republican senate leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman nicole malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. the country is crying out for healing. as president-elect biden fills his cabinet. who will have chrome of the senate to potentially confirm them? i ll speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. hello. i m dane ma bash in for jake tapper in washington. the state of our union is preparing for the worst. americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. already 4 million new u.s. covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. we haven t even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. one infectious disease expert is now warning that the post-holiday case surge will be destabilizing for the u.s. health care system and the economy and homeland security with some projects of deaths will double double before
it s going to be a very hard thing to concede. what will be left of the republican party when he is gone? i ll speak to a member of the republican senate leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman nicole malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. plus, power play. democrats and republicans face off in the last election of 2020. the country is crying out for healing. as president-elect biden fills his cabinet, who will have control of the senate to potentially confirm them? i ll speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. hello. i m dana bash in for jake tapper in washington. as americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. already 4 million new u.s. covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. we haven t even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. one infectious disease expert is now warning that the
who get sick were accelerated in a president out of this pandemic. the second way to make sure recovery is fully felt is to pass our bipartisan my bipartisan infrastructure agreement and my build back better plan, which would be debated now. i m going to be heading over there shortly after i do this press conference, back to my office to make some calls. i want to say very clearly, if your number one issue is the cost of living, the number one priority should be seeing congress pass these bills. 17 nobel prize winners in economics have said, spontaneously wrote to me together, and said this will lower inflationary pressure on the economy when we pass my bills. a new analysis of the wall street form moody s found it would ease the burden of inflation for middle-class families. put another way, these bills will provide families with, as my dad used to say, just a little more breathing room. that s because the build back better framework lowers your bills for health care, chil
progressives are threatening to not vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill at this hour until the build back better or reconciliation bill is voted on as well. house speaker nancy pelosi may put the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the floor anyway. and essentially dare progressives to vote against it. even now there is continued uncertainty up on the hill with a back and forth that has stalled the president s domestic spending agenda. multiple preferences promising deals have not yet developed. concretely. congressional correspondent chad pergram starts us off with the latest at this minute from capitol hill. good evening, chad. good evening, bret. fractures among democrats, moderates and liberals sniping. house democratic leaders cutting their losses. they lack the votes to pass the social spending plan. so democrats looked for an exit strategy. they punted on the social spending bill. now they want to win on infrastructure. i do believe that there are a large num
and he was all the time. she didn t like being away from him. at least partially because they contributed in a major way to each other s way of thinking about absolutely everything in their lives. career, children, home life, relatives, friends and so on. when you got colin powell and got alma too and vice versa and a good thing because the whole is much greater than the sum of the giant parts. a really dedicated family man. everybody learned from him. how to deal with the difficulty of being a soldier. busy all the time. away from home most of the time. and still be a good parent. a lot of us learn how to do that from him. he was a genuine pragmatist and he said you have to do the things that are important first but it doesn t mean that you have to ashoe doing the one thing in favor of another if they re both important. you have to be good at being who you are. and if you do that you re going to wind up being a good soldier and a good father at the same time. colonel jack,