strikes and as we were just talking there, income inequality. a deal on biden s buy back better, are democrats closer to reaching a deal. i m going to ask congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz more on that. the select committee is sending a clear message to anyone that refuses to testify, show up or go to jail. some of their new laws are about to be put to the test. tell you about that. i m ayman, mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, so driven by workers dissatisfaction and some committee economic indicators, a sense of economic anxiety is taking hold in this country and perhaps you re feeling this yourself at home. it s playing out in a variety of ways and i want to walk you through what we re seeing. now, all across the country workers are making it clear they re tired of the old way of doing things and they want a better deal. on thursday of this week more than 10,000 union workers took to the picket lines located across the midwest. it s had an incredible year.
love him or ate him, he is a genius. thanks to tom lamas for that reporting. it is the top of the hour. thank you for staying with us. we have a lot more to get to. it is trump s world and republicans are still living in it whether they like it or not. how much of an effect will his latest stunts have in on an ongoing virginia race? new comedy special is the streaming company experiencing a few bad weeks. kyrie irving said his decision to not get vaccinated is not politically motivated but does he still carry the message for his actions will send? i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. but before we begin on all these topics, i want to tell you about breaking news we mentioned in the last hour. the international alliance of theoretical stage employees reached an agreement. the deal averts a strike we were referring to that would have started at midnight on sunday. moving on to other issues right now, republicans across the country have spent much of the last year wor
Completely new painting and renamed love is in the bin. sotheby s saying they had no prior knowledge about what banksy was about to pull off. the work wasn t destroyed, it was created. it was in many wayscreated. it was a clever piece of performance art, a piece carried out, really, in the very center of the artist world. that same auction near from the original sale wasn t ready for round two. i can t tell you how terrified i am to bring down this hammer. the painting ultimately selling for 18 times the original price to a collector out of asia. experts saying the sale and its price represents a shift in who s shelling out for art. it s really an entire paradigm shift within the art market. there s a new generation of collectors who want to buy artists of their generation.