dandy match up. no fair. they had great raw material to choose from. with that, that's our broadcast for this friday night. have a great weekend. on behalf of our colleagues at the rachel has a night off, she will be back on monday, let's start tonight with an update on the health of president clinton who is hospitalized on tuesday. late tonight, a spokesman for the former president announced that clinton will remain hospitalized in california over an eight, for you in tract infection that is spread to his bloodstream. his doctor said today that he's on the mend, in good spirits, and that all of his health indicators are, quote, trending in the right direction. today the, former secretary of state hillary clinton, once again visited her husband in the hospital, president clinton also received a call from

president biden, and saying that he was 14 and soon any wishes him a speedy recovery. we'll keep you updated on the story as it develops. right now i want to turn to a meeting that was supposed to stay behind closed doors, but ended up on the pages of the washington post today. quote, in a private speech at the donor retreat for the republican national senatorial committee, trump cast himself as a gop xavier, saying he had brought the party back from the brink of disaster, and helped republicans hold seats on capitol hill. according to a recording of the event obtained by the washington post, trump then railed against republicans who had spoken negatively about him, naming senators mitt romney, and ben sasse, and urge the party to stick together with trump as the de facto leader. they cheat like hell, and they stick together, trump said of democrats. the republican parity has to stick together. >> by stick together, what

donald trump means is stick to him, with us strong subtext of or else. we've seen the dramatic escalation this week of the former presidents hold over the republican party establishment. just ahead, of pitching himself as the savior of the republican party at that donor meeting this week, the former president put out this statement, implying that if republican politicians did not further trump's big lie, and tried to dig up fake election fraud on his behalf that, quote, republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024. in other words, if republicans do not get in line behind donald trump, and do what he says, then donald trump will be forced to give his more voters their marching orders, to essentially use it out the next few elections, and cost republicans votes. now recently, the republican fund raising arm for the house sent a message to its donors, it was hard not to read but anything but an extension of that same threat.

they sent the following note to donors, who had yet to send money to further the republican cause. quote, you are a traitor you abandon trump, this is your final chance to prove your loyalty, or be branded a deserter. a trader for not making a donation to a political party. the editorial board overnight wall street journal, put a finer point on this calculation of the last week, regarding donald trump's vice grip over the republican party. this is their headline donald trump's hostage pub ticks, he says republicans must agree to the 2020 election was stolen or hill ate the democrats. last week, when i was sitting here with rachel, we talk to fiona hill who is a top russia adviser in the trump white house, and has been one of the leading voices explaining how donald trump poses a threat to our democracy. she told us that the people who let out a sigh of relief and trump left office, a relief that our democracy was finally safe. she said that kind of relief

was premature. and this is the kind of thing she was warning us about, because as long as donald trump continues co-opting the republican party to push himself back into power, and as long as the republican party continues to go along with it. the threat to our democracy remains a clear and present danger. and so, in a lot of ways this is yet another do or die moment for republican politicians and candidates, who have to decide whether or not they want to support donald trump in furtherance of their own electoral ambitions. or, if they want to stand up for what is right instead. and on that point, we have an interesting case study that's been unfolding in virginia. virginia is one of those states that elects its governors in an odd year. virginia governor has been terminated out and the elections in november, just a few weeks. the democrat in that race is terry mcauliffe, who has been the governor of virginia before. he's running to get his old job back and the, republican is this guy, a former private equity executive name glenn

youngkin. he's never held elected office before, and he's kind of become the walking talking physical embodiment, of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. on the one hand, youngkin has been eager, even enthusiastic to continue to call for a so-called audit of the election results in virginia. just like donald trump wants done in every state that he lost in 2020. and this casts legitimacy on the biden predicate and see. and yet, look where youngkin has decided to draw the line. this week, donald trump inserted himself into the virginia governor's race, he called them to a campaign rally for glenn youngkin whose hosted by bannon, donald trump offered a full-throated endorsement of glenn youngkin, the virginia republican. at the event, attendees spoke about how president biden stole the 2020 election, and they were cited a pledge of allegiance to the flag they are looking at there, a flag that

