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unanimous on the largest fine they have never recommended for anything like this in the history of the commission. i mean, again, we don t know exactly how this will ultimately bear out, including in the criminal cases related to this but those robocalls for so disgusting and so pernicious, and had an effect that can t be undone except by preventing it from ever happening again through deterrence, and this is designed to be that. yeah, this is a very important decision. thank you for that reporting, rachel. indeed, thank you, lawrence. thank you. president biden delivered important speech from the roosevelt room with an update on the number of people evacuated from afghanistan, which proves, once again that this is the best run evacuation from a war that america lost, which is the only way to describe what this evacuation is. there is only one evacuation in our history that compares to this one and that is the military evacuation from vietnam in 1975 after we lost ....
ali, the infrastructure bills on both tracks seem to be going shockingly smoothly. the bipartisan bill is even on more solid ground today than it was yesterday. mitch mcconnell s support now is pretty strong where yesterday it was a vote, and it was a surprising vote. now he has voiced his support in a very strong way. so i m i m surprised at how well it s going. it s very complex, two-track thing that they re trying to do, which has never been done before. yeah. so i got to check with norm, you know? am i getting, you know, ahead of this, or is this really going as well as i think it is? well, it s a wise thing to do. i ve often used norm for the same reason. i look forward to the show, my friend. have yourself a good evening. thank you, ali. 24 hours after the senate s big bipartisan vote in favor of the biden infrastructure bill, the enormity of the victory for president biden appears to be even more solid than it did with last night a 67 votes in favor o ....
vaccinated in boston since january the 1st, the board of health ordered that all the inhabitants of this city be vaccinated or revaccinated forthwith. the board explains that although there has been a most remarkable cooperation throughout the city, the medical profession and the people in general, having acquiesced to a most remarkable extent in its request for vaccination, it is necessary in order to stamp out the smallpox epidemic that all persons not protected by vaccination or revaccination shall be vaccinated. now, this was about the deadly boston smallpox epidemic of 1901. it killed hundreds of people. it would also turn out to be boston s very last smallpox outbreak because if cases kept climbing despite pretty high vaccination rates the health department mandated that everyone in boston get a vaccine. doctors went door to door with vaccines. look at this amazing illustration from the boston globe. this is january 28th, 1902. so about a month after the health ....
by! by. biden harris administration completed six months for months in office this week and tonight they face their biggest challenges in the united states senate. no no president in history served in the senate longer than joe biden, and no president in history has understood the senate that he is dealing with better than joe biden understands his current senate. joe biden said, this, week that in effect, the senate is broken. he said the rule on the 60 vote threshold is no longer working the way was supposed to. and he said that he supports the change in that rule, but some people think they heard him say there should be no change in the senate rules. when i heard joe biden say indicates that he would support a change in the senate rules, probably for voting rights legislation after he has accomplished what he can in the senate under the current rules. in that sense, the biden infrastructure bills and voting rights bills are strategically linked. joe biden believes ....
breyer s last great important decisions if he were to step down. this notion that if we talk about it, it will make him more resistant to the completely rational choice to step down at this time, strikes me as just so childish. i mean, senators face this all the time. members of the court have faced it throughout our lives, the question of should so-and-so not run for re-election, and adults deal with that. and he should understand that of course there s plenty of rational reason why he should step down. this is the perfect summer for him to do that. and the notion that if we talk about it, he just might stay there till he s, i don t know what, he s 82 now, i don t know. do you not feel even the least bit superstitious about it, though? i mean, given what we have just been through with the last few vacancies on the court. is there like a little, like, don t walk under the ladder, don t cross the black cat, superstition feeling for you about talking about it? or is tha ....