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charles schumer of u.s. -- ucsf. thank you for your time. >> thank you. you >> got the sample on november 30. what was it, and what form did it come in? >> i received a phone call and email at about 3:00 p.m. that afternoon directly from the san francisco department of public health. they had found a potential case of omicron from a returning traveler from south africa. we immediately made an effort to reach out to our partner that does the testing which would result in the positive test result. it was received at about 6:00 p.m. we received an extracted rna sample from the nasal swab from the individual who was infected. from there, we immediately did a quick molecular test called spiking dropout. we got a hint it two hours. to make the identification, we needed to sequence the genome of the virus. from the time we received it, we were able to obtain the genomic sequence in about five hours. >> for the layman, tell us what happens in the quick test giving you the first hint it could be omicron, it is likely omicron, and tell us about the longer test that

it seemed like for a while charles schumer thought it might pass.terday the president conceded it's not going to happen. talk to us about the timeline you do foresee, especially with so many parts of it getting rejected and joe manchin standing firm in his demands. >> yeah. white house officials have really avoided boxing themselves, jon. they're not out on the limb saying january is looking pretty good. one of the reasons is senator manchin is worried about inflation, and joe biden is worried about inflation for other reasons. but if he thinks inflation is going to be a fire that has a bunch of gas poured on it by passing the build back better package, he's going to pump the brakes. he's been signally he's going to pump the brakes. the one statement from president biden, senator joe manchin supports the plan overall. inessence he's saying joe manchin is still on board with something. whether that's the case or not remains to be seen, but officials have been pretty tight-lipped since that statement came out. this is a bellwether where biden sees thi

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumer majority leader of the united states senate. senator schumer: mr. president madam vice president, madam speaker, leader mcconnell leader mccarthy, distinguished guests, more importantly senator elizabeth dole and robin. the scriptures says we should quote, rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope. today, we pay tribute to a remarkable leader. over the course of his life knew more than his fair share of suffering, who turned that suffering into endurance, whose endurance became central to his character and whose character whose essential goodness leaves us with hope. hope that we will continue to see good men and women in this country like the one to whom we say goodbye today. to pay tribute to senator bob dole is to honor someone who redefined and elevated what it means to serve country. by 21, bob had given more of himself than most of us give in a lifetime, and then he kept going for 77 years af

a senate republican eight on thursday said that senate majority leader charles schumer and republicans are close to a deal to confirm a block of nominees and hold it over until january, which would clear the senate calendar for the rest of 2021 and allow senators to go home for christmas. more importantly, there is also a chance the entire build back better bill have to be reworked to accommodate senator joe manchin's opposition to including a one-year extension of the expanded child tax credit in the bill. once again, the build back better bill, the boat in the senate will widely not be until 2022 -- vote in the senate will widely not be until 2022, depending on whether the they can meet joe manchin's concerns on this. chuck schumer came out and talked about shifting the senate attention away from the president's social spending bill to voting rights. here is what senator schumer had to say. [video clip] >> madam president, as we continue working to bring the senate to a position where we can build back better, senate democrats spent the past few weeks engaged on a discussion addressi

real mystery is why the white house and senate majority leader charles schumer that their political future vote for a bill such as this one." is it possible west virginia is quite different than new york, california, or even maryland? >> senator cardin: each state has unique issues. i've are present the people of maryland, i can tell you that chesapeake bay is very important to our state. i think it's important to our entire country, so i'm sure that joe manchin has issues in west virginia he wants to see us pay attention to in washington. that's what our job is, our job is to represent the people of our state but also to represent our nation, and i think we can come together on this. the affordable child care is in every one of our 50 states have issues, where parents have a hard time dealing with the cost of child care and it's preventing some people from entering our workforce. every state has a challenge on the cost of higher education. we need to deal with it as a nation. these are national issues that affect all of our states. so i hope we can find a spot. certainly there are certain

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumer, majority leader of the united states senate. >> mr. president, madam vice president, madam speaker, leader mcconnell, leader mccarthy, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and most importantly senator elizabeth dole and robin. the scriptures say that we should "rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope." today we pay tribute to a remarkable leader. over the course of his life, knew more than his fair share of suffering, who turned that suffering into endurance, whose endurance became central to his character, and whose character, whose essential goodness leaves us with hope, hope that we will continue to see good men and women in this country like the one to whom we say good-bye today, to pay tribute to senator bob dole is to honor someone who redefined and elevated what it means to serve country. by 21, bob had given more of himself than most of us give in a lifetime, and then he kept going for

