Stuck since we have been here in darkness. now you can see how high the mud sup on the wheels, and then over to the right, there is a little volkswagen and some respectful and thoughtful individual just went flying through the mud on the wrong side of the road to get on to this side and completely splashed our photo journalist mike love and covered him in mud, but that is as far as she got. but that is why the schools are closed, because people cannot get in and around palm spring, because out in distance there, and i walked up there, that is towards interstate 10, there are mac trucks and cars twisted off to the side up the road there, and it is come meetly blocked right now with the vehicles, mud, running water that is still finding its way off of the road and down off into the wash. all of the washes are full. when you looking at this now that the sun has come up, it is almost unbelievable how much of a mess is out here.
what i will say what people feel immediately. if you were sitting in 2020 and you were in a down like the one i grew up in south louisiana, without a job, not knowing when the pandemic would end, not seeing the progress from your government to get back working and you did not know what was gonna happen to your family and you re one of those 13 million who gotten a job, you seen wages go up in this country, you have felt that meetly. that is a game changer in your family. now, what we re going to see the next two years, you re right, we are going to see drug costs come down when the government implements this bill the president worked on. we are going to see more infrastructure projects work, come out. you have seen announcements. look this week. we announced the broadband program, $42 million to get americans hook. internet is not a luxury. it s a necessity. try having school-age kids.
The matter. on the evening of december 18th, sidney powell, michael flynn and others entered the white house for an unplanned meeting with the president. the meeting that would last multiple hours and become hot blooded and contentious. the executive order behind me on the screen was drafted on december 16, just two days after the electoral college vote by several of the president s outside advisers over a luncheon at the trump international hotel. this proposed order directs the secretary of defense to seize voting machines effective meetly. but it goes even further than that. under the order, president trump would appoint a special counsel with the power to seize machines and then charge people with crimes with all resources necessary to carry out her duties. the specific plan was to name
He will have sanctions like he hasn t seen before. he know it s not just on him and people right around him, but it s also on the russian economy both meetly by sanctioning these three largest russian banks, but also squeezing his economy by denying him the electronic components, sophisticated electronic components that he needs. so he s heard all of this and he has to make a decision. he has to decide whether to invade and bear those costs or negotiate. and you re right. we ve been hearing signs, even from president putin himself, that he s willing to negotiate. hasn t started yet. those negotiations haven t begun. they are long-term. they take time to address the concerns that he s raised and address the concerns that we have about what the russians are doing. they re concerned about what we re doing. that s the basis of negotiations. so that can still happen and it looks like he, president putin,
Figure in the government in this time. and there is a clearly some frustration prung critics and those called by the whole insurrection at the capital that this committee, the delay, getting the committee organized, the rejection of the commission, of course, by republicans, that this is a very time consuming process. and the former president and his colleagues want to stretch this out past the midterms, even. it would have been time consuming even if it had been started meetly after january 6th. the reality is that the allies and the enablers want to stretch it out as far as possible, delay, and obstruct, and what is really clear from the committee and the actions, outlined by the chair benny thompson, is that he