a spokesman said he was obviously joking. >>> let's begin with democratic senator ben cardin of marylandr cardin, good evening. glad to have you with us. >> joshua, it's good to be with you. >> what's your understanding tonight of where this bill stands, the 2700-plus page bipartisan bill, how is that doing tonight? >> well, i think we're going to see the specifics of the bill before the night is out. this is going to be a good week for jobs, for bipartisan legislation, for moving forward the infrastructure for transportation, for energy, for water infrastructure, broadband infrastructure, and creating jobs in america. and it's going to be done in a bipartisan manner. i think it's going to be a good week for the u.s. senate. >> earlier we had senator warren on with my colleague alicia menendez. how confident are you you're going to get to bed before sunrise? it seems like this has been going on quite sometime. >> it has been going on for a long time because quite frankly, the specifics are difficult to draft. one, the committees were not involved in the original drafting and, goes. we ha

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thank you, senator ben cardin, we pivot now to our struggle to contain two epidemics, covid-19 and its variants as cases explode nationwide. and then there's the political plague as gop governors play with lives to win votes. joining me is dr. ala stanford, board certified surgeon. dr. stanford, first of all, we appreciate you being with us tonight. my first question to you tonight, i want to start with a basic one. how much of a crisis does this variant represent? because we went from a growing sense that the nation was turning the corner on the virus as vaccination rates climbed, to where we are now several states breaking their own records for new cases. infections soaring in nursing homes. what makes delta so dangerous? >> it's so dangerous because it is 1,000 times more contagious. the original alpha virus was one person affected three people, the delta, one person can infect ten people. it's hypertransmissible and emerging at a time after a lot of the mask mandates that were released, may, june, and july were no longer in place. so people were traveling more, more sporting activi

to senator ben cardin, thank you. to senator chris van hollen, thank you for being here, and all that you both do for our state. and of course, to our graduate, peter steny hoyer, what can we say? we are grateful to have you as an alum and the work you do for maryland and the nation. to state senator aaron and former u.s. ambassador, thank you for all you've done, and for everything in the greater college park area. our special guest, secretary of state anthony j blinken, thank you for being here and representing the state department. i'm proud to welcome all of you to the great university of maryland. and welcome to a james clark hall. it is fitting that we are here today to talk about infrastructure because you see, we are here and clark hall and mr. clark who was a 1951 civil engineering graduate was a builder. while the washington, d.c. city skyline is dotted with dozens of mr. clark's towering structures, he built more than buildings. he built beautiful and immaculate labs like the one you are sitting in. because

. $1000 if you get vaccinated at ben cardin -- at vanguard, vaccine.om: look at the trillions we spent on this, and some of it is necessary, but every company, and not just a business -- not just business, just get them refunded by the government and move on with a 90% vaccination rate. jonathan: what you just said is interesting. you think the administration should offer a tax credit based on whether you go and get vaccinated or not. tom: they should offer a dollar to dollar savings to business to assist people in getting vaccinated now. jonathan: lisa, final word? lisa: the focus for me is should we be looking at the carrots or the sticks. at what point do you start mandating things? that is where the focus of gravity is right now among governments and businesses. jonathan: equity futures down for. where is the show going -- down four. where is the show going? yields come in almost a basis point. tom: look at the real yield, jon. jonathan: let's go there. i can freestyle with you. that's get it up on the bloomberg terminal right now. -1.21% on reals.

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. >>> democratic senator ben cardin joins me now. senator, president biden says his commanders have informed him that an attack is highly likely. he says, quote, in the next 24 to 36 hours in kabul. how worried are you that we might see another attack before tuesday? >> well, jim, we know it's a very dangerous situation at the airport, around the air. we have control of the airport, but outside it's dangerous. we know that we rely a lot on the taliban on who can get close to the airport. that's not an area of comfort to us. so i think it's extremely dangerous. i think the president's right. our first priority is force protection, to protect our men and women who are serving in kabul. we also are going to try to get out as many as we possibly can in the last couple days. the third issue will be to set up a continuing effort to get people out of kabul that could in " be in harm's way after august 31st. >> the taliban, we are understanding, that they condemned this u.s. retaliatory strike on isis-k members. senator, does the taliban's o

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let's begin with democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. senator cardin, good evening, glad to have you with us. >> joshua it's good to be with you. >> what is your understanding tonight of where this bill stands. the 2700 plus-page bipartisan bill. how is that doing tonight? >> i think we are going to see the specifics of the bill before the night is out. this is going to be a good week for jobs, for bipartisan legislation. for moving forward. the infrastructure for transportation, for energy, for water infrastructure, broadband inner fracture and creating jobs in america. it's going to be done in a bipartisan manner. it's going to be a good way for the united states. senate >> earlier we had elizabeth warren, on colleague alicia menendez. she said this bill's been two hours away for days now. how confident are you that you're going to get about before sunrise? it seems like this is been going on for quite some time. >> it has been going on for a long time, because quite frankly, this specifics are difficult, the draft and the committees w

. >> senator ben cardin, such difficult times. thank you so much for taking the difficult questions and sharing your thoughts and sage opinions. i appreciate it. thank you. >>> now to other breaking news, millions in the northeast are making last-minute preparations for a direct hit from hurricane henri, with conditions likely to worsen as soon as tonight. landfall impact expected tomorrow afternoon on new york's long island or in the southern new england areas. the exact location uncertain at this hour, but impacts will extend far from the center of the hurricane, including dangerous storm surge and heavy rainfall across the region. let's go to janessa webb, joining us from long beach, new york. welcome to you. so we know this storm picked up in speed and in power today. how about the latest on the track? where is it headed? >> reporter: you know, alex, we are about to witness a historic storm, along with a very dangerous storm. i want to get right to the latest from the national hurricane center coming out just about an hour ago

now, senator ben cardin today pushing the line that the white house has been pushing about9 this.en a challenge. both bills are important. the senate passed both bills, i hope the house will do the same, as the president has said. so this is going to be a challenge. >> reporter: hopes the house will do the same. so the nine moderate democrats say they do not want to be the cause of any unnecessary delays in getting people to work. the house is coming back into session on august 23rd to take up that bipartisan infrastructure bill, however, nancy pelosi says she is not going to bring it up until the reconciliation bill passes the senate. so senate majority leader chuck schumer has said that he wants the senate committees to work out the exact language in the reconciliation bill by september 15th so moderate democrats having a little issue with all the spending in that without having the pay-fors in it. his economic agenda going forward up in the air. jackie? jackie: edward lawrence, thank you so much for that. here now, steve forbes, "forbes" media chairman. good evening to you. wha

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senator ben ben cardin, democrat from maryland said joe biden is cleaning up a mess left bye-bye threen? >> no one believes that. no one in our country, no one across the world. when you listened to president biden yesterday, he not only blamed everybody, he fought with everybody, everybody but one person, the taliban. this isn't about leaving, this is about american legacy, and biden's lack of leadership. this isn't just about today. this will last for decades. our allies will question, we watched china utilize this now, when it comes to taiwan, we watched russia, he emboldened our adversaries this is an embarrassment, and to have the president sit there and tell us that they had planned every scenario, why do they continue? steve: mr. leader i'll tell you what, we're not going to continue we're having a problem with your audio so we'll go ahead and pull some wires and fix it, so we're going to go back to kevin mccarthy who is in jackson hole, wyoming, i think the locate or said where it sounds like it's raining but it's just electrical. in the meantime let's dial in jillian has headl