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good to be with you, i m katy tur. the 118th congress is in a league of its own when it comes to legislating. i would call it little league but even toddlers get a lucky swing or two. this group of lawmakers is on track to become the most unproductive in history. in the year it has been in power, only 35 bills have been passed and signed into law. the fewest since the great depression. it s been particularly bad in the always somewhat unruly house, but the republicans with their divergent interests and painfully slim majority have been especially unproductive, and yet last night, the lawmakers in the lower chamber did something extraordinary. they passed a tax bill that benefits both families and businesses with a giant bipartisan majority. 357 to 70. more than 3/4 of the house. democrats and republicans, all of them together. expanding the child tax credit, and restoring a set of expired tax breaks for certain corporations. and yet the senate is now saying, nar, n ....
in fact, sonoma county firefighters had to rescue someone trapped in their car that was surrounded by rushing waters. also right now, some supporters of a far right group that calls itself god s army heading to the texas border and calling for a civil war. what they say they ll do when they get there. plus, the eu reaching a critical $54 billion deal to fund ukraine. so, can president biden push congress to do the same? our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with the looming question of when there might be u.s. military retaliation against iran. nbc s courtney kube is reporting on this from bahrain. courtney, what do we know at this hour? reporter: so we re still waiting to hear about what frankly the administration has really been telegraphing was an expected response or retaliation to those deadly attacks over the weekend, in which three u.s. soldiers were killed and at least 41 others were injured, including one who was se ....
Pandemic. today announcing a third booster shot. like the inverse. right? right. the position was clear, ran on it why the public by and large supports the plan to end the war in afghanistan and the timetable but the inability to sort of flex with what s happening and to commit to getting everyone out and to do something from his perch to streamline the special visas or acknowledge some visa programs are not tenable. the taliban won t fly women from ngos to third countries to come here. some programs haven t been adapted to the facts on the ground. i wonder if you can sort of talk about what the sort of pressure points are if that s ever to change. is there anyone in his ear that sees this the way mark and david sees this? the way the folk who is are shouting from the roof tops seem ....
Something and they would track down contributors to romney and i would be more into it. the point about the report says no specific terror attack has been thwarted by it. but just because you haven t had a fire in the kitchen should you get rid of the fire distinguisher? you could have stopped something. the nypd has been successful at stuffing terror attacks. it reminds me what o reilly said. i don t mind the tax. it is what they do with the tax that makes me reluctant to pay. why doesn t socialism work in norway? maybe they are less incompetent up there. it is not the concept of being spied at, but it is that they are so bad at it. we are less competent than the norwegians ? fox news poll says 66% are glad about the secrets. do you agree with that? of course. the thing is if the government doesn t want us to know things about them they should stop ....
The government programs versus more people in the industry. as gavin would probably say the government programs haven t worked. i don t know which is true, but if i can put on my hat for one minute here, is it possible that part of the problem is back when we had a manufacturing economy rich people would start businesses businesses and they would create jobs. now a lot of people get rich and they are just moving money around on wall street. they are not really creating jobs. is it possible that s part of the problem here? there are still plenty of trades. it is these idiots taking star track and gender equality when they should be learning how to weld. but the president has made this his this is going to be what he tries to make his presidential issue. it is about feelings. it is not something you can actually measure at least for many years. he said in the new yorker this week, he just wants to be able to be known as somebody who will help provide that ladder to the lower classe ....