olmo missed his. then, it was morata s turn but he fired towards donna remarque who saved it, meaning george ennio could win it for italy. donnarummer. an unforgettable encounter. i have to say, we are very happy about all of this and i thank the players because they believed right from day one that we could produce something incredible. we haven t done everything we need to get. there is still another step to 90, there is still another step to go, but now we have to rest. italy will go into the final at wembley with a record that even roman soldiers would be proud of. they came into this match unbeaten for 32 games. they saw 14- unbeaten for 32 games. they saw 14 straight wins. can they conquer europe?
after it put them in control. and when ferran torres made it 3 1, the game seemed as good as over. how wrong we were. with just five minutes left, croatia scrambled it over the line goal given. they couldn t, could they? that s incredible! well, deep into injury time, guess what. would you believe it? mario pasalic stoking croatian celebration. it was 3 3 and it was thrilling. come extra time, though, spain finally eased clear, scoring twice to secure a 5 3 win. delight for them, but what astonishing drama. that was just the start. in bucharest, the world champions, france, fell behind to switzerland. seferovic with the goal, and after the break, the swiss won a penalty, but hugo lloris saved it, and the much flipped on its head. in a flash, france were in front. two
basically a political cri d cri de coeur in this ad. but vice president biden himself will not countenance that type of thing being done either directly by him or by anyone else on his behalf. honestly, the fact that vice president biden is asking for this ad not to be run, i think it should not be seen as a sign one way or the other about whether he s actually going to get into the race. but the beltway press absolutely will take this as an important sign. be prepared for that. specifically, be prepared to ignore that as continued baseless anonymous speculation, which is what it is and what it has been all these weeks. vice president biden is entitled to his own decision p he will tell us that he s in or he s not once he s decided that he s in or he s not. he gets to decide for himself. none of us get to decide. everybody s speculating on it, is pushing him and speaking for him in a way that he hasn t allowed anybody to do. let him speak for himself. enough said already. leave him alo
hastert were they picking somebody who had ideological specificity? no. but what he did have, the twist there was he was also tom delay s guy. so tom delay was in the leadership back then and wanted to be speaker but there there was a recognition especially in the wake of the bad mid-terms they had and the ranz gik gingrich was forced out as leader. tom delay was too radioactive to be speaker himself. but he had formidable strength within the republican caucus so he championed hastert on his way out the door. gingrich told republicans there s one guy that can unite us. they called him the coach. he d been a wrestling coach, we now know more about that. but the coach is the guy who can bring us all together. that is fascinating because that gets us right back to today which is there was a guy named tom delay there who could tell republicans what to do, wrangle votes, get enough votes together, to not only get a nominee but to get the floor vote passed and to put somebody in leadersh
nor did he ever have to be, although he went on to play a pivotal role in the civil rights act. he pulled it out of the hands of a chairman who bottled it up for years. when the health reform law nearly was in death in congress, nancy pelosi saved it. if you love obamacare or hate obamacare, you can blame or thank nancy pelosi for it. the speaker of the house really matters. it matters constitutionally, legislatively. our lives are sbamly different because of who has held that job at pivotal times. and so with this incredible chaos in washington today, it is a spectacle, it is exciting, it is fascinating to watch. but it is also unbelievably consequential, unbelievably consequential american politics.