Good evening, alex. Good evening. Okay. What would it look like if a republican president took office and then immediately set about replacing all the Career Officials with rightwing ideologues seeking to upend the way the federal Government Works . There has recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont actually have to imagine because Something Like that has happened before. In july of 1981, here is the headline. Reagan, reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the Reagan Administration has quietly set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with illness and individual citizens. Key cabinet and regulatory posts, the Reagan Administration, the reagan transformation amounts to a resolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials, who had in previous administrations my have been ruled out over concerns of lack of Conflict Of Interest or open hostility to the mission of
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podcasts. news continues on cnn with wolf blitzer, right externa place. i like to call the situation which win we ll see you tomorrow happening now and escalating campaign battle over immigration. as president biden orders, new protections for some undocumented spouses and children of us citizens and slams donald trump for fueling fears of immigrants, stand by two. here are trump is hitting back tonight also this hour and extraordinary seen in north korea as kim jong-un and braces without rebooting and gives him the red carpet treatment the us watching wearily as these adversaries of the west are cozying up and increasing their military cooperation at a moment of reckoning, that s what one senator is calling a tense hearing about growing worries over the safety of boeing jets. we re going to tell you how the testimony of boeing s ceo played with lawmakers and with relatives of crash victims who were there in the room welcome to our viewers in the united states and around th
now many are struggling to survive. i don t know what we re going to do. reporter: in uptown charlotte, felicia rich is changing her packaging and charging for condiments. we have gulf shrimp we re using, it used to be like $120 a case and now it s $200 a case. reporter: the differences are real. food prices rose 1% in february, the largest monthly increase in nearly two years. but over just the past 12 months, they went up 7.9%, the biggest spike since july of 1981. gas prices shot up more than 6.5% last month and 38% in the past year. and these numbers barely scratch the surface of any impact russia s invasion of ukraine may have on prices in the u.s. we were paying $60 for a tank of diesel, and now we re paying like $90. our generator, it was about $8 to fill it up and now it s like $30. you guys want a regular corn
achieve racial integration. the washington post uncovered an interview from 1975 in which then-senator biden said i oppose busing. it s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me. biden attempted to clarify his position on the debate stage. but i opposed is busing ordered by the department of education. that s what i opposed. in his memoir, biden called busing a liberal train wreck. he s long argued against it. here s biden in a cnn interview in july of 1981. the least effective remedy to be imposed is the busing remedy. you have a remedy of altering school district lines. a remedy of ordering construction of new schools. biden says busing decisions are best handled by individual communities, not federal judges. but some of his opponents smelled blood in the water. new jersey senator cory booker. the next president really needs to be someone who can talk openly and honestly about race with vulnerability, because none of us are perfect. i m not su