was flown at the insurrection on january 6th. but the strangest thing about all of this, was that glenn youngkin did not show up for the rally that was being thrown on his behalf. he actually came out and disavowed what's happened at this rally, there was thrown for him by donald trump and base. he called it, quote, weird and wrong, and quote, to pledge allegiance to a flag was flown to the insurrection. the pickle this republican candidate for governor has found himself in, is a perfect encapsulates scene of a very real problem that republicans have right now. disavow trump, and handicap your chances of winning an election ever again. or, embrace trump, morals be dams, glenn youngkin is trying to do some kind of principle like in between tight walk, but it can't be both. that's the entire both, as long as donald trump continues to be

the anti democratic insurrection is big lie pusher, at the front and center of republican parties, the party is destined to remain in this weird state of suspended animation. the presidents ratcheting up of his hold over the party, does feel like an escalation. it's another shot across the bow of democracy, by someone who still has ammo in his cannon. how much amazon is a have left? is it enough to protect him against the real legal jeopardy that he could be facing as a result of his actions that led to the insurrection on january 6th. this week, the biden administration formally rejected donald trump's request to stop documents been turned over to the subpoena, to the committee that's investigating the instruction. those documents could shed light on the presidents direct role in fomenting the violence on that day. -- get those documents handed over the congress, the chairman of the committee investigating, conduct an investigation, congressman benny thompson,

reiterated this week that donald trump himself could soon be facing a seam subpoena for documents as the committee continues its investigation. and then there is a matter of the people inside the presidents circle have already been subpoenaed's. the subpoena originally subpoenaed these four men both for documents and testimony. there is supposed to deliver testimony this week, but those dates have since been postponed. steve bannon, top right corner, remain steadfast that he will openly defied demands for records of any kind. and the committee remain steadfast in its position that it will subject steve van in to potential criminal charges, if he continues to defy their demands. the committee say agile to meet this tuesday evening to vote on whether or not to cite steve bannon forced criminal contempt. just tonight, president biden waited on this, he told reporters that he believes anyone defying the subpoena from the committee, should be prosecuted by the justice department. e justic depa

what's your message to people who want to defy congressional subpoenas on the january six committee. >> i hope this if the committee holds them accountable. >> and so, will they or won't? day what should we expect from that committee vote on tuesday night. joining us now is california democratic congressman pete aguilar, his member of the select committee investigating the attacks of the 6th of november, thank you congressman thank you for joining us this evening. i think i've tried to set us up where we are right now. i think our viewers want to know, where do we go next. you've got a vote scheduled for tuesday night, how to settle for the fact that steve bannon has said you're not getting the documents, you're not getting dust money, you knock anything. >> yeah, so that's exactly where we're at, it'll be public, and we will address that issue, and we will likely advance a criminal referral to the house floor. from there, the house floor

will work on timing it -- but we do want to get it on the house floor, soon. and once it passes the house floor, and i'm confident that it will, that starts the next series of motions. the speaker will then certify that and then it will be transferred to the united states attorney for the district of columbia. where the federal law says the u.s. attorney has a duty to put this in front of a grand jury at the federal level. so, that's exactly the state of play, our goal here, is to hold this individual accountable. we want to get to the truth, we want to understand the facts of what went into the planning, and everything behind january 6th. our goal isn't to be punitive, our goal is to get testimony. but if someone isn't going to give testimony, we are going to use every tool available. >> so for all the people who watched what happened on january, but for the rest of us

who are watching it, there's some feeling that this is obvious, we need to get to the bottom of it, we need to find out who's behind it, and we need to move fast. the wheels of justice move slowly, when this gets handed over to the justice department it moves slowly, a lot of our legal experts have said, you don't want to rush this, this is really, really important. but the trump administration, and the trump circle, was known for trying to run out the clock. how do you deal with that? that seems to be what this tactic is. i know they know ultimately the loser attempts, but they're trying to delay. >> clearly, this is a group that doesn't respect the rule of law. they taught us that for many years, and they continue to exemplify that, or we're going to do we're going to be thoughtful, we're gonna be methodical we're, going to have a plan. this is the next step in that investigative plan. the goal is to get testimony, the goal is to have a series of investigative discussions. there are a number of witnesses who are having conversations with us now, voluntarily.

