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And so everyone in the correspondence, there is chatter about the soviet union. I dont remember the quote, a great quote about how at this point in the trial all the countries are working to gather, it has fallen apart. The Wartime Alliance during the nuremberg, comes under strain. The cold war flows into the court room. Really significant in terms of understanding the rhythm of the trial, what happens at the end of the trial. It is also critical for understanding for what happens. And that is great. It was. It is important to understand too this was all happening in the cold war context and to understand political origins and humanitarian origins this new language of human rights, that is one thing we look at. I would like to turn the program mac to maddie, thank you. From niccolo. Could you tell us why the allies, the military, what are the consequences of the decision. Part of why they decide to establish military tribunal. They dont have to follow all the rules of regular double tr
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Who have paychecks. People do not right now, which brings us to the second big issue, which is Unemployment Insurance benefits. A gut instinct is we will see two month extension of the current Unemployment Insurance booster payments such as 600 a week through september 1. The alternative is we cut it to 400 a week, but extended for a longer duration, say through year end. Referenced achin technical correction needing to be made. This is far from a technical correction. This is a deepseated issue of disagreement between democrats and republicans. I would say this is the biggest sticking point. The way it will get resolved it to throw money at the problem. To that end we have shifted up our expectations of the overall scale and scope of the bill. The last time we spoke i was expecting a 1. 5 trillion package. Now our base case is 1. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. The further that rises, the more generous the Unemployment Benefits will be. You can see potential spending directly on certain sec