[laughter] the third president of npr, what did he say? >> more bang for the buck.laughter] we would have kicked him. [laughter] one of you not only found solace and energy from each other but you were helping women and created your own network. now again today a woman hearing this who's working with the say of course, but that wasn't and of course when you are doing it back when you started banding together and having lunch in and helping each other find jobs. >> so you just saw and recognized in each other that you needed to? >> we needed to stick up for each other but also when there started sometimes a young woman would come to me and say so and so said [inaudible] today i would never say that. but if somebody came to me and said, we were on a warpath. we had some stature in the company at that point. >> she created wherever she went she knew what it was, she didn't have to figure it out. >> you all together became a force at work. you had fun together and she eluded to this you all helped each other personally. can you talk a little bit about the fact that he w

third president of npr? his climb? get more bang for the buck with a broad. [laughter] >> never to our faces. >> to my face, he said it. [laughter] >> he knew i would have kicked him. [laughter] >> the four of you not only found solace and energy from each other, you were helping women created your own all-girls network. again today a woman hearing this who's working will say of course but thatt was not of course when you were doing it back when you started banding together and having lunch and helping each other find jobs so what was that like? you saw each other and recognized in each other that you needed to team up. >> we also needed to stick up for younger women. when there started to be, i am embarrassed to say this but sometimes a young woman would come to me who was ten or 15 years younger than i by the time we are talking about the early 2000's or much more even and say so-and-so said i look nice in my dress and i would say want to die on this hill? you're going to have to fight some other bites. today i would never say that but then, that was great

national public radio celebrating npr's history.hank you for joining us today, let's hear from our panel. >> hello, thank you for joining us. thank you for that wonderful comprehensive introduction. [laughter] these women need no introduction but we have a terrific introduction for the archives for the future generations and that's who i would love to focus on today. i want to go back in time for people who may not know what it was like before these women were iconic and before npr was an iconic presence in the news media. before i do that, i want to say thank you to all archives because without archives, i would not have been able to write any of the books i've written, most people couldn't, she said herself she couldn't have and archives are invaluable, you cannot find anything on the internet and you can hear everything from the past even on npr so thank you to the women whose lives i invaded. this is an unauthorized book and i am delighted and honored you took the time to join me tonight with the upcoming anniversary of npr's 50

is npr that tone deaf?the most extreme case to lacking self awareness i think i've ever seen, it's not just the sites that you mentioned but npr it self would rather throw acid than criticize a leading democratic party politician and at least ben shapiro is honest about his ideology, as are msnbc or fox opinion hosts. what makes this so galling is npr is accusing other people of being politically polarizing and serving a political side of the spectrum when that's all npr does and ever since the george floyd killing, you can listen to npr and almost be guaranteed that the theme of npr will be some culture war issue about race, they almost flood the zone of coverage. so everything they're saying about ben shapiro is true about them, the only difference being that ben shapiro is candid about his views and npr pretends superiority. howie: ben shapiro reacted by saying npr is selling outrage over everything trump related. if the daily wire isn't publishing falsehoods and is completely upfront about the conservat

the story core is an npr. it has been on npr. it is its own nonprofit.npr picks up, you know, segments and plays it every friday morning. it is a beautiful conversation that happened between people. the premise of the story core is they may say who the founder of it is, they started it in grand central station. and he started it by saying two people, you are 40 minutes to talk to this person. imagine if you had 40 minutes left to live and this is your opportunity to say something to, you know, your brother, your father, your neighbor, whoever it is that you are in there with. go. then they have these conversations. 670,000 people have done these things. they are all logged. >> that is fantastic. >> about two years ago, this group started to try to use the methodology of story core to launch something called one small step. one small step is different from before. not different from people knowing they're coming together to talk, but red and blue coming together to talk. it is very important. part of what dave calls a brain trust for eight months or so no

kennedy: read out loud every year npr. your thoughts chris?it is the most radical peace of work written for politics and history of the world. it has been used by every movement to gain more rights for more people. i love the declaration of independence but does that mean it's perfect now they were flawed. they were slave owners but look, your premise that democrats hate america is wrong. i'm a democrat i love america but all the democrats i know love america. some people criticized america, love america. and thank god we live in a country where you are free to criticize the nation. i will never want to squash or take away someone's rights for being an activist. when corey busch is tweeting about the fourth of july, when gwen buries turning her back on the flag, i don't care but i love this country. it's never attacked onto that. >> when i hear right wing nut saying the election was told they generally six of the bunch of tours i do not paint every republican without brush. we have to really separate that a little bit, kennedy. >> if you belie