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumer, majority leader of the united states senate. >> mr. president, madam vice president, madam speaker, leader mcconnell, leader mccarthy, distinguished guests, dear colleagues, and most importantly elizabeth dole and robin. the scriptures say that we should, quote, rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. today we pay tribute to a remarkable leader erleader, ov course of his life, knew more than his fair share of suffering, who turned that suffering into endurance, whose endurance became central to his character, and whose character, whose essential good rness, leas us with hope, hope that we will continue to see good men and women in this country like the one to whom we say good-bye today. to pay tribute to senator bob dole is to honor someone who redefined and elevated what it means to serve country. by 21, bob had given more of himself than most of us give in a lifetime, and then he kept going

charles: the one that chuck schumer didn't show the rest of the world. >> that's right. ion. i saw an article in the business insider a week ago saying anyone talking about stagflation a week ago, this summer was all wrong. this morning i heard larry summers who is sort of basking in the sun that he has been right lately -- >> he got 24 right. one time in a row but gets a lot of credit. charles: he is calling for recession followed by stagflation next year. any chance of that? >> yeah, there is a chance of that. i mean i think, when you get these large inflations, we have not had them long time, 40 years, big inflation. charles: right. >> you're at 6% on the personal consumption deflator and 7% on the cpi and 10% on the ppi. so the fed is going to have to crack down. i don't know when. the sooner the better. that is going to damage the economy. you got to take your licks. it is also going to damage the stock market. i say the sooner the better. now if the bidens or whoever, because i think the republicans will win the midterms, let's not stifle the supply side of the econ

charles schumer has said for weeks that he wants to vote on bidens build back better plan before christmasdeclined to guarantee a vote next week. he said the bottom line is there are good discussions going on. the president has been speaking with senator manchin. schumer said when asked if he would guarantee a vote by christmas. here is lee in los angeles. caller: i want to address the january 6 select committee. they have the opportunity to do that. but the people that were put forth to contribute might have been some of the ones being investigated at this moment. my other comment is has anybody looked into government contracts and how the senate or any of the congressman have interest in those because i know they can't be awarded contracts. the family should not be awarded contracts. it's interesting to find out how that affects how they vote for things. host: brenda in melbourne, florida. go ahead. caller: hello. just to respond to that last caller, she needs to not watch cnn 24/7 because jim jordan is not under investigation for anything. but the whole january 6 thing. i don't understa

a senate republican eight on thursday said that senate majority leader charles schumer and republicansre close to a deal to confirm a block of nominees and hold it over until january, which would clear the senate calendar for the rest of 2021 and allow senators to go home for christmas. more importantly, there is also a chance the entire build back better bill have to be reworked to accommodate senator joe manchin's opposition to including a one-year extension of the expanded child tax credit in the bill. once again, the build back better bill, the boat in the senate will widely not be until 2022 -- vote in the senate will widely not be until 2022, depending on whether the they can meet joe manchin's concerns on this. chuck schumer came out and talked about shifting the senate attention away from the president's social spending bill to voting rights. here is what senator schumer had to say. [video clip] >> madam president, as we continue working to bring the senate to a position where we can build back better, senate democrats spent the past few weeks engaged on a discussion addressing

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumerte. >> mr. president, madam vice president, madam speaker, leader mcconnell and leader mccarthy, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and most importantly elizabeth dole and robin. the scriptures say we should rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. today we pay tribute to a remarkable leader over the course of his life knew more than his fair share of suffering. who turned that suffering into endurance, whose endurance became central to his character, and whose character whose essential goodness leaves us with hope. hope that we will continue to see good men and women in this country like the one to whom we say goodbye today. to pay tribute to senator bob dole is to honor someone who redefined and elevated what it means to serve country. by 21, bob had given more of himself than most of us give in a lifetime, and then he kept going for 77 years after that. and my god, it was 77 years well spent

the schumer is asking the moderates to commit political suicide taking a vote on a bill he won't pass. you cannot save these people from themselves. charlesbe asked to fall on their swords in public or probably won't, have a heck of a decision to make, others in his own party really laid into him over the weekend. what do you make of that? i saw, i think, one of the so-called squad members, she really, a couple of them laid it on pretty thick. does this help? does the media and the democrats piling on senator manchin the exact opposite treatment they gave senator mccain? does it help at all? >> yeah. well it depends what your objective is, right? if politics is the art of performance and you just want to payne outrage and get lots of headlines, do you what the radicalses in the democratic party are doing. if you want to forge a consensus, you don't berate people, you don't shame them, you say, well, you know, i think joe has some good points. i think we ought to come back in the new year we ought to work together to get a solution. that is what you say if you want to actually get legislation done. the fact is, the left of the democratic p

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumerajority leader of the united states senate. senator schumer: mr. president madam vice president, madam speaker, leader mcconnell leader mccarthy, distinguished guests, more importantly senator elizabeth dole and robin. the scriptures says we should quote, rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope. today, we pay tribute to a remarkable leader. over the course of his life knew more than his fair share of suffering, who turned that suffering into endurance, whose endurance became central to his character and whose character whose essential goodness leaves us with hope. hope that we will continue to see good men and women in this country like the one to whom we say goodbye today. to pay tribute to senator bob dole is to honor someone who redefined and elevated what it means to serve country. by 21, bob had given more of himself than most of us give in a lifetime, and then he kept going for 77 years afte