wisconsin, you know, my husband is from there. i have been living there for 20-some years. i do support the packers. i m really going to root for natural immunity, aaron rodgers this time. because i have to tell you, he is speaking the truth. the censorship, the children s part that we talked about early in the show is the most tragic is the big moral crisis that we must deal with. but the bigger, over arching problem that we have is the censorship. it s not just the shadow banning, and the shaming of people and calling them anti-vaxers that aaron rodgers talked about. but it s also the self-censoring that bari weiss talked about on bill maher. people agree with aaron rodgers that don t have the financial or the capital that he has to say what he says. he is not going to suffer financially for saying what he is saying.
sure that all of the allies are on the same page as to what their response to russia will actually be, and by and large they are with some small outstanding issues as to how exactly to respond. chief among them perhaps is the north stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany. the u.s. wants germany to commit to abandoning that. russia seems to indicate they will do that but has yet to say that in plain language. the third thing, kim, we have heard over and over for the past few weeks and that is the u.s. would prefer a diplomatic solution. they re ready to respond in the event of russian aggression. the over arching problem in munich is the russians won t actually be there, kim. thanks so much to nic robertson in moscow and scott mcclain in london. appreciate it. my colleague michael holmes spoke with robert english at the
controversy developed. seven facilities facing allegations of cooking the books awarded more than $8.7 million in bonuses to more than 12,000 employees. raising this issue. we ve had problems time and time again where it appears that it s much easier to get a bonus at va than it is to get disciplined or be fired. reporter: one government watchdog group argues that scandal brings to light an over arching problem for the federal government. literally has to be committing a crime in order to get fired in the federal government. now, tom also made the point to me that this comes down to bad management and that sharon hellmann should have figured out about all of these backlogs simply by walking around to the phoenix va but he said this system of bad management is part of the culture re-enforced by the federal government. kate and chris? we ll see what happens today. thank you so much. let s take a break. coming up next on new day, michelle obama taking on house