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they don't even talk about it on nbc and cbs, abc, npr. they don't talk about it. and it is a big story. that is why the credibility of the mainstream media is the lowest it's ever been. i hate to take credit for this, but i'm very proud of the fact i exposed them for what they are. they are terrible, terrible representatives of our country. they don't talk about crime, they don't talk about chicago. we had 260 people shot this weekend. in afghanistan, we didn't lose one soul during the last -- more than a year. that was largely because of me, but i won't take credit. the good news is, i will never be given credit. we haven't lost a soldier. 260 people shot in chicago. massive numbers of people shot in new york. they don't prosecute these people. they don't prosecute these people. they only go after republicans. it is a terrible thing that's happening in our country. and a very good question. >> how do you fight the argument that these are private companies? they can be as liberals as they want to be. >> they want to be private -- fmr. pres. trump: they want to be

what is your reaction about what npr is doing? >> no kidding, eric.e media couldn't get any lower, npr comes along with an idea like this. the problem is, gee, who do you think npr journalists are going to wind up going to rallies with? it is probably not going to be any sort of conservative outlet or even anything this side of teachers unions and blm rallies, which will just further erode all of it. the real thing here is -- i am preaching to the choir. you are a news guy, and you know this. you are in the news business. the way npr defines this is they said that as long as the rally supports human dignity and freedom. if you are in the news business and you want to support freedom and human dignity, do your job and do it faithfully and do it accurately. that is the greatest thing you can do for freedom and human dignity. to report the news, don't make it up, and to do it as fairly and in the most balanced way you possibly can. >> eric: yeah, we do a lot of reporting on china and iran and threats to democracy. the code of ethics "avoid conflicts of i

it's so story core is the thing that has been on npr. it's it's its own nonprofit, but npr picks up, you know segments from it and plays it every friday morning. yeah, exactly. it makes most of us cry because yeah, beautiful conversations that happen between people and the premise of the story core. is that dave i say who is the founder of it which will say when he started it. he started it in grand central station with a microphone. and and he started it by saying to people. your 40 minutes to talk to this person imagine that that you had 40 minutes left to live. and this was your opportunity to say something important or real to you know, your brother your father your neighbor. whoever it is that you're in there with. go and then they have these conversations 670,000 people have done these things largest compendium of conversations and stories and they're all logged in the library of congress. so yes, fantastic. so this group about two years ago started to do a thing. they started to try to use the methodology of storycorps to do to la

and now tonight here is the headline at npr. vice president harris hints that she has discussed filibuster changes with senators. this is what movement looks like on an issue like this. movement that appears to have been set in motion by congressman james clyburn of south carolina. congressman clyburn joins us here live next. reiv le next (vo) the subaru crosstrek. dog tested. dog approved. (man) i've made progress with my mental health. so when i started having unintentional body movements called tardive dyskinesia... ... i ignored them. but when the movements in my hands and feet started throwing me off at work... i finally had to say, 'it's not ok.' it was time to talk to my doctor about austedo. she said that austedo helps reduce td movements in adults... ...while i continue with most of my mental health medications. (vo) austedo can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood, behaviors

and now tonight here is the headline at npr. vice president harris hints that she has discussed filibuster changes with senators. a this is what movement looks like on an issue like this.wh movement that appears to have been set in motion by congressman james clyburn of south carolina. congressman clyburn joins us here live next. overwhelmed by the ups and downs of frequent mood swings of bipolar i? ask about vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar effectively treats depression, acute manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i in adults. full-spectrum relief for all bipolar i symptoms with just one pill, once a day. elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis have an increased risk of death or stroke. call your doctor about unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. report fever, stiff muscles, or confusion, which may mean a life-threatening reaction, or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be permanent. side effects may not appear

