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International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we li ....
hello and welcome to the programme. we start with a big story in the uk. more thani million national health service staff in england will get a 5% pay rise after health unions here backed the deal. ambulance workers, nurses and physios will also get a one off sum of at least £1655. but the pay deal was signed up at a meeting between the government and 1a health unions, representing all nhs staff above doctors and dentists. one minister said it was time to bring the strikes to an end. the uk health secretary steve barclay said he was pleased with the this is a good day for nhs staff who will benefit from this pay rise, an extra will benefit from this pay rise, an extr ., :: :: :: ., ., , will benefit from this pay rise, an extr ., 11:11: ., ., , ., extra over £5,000 for a ban six and is a paramedical extra over £5,000 for a ban six and is a paramedical midwife, extra over £5,000 for a ban six and is a paramedical midwife, so - extra over £5,000 for a ban six and ....
it is good news, and good news for patients too. we have to unions, primarily the rcn have no nurses, they only have nurses there, the organisation that represents no sense, they are out on a limb, they have run out of time to go on strike so they have an emergency council meeting this evening, i think, where they will be reviewing their options. they could say we don t think it is worth pursuing any more because there are no viable options, we will not get more money, but what i expect is they will say they will put it to the ballot of the members to see whether they want to go on strike again for another six months. i think the texture, the colour behind that is the nurses will certainly, i m pretty sure, have had the money in theirjune wage packets, a lump sum, they will have seen their salaries go up so i think a lot of them will say, we have probably got all we can get and that is it. it is only a guess but i think if it goes to a pallet the rcn would probably lose by a ....
manipulate the media in this way, plant stories get their views in the media? it goes beyond your wildest imagination. the extent to which the cia has gone to manipulate public opinion with the objective essentially of manipulating the mind and attitudes of workers throughout the nation and the world. jesse: if you think journalists should be smarter than that, well, here s a story. i also was interrogator and, indeed, briefed the press. when we, the cia, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing. and hope that he would put the information in print. what was your percentage of success? usually, the journalist would go with it because it was it looked like some kind of exclusive and i would say our percentage of planting that kind of data was 70% to 80%. jesseof this about 40 years . but we have forgotten it. from w.m.d.s to russia collusion, to covid to the laptop. the population ha ....