comes fromer text don who says "i am a farmer and variability is part of my life. i have drug years that don't cover my loan. i live on hope there will be better years to recover. in the meantime, i have to make adjustments for my budget limitations. maybe you need to manage for nature's ups and downs in life. your excuse this pandemic is not your fault, but it is no more an excuse that droughts are my fault." i think that is right and i agree. i hope that you're okay and that there is no drought this year. hope we don't see another pandemic like this in our lifetime forever in our nation -- or ever in our nation. but it is here and local governments on the front lines. we will balance our budgets because we are required to do that. hope, hope is not a plan. hope is a vision. our vision is that we are hopeful that congress will recognize the role of local governments. if you get these calls like i do every day for these emails with people crying and asking where are we going to -- how are we going to be able to continue to manage and provide support to our citizens

comes fromer text don who says "i am a farmer and variability is part of my life. i have drug years that don't cover my loan. i live on hope there will be better years to recover. in the meantime, i have to make adjustments for my budget limitations. maybe you need to manage for nature's ups and downs in life. your excuse this pandemic is not your fault, but it is no more an excuse that droughts are my fault." i think that is right and i agree. i hope that you're okay and that there is no drought this year. hope we don't see another pandemic like this in our lifetime forever in our nation -- or ever in our nation. but it is here and local governments on the front lines. we will balance our budgets because we are required to do that. hope, hope is not a plan. hope is a vision. our vision is that we are hopeful that congress will recognize the role of local governments. if you get these calls like i do every day for these emails with people crying and asking where are we going to -- how are we going to be able to continue to manage and provide support to our citizens

12 years ago almost to the day when i met with then vice president elect den at his home not far fromere. it was supposed to be a job interview to be his chief economist but it quickly turned into a conversation about economic justice and fairness which as many here know the common destination and conversation with the president-elect, over the years we've continued that discussion. often it takes the form of policy minutia and sometimes it's hitting him with four more graphic steps that ar necessary for him telling me stop speaking economies and art speaking english. i expect the reason we have such a meeting of the minds back then back to a common saying in my household that as i was growing up. if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem. i grew up as a single mother, a lifelong educator. there was a big picture of fdr on the wall. my proudest moment was local 802, the new york physicians union but that's a whole other story. of course if you intento be part of the solution you need toccurately diagnose the problem . in that regard i think president and vice presiden

line fromere a direct jerome powell and federal reserve accommodation to the busyness of mergers and robert: yes. it was mentioned in the last segment, the idea of the low interest rates locking things and at this cost. obviously it is very powerful in some sense. for higherl borrowers is almost free. it has a big influence on the math of m&a. whenlisa: windows -- lisa: does regulatory pressure start these?h on robert: that is a factor. when you really stand back from out of this, and i think about what are the likely risk factors of this market, one of them is exactly that. is that going to exacerbate things? is it going to change policy? are we going to have protests and riots? there's no question that is a risk factor to the economy in general. general,sically, in usually a harbinger of an economy to come. if those things really start weighing on the economy, m&a will turn around quite significantly. there's no question it is a factor. m&a is there a linkage of enthusiasm away from the big headline deals, which you are acclaimed for, is there a linkage between m&a enthusiasm and t

there have been around 30 fromers who have deaths noncombat injuries at fort hood, which is why there'sement of public pressure to make sure there is accountability. importantly, what i think is often lost, it took men -- women, military members, and veterans early on segment would ycott enstment a demanded a shutdown at the base. partularly latina who e the hight growing population enstment -- enlistment population. it has been months of pressure, asking where is congress, where is army leadership accounting for these systemic failures that have happened decades? amy: can you talk about the imv vanessa guillÉn bill in congress, that calls for, who is fighting against it? >> the i am vanessa guillÉn bill is a compilation of many ' pleas fordvocates years. this is not new. it is not new tcongressr dod. the i am vanessa guillÉn bill, most important, is demanding the military cant investigate itself. thbill most certainly says you must take this out of the hands of the dod. ere must be an independent means for investigating these kinds of criminality -- ese kinds of crimes. additionally, t

offramp spray think we could do that creatively in a way thatoes not come across and where to go fromere? the obama administration largely ied with the trump administraon they change names it's the same program with less funding and less people. there's no bui-in advocates for this program. there's no advocates in the middle. i would be surprised if it real gets a shot in the arm in the biden adminisation. maybe perhaps on aye supremacist antigovernment side. i think there is som room to do so. i don't see that necessarily happening in any really subsidence way because of isis and jihads in. one of the things is in the major ols of prosecuting terrorist is a terrorism statutes. in the strength of the terrorm statutes arehe link to foreign organizations. in terms of isis in your description of this homegrown phenomenon, she went to tell us about how it's different than how w thought about or not, about the international outreach of al qda? and actually about travel, training, as opposed to what was going on with al qaeda? and how much that has changed? what is happed with the foign fighti

comes fromer text don who says "i am a farmer and variability is part of my life.e drug years that don't cover my loan. i live on hope there will be better years to recover. in the meantime, i have to make adjustments for my budget limitations. maybe you need to manage for nature's ups and downs in life. your excuse this pandemic is not your fault, but it is no more an excuse that droughts are my fault." i think that is right and i agree. i hope that you're okay and that there is no drought this year. hope we don't see another pandemic like this in our lifetime forever in our nation -- or ever in our nation. but it is here and local governments on the front lines. we will balance our budgets because we are required to do that. hope, hope is not a plan. hope is a vision. our vision is that we are hopeful that congress will recognize the role of local governments. if you get these calls like i do every day for these emails with people crying and asking where are we going to -- how are we going to be able to continue to manage and provide support to our citizens as ma