we talked to general austen about this also, what concrete steps would you recommend to correct this if you agree with the statement? dr. hicks: i do agree with that statement, and secretary austen has laid out already in his confirmation hearing several concrete approaches. one is about who is in the room, who has a seat at the table and whose voices are engaged in major issues of force deployment and force operations as well as policy. he has been very clear that if confirmed, that would include me as the deputy secretary of defense, his undersecretary of defense for policy when confirmed would also be of -- an important figure in that. sen. inhofe: very good. lastly i want to mention the nuclear triad. this is something that many people agree is most significant problem we are faced with right now we have both russia and china, they are modernizing, expanding their nuclear forces as well as north korea and some others that are moving that direction. secretary austen has recused himself potentially for the entirety of his term as secretary of defense from any matter involving rayth

point i voted in favor of the president's key nominees and i'll have my differences kewith secretary austen, yellen and blake and on policy but they remain mainstream choices from the president. mister

defense secretary austen will be leading a global review of our forces so that our military footprint is appropriately aligned with our foreign-policy and national security priorities. it will be coordinated across all elements of our national security, with secretary austen and secretary blinken working in close cooperation. while this review is taking place, we will be stopping any planned troop results from germany. we are also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in yemen, a war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. i have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the united nations led initiative to poke the cease-fire, open humanitarian challenge, and restore -- to probe the cease-fire, open human terry challenge come and restore peace talks. [end video clip] host: also knew yesterday from former president trump. president trump saying he will not testify at his upcoming impeachment trial next week. president trump's attorneys responding to the request to him to testify by blasting it as a public relations stunt, arguing that needing testimony f

. >> your austen. >> perfectly and incandescently happy. >> and now your grish. >> do you have a favoriteord? >> yeah. [ bleep ]. >> christina grish is the author of this book. >> when you flew our nest, you flew for a younger bird. go barf in her mouth. >> inspired by her own technically painful real-life breakup. >> my husband asked me to meet him for lunch. i thought it was an ordinary lunch date between husband and wife. and instead, when i got there, he told me he had filed for divorce. and i was completely shocked. >> a writer by trade, she knew she needed to do something to help the healing process along. >> it was a weird spark of inspiration, maybe i could do haikus. >> inspired by her heartbreak but not the man who broke her heart. >> none of them are about him, no, no, no. >> which is interesting. to call someone a ramona feels like a very specific -- >> wow. >> but he's not really a ramona, no. >> the book divided into the stages of a breakup, grief, sex, fights, and coping. >> i really love the coping section, because i just found myself searching so madly for ways to cope, y

secretary austen emphasized being together.a decision is going to be made later about when we will pull out. ross: is there a risk that we went in together almost 20 years ago and will end up staying there together indefinitely? >> that's a great point and certainly nobody thinks we should stay there indefinitely. but i think meeti conditions and all of us agreeing on that, we have to do it in a way that does not expose the afghan government and especially afghan women and girls, whose life has changed thanks to nato's intervention, and third, we have to address pakistan. as long as pakistan is able to provide safe haven to the taliban, we could be there a thousand years and we will never solve it. all of these things have to be taken into consideration. ross: the u.s. justice department has charged three north korean nationals with being behind a series of online cyber attacks in which they took 1.3 billion dollars in cash and cryptocurrency. this includes the warner ransomware attack that hit the uk's health care system parti

update, but secretary blinken has reached out to the kurdistan regional prime minister and secretary austen is speaking to his counterpart to offer assistance with the investigation to help hold accountable those responsible for the attack. we have not determined attribution. >> do you expect there will be retaliation once the declaration is made? press sec. psaki: as always, the president of the united states and the administration reserves the right to respond, but we will wait for the attribution to be concluded first before we take any additional steps or have any anderson all announcements. i will convey to you that diplomacy is a priority with this administration, and it is something that is front and center with our engagement with global partners around the world, and certainly, these calls are evidence of that. that will be a part of our strategy. >> one thing that germany has asked for is some relief as far as the norge stream ii pipeline. i am curious if you have an update on that, whether there will be a consideration of waving -- waiving sanctions? press sec. psaki: our positio

just ellis cashmore professor of sociology at austen university in building new technology expert excellent discussion thank you all very much. pleasure and we go straight to the break that is all the time this is our 2 international. max kaiser this is the kaiser report max and stacey i've been talking about the global insurrection against banker occupation now for more than 15 years it's coming to a head. right the new york times doesn't use giago the global insurrection against banker occupation what they use instead is the revolt of the public how they're looking at the whole situation we've seen with wall street bets taking on reviving on practically dead company called game stop and using that zombie to against the zombie if a kid zim the zombified the people who's on the fight they conned me the hedge funds the private equity and stuff like that so let's look at this have like the game stop reckoning was a long time coming this week gleeful online hordes turned the stock market upside down this shouldn't come as a surprise while watching the game stop drama i've been reflecting on wh

