There have been calls for boycotts. Those actions often impose the greatest burdens on the most vulnerable in our society. Go back this is a moment tonight is the night we will fight until its over we put our hands up like the ceiling cant hold us like the ceiling cant hold us. Ainsley thats a live look at miami, florida. Good morning to you. Its nurse, yall. Where has this week gone . Its flying by. Brian right. I believe there is a curfew in miami. They have to listen to that at home normally without a pandemic they might still be in the clubs and lights start going on. Thats pretty much The Last Song they play. Steve i think its in miami beach. Im not positive. For much of the rest of the city. I just looked, it is 70 trees there. 80 for a high. Zero is the State Income Tax because i bring that up because they just jacked up the State Income Tax here in new york state, two whole points to 11 for people who are very successful. Brian brian new york state just got a huge payout for do
Thank you so much for joining us this hour. Im katie phang in for alicia menendez. We begin with the Surprise Demise of build back better. This morning, a single United States senator, joe manchin of West Virginia, went on fox news to declare he just couldnt get there in supporting his partys social spending plan, walking away from weeks of negotiations. Breaking deals brokered with the president of the United States and the white house. Burning bridges with many of his fellow democrats. It is news that came as a shock to all of washington. Politico putting together each and every twist and turn of the day, starting with the half hour headsup manchin gave to the white house and to congress, dispatching an aide only 30 minutes before he went on fox news. A white house in panic and disbelief. Top officials are scrambling to call the senator and, quote, head him off. But as a senior white house official tells playbook, manchin refused to take a call from white house staff. And then this h
this object has been described as roughly the size of a small car, much smaller than the suspected chinese spy balloon which the air force shot down last saturday. to say it was shut down to say nothing from the facts that comments from the podium at the white house today is raising questions tonight. it was downed off the alaska coast, again, about the size of a small car. it had been seen flying at approximately 40,000 feet and was deemed to pose a reasonable threat to aircraft and other civilian operations. still, there are few answers about the object, even as the white house attempts to draw distinctions between this episode and the episode i previously mentioned last saturday. now, we are told that the president based on the advice of the pentagon believed it posed enough of a concern that it needed to be shot down. he ordered it, and it was. asked about the intradiction, the president said simply it was a success. we re going to remain vigilant about the skies
2600 of them from southwest airlines. southwest canceled 60% of its flights overall just today. they are blaming the storm, which hit its hubs hard in chicago and denver. stranding crews and when you stand here, i mean, you just look at the al gone any on this womannens face waiting. talked to people who missed crews and family gatherings. one woman looking for insulin in a suitcase somewhere and she has no idea where that suitcase is and you really get the sense of a bubbling anger about this situation. here are some people we spoke to today. the flight from phoenix got delayed by seven hours and they canceled fly flights from phoenix to houston. i m here stuck at the airport. they were suppose sod get my luggage back. i have been looking since last night. luggage is nowhere to be found and just stuck here. i have only been missing my luggage for a day. i had a flight yesterday at 2:50 i got to the airport my flight was canceled. rebooked for wednesday and that flight wa
that wraps up this important hour. i m stephanie ruhle. i ll see you at 1:00. here comes hallie jackson. an extraordinary morning and we ve got special coverage of it for the next hour live from new york which is where my job covering the president is bringing us as he brings his brand of america first in the world stage in just a matter of moments. but his political future may not hang on what eats about to address, iran, north korea. instead it s ukraine with the ground shifting back home on impeachment. some democrats now calling this a tipping point, including one lawmaker live with us in just a minute. furious that the president appeared to be asking a foreign power for help, investigating a political rival. here s the president arriving at the u.n. just a minute ago. that was a perfect call. so what is different? what makes today unlike all the
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