Joining me as a trita parsi, the executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute along with Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the foundation for defense of democracies, thank you for thank you for being here. Trita parsi, let me begin with you. Who are the candidates running in this president ial election . Guest i think the most important thing right now is that there are few candidates and that even though the elections in iran have never been there, they have never been as narrow as they are this time around. In the sense that only conservative candidates were allowed to run with the exception of two rather unknown oral lowprofile, nonconservative unknown, lowprofile nonconservatives. That is for him to be able to become the next president of iran, hes the current head of the iranian judiciary, and also an ultraconservative with ties to the current supreme leader and the rumor is that this is done in order to legitimize him and put him first in line to be able to take over as s
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Throughment rich edson is joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. Good afternoon, griff. When President Biden returns to washington The White House says hell be negotiating with republicans and democrats and a compromise on infrastructure. Theyre discussing a 1 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal however there are stick being points, how to pay for this. Democrats want Tax Increases and republicans want to use unspent Covid Relief funds. His own proposal, as you know, is a huge package, 2. 65 trillion dollars with a 2 Trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Now, griff, as you mentioned, democrats are working on two tracks here, theres that bipartisan trillion dollar track, but also looking for a larger bill, something in the order of 6 Trillion, potentially up to that much. This is something thAt The democrats would have to pass with all of their 50 mem
And i want to welcome Secretary Blinken, whos down at that end of this long table. Mr. Secretary, were still trying to keep a fair amount of distance, but it is an improvement that we are not having to wear our masks. And i appreciate that. Something the Vice Chairman and i have discussed. And i understand that Vice Chairman shelby will defer to Senator Graham, the ranking member in the state foreign Office Subcommittee for his Opening Statement and after that ill turn to Senator Coons who i welcome as the new chairman when hell give his Opening Statement. Mr. Secretary, this committee funds every aspect of the departments operations. Going over going over it going over it again this weekend, i probably explored more of the detail than i had before, but it covers every aspects of your operation, you cant turn the lights on, turn on your computers at foggy bottom or around the world without the appropriations from here. And what worried me is that last year, your predecessor, secretary
The committee will come to order. And i want to welcome Secretary Blinken, whos down at that end of this long table. Mr. Secretary, were still trying to keep a fair amount of distance, but it is an improvement that we are not having to wear our masks. And i appreciate that. Something the Vice Chairman and i have discussed. And i understand that Vice Chairman shelby will defer to Senator Graham, the ranking member in the state foreign Office Subcommittee for his Opening Statement and after that ill turn to Senator Coons who i welcome as the new chairman when hell give his Opening Statement. Mr. Secretary, this committee funds every aspect of the departments operations. Going over going over it going over it again this weekend, i probably explored more of the detail than i had before, but it covers every aspects of your operation, you cant turn the lights on, turn on your computers at foggy bottom or around the world without the appropriations from here. And what worried me is that last