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it's one specialty of award-winning north carolina chef ashley christensen.and hear why two chart-topping artists provided the music at their wedding. that is ahead. >>> first, our top story this hour -- secretary of state antony blinken is heading to the persrsian gulf n nation off qat this weekekend. that's's where thohousands o ofn rerefugees havave been taken an whwhere concererns remainn h hi ththe talibaban's retururn t ton afghanistan. blinken says the u.s. is in constant contact with more than 100 americans who are still there. the biden administration says it plans to admit about 50,000 afghan refugees to the united states. the process to leave afghanistan is complicated and full of twists and turns even for people with dual citizenship. christina ruffini reports on one couple's ordeal. [ screams ] >> reporter: onay payaamm and her husband fareed, both american citizens, were only supposed to be in kabul for four days. that's you -- >> that's me screaming. [ screams ] >> reporter: one last trip to see family and celebrate his brother's wedding before

he met with joe manchin and christensen the two moderate to argue these bills are too expensive.ms to reject nancy pelosi's plan to bring the infrastructure built before first. >> i thought we were on a path, then there was an intervention in the past week or 10 days saying - hopefully it will reach the level that we need in order to pass those bills. >> reporter: progressives want to the larger bill passed first. jillian: when i hear the words potentially catastrophic i was having. >> reporter: jamie dimon, we also listen to this. one of the most respected men on wall street, jpmorgan's ceo warning the us default would be catastrophic will make every time this comes up it gets fixed but we should never get this close. i think this whole thing is mistaken. one day we should have a bipartisan bill, get rid of the debt ceiling. it is all politics. it will react to the impact on jpmorgan's clients. heather: he's worried about the debt ceiling and i worried about christmas and supply chain issues. >> reporter: it will impact everything and you should be worried. stocks tumbling yeste

breakdown, if the international community can't find ways to keep money flowing into the country. christensen's me reports now from the un. the security council began its day at the $911.00 memorial us organized event included, a tour of the museum documenting the attacks and served as a reminder of the horrors that led to us to invade afghanistan. but the international community is now dealing with an afghan without the united states being governed by the taliban. many of whose members are on a global terror watch list. the head of the u. n's assistance mission in afghan. a stand pointed out that will require some uncomfortable choices. billions of assets and dollar and donor funds have been frozen by members of the international community. the understandable purpose is to not is to deny these funds to the de facto taliban administration. inevitable effect, however, will be a severe economic downturn that could throw many more millions into poverty and hunger. may generate a massive wave of refugees from afghanistan. and indeed, set up get a stand back for generations. pointing out that the le

laura: none of that - domestic politics, everyone wonders whether joe manjenna christensen i will hold or combination of those two or one other person could stop the $3.5 trillion spending bill, they want to go into people's bank accounts and monitor them. do you think nancy pelosi would bring a bill to the floor if she knew it was going to die in the senate? >> know. their degree of courage, not trying to deprecate them, depends on the pole. if you asked the question three weeks ago they would've gone along with it, now they look at the polls don't know how long the freefall is going to last but they realize if they vote for some of these ideas they are not going to be reelected, political careers are going to be ended so they would get more bold and and courageous before president biden is polling. laura: i am not sure i hold that hope but great to see you tonight. back to the democrats first agenda item, open borders. in addition to the 12,000 mayorkas admitted have been released into the country in the past few weeks there's a new wave of migrants on the march here. a source with p

they had in this short time and we are hearing that we need to get of the filibuster, go after christensen joe manchin and push through their agenda, how do you see that playing out? >> they told us going into election day what they were going to do, mortgage our children's future, pass massive tax increases, get rid of the filibuster because the truth is when mitch mcconnell was running the senate he was too collegial, trying to be nice to the other side and squandered the first two years of the trump administration with republicans in the majority because we couldn't get our act together, democrats are tougher on their members, hold them together and get their far left progressive agenda through congress because they have the support of nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and president biden unified with the far left progressives and those moderates like manchin and cinema pushed by the wayside, they will get something special in a package and vote for it because that is what they do, they stick together. jillian: turned back to president biden's afghanistan failures, tony blinken laid out his e

