every single one voted against. against a bill backed by a majority of you, including many of the opposite s own republican constituents. against sending americans $1400 checks. against giving unemployed americans a $300 a week boost in support. against cutting child poverty in half. against saving tens of thousands of jobs. now that it is done, some of the opposers are becoming posers, like this. look at this tweet from senator roger wicker, mississippi. celebrating the money for restaurants, remember, he wanted to starve you. he voted against this money for you. fact. president biden owns this, good or bad. the first major legislative achievement of his presidency. this bill represents a historic, historic victory for the american people. i look forward to signing it later this week. everything in the american rescue plan addressed a real need. please focus on this. 61% of americans wanted this rescue. two thirds of the country think it will help our economy. among them
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has said he believes the people in mariupol enduring this are saving lives elsewhere in the city. but it is coming at an extraordinarily high cost. you mentioned a little earlier on the weekend we saw another strike on a big shelter there, an art school with some 400 people staying, women, children, the elderly, and we don t know if anyone survived that strike. the authorities say they have no way of getting that information. if the russian plan was to break the will of the ukrainian people, did not happen, did not materialize. but at what a cost. phil black, thank you so much for being with us right now. joining me is journalist and the former spokesperson of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, yulia mendel. we see what s happening and we heard from the ukrainian minister of defense who said the sacrifice of the people there may be saving tens of thousands
stayed. do you think we are less safe now than we were before we went in to afghanistan 20 years ago? well, yeah, i think that s hard to measure, but we re certainly less safe than we were when we had a group of, let s say, 5,000 american service people in afghanistan standing up as the backbone behind some 250,000 afghan troops, who were keeping at bay the taliban and other terror groups. that made us a great deal safer. we have tens of thousands of troops in germany, south korea, japan. why are they there? not just as favors to those countries but because we believe that keeps us and the world safer. and the idea that we would keep several thousand troops in afghanistan, as long as necessary, to keep us more safe is, of course, the appropriate policy to take. these political slogans come in the way. end endless wars. the war is not ended when only one party pulls out and the
past few months. finally, jake, i want to say when 13 service members lose their life in service of the worthy mission of saving tens of thousands, more than 100,000 people, all of us who work on these issues lie awake at night and wonder what could we have done differently? what could we have done better? those are questions we will ask. those are questions we will answer. for the next 48 hours, our overriding focus is on getting remaining citizens out of the country and making sure our troops get home safely. that s what we ll put our energy into. one last question, jake. there are names and passport numbers, and phone numbers of american citizens in kabul right now that, you know, members of congress and journalists and members of the administration, members of the military are sending you, sending abroad. what happens to these people? are they going to get out? i am personally fielding some of these calls. and all of us, every single