here s the thing with this, it s beautifully designed and beautifully played and a well written script with great performances and a wonderful score. and it sounds like a perfect match. the problem for me is it s not so much parallel stories, it is tangential stories. you have the spanish civil war story, which appears and gets sidelined. you have the personal story which is full of melodramatic contrivance which you are meant to buy into because, hey, it serves the story. and then we move back to the spanish civil war so now, i have to say, i m in the minority here. most people i have spoken to think this is great. and i am a big fan and love his films, but it felt to me like this is not one of his best works. it has some great elements in it, and it has some things in it that i will cherish, but it did feel like two films and like i said not so much parallels, but kind of tangential. how fascinating. he doesn t usually the politics, does he?
heads have been a little melodramatic, the sky is falling. the sky is not falling. there are two good routes for biden for the next few weeks. one is to take the manchin proposal that he gave to president biden a few weeks ago, which is kind of build back better light. maybe that s what they ll have to settle for, half a loaf rather than a whole loaf. biden s a dealmaker. he can do that. the other way to do it is to break up the ball inill into sm pieces. but either route is possible. i think the smart money should go with taking manchin s build back better light and see if you can get that through. all right. michael genovese, we ll watch to see what happened in the coming days and weeks. appreciate your analysis. thank you, and happy holidays to all the cnn family. thank you so much, and the same to you. happy holidays. all right. time for a short break now. just ahead, the world health organization is warning a storm is coming as omicron invades
congressman barbara lee momentarily about, that breaking news. but i want to begin tonight about talking about where we re at. we re at an inflection points. because donald trump might be gone, but the stress test he s putting our democratic system through is still very much in progress. and what we do right now in this moment, will have a lasting impact on our democracy. and it will dictate whether our democracy survives. do you think i m being melodramatic? trust me, i m not melodramatic. ask yourself this question. when else in our history has one party been so concerned only about winning? and completely consumes with one, single mans and ego. so much so that they ve been willing to lie, cheat, and steal just to stay in power.
inspection. as he proceeded to fill the court with could be servetive anti-abortion justices, after he explicitly prompted he would only appoint justices who would overturn roe versus wade, abortion providers and activists and even just concerned observers could see what was happening, right? people were raising the alarm that roe versus wade was in imminent danger. the right to legal abortion in this country really was coming under threat. and some people didn t believe it or they said they didn t believe it. susan collins and lisa myrrh you could ski said they were sure, convinced that all the trump nominees to the supreme court certainly recognize roe versus wade as settled precedent. they would never mess with that. let s not be melodramatic. legal abortion is safe in this country in a permanent way. well here we are. you ever wondered where you d be and what you d be doing, what it would be like for you when roe versus wade came to an end in america and abortion started to be bann
then in the final months of trump s presidency, he replaced at one of the five justices filling the seat of the late ruth bader ginsburg, the one that written law is one in texas cannot survive judicial inspection. as he proceeded to fill the court with a conservative anti-abortion justices, after he explicitly prompted he would only appoint justices who would overturn roe versus wade, abortion providers and activists and even just concerned observers could see what was happening, right? people were raising the alarm that roe versus wade was in imminent danger. the right to legal abortion in this country really was coming under threat. and some people didn t believe it or they said they didn t believe it. susan collins and lisa murkowski said they were sure, convinced that all the trump nominees to the supreme court certainly recognize roe versus wade as settled precedent. they would never mess with that. let s not be melodramatic. legal abortion is safe in this country in a permanent