progress approached left, moderate senate democrats christensen and joe manchin on on board with the massive spending bill, republicans have democrat division could work to their advantage. >> if it work i like it. i encourage more of this from bernie sanders. i will be cheering him from the sidelines if he can get people to reach that conclusion it if that helps us take this reconciliation bill. >> reporter: negotiations to raise the debt ceiling continue and an october 18th deadline looming treasury secretary janet yellen warning of the financial crisis and recession. a houseboat on the smaller infrastructure package is expected thursday. todd: thanks. jillian: top military generals to capitol hill to face house lawmakers on the troop withdrawal from afghanistan. >> they reveal president biden went against their advice to keep troops on the ground. we have a breakdown of the senate's hearing. >> reporter: another busy day today, mark really, secretary of defense lloyd austin and frank mckenzie took heat from both sides of the aisle and expect the same to happen again in a few hours

jimmy, is there a chance christensen and joe manchin will make the ultimate buddy cop movie and stop? the bus comes over 55 miles an hour? >> got i hope so because not only is it not free, people are already paying for in the form of higher goods and this is what does. i fired off a tweet today repeating what he said friday, the bill would cost $0 and just got hammered. in his defense, obviously cannot letting him tweet because he can't go near a reporter without a shock collar on the fact that they think this is somehow good for the little guy who bears the brunt of this, look at inflation, the cost and groceries and cost in lumbar gasoline and not just for drivers but think about people on my radio staff who like to sniff gas, they are being hit, to. kennedy: they are not dissimilar to the president likes to sniff hair. [laughter] how do you pay for a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package with $0? how does it work my step feelings gains of chicken get boring, apparently republicans are not going to go in for raising the debt ceiling until i don't know what happens. the only thing wa

president biden meeting with democrat senators joe manchin and christensen about to save his $3.5 trilliont plan. the white house says the president met separately. lawmakers he tries to play his party's most prominent commodity pleasing to pass the president's budget unless the price tag is significantly better. the stand up for democrats to extend their timeline on the legislation and progressives are not happy about that. congresswoman a lot omar is pretty upset with the judge for blocking a measure to scrap the minneapolis police department, she says using your network to obstruct the kind of progress so many people in the city want is not something that should go unnoticed. minnesota judge rejected the ballot question asking voters if they wanted the minneapolis charter to replace the city's police department or the parts of public safety saying it was, quote, unreasonable and misleading. >> a conservative group calling for a probe over aoc's attendance at the met gala monday night after she accepted free tickets to the affair. the self-declared socialist war that tax the rich down wh

democrats seem a little bit in disarray with president biden's agenda on the line, senator christensenut told president biden she is not there on the massive tax and spend plan. president biden met with senator joe manchin, didn't win him over and utah senator mike lee. i always think nancy pelosi and schumer are extremely crafty, extremely experienced, they will get to a dollar figure summer, maybe not $3.5 trillion but they know it is do or die for president biden. what are your thoughts? >> probably right. a lot of people in washington dc to see this almost organic being that has to sustain itself by taking money from the poor and giving it to the wealthy. make no mistake that is what the reconciliation is all about. it is the opposite of the way we are described. subject american citizens to more government, the same government that has been harming them increasingly of late. laura: when they say it is not going to cost anything this is so typical of dc. i've been your way too long but when i heard that i said to myself i have heard it all. it is free, money falling out of the sky.

trillion spending package getting pushed back as president biden did reach out to the holdouts senator christensen so far no deal. press secretary jen psaki saying there will be ongoing discussions, massive price tags in the senate. jillian: the covid 19 vaccine, a lot of news around this, ceos and business leaders on these mandates a lot of people have questions. >> reporter: to your point, met with ceos in several business leaders putting vaccine requirements in place after his executive order went out which requires any company with 100 employees get their shots or get tested, columbia sportswear, microsoft, walgreens, companies face fines of 14,$000 for violation if not in compliance. the order affect 80 million workers, 54% of the population has been vaccinated. this will be an interruption to business. todd: the story america cannot get enough of. >> reporter: became an irish is in twitter jail and will never use the platform again. she brought this on instagram. twitter jail, they didn't like what i was saying over there. she is referencing controversial comments about the covid vaccine whi