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. >> this shows they have to deal with the reality of iran on the ground and remember lloyd austen was the commander against basis. they carried out tens of thousands of airstrikes like this and is also shows they are closely watching with drones and other surveillance, they see iraq or iran trying to spread weapons around that area, iraqis watched this closely too. the reality is team biden has to deal with iran's destabilization in syria and across the region. todd: the airstrike was overall the right move. jillian: to washington where the house is expected to vote on the $1.9 trillion relief bill today. todd: senate planetary deals a blow to democrats ruling against the $15 minimum wage in the bill. jillian: griff jenkins has more on what happens next. >> the fight for 15 crap took a knockout punch. elizabeth mcdonagh says the minimum wage increase does not qualify for special budget reconciliation rules. that was met with disappointment at the white house but determination to move forward. >> the only way containers pandemic and help the american people is passing the plan as quick

defense secretary austen will be leading a global review of our forces so that our military footprintappropriately aligned with our foreign-policy and national security priorities. it will be coordinated across all elements of our national security, with secretary austen and secretary blinken working in close cooperation. while this review is taking place, we will be stopping any planned troop results from germany. we are also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in yemen, a war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. i have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the united nations led initiative to poke the cease-fire, open humanitarian challenge, and restore -- to probe the cease-fire, open human terry challenge come and restore peace talks. [end video clip] host: also knew yesterday from former president trump. president trump saying he will not testify at his upcoming impeachment trial next week. president trump's attorneys responding to the request to him to testify by blasting it as a public relations stunt, arguing that needing testimony from

the secretary of defense of defense lloyd austen talked what can be down get more in the military vaccinated. >> commanders making videos, addressing this issue. i've made a video myself. but it's real important that, that, you know, people have the facts. we found armed with the facts, they'll make the right decisions typically. the greatest incentive to getting vaccinated is that it saves your life. >> also it saves the lives of people around you, which in an environment like the military you know, people are obviously working in close proximity and may be traveling. it's so important, sanjay. >> it really is important. it's fascinating to look at these different populations of people and the hesitancy, and interesting within the military, obviously, the hesitancy kind of reflects what we're seeing in the general population. about one-third roughly of people are hesitant or want more information, or just don't trust the vaccines. they sort of lump this all together. but you do find that has a tendency sometimes higher among younger people. median age in the military is younger than the gen

a biden dog should look joe biden was never going to have a prized pomeranian named after a jane austenoddamnit, mr. willoughby, sit still while i file your nails! that dog looks like he'd be up at 6:00 shoveling the driveway and then packing his milkbones into a metal lunchbox, and heading to the mill. just by looking at that dog, you can picture how they met joe went into a local shelter, either to use the restroom or the payphone to call jill and tell her he got kicked off the quiet car again. and he heard a whimpering from a cage in the corner, walked over and said, "hey, buddy, you remind me of me. you're not the best looking mutt in here, but you have heart. people always count you out, but today, i'm counting you in to the biden family." and the dog was like, "can we go now, and are you always gonna be this long-winded?" second, is there anything more pathetic than a bunch of old puds calling a dog ugly? andy samberg instead of a set, newsmax should just shoot their show on the porch of an old-timey drug store. "the only thing uglier than her disposition is her bloodhound. so tha

think my job is to make sure that we can execute on the presidents direction, and onset secretary austen's direction. >> okay if confirmed i certainly hope that will be a top priority to make sure that all of this programmatic issues permit for the on-time deployment is something critical for our national security. doctor hicks you since death is something i wanted to talk about it as well. will the biden demonstration conduct a nuclear pop posture review which the net suggestion of past administrations. >> senator, that is my understanding, i'm not inside the administration so i don't know the status about it. but it is my understanding that there is an intention to review nuclear posture, as well as overall defense strategy. the latter part is a congressionally mandated requirements. thank you. >> thank you like all a ministrations in the nuclear age, will the biden administration declined to adopt a no first use policy for new their weapons? >> senator i cannot speak to how the biden administration might ultimately come through with policy assessments, with regard to student nuclear dec

i�*v e i�*ve been talking to our business correspondent katie austen about these new figures.sed today by the ons show the period of october to december, the last quarter, and there was growth in that three—month period only 1% so even though we are at the moment set to avoid what we call a double dip recession, to periods of that consecutive quarters of the economy shrinking, the growth was quite slow because we had that period in november of the lockdown again but these figures are backward looking, of course. we are sitting here in another national lockdown which is not covered by these figures so it�*s perhaps not a surprise to anyone that we haven�*t seen huge growth at the end of last year in a period when there were lots of restrictions and they were tightening. a big question is, what happens now? how quickly does the vaccine roll out? how quickly can restrictions be lifted? and when can we see the kind of recovery that people like andy haldane seem to be so optimistic about? his comments are striking because there are economists who are reasonably optimistic and other

are hoping for more details of when they can begin to reopen, and our business correspondent katie austeny a fraction of pre— pandemic trade. taste departure, providing only a fraction of pre- pandemic trade.— of pre- pandemic trade. we have invested heavily _ of pre- pandemic trade. we have invested heavily in _ of pre- pandemic trade. we have invested heavily in outdoor- of pre- pandemic trade. we have i invested heavily in outdoor spaces. the bosses waiting with baited breath monday's announcement. it has breath monday's announcement. it has been very stressful, _ breath monday's announcement. it has been very stressful, we _ breath monday's announcement. it has been very stressful, we are _ breath monday's announcement. it u; been very stressful, we are racking up been very stressful, we are racking up costs of the time. we would like certainty, like a date. at least two weeks, really, to pubs open correctly. i mean beer, for example, we take three weeks to brew. for many pubs. _ we take three weeks to brew. for many pubs, restaurants and cafes, being prepared for full dine many pubs,

point i voted in favor of the president's key nominees and i'll have my differences kewith secretary austen, yellen and blake and on policy but they remain mainstream choices from the president. mister mayorkas is something else. he does not deserve senate confirmation to lead homeland security. his record should foreclose confirmation even to a lower post. the problem isn't experience. not exactly. mister mayorkas is all too familiarwith the levers of power that control us immigration law . the problem is when the shows and pull those levers it's for his benefit. tras a high-ranking official in the idobama administration mister mayorkas did his best to turn us citizenship and immigration services into an unethical favor factory. the democratic party royalty. governors, dnc chair, hollywood executives, a senate majority leaderfrom nevada , they all received national treatment to a degree that stunned and disturbed the obama administration's own inspector general at that department . his independent report blasted the quote, appearance of favoritism and special access. we're talking about sh