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their primary concern was that iran would use the agreement to secretly develop nuclear weapons you arnie keeps track of companies that do business with iran and puts pressure on them to stop. i had a theory that we could engage in an economic war for. instead of using soldiers and bullets to try to use pen and ink to convince a regime to shame its behavior not only for the benefit of the united states but for france and the iranian people even i've contacted hundreds of french companies and delegation but i've also sent thousands of letters to the town germans chinese russians americans and look my letter is very simple it's basically a similar letter we do very accurate research and if if your television channel was trying to profit and make money around they would get a letter from me and i would say to your company look you're making a decision to do business with the most oppressive brutal nuclear weapons seeking regime in the world i would suggest that that's wrong. to me he less national security advisor jumbo said his service on you on he said tries to rebuild and just long cold f

and a after at my arnie hands and one guy said that you now. when he came out his mom was very upset and didn't really. doesn't really have a relationship with their son anymore and yet now i kind of. turned it upside down and i said tam i feel sorry for her because you are her opportunity to become an open minded unconditional love then person and she can't mess that up the chain any it's never to late but if she doesn't see it that way and i am kind of a buddhist so everything that's presented to may i kind of pivot towards questioning well why is this being president it's a male where is my opportunity in it. and i think that kind of helped says go through all kinds of struggles and challenges in our ally. oh i know is this in my whole life and obviously i met the girl of my dreams there's all that although i kid my wife some point i say i'm just the date that worked out when you compare it to mother in law but the truth is the most of bewley and the most freeing liberating the most cathartic thing that took the scales from my eyes and maybe

joining us for more is our germany reporter, arnie dell.ese new measures compare to early reluctance? this is one of the harshest lockdowns we seen in this country. arnie: hi, matt. wave,, during the first we had similar measures. the difference was is they came earlier and they were fit to break away before it became bigger. this time, we were actually passed the wave already. so it's kind of a last-minute effort. especially the christmas and new year's measures, you know, are pretty tough for germans who are, as you also know, especially on new year's, are used to fireworks. that will happen this year in germany. say, i spent a lot of money buying fireworks this year, so i'm of this -- little -- i'm a little personally bummed out. i'm guessing hotels will be shut down. what is this mean for most germans over christmas? well, that you have to bring a tent probably, if you want to come down there. it will mean they will have to stay home. states,e, in certain there's a certain moving of members, so there are four people plus, five of anothe

their primary concern was that iran would use the agreement to secretly develop nuclear weapons you arnie keeps track of companies that do business with iran and puts pressure on them to stop. i have a theory that we could engage in an economic war for. instead of using soldiers and bullets to try to use pen and ink to convince a regime to shame its behavior not only for the benefit of the united states but for france and the iranian people even i've contacted hundreds of french companies and delegation but i've also sent thousands of letters to the tally and german and chinese russians americans and look my letter is very simple it's basically a similar letter we do very accurate research and if if your television channel was trying to profit and make money in iran they would get a letter from me and i would say to your company look you're making a decision to do business with the most oppressive brutal nuclear weapons seeking regime in the world i would suggest to you that that's wrong. to me u.s. national security adviser said john bolton serves on you and he said tries to reboard and

you know where you remain where the welfare of collecting, very calais, arnie and the hobo maine will go wrong. can a man for often work as a society for women. silly. so this town has searched beyond the horizon and through the amazing shapes and colors of the clouds is a single shining star appears. it is venus, a goddess of love. i wonder if humans like us who love and miss each other. we live there. perhaps there is a girl like me, but it was only one gibran. she feels all the solitude of the twilight and of the night. people call it so she puts her pen aside and hides from that solitude. in one single gibran. at the morass that the his dog and ferried them for a while and the lot of fanny and lee were for tourists, there in the herb and were been miserable on ilam. a woman may elizabeth 30000 lives, charlotte in letty kennett fear. charlotte harder to hold, and amaziah the go there, lick and the rubber on well like you and i can attend maisie until the hearty, one of seattle or shoulder. oh, what the bob, the ybor and them again are your moral view. morale saba, where the euro mo

how: only time will tell she is seen historically. ,he problem arnie points out and i highly recommend bloomberg terminal in front of him or her read that story. to some extent, this is on her. she was letting hungary and void the rule of law or flout the rule of law for so long and now it has come back to bite her to some extent. this is a really key issue that i will talk with william for example and the other economists and analysts on my program over the next two hours. we have been so focused on brexit that we are forgetting the fact that the european union has an incredibly important to trillion dollars plus budget to talk about that will to some extent help save the economy and planet. annmarie: viktor orban says they are one centimeter apart. i am not sure what that means. does that mean we will see poland and hungary potentially capitulate? the other thing i want you to -- boris johnson is only leaving him meet urszula vendor line. do you think this is part of the of use this as a united front against johnson? matt: i cannot be the ultimate judge of that, but i guess the idea

secretary of education arnie duncan.os angeles times suggests that she did not act as an advocate for schools with respect to safety measures for students and teachers. do you see that? >> unfortunately, i do. i think so often, way too often with entire trump administration, not just the department of education, the cruelty was often the point. not an accident. that was intentional. it was the point. consistently the department of education chose to fight for the powerful and not the vulnerable and not the marginalized. reduce civil rights efforts to keep our community safe. we need a season of healing. how do we heal as a nation? >> betsy devos in october suggested that it wasn't up to her or the federal government to monitor the rate of covid. did the high school district need big picture guidance and how might that have helped if they had been given it? >> of course they did. i can't tell you how furious i am. not just at her but the entire administration. this pandemic as you know so well, doesn't know red state or b

our guests include syndicated talk show host arnie arneson from w in h chin radio in concord, new hampshire, talk ndb radio inh w daytona beach, florida, and the host of the show on blaze tv. a political columnist with and matthew mcneil f radio in minneapolis st. paul minnesota and the host of the steve gruber show from michigan. easternve at 7:00 a.m. friday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> the senate returns to continue debate on overwriting the president's veto of the defense programs policy bill. at 1:00 p.m., the debate. if that passes, there will be up to 30 more hours of debate. setting the potential final vote on saturday. either override requires two thirds majority of those present and voting.

. >> reporter: 82-year-old arnie joseph among those anxiously trying to make an appointment to get the vaccine. >> i had three friends die from this so i take it pretty seriously. >> hospitals in tennessee, georgia and texas overwhelmed with a record number of covid cases. in the epicenter of california, many icus are full. >> patients are dying like flies, and it is like a war zone, and we are asking for help, and help is not coming. >> reporter: with the second straight day of record covid hospitalizations, the u.s. is potentially on course for an even big are spike because of continuing holiday travel. >> we're going to have an increase superimposed upon that surge, which could make january even worse than december. >> reporter: next week at holy cross hospital in fort lauderdale, those who received the initial pfizer injection are supposed to get their follow-upshot. that is a big problem, because they don't have more vaccines, and in san diego, more pfizer vaccines than they needed to prevent them from being tossed after the deep freeze to room temperature, more than 300 san diego