we don't use the subpoena lightly, but we need to be able to use it in order to get to the facts. we are very aware of the tactics that they can use, and we want to be thoughtful and how we proceed, and we have an investigative plan that will help do that. >> most people know those four names, of those people that have so far subpoenaed for information and testimony. jeffrey clark was a name that was not known to most of us, all those months ago. you have now issued a subpoena to him. he's a former department of justice official who, i think we can describe as the mastermind behind the plot to try to overturn the election. what do you expect to happen there with that subpoena? i'm not going too far as to ask you what you hope to hear from him, because that again will play out however it does. >> the president, president biden, and the department of justice has waived the privilege in that discussion, for those department of justice officials. so we have heard from other for

officials, and the senate put out a report discussing those conversations. we're gonna use that and build off of it. and what we hope to get is the full picture of the pressure campaign, that the former president utilized on his own doj, and how they intern then used it on other states. we think it is very clear that that's exactly would happened, and they're trying to thwart democracy, they're trying to foment lives, foment the big lie around the country, in order to delay or stop the certification of the election. we know how close we came to their efforts. >> we also know how hard many of the capitol police officers worked, and you encounter them every day. i want your reaction to the news that the capitol police officer has been arrested in charge with helping one of the riders, sort of counseling him to delete incriminating post on social media. >> well, we are going to have to let the court system play

out. but i will say, overwhelmingly the capitol police officers that protected us that day, and continue to protect us out every day. they did a heroic effort. they were the last line of defense of democracy. and to those capitol police officers, and those d.c. metro police officers who protected us. we continue to be thankful. there may be circumstances like this one, where there were individuals who were not behaving appropriately after the fact. in fact, maybe aiding some of these insurrectionists. so we're going to let that court process play out. i support the chief's decision to put this individual on administrative leave while they gather more evidence and details. but overwhelmingly, the capitol police officers did an incredible job protecting us that day. >> all right congressman, good to see you as always, kettle fournié congressman pete aguilar, he's the member of the -- in 2016 evan mcmullin, a former

undercover cia officer, join the presidential rate as an independent candidate. in his own state of utah, mullen received over 21% of the vote. again, running as an independent in a rape red state, that had donald trump on the ticket. now evan mcmullin, is a conservative, but in the 2016 election he chose to run it openly against trump, and he's doing it again. he announced last week that he is running for the senate in utah, to challenge a trump ally, republican senator mike lee in next year's elections. but mcmillian is not craving trump's endorsement likely or others, against the kind of politics that trump is pushing. how is mcmillian going to do? it who is even supporting him? can he win? all of these are big ifs, but as a columnist jennifer reuben wrote for washington post, mcmullin has an uphill climb, but republicans want him to break free of the mega crepe. as well as independents and democrats, should cheer the

arrival of a viable center-right candidate. the question is, are republicans ready for? this let's discuss this with evan mcmullin evan mcmullin, an independent candidate running for the united states senate in utah. evan it's good to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> i'm curious, i think about you and your run, and the positions you've taken for a long time. you are actually there ahead of a bunch of republicans, who now don't identifies republicans, or people have come out against donald trump. you sort of put yourself out there and said these are my policies, they are actually conservative policies. but they're not tied to donald trump, or trumpism, or the grievance based campaign he ran. i wonder at what point can you do certain people like you. mainstream republicans and conservatives, what do you hearing to make you think that you can succeed in a run against michael. >> look, i believe in my state,

i believe in utah and the people of utah, mike lee is underwater, he is on popular, he's pulling at about 45% approval, job approval. most of that is soft, only a small contingent of utah ends are strongly in favor of mike lee, and that divisive politics that he -- he doesn't solve any problems for us or the country. unfortunately, that will be enough to get him through the republican primary. again, a majority of people in utah would like to see of trains, that includes principled republicans, and the vast majority of independents as well. that's why i'm running as an independent in this cycle, because we have to unite all of us who want to stand for our institutions, protect our liberty and justice is for everyone in america, we have to unite together and that is true here in utah, but it's also true across the country, and so we're inviting everyone from disaffected republicans to democrats and independents to

come and join us. >> you are running as an independent candidate is that because you are not identifying as a republican or is that because the republican party won't have you? >> i'm running because this is the kind of leadership that the country needs and it allows me to offer the best of what to utah has to offer. we have a way of leadership here that find common ground to solve problems even between both sides of the aisle who don't want to compromise, we still find compromise and we solve problems, and we have a history of doing that in the state. i think that's a kind of leadership we need in washington, i'm not so sure that there is a space for people like me in the republican party right now. let me be clear, i don't think that there is a space for me. there are other republicans, in fact a third of the party here in utah is uncomfortable with this direction and is looking for something else. but my bigger point, ali, is those of us who want to protect