i think, i don't know really what the answer is with joe manchin and christensen a -- kristin sinema is. during reconstruction christians were not ardent believers in racial equality. there were a couple people who were. thaddeus stevens paul sumpter but they would say political rights does not mean you have to let the black person marry your daughter. we are talking about that. we are talking about social equality but they came to understand and people think of 14th and the 15th amendment says or most of us do anyway as these great accomplishments but they were post-partisan. the republican party had ideological interests in defending the black vote. the republican party was not viable in the south without the black vote. and the democratic party is in a similar position today to the extent that this is one of the reasons why there partisan voting protections is sort of ridiculous because that's how we got the 14th and 15th amendment and if you were willing to give veto power to accord that is willing to write the 15th amendment out of existence when it comes to the rights of black

watch christensen a.try to get the price tag way down. christensen and manchin are looking for a win. they want to reduce this number. how do they get through the house? this is tougher pelosi and schumer. stuart: you are having a good time watching democrats fight among themselves. i did a smile and got one. good stuff. let's check the market, the selloff got worse, nasdaq is down 380 and home prices hit a new record high, but real estate is it flying off the market? we have a report on that for you. top pentagon officials including joint chiefs general milley being grilled on capitol hill. when we finally get some answers? jennifer griffin has the story after this. ♪♪ keeps on turning ♪♪ don't know where i will be doing it ♪♪ we got this. we got this. we got this. life is for living. we got this. let's partner for all of it. edward jones you have the best pizza in town and the worst wait times. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates mat

senator christensen attended white house meetings, she too said she doesn't support the spending and$3 trillion spending package may not make it through the senate and progressives may kill the $1 trillion infrastructure plan too. the white house negotiations have not worked. the president's ratings have fallen because all those partitions face reelection in 13 months concerned his performance will track them down. he's underwater on a variety of issues, the economy, covid, foreign-policy and the board and on the issue being negotiated right now, disapproval numbers rising fast. after all this negotiating and arm-twisting, the spending plans are in trouble. the third hour of "varney and company" just getting started. ♪♪ a fine thing to have kayleigh mcenany on the program, she knows what is going on in washington. it is all about the vote will take place today. welcome to the program. speaker pelosi has said on this important infrastructure bill so far so good. that is not what i was hoping for, not saying we are going to vote today, she's not saying it is going to pass. >> she's in

problem number 2, joe manchin and christensen the, you reported last week on the big piece in the wallmanchin said i won't vote for $3 trillion bill, we should have applause, the white house is livid at that, so is aoc progressives in congress. right now they do not have to hundred 18 votes in the house, do not have 51 votes in the senate to get this bill passed. stuart: do you think they will get any of it? the $3 trillion deal, will they get any of it? >> i am doing everything i can. i'm doing everything i can to stop this bill and a lot of other conservative groups are trying to stop it. i believe right now it says they might get a bill that starts with one out of 3 so maybe 1.5 trillion will still be a disaster but many of the worst features of the bill are coming up. for example i don't think you will see 28% corporate tax rate, maybe 25%. i don't think of the other piece of news you may have seen over the weekend is democrats are now looking at taxing unrealized capital gains. that would be the first time in american history. if you have a gain in the stock market and don't sell

on the issue of the inequalities in racial disparities and or highlighting the work of delegate christensen, congressional black caucus, and chairman rango. could you further discuss the racial patterns in tax policies and enforcement and how we might be able to move in such a way that the policies that we arrive at tax into consideration a more clearer picture of what has been some of the historical precedent in our country. so if you could do that, i would appreciate it. >> well thank you so much congressman davis for your question. it really is a privilege to be here to express these issues. they really -- the good news and the bad news is that i am not asking a lot. what i am asking for is something that i think both republicans, democrats can easily agree on. as you noted, the stories i tell in my longer written testimony about a surviving alliance between george w. bush and the congressional black caucus sfes to how easy this is. i am asking for simple decency. imlooking for us to look at the eight way tax policies are designed and the way they are enforced. and just to make sure that