republicans successfully filibustered the creation of a bipartisan commission split evenly between democrats and republicans for a comprehensive inquiry into the deadly insurrection, a mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th in an attempt to overthrow free and fair elections while we watched on television. republicans did it with the help of a key accomplice, the senate rules. here s the vote tally. ready for this? do some math in your head. which one is bigger? the vote was 54 yeas against 35 nays. now, at any other context where you re voting and 54 people want something and 35 people do not, well, that s a win for the yeas. but in the united states senate it apparently is not because you need 60 votes. not even 60% of those senators who bothered to stick around, but 60 votes out of how far many there are, hence the answers. two democrats were absence. senators kyrsten sinema and washington and patty murray of washington. nine republicans were absence, concluding pat to
presidential ticket in history with a campaign that promised to, first, fire donald trump and then launch a massive public health campaign including vaccination to fight covid-19 and pull the american economy out of the pandemic recession. so how is the biden/harris team doing? we passed two historic pieces of legislation, the american rescue plan delivered immediately to millions of people and rescued the economy from the brink. we re growing faster than any other nation in the world in terms of our growth rate. since its package, we ve created over 6 million jobs since january 20th. no new president ever created that many jobs as quickly. and we ve seen the extraordinary drop in unemployment. we passed the most important piece of infrastructure legislation that s ever been passed, since at least the eisenhower administration that built the interstate highway system. this administration is going to create millions of good paying jobs you can raise a family on. as of now,
to the top of the biden agenda. he said there s it s the most important thing. he said that today when he was in kentucky, but there s just nothing more important than voting rights. that s a new shape of the biden agenda in the priorities. i doubt i wouldn t ever take credit for anything i thought myself. i would not put it past the president that he watched senator warnock, either in the senate when he was giving that speech, or maybe he saw us clip it. but yeah, i mean, i the democrats in the united states senate and every cause that senator raphael warnock believes in is lucky to have him as their messenger, my god is he a good spokesperson for what he believes in, and he made that case so effectively last night i could hardly stand it. yeah, it s it s a fascinating turn. we ll see whether this actually is an agenda shift. it appeared to be in the way he said it today, but we will see. yeah, indeed. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. as i was just sayi
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october. joining me now is branding expert allyson stewart allen, ceo of international marketing partners. good to have you with us. what do you make of the rebrand? it all seems a little harried, one might say. it seems a little harried, one might sa . ., , ~ ., ., say. it does. i think one of the thins say. it does. i think one of the things we say. it does. i think one of the things we know say. it does. i think one of the things we know about - say. it does. i think one of the things we know about good . say. it does. i think one of the - things we know about good brands is they are about trust. if you don t have trust, you don t have a brand. so in migrating to an altogether new name and new logo it is going to cost twitter, as it then was i guess, quite a lot of money to help us trust this new icon, the new x and y would he want to do that, especially now? you have intense competition from the likes of mehta and threads and the advertisers who are looking at their b