are four serious things the u.s. could do that they have not done. the nuclear option with regard to sanctions. you take russia out of the swift banking system. you sanction take them out of the secondary debt markets. you put sanctions on putin s cronies, the oligarchs in russia. the u.s. has stopped short of that but the u.s. needs to signal to putin they are serious this time and that those will be the consequences. bill: ukraine, nato, u.s. don t want another war in eastern ukraine that s for certain. nice to sigh. loorking forward to your panel saturday afternoon and see what we learn together this weekend. back to dana now in new york. dana: no let-up in the crime wave hitting new york city. a columbia university student is dead and a tourist stabbed. the defendant is no stranger to law enforcement. late breaking details. good morning.
has been happening for some time already in our institutions of higher education for sure, and looking at evidence of it in our k-12 schools. lieutenant governor cites the annual tunnel of oppression event at boyes state university. this year there are no plans to hold the event. also the school gave its faculty guidance on the new law telling them they can talk about systemic racism and even the concept of privilege but advised to teach students how to think not what to think. several states are looking at banning critical race theory but at the same time the aclu is loorking at possibly filing a lawsuit in one of these nine states saying it is unconstitutional. dana: thank you. trace: the new cold war between the u.s., its allies
i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. leland: welcome back. two tv stars are angry about a fundraiser from hollywood. they re loorking to name and shame the president s sporters. debra messing tweeting please print a list of all attendees, right to know. her co-star adding in his own tweet that quote, the rest of us can be clear who we don t want to work with. sounds a little like a threat. joining us now john o hurley best known for his role j. peterman on seinfeld and knows a thing or two about being a conservative in tinsel town. nice to see you, my friend.
some of the early ones we forgot about. but the big ones were his travel tendencies. he was spending $3.5 million a year on 24/7 security. first class travel. this was all unprecedented on the taxpayer dime. you know, some of the other things that people were focused on were his spending. how he was attempting to personally gain, that s the allegation, from his job as administrator of the epa. getting under market rate condo from a lobbyist who was lobbying the administration. you know, a soundproof booth that people said were just not necessary. fountain pens that he was buying. but some of the more bizarre things, you know, really made people wonder, having his staff run errands for him going to buy expensive lotion he wanted. going to buy a used mattress from the trump hotel. loorking for a job for his wife. one of the jobs he was looking for was a chick-fil-a franchise,
report has not come out. little time for senate republicans to make up their minds. from what i read from a number of republicans is they don t feel like going home over the break is actually going help them. the hearing is going to help them get this passed. cornyn said the drop dead date is august 1st. does it behoove them? is mcconnell right to fast track this? this is a dynamic on the house side. going home over recess. the town halls are firy, constituents saying, look, we do not believe the house bill is good for us. certainly, the upcoming july 4th recess is something they are concerned about. the other side, for someone like mitch mcconnell, he is loorking at a longer term. if he does not get it done before the july 4th recess, you risk it dragging out for longer, potentially past the summer