let's get to jodi schneider, bloomberg political news director. ow washington better than anybody here. if you if you want regulations written in your favor, you have to be present. they certainly were not present. jodi: they are getting kudos for their public outreach, but you have to have an extensive and expensive lobbying organization in washington especially when dealing with regulation and with the u.s. senate. as we saw, they thought they had this amendment, they had bipartisan support on it. we had the democratic side, mark warner. it looked like this thing was adopted and then at the last minute, richard shelby decides he doesn't want to give unanimous consent for the legislation to move forward because he doesn't think there is enough military spending in there. . that is what ends up happening. sonali:. sonali: a lot of whiplash here. what can happen next to get concessions made for crypto? jodi: they do have a few avenues. it is not all done quite yet. the house has to pass this legislation. the senate goes home, the house will come bac

jodi schneider joins us now with more on this. how will this unit operate? the cia is looking at creating a mission center for china which basically highlights an escalation into china. it is part of the view of china capabilities. it will elevate the focus on china within the agency. china now has been part of a broader mission center for east asia and pacific and this would essentially have a mission center that would just china focused. clearly, by discussing this, they are elevating china for what the cia considers to be a priority. haidi: that involves other moves that they might be considering? jodi: that is right. they are looking at a number of things including going ahead and deciding whether to deploy china specialists around the world, following the approach back in the cold war. the director said in an interview next month that he is looking at that. also looking into how to deal technical -- the technical surveillance of china. this comes after senior officials raised concerns. haidi: jodi schneider there with the latest. be sure to tune into blo

for more insight, bloomberg political news director jody schneider joining us now. caroline mentioned a few companies. amazon is delaying. facebook is delaying. they will -- were supposed to bring people in august, now september. now, saying they will wait a little longer. jody: it is confusing for individuals and companies. at first, companies were eager to come up with a plan to get people back and get the economy back. but now, with the fact that vaccinated people are still unlikely to get covid, still there is a lot of concern and worry about caseloads going up across the country largely among unvaccinated people. it has worried companies. facebook will not require people to go back until january of 2022. we are also seeing a number of other companies. caroline: i was talking to two female co-owners of a scam week. -- ofskim last week. what are people doing if they are bringing people back? and many have. getting people vaccinated is inherently what stops mutations. jody: the trick is to get everybody vaccinated and then you will not see the spread. companies sta

let's bring up jodi schneider. are the implications of this as the taliban tries to gain some semblance of global cut ability? -- credibility? jodi: it means in the government is cut off from using those fund reserve assets that could have amounted to $500 million. it will deprive the taliban of those key resources. it is part of a plan -- imf plan to inject 650 billion dollars of liquidity into the global economy. afghanistan could still receive the assets but it would not be able to use them because the new regime has not received international recognition. we just found out about that today. the taliban will be getting that. shery: talking about international recognition, we are hearing that the exiled president is in the united arab emirates. what is he doing there? jodi: we have heard that. just today, that the afghan president who left, the exiled president, had gone to the united arab emirates. we basically had heard from him on facebook saying that he is in the uae and left afghanistan to prevent alleged. h

. >> political news director jodi schneider with the latest. and the u.s. reaction. and beijing.ormer hong kong exchange -- has told bloomberg a series of tightening measures is a natural progression of policy. as china tries to rebalance its economy. lee, who had launched a platform, is adding his venture is on the right side of history on policy issues. >> what we are doing is on the right side of history. what we are doing is absolutely on the right side of the political prerogatives. simply because we are not creating any financial systematic risk to china's financial system, we are spending in places where real financing should be happening. our system has become in this massive system floating on top of the real economy, what we are trying to do is put money into the soil come into the deep roots of the part of the economy that truly supports the gdp and truly creates jobs and truly provides fiscal revenue. >> what is your personal feeling about what is happening with alibaba? you spend a lot of your time is former hong kong exchange ceo bringing a lot of tech giants to hon