Or sleepier . Dana i would have gotten 10 hours of sleep if i went to bed like i felt like it. If you have any tips or tricks for the new schedule. Bill dana is here in the morning and evening and doing it all right now. Dana i went to bed earlier than most children last night and our Line Producer went to bed. Bill more caffeine. Eight hours. Dana we have a capitol hill watch with jackie heinrich. The Senate Moving Forward on covid relief without republican support . Thats right, dana. President biden reportedly told democrats to move forward with his 1. 9 trillion proposal not long after sitting down with Senate Republicans to try to hash out a bipartisan deal. 618 billion proposal was swiftly rejected. Democrats cleared a procedural hurdle to go forward with Budget Reconciliation to pass bigger bill with a simple majority. Republicans can join us but dont try to go against us. We have the majority and we arent backing down. Our members who were in the meeting felt that the president
latter part that president zelenskyy, excuse me, did not really flip over. he wants to be in n.a.t.o. right now and of course, that s not happening. lucas tomlinson at the white house with more, lucas. let s go back how the week started. president zelenskyy was angry and fired off a tweet he was angry there was not much more concrete steps to join n.a.t.o. we heard president biden language without a firm date and president biden later spoke in helsinki and hinted the war could be over soon. the answer is, putin has already lost the war and my hope and expectation that ukraine makes significant progress on their offensive and that it generates a negotiated settlement somewhere along the line. the best possible solution would be some sort of negotiated settlement, as you heard the president talk about, but everybody realizes, dana, that s not possible right now. some u.s. officials privately called this war a stalemate. the front lines have not changed significantly, ne
in that room. darrell issa will be here shortly. i knew that joe would always be the education president. i want to just say for a second what you and what the president has done, it is more than any other president since fdr and maybe more than fdr. you have a direct number to director walensky. yes, i have director walensky s direct number. let s give public school teachers a raise. we begin this tuesday with american students falling further behind in the classroom and new evidence that lockdown learning loss may be permanent for millions of kids. hello, i m john roberts in washington. you like the new digs, sandra? we are renting it renting it from bret. sandra: looks great. great to be with you, john, kicking off a brand-new hour, i m sandra smith in new york and this is america reports . despite billions of taxpayers dollars to help students recover from the unprecedented disruption they face, a brand-new study says progress in reading and math is stall
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
of weakness to us adversaries. smooth and timely transitions of confirmed leadership. central to the defense of the united states, and stable and orderly leadership. transitions are also vital to maintaining our unmatched network of allies and partners and their crucial for our military readiness. tuberville is protesting a pentagon decision to provide paid leave and travel time for any service member who needs reproductive health services, including abortions and fertility treatments, and are posted in states where abortion is now banned. post dobbs decision the pentagon is adamant that it is not funding abortions. the center is not allowing a simple vote. it will take approximately 668 hours to confirm all these military nominations. that is 27 days if senate works around the clock. if they did nominations for eight hours a day it would take 84 days. so just vote is not an answer. these holds will affect military read enes and others may opt to leave the military sinc