american democracy, we have to unite because we just barely have been defending it. i am very concerned about what is going to happen in this cycle if we have the rice of the far right taking more power in washington. that will set the stage for a return of the far-right to the white house and they will do a lot of damage, the kind of damage we saw on january 6th. again, we have to unite and do what we can to prove fail electorally around the country and that is with this campaign is about, building this coalition for the good of utah, and i hope that others across the country will do the same thing. >> that's what i'm wondering about. i'm curious about this coalition for the rest of the country. you are a principled conservative, you have run before, knowing fairly well that you would use, you would run in a state that donald trump was running in as president. i think you're okay with losing, i think you're okay with being

out there and putting forth would you believe a candidate should be, and that is the beauty of democracy, people who run who might win or might not win, and they don't detach themselves from a reality one way or the other, how do you multiply that across the country for these disaffected republicans? does the republican party have to collapse or can it be co-opted by people like you across the country? >> let me just say, ali, i'm not in this to lose this. 2016 was an emergency situation where i felt somebody on the republican side, on the conservative side, had to run and stand up for our founding ideals, and give principled conservatives who weren't going to be crossover voters, somebody else to vote for, that's what we did. this is not 2016, we can win this, our polling suggest that we are going to be able to win this. we can united this coalition, democrats in utah are ready to unite, disaffected republicans can be united by an independent center right, candidate. and the independents are ready

to do to. we are in this because we can win this. the question is, will we unite, will we unite to bring better leadership to washington that serves our interests and represents our values here in utah, and solve problems for ourselves in the country? i would ask the same question for the rest of the country, will those of us who care about the state of our institutions, about american democracy, will we unite to protect our democratic republic or will we remain divided by one issue or another? i maintain, ali, that there is far more, especially in this coalition that i am describing, that unites us then divides us. and i can talk all day about the details about that. it's not chest babble, among us now that are fighting for american democracy, regardless of what party we come from, those of us who are fighting to preserve our democratic republic, we have far more in common, for more in common that matters to her future, to

children's future than we have indifference. we have to realize that, unite and protect american democracy in this cycle so that it can be protected in the cycles to come. >> i think you're right about that, much more in common if we believe in democracy that is an underlying thing that we all share, evan good to see you, thank you for joining us, evan mcmullin independent candidate for senate in utah. we always appreciate your time. still ahead, major news tonight on the vaccine front and what could affect millions of americans. we will get to that straight ahead. ahead.

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african 2014, tens of thousands of people were infected, more than 11 thousands of people died, part of what made it so scary at the time and part of what's still makes it so terrifying is the catastrophic mortality rate associated with the disease. about 50% of the people who get ebola die. back in 2014, one of the other things that made ebola so scary was that there was no vaccine to protect people from getting it. but in the years since that has changed. two vaccines have actually been approved, and one of those vaccines produced by johnson & johnson, which become strangely relevant in a minute, does something very interesting. it's called a mix and match vaccine because it uses different shots as a way to elicit a more powerful immune response. that strategy, mixing and matching shots is something that was discussed today by an fda advisory panel. it debated whether people would be well-served by pairing a j&j shot with a moderna booster?

or pfizer one? the panel heard some groundbreaking data from the nih on that exact question, the studies show that people who got initial shot of johnson & johnson, saw the biggest immune response when they got a moderna booster shot, of pfizer booster shot was second best providing a big jump in antibody levels, but a second shot of johnson & johnson vaccine resulted in the lowest increase in antibody levels. the panel did not vote today on whether or not to recommend mixing and matching vaccines and booster brands, but it seems like that might be on the horizon. when it comes to johnson & johnson boosters at large, the fda panel today, voted unanimously, 19 to 0 to recommend those boosters, essentially saying that their public health imperative since the immune response to the primary johnson & johnson vaccine is so low compared to moderna and pfizer. one panel member, echoed the feelings of several of his colleagues when he said quote, i think this frankly was always

