covid crisis isn t over yet. we have to have adequate protection around this country. welcome to inside politics, i m abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. president biden is facing a crisis at the southern border. two major mass shootings and in assault on voting rights that is a crisis for our democracy. but his message to americans and members of congress is that he remains laser focused on two things. i got elected to solve problems. and the most urgent problem facing the american people i stated from the outset was covid-19 and the economic dislocation for millions and millions of americans. the other problems we re talking about, from immigration to guns and the other things you mentioned, are long-term problems. they ve been around a long time. and what we re going to be able to do, god willing, is now begin one of the times to focus on those as well. but the filibuster make
president trump. he spoke about reports the president was going to strike iran, the firing of mark esper and plans to withdraw troops from afghanistan and iraq. this runs 30 minutes. good afternoon, i am robert costa with the washington post. a national political reporter. today we welcome back one of the more high-profile former members of president trump s administration. now a high-profile critic who served as national security advisor to president trump and previously served in other republican administrations, ambassador, john bolton. welcome back. mr. bolton: glad to be back. thanks for having me. robert: ambassador bolton, as you look at the landscape after during the lame-duck period during the election, do you believe president trump will take action against iran? mr. bolton: i don t. i think the reports that he asks for options is fairly typical of the erratic idiosyncratic ill heformed, inconsistent way makes decisions. the thought occurs to him that maybe it wou
implications around the world . and we are lucky to have mr. denis mcdonough, former white house chief of staff. cabinet rank, we have broken the cabinet rank ceiling here. former deputy national security advisor and former advisor to the n.s.c. he is someone who has sat at the nexus of foreign policy, u.s. politics and communication and he knows a little something about northeast asia as well. the pride of stillwater, minnesota, he currently is a professor at notre dame and i , think he microing mores the st. john s university athletic department from afar. i see the football helmet in the background there, an institution alum.ch he is a proud he holds a master s degree from georgetown university and most, i think, notably for those with follow entertainment, played by john hamm in the movie the report. not many people can say that. welcome, mr. mcdonough, to the excellent. great to be with you. been looking forward to this conversation and happy to see victor too as well.
we will get your thoughts on what grade you would give your governor on this pandemic, but let s begin with south dakota s governor. take a look at the state. this is from nbc news. a 19% increase over the past two weeks. here is republican south dakota governor kristi noem defending her approach. [video clip] across the country and around the globe, cases are increasing. over the past week, cases are on the rise in 48 states. some have said that my refusal to mandate masks is the reason why our cases are rising here in the state of south dakota. that is not true. others have said that my refusal to advance harsh restrictions like lockdowns is another one of the reasons why our cases are rising, and that is also not true. there are 41 states that have some kind of a mask mandate. cases are on the rise in 39 of those 41 states. some in the media are saying that south dakota is the worst in the world right now. that is absolutely false. i would encourage you to look at the jo
our medical order karen handel, a republican who served as georgia s secretary of state, previously held a congressional district 6 seat. lucy mcbeth served as representative of congressional district 6 since 2018. before that she spent 30 years working for delta airlines. let s meet the panelists. stanley dunlop, a reporter with the georgia recorder and george estevez, an anchor with wsb tv. candidates have 67 second and 37 seconds to respond. and they have 10 seconds remaining. please visit atlantapressclub.org. the start of the debate will include each candidate being asked two questions. welcome. the affordable care act, and there are coverage that are considered low income. if the supreme court upholds the ruling coming their way, that responsibility moves to the state to fund low-income families. how do you pre-pose the state of georgia owns that program? i have the last thing i was concerned about, in washington, the cost of prescription drugs, treatment and care