treasury secretary janet yellen and federal reserve chairman jerome powell are testifying now on capitol hill in a senate hearing about this, powell warning a short time ago that the spike in covid cases, the emergence of the new variant, quote, pose downside risks to employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. joining me for more is dick du durbin, senator from illinois. downside risk to unemployment and economic activity in, increased uncertainty for inflation, that is not good news for anyone. could this derail the legislative agenda you re pushing so harold on and now facing some really tight deadlines? yobi don t believe so. let s get to the bottom line, the president and the witnesses you re quoting are being honest with the american people. we know something about this variant but not all we need to know. it will take days or weeks to understand the current effectiveness of the vaccines on
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worked to serve of their son matthew. send them our fixer. it doesn t work like that. why don t they just stop. why don t they just stop? don t they know they can stop. you would think they would know what they are doing to their children. but drugs take over the brain. reporter: matthew s brother glen says there s no easy way to recover and money alone won t solve the problem of addiction. addiction isn t something that you can just turn off. for a lot of these people it s not a choice. they are addicted to these drugs, and i think the only way they can get off is through support and love. this is his wallet. he didn t have much. reporter: karen butcher now clings to the few physical reminders of her son matthew. her favorite, a quilt made from all of his favorite shirts. sometimes i would think, okay, i ve got matthew s arms wrapped around me. it includes the last photo
thank you all. and as we go to break, here s press secretary sarah huckabee sanders digging in on this controversy yesterday at the press briefing. look, i think what he s done is elevate the conversation to talk about a real issue and a real threat. that s extreme violence and extreme terrorism. something we know to be very real and something the president feels strongly about talking about and bringing up and making sure it s an issue every single day, that we re look agent the best ways to protect americans. did the president when he retweeted know who the woman was? yobi don t believe so, but i believe he knew the issues and that s what we have a real threat of extreme violence and terrorism not just in this country but across the globe particularly in europe and that was the point he was making, and i don t have much to add beyond that. we all want restful sleep. that s why nature s bounty melatonin is made to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.
lieutenant general michael flynn was acting as a foreign act when he appointed him to be the national security adviser? i don t believe that that was known. yobi don t believe that was known. to reiterate, he said he did not know about flynn s work as a foreign agent which, frankly, seems incredibly unlikely. here s why. on november 18 of last year, congressman elijah cummings sent a letter to vice president mike pence stating lieutenant general flynn s general counsel and principal confirmed they are hired by a foreign company to lobby for turkish interest. that letter came less than a week after a pair of news stories detailing the fact flynn s company was lobbying for a firm with ties to the turkish government. today the a.p. reports the trump transition team knew before inauguration day that flynn might have to register as a foreign agent. among those told of flynn s lobbying work was don mcgahn, trump s campaign lawyer who served in the transition and later became white hous