a two dose vaccine, that was a big faster in the group's decision to recommend the booster for everyone over 18 who initially received the johnson & johnson shot. how do we make sense of this? well i know just who to as joining me now is doctor celine gounder, infectious disease in -- epidemiologist, and bellevue hospital, and former member of the biden harris's counsel, doctor always good to see, thank you for being with us tonight. >> it's great to be with you ali. >> you had some involvement in ebola all those years ago, it's a very interesting idea this concept of actually giving people two doses. we were told at the beginning based on the information we had was a non-starter, what do you make from the fda's discussions today and what that will lead to. >> you kind of gave me flashbacks, there especially during the ebola epidemic, with

respect to our current pandemic and questions about mix and matching vaccines as well as needing additional doses, i think if you look at all the vaccines that we have, there's only one vaccine where we give a single dose, that is the yellow fever vaccine, every other vaccine is given two, three, four doses, and so many of us anticipated that we needed to give multiple doses. with respect to mixing and matching, one way to think about it is like a mugshot, and with one kind of vaccine you get the face front on, with another one you get the profile and if you have both pictures you are able to recognize that person that much better, it's a little bit like that with these mixing in matching of vaccines where your immune system is trained in different ways to recognize the virus. i guess the issue is that dealing with some vaccine

hesitancy, people in the population that we're talking about if, there are a four booster vaccine will probably take it. but it does now cause people to pause, if i got one johnson & johnson and they're going to approve a second one is a booster. do i do that, or i'd try to wait to figure out if i should just take a pfizer or moderna shot? >> i think they picture that you are still very well protected. i've got this very same question from people i know who've gotten a single johnson & johnson, should i go ahead and get that j&j or should i wait? i think unless you're in a place where there's lots of transmission. where you are in a high-risk occupation, you can afford to wait a couple more weeks here well we sort out which is the second dose of vaccine, is it j&j, is it pfizer, is moderna. >> what do you think of the implied criticism by some members of the panel, that maybe this should have been a two dose shot in the first place? >> i think it was really noble to try to have a single dose

vaccine, i think from a logistical perspective it's a lot easier to vaccinate 1000 million people with one dose, for a lot of people taking time off work, getting childcare, are significant barriers, and if you have to do that twice it becomes that much more of a barrier, getting vaccinated. i think it is a noble effort, unfortunately didn't pan out that way. >> doctor we gounder thank you, thanks for putting some clarity on this. doctor celine gounder is an epidemiologic at the nyu and grossman hospital. still ahead, is the pallets of power finally starting to shift in a way that could benefit american workers, you're not going to want to miss this. workers, you're not going to want to miss this going to want to miss this your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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the news media to move away. >> there is no way they can get enough cars out here to stop all of us, i think it's going to be just a matter of time before they have to sit down with us and i have a contract. >> that is a local news report from 1986 when workers at the john deere tractor company in iowa, went on strike to demand higher rages. you heard that john deere employee saying he thought it would just be a matter of time before the company bit came back and negotiated with him. the strike ended up lasting 163 days. with those john deere workers effectively shutting down one of america's largest suppliers of factors and farm equipment, until they got with 18 to be a livable wage. now, for the first time since 1986, workers that john deere once again on strike. yesterday, at least 10,000 deer employees walked off the job in iowa, illinois, kansas, colorado, and georgia, to protest a low increases in pay

in their news contracts. it's the largest strike in american private sector in years, it may not hold that record for long, because the union that represents all the stage crews in hollywood and everywhere else, says a two will go on strike if major film studios do not meet their demands for better working conditions. that union represents 60,000 film and television workers, from all of whom who are set to go on strike next week if major hollywood studios do not agreed to start negotiating with them in good faith. as workers say that, since pandemic restrictions on filming ended, major film studios have been working them around the clock to meet the ballooning pent-up demand for streaming content. sometimes making them work 14-hour days. now, in the interest of full disclosure, i should tell you, my own union, sag have to, as well as the union that represents most of the stuff on

the show, have issued a joint statement along with other from unions supporting those. -- hollywood will effectively shut down, starting next week, and what will be the largest strike in the industry since world war ii. but, there is more, this week 24,000 health care workers in the kaiser health system in california and oregon also voted to authorize a strike. just last week, 1400 workers for the kellogg serial company went on strike, and facilities in four states. the group, more perfect union, interviewed some of those workers in a catholic factory and kept battle creek michigan about why they him gone straight. >> we work seven days a week, we are literally scheduled seven days a week. >> you can't even go in there until the mirror and passed away needed a day off. >> very often we don't even know we have to work 16 hours, until ten minutes before it's time to go home. if you have dogs, if you have kids that you have to pick up from school, if you have other

