a speaker but if you could have a battle like this and five members in effect plus the others they have been able to bring on board can cause so much trouble here, what does that mean for things like, i don t know, funding the government or any other piece of legislation? well, it shows why the omnibus bill passed last month because senate republicans and it s notable that mitch mcconnell will be in kentucky with joe biden today why they passed the omnibus, they didn t trust house republicans to be able to get this through. i have some sympathy here for kevin mccarthy because i don t know to some extent whether or not a deal will we will see ultimately if this is true but could have been cut. as he makes concessions and they have been agreed torques we talk about goalposts moving but they keep moving so much we don t know whether or not this is a caucus that is the nothing will ever be good enough caucus in which case the gop, whomever the majority and speaker is will have real
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subpoenas when they want torques that means they are going to be able to move more quickly to move forward with nominees. that is all practically very important, but this is still a very important symbolic move for sinema, really an official separation from the democratic party that she often has even sparred with some of her colleagues. in the past she has worked with republicans and that is a bipartisan effort that no one in the democratic party ever really held against her, but she has also at times kept her party from doing things that the rest of them really wanted to do, like getting rid of the filibuster. she and manchin very clear time and time again, that was something they weren t willing to do. this announcement doesn t change who she is as a senator, but it really does, you know, just make it the final sever between her and the democratic party. obviously a very important move for her and we should note she is up for reelection. does that have some component and was that pa
they are fearing the worst, fearing what happened five years ago because of the images you re seeing, because of that flooding, that water, and the anxiety that is tied to the timing of all of this. emergency crews say they will be right back out today trying to get into the areas they haven t gotten into, but most people are just waiting for the rain to stop. back to you. leyla santiago. she was there five years ago. with us to discuss is a former member of the senate of puerto rico, also an attorney and during his time in office was the chair of the energy committee and advocated for reform. a lot of experience in the aftermath of this kind of thing. ramone, it s good to have you on this morning. i wonder given what we ve seen so far, of course, you have the initial path of the storm and the damage with maria, we saw all the aftermath, months, months, right torques recover and do you fear a similar long recovery now?
and, you know, we had a warrant in this case that was so overbroad and they used it as a sword. it literally allowed the fbi, when you talk about how they were able to get passports and everything, literally allowed the fbi lawfully, because it was signed off, to gather every government document and presidential record from president trump s first day as president through his last day as president. that was a four-year, some would call it a fishing expedition, i would call it a hunting license. now they ve turned around and said after i heard president trump very clearly say that he was in favor of releasing the underlying affidavit and calling merrick garland s bluff. they re saying, oh, no, now we ve got torques you know, preserve the sanctity and grand jury and this is far too sensitive. far too sensitive all at the same time they re leaking information to the washington post that it s about nuclear weapon technology. so unfortunately, you know, we re seeing the same thing. laur