yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they don t have to be as productive as we are to become the world s largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very i think our openness, our openness to different people, to different ideas, our creativity that comes out of that has been our underlying strength. and i mean, if you think about how did america do so well in high-tech. there are a lot of reasons. a lot of that is in silicon valley, the claim is, the anecdote is that venture capitalists won t back a company unless it has a few east asians involved because we need the diversity of ideas and diversity and our openness, our openness to new ideas has been our huge strength. i do worry given everyth
just a moment. right now, as well, millions of people across the country and around the world, really, continuing to experience this dangerously high temperatures. we re going to break down the latest on the sweltering heat wave and what can be done. also, to capitol hill. democrats in the house eyeing a measure to ban assault weapons, but the bill facing pretty strong opposition from republicans and slim odds of passing in the senate. we ll talk about that. we re going to speak with the highland park mayor who testified before the senate about her town s recent tragedy. that s coming up. hey, everybody. we re going to begin this hour in washington, where ten hours from now, the house january 6th committee is going to hold its latest hearing in prime-time, a season finale of sorts to this initial batch of hearings, with even more expected later on this year, possibly in the fall. tonight s hearing is going to dive into those crucial 187 minutes the committee says it took
no matter what leader. i just felt, what was good intentions, of going and joining. i didn t know that was going to happen. i really didn t. so this crying guy is the guy who is saying, i had good intentions. he is on video teasing a police officer. tasing officer fanone repeatedly. that is right, and afterwards he actually went back to an airbnb where he was saying with a bunch of other trump supporters. they celebrated, drink beers. a local beer here in d.c.. which features the capitol dome on the front. so that is what they did, they were holding a biden flag, and posing for photos. that is would happen when they did this attack on fanone. he thought he was a patriot. he thought he was doing the
odds obamacare is still alive. it s the legislative equivalent of keith richards. it really could have died in so many ways by now but i m definitely glad it s still around. here s the first look at this morning s dish of scrambled politics. vice president joe biden attended services yesterday in south carolina. one of the reasons he came to the service was to draw strength from the church following the death of his son beau bidesen last month. new jersey chris christie expected to announce plans to run for president. last night he released a video teasing his campaign launch. my mom set the rules and the tone. no suffering in silence. you got a problem, tell me. christi s video is titled telling it like it is . ohio governor is expected to jump into the crowded presidential field. he s scheduled to make a special