obligations, i hope you have somebody to call. because, you have to stay. >> we feed all of these families, but i can feed mine. >> my best frightened died, sorry that's not my problem, that's heroes we, have zero to make. >> we feed all those families but i can feed mine. there is something happening in america right now, you've probably seen a lot of stories about how businesses are having a tough time hiring after the pandemic. even after the economy continues to get better, and we see a record number of job openings. the other side of that story is that for the first time in a long while, the balance of power is shifting away from businesses who employ people, and towards the people they hire to do the work. today, president biden was asked about the current wave of strikes across the country. oh >> my message is that, they have a right to strike. and they have a right to demand higher wages. the companies are striking on

is doing really well. >> that's the president of the united states of america saying they have a right to strike, they have a right to demand higher wages. the committees they work for are doing very well. this is how economies like ours course correct. workers coming together and exercising their power, not just in one place but across the entire country. joining us now, raja right, economist and former secretary of labor, whose latest piece for the garden is tight but old is america experiencing an unofficial general strike? secretary rice, good to see you as always, thank you for joining us today. there's something happening that you and i have not seen for a very very long time in america. the american worker is feeling empowered. >> that's absolutely right, the american worker is really flexing his or her muscles for the first time in decades, if you look at what's happened to wages over the past 40 years, and you adjust for inflation,

obviously have to adjust for inflation. the typical american worker has not had a raise, or has had almost no raise at all. most of the gains of the economy have gone to the top 20%, most of those gains have gone to the top 1%. and so, american workers now, when there is a shortage of workers, and when we're coming out or seem to be coming out of a pandemic, and people are just taking a big breath and looking around, and reevaluating their own lives in their own jobs. a lot of people are saying, i'm not going to take it anymore. >> you write in this piece, which is a must read. corporate america wants to frame this as a labor shortage, wrong what's, really going on as more accurately described as a living wage shortage. a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage. explain what you mean by that. >> workers are not simply deciding, for no reason, that

they are not going back to work, or that they're going on strike, or that they quit rates, which by the way has reason to record levels, of people quitting their jobs. they're not doing this for no reason. they're doing it because the jobs don't pay enough, because they don't have hazard pay, they don't have sick leave, because they've gone through this pandemic and many of them are simply, they're just worn out. i think a lot of workers have said to themselves and sent to their colleagues and coworkers, if the companies are not going to be good to us. why should we be good to these companies, why do we put in six or seven days a week? why should be forced into overtime? why should we lose our benefits. why should we be tolerant of the kind of labor conditions that have steadily or road, in this country, for at least decades, if not for decades,

since ronald reagan fired petito strikers. >> that's right, it is the beginning of it. when those air traffic controllers were fired, and some of those things that happen in the united kingdom at the time. we decided, that that's okay, to break the backs of unions, that unions and strikes inconveniences. why did that happen? because it's resulted in for five decades of stagnant wages. >> i think elliott goes back to our unwritten social contract that we had after the second world war, because we all went through a terrible war, and before that a terrible depression. after the second world war, workers and managers, people who are unionized, and people even the non-union sector had a kind of an unwritten rule. and that unwritten rule was, as the companies did better the

workers would do better as well. shareholders would obviously do better to, but every stakeholder was rising together. the rising tide was lifting all boats, but then came double digit inflation in the late seventies, and then came ronald reagan. and the firing at the path co-employees legitimized a kind of anti union, anti worker, let's get profits as high as they prophesy can be. our only stakeholders really are shaker holders attitude. you worried about inflation right now? . >> i'm not worried about inflation, i think almost all the pressures we see right now, the pent-up demand, and a pent-up demand was like it was after world war i, after world war ii, after any kind of a stressful prolonged crisis. and this process was a pandemic. you get pent-up demand from consumers, and at the same time

we've got a great deal of bottlenecks, and not talk about labor bottlenecks, it's talking supply bottlenecks all over the world right now. and this, again, is fairly common, we see it and we sought after world war ii. so, it's temporary, it's going to be rising prices, before supply and demand region equilibrium. >> good to see you as always, thank you for joining us tonight, former labor secretary robert reich, has written a great article. we appreciate it. much more ahead, stay with us. y with us.

