Who get sick were accelerated in a president out of this pandemic. The second way to make sure recovery is fully felt is to pass our bipartisan my bipartisan Infrastructure Agreement and my build back better plan, which would be debated now. Im going to be heading over there shortly after i do this press conference, back to my office to make some calls. I want to say very clearly, if your number one issue is the cost of living, the number one priority should be seeing Congress Pass these bills. 17 nobel Prize Winners in economics have said, spontaneously wrote to me together, and said this will lower Inflationary Pressure on the economy when we pass my bills. A new analysis of the wall street form moodys found it would ease the burden of inflation for middleclass families. Put another way, these bills will provide families with, as my dad used to say, just a little more breathing room. Thats because the build back better framework lowers your bills for health care, child care, prescrip
And he was all the time. She didnt like being away from him. At least partially because they contributed in a major way to each others way of thinking about absolutely everything in their lives. Career, children, home life, relatives, friends and so on. When you got colin powell and got alma too and vice versa and a good thing because the whole is much greater than the sum of the giant parts. A really dedicated family man. Everybody learned from him. How to deal with the difficulty of being a soldier. Busy all the time. Away from home most of the time. And still be a good parent. A lot of us learn how to do that from him. He was a genuine pragmatist and he said you have to do the things that are important first but it doesnt mean that you have to ashoe doing the one thing in favor of another if theyre both important. You have to be good at being who you are. And if you do that youre going to wind up being a good soldier and a good father at the same time. Colonel jack, thank you for th
The casket of secretary colin powell now in the hearse. His Family Members lining the steps of the National Cathedral behind me here as they say go back to a great lion, in the words of his son, somebody who embodied not just the values of a true professional, a warrior statesman as you heard former Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright describe him, but someone who you heard from his son michael was a warm and loving father, who loved to tinker with cars, who loved to spend time with his Family Members, as busy as he was. Helaine cooper, that stood out as much as the recitations of his professional accomplishments, the kind of dad, friend, and colleague he was. Yeah, it definitely did. Funerals are more for the living than for the dead. In this case the funeral, the service, i think, was certainly a comfort to everybody there. I certainly felt comforted watching this. Its such a its such a familiar yet very washington scene, seeing all of these familiar faces that weve all known for s
Morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Hi, there. Im Stephanie Ruhle live at Msnbc Headquarters here in new york city. Its monday, october 18th, and we start with breaking very sad news. Colin powell, the trailblazing former Secretary Of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff has died of complications from covid19. He was 84 years old. Powell who was also a fourstar general and served in five president ial administrations had been suffering from cancer. His family confirmed his death just about an hour ago. I want to bring in my colleague Shannon Pettypiece from the white house, dr. Patel, former ambassador douglas lute. He served as the u. S. Representative to nato and retired Lieutenant General in the u. S. Army. Shannon, what can you tell us about what has happened . Reporter certainly a man who had big influence in the building behind me and shaping the course of history in many ways. We have not heard from President Biden on this. Were anticipating hear
already closed last month. critics say that is by design, a slow motion strategy playing out little by little until it s too far and too late to stop it. sandra: shannon bream will be here what s at stake and cases at the supreme court, including the abortion pill. but first this. suspect accused of leaking our nation s secrets in court for the first time. 21-year-old national guardsman jack teixeira seen wearing hands cuffs and a khaki prison jump suit as he stood before a federal judge. bill: facing two federal charges for removing and sharing classified information. cameras captured his dad leaving the courtroom just moments after his son was formally charged under the espionage act. sandra: questions grow how a low level employee had access to top secret information. darrell issa slamming the system last hour. secure facilities should not trust everyone that goes in walks out with the briefcase and not looked at. and the system obviously failed at several levels.