so, how confident are you that the web telescope will will
message. what they needed to say is that all folks over the age of 18, you know, should get a booster when they pass those milestones. instead, they said for 18 to 50 can get a booster. if you come to me and ask me what you should do and i say you can. that s not what you are asking for. you want to know what you should do and what they should have said is everywhere over the age of 18 should get a booster. yeah, that s true. there is a big difference between can and should. thank you very. . appreciate your time as always, dr. reiner. my pleasure. next, the house passes biden s massive spending bill but its fate now, of course, totally uncertain because it s heading to the senate. and nasa about to send up its new $10 billion telescope with the hope of finding signs of life in space. it s been delayed and the fact that it s finally going up is something to celebrate. what are the odds they find life? if you re an adult newly diagnosed