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department and put a hole on the law calling it an offensive deprivation of such an important right. but the fifth circuit court of appeals, which is arguably the most conservative appeals court in the country, that court, put the lower court ruling which halted the abortion ban on hold, temporarily. and last night the conservative court cemented that decision by issuing a longer stay pending appeal allowing enforcement of the texas law while it makes its way through the court, banning nearly all abortions for millions of women in texas while deputizing citizens to be abortion bounty hunters. arguments of the case were not expected for several months which allows texas to ban that law, that band to be the law of the land in the state. the justice department says it is going to as a supreme court to vacate the state which would put the law back on hold while it's being litigated, keep in mind, this is the same supreme court that just last month sat back and effectively allowed texas to outlaw abortion rights

that are granted in a row. there's a good chance that we will hear from the supreme on mississippi's abortion ban before the appeal ruled on the texas ban, meaning the supreme court could overturn roe v. wade while texas's abortion band is on appeal. now if the supreme court does in fact overturn roe in the mississippi case, that could cause a domino effect, because in 11 states already they have trigger lots that would go into effect banning all or nearly all abortions. so we are in for a very consequential fall term in the supreme court. as rachel says, watch this space. this space. hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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running those five turbine produce enough electricity to power 17,000 homes. roughly 1000 block island residents used to have to bring in 1 million gallons of diesel fuel a year from the mainland on ferries, which also burns fuel to power the island. now, not only are they fully wind powered but they send a huge amount of electricity back to the mainland crud. as a country the united states has a history of stopping and starting when it comes to fighting climate change. president carter installed solar panels at the white house in 1979, reagan took them down in 1986, president obama tried to use the block island wind farm as a test case to push for offshore wind farms nationally but the white house changed that in 2017 and like carter solar panels the national wind farm plans were shelved. this weekend news you may have missed the biden administration announced that it is planning to develop wind farms along the entire coastline of the united states.

it's gonna start leasing federal waters to wind developers by 2025 to achieve that goal, the gulf of mexico, the gulf of maine. california, oregon, if all those five turbines off the coast of rhode island can power 17,000 homes, just imagine what's sliding all of our close with them could do? it is a totally transformative change as part of the biden administration plan to cut fossil fuel emissions by 50% by 2030. in the real world, this would be all we will talk about, it's clear that when it comes to things at the executive branch has control of we are seeing a full court press here, we just learned today that we can add another big name to the massive delegation of 13 cabinet members that biden is bringing with him to the un climate summit in glasgow, scotland next month. joining them will be the former president barack obama. that is the same international summit where obama signed the paris climate agreement five years ago which of course, biden had to rejoin after trump pulled us out. but all of this effort in the

hopes of hitting his climate goals and setting an example for the international community, all of it hit another major roadblock tonight thanks to this man, west virginia senator joe manchin. the new york times reporting tonight that the most powerful part of biden's climate agenda, the 150 billion dollar clean electricity program is now effectively dead, the centerpiece of the climate proposal is likely to be cut from the overall plan because of a democratic senator from the coal rich state of west virginia. times report tonight that because of manchin steadfast opposition quote, at least four people in washington close to the negotiation called the clean electricity program dead. so despite a star hands team headed to glasgow, they will have their work cut out for them convincing other nations to convince other nations when it is being blocked to do so. we've been going to step forward in one step back for

decades now, this blow from senator manchin tonight is just the latest and a serious setback. watch this space. that does it first tonight, i will see you again tomorrow morning on my show velshi atm easter, now time for the last word, and my absolute pleasure to introduce my friend zerlina maxwell who is in for lawrence o'donnell this morning, good evening, old friend. >> good evening, ali. thank you so much and please have a safe weekend. it's great to see you, even though it is remotely. >> thank you, my friend. >> thank you. so, it just takes one person to terrorize you, at first i heard that live on this very show, two days ago, when jennifer jenkins a member of the county school board described her experience being terrorized by more than one person because she supports kids wearing masks in schools. you know, just like the cdc does, jennifer jenkins talked about people shouting vital in