listen to npr. >> the declaration is a document with flaws and deeply engrained hypocrisies.t also laid the foundation for our collective aspirations, our hopes for what this country could be. howie: the fork times says the flag may no -- the new york times says the flag may no longer be a symbol of unity. supporters of donald trump have embraced the flag so officer mut many liberals worry that the left has all but ceded the national emblem to the right which is drawing sharp complaints from media conservatives. >> if you wanted to be accept inned the entertainment industry, media and academia, you have to draft this country. how deranged, how crazy have we gotten over our national politics that if you see someone flying an american flag, you run the other direction because you assume you don't agree on politics. >> i know that there's a history in this country of certain groups using the flag, the american flag to intimidate marginalized groups and people of color. howie: joining us to analyze the coverage in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend" in, los an

joining me now is a political correspondent for npr and she is the co-host of npr's politics podcast. good morning. thank you to you. let talk about this ambitious schedule. the democrats are putting a time table on this. is it likely given that we have two massive bills both of which have not had the details ironed out yet? >> yeah, this is to me just an indication of how democrats intend to tie this legislation together. and we've heard it from democratic leaders from the outset. but as you said, there are two massive pieces of legislation and particularity that the democrats in the senate have is that house leadership does not intend to vote on one package over the other. they want the two pieces of legislation tied together because there are concerns among some other more progressive members of congress that if folks just vote on the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, there may not be this larger $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation deal. so the challenge right now is to tie them together in the hopes that both will pass. what i will say is that this is an extraordina

npr says sin city's $2 billion industry has rebounded in a big way since march when vaccines became widelyd casinos began increasing capacity. weddings were down by about 96% of april of last year. officials say there are now more weddings in vegas since pre-pandemic. >>> and having more money could add more years to your life according to a new study. researchers at northwestern university tracked 5,400 americans for almost a quarter century. they found that people who have greater wealth tend to live longer. the study also found that big earners were more likely to outlive their siblings who made less. >>> anne-marie? >> well, rich people, you're going to need that money if you're living longer because you're going to have to spend it. i was like, it figures, you know? the other thing i was reading about, some studies in the area, though, was it's not just about how long you live but the quality of your life. you got to be living well and healthily to enjoy it. rich people will do that more, too. >> i'd like to taste both. why not? i'll be the guinea pig. >> yes, me, too. me, too. diane

. >> tamara keith at npr. >> thank you for taking my question. my question is i noticed as you talk about the next steps , is that the next phase of this push? >> .. thanking people to get vaccinated -- >> absolutely not. the response teams are important to ready to work with, called upon states and counties that are in the situation where there's fewer people vaccinated cases are increasing so capabilities we had in place and bring up to deal with ... variant, an important area of focus even as vaccinations have slowed somewhat this last month or so, we are filled still vaccinated millions of people each week, more than 2 million people each week in june have gotten their first job shot and feelings are getting a second shot. people getting the second shot, regimen will double down on these efforts as we continue to vaccinate millions of people across the summer months so this whole of government wartime response continues, we are looking more and more from a person by person, community by community, eating people where they are and places of wo

joining at the table, ayesha rascoe of npr and jonathan swan of axios. thank you for being here. this was a busy newsweek, but we want to start with what happened in florida. president biden traveled to florida. he sat with ron desantis. these two men could face each other in a presidential election in 2024. where do you think things go from here, and what did you make of that bipartisanship, that rare glimpse of it? ayesha: it shows the difference between when you are running for office, running for election, and you are a governor. generally when you are a governor and dealing with a crisis or catastrophe in your state, you need that federal help so you are not trying to pick fights help and you are grateful when you get it. we saw the same thing with chris christie after hurricane sandy. he was criticized because he had very nice to say about then president obama because of the help his state got when they were hit right this terrible disaster. i do not think it lasts beyond now, but i do think if ron desantis ends up having some competition, which i am sure he will if he ends

they would rather nod along to the drones on npr or talk about how crummy life in america is. mingle with americans who come out to celebrate their country singing god bless america, never! case in point. one of the most loathesome figures on the political season freshman congresswoman cori bush tweeted that black people are still not free and it's a holiday for white people. she is literally a sitting congresswoman saying blacks are not free and refers to stolen yard. my question is: should st. louis be given back to the native-americans? does she think about the absurdity of these positions? of course not. bush's stock and trade is racial grand standing. last august when she won her primary against william clay she hinted at revolution. >> we are not going to wait any longer for change. if you did not understand what happened, that was birthed in st. louis, missouri, you didn't understand, we are about to show you. >> [cheers and applause]. >> laura: well, she hasn't shown us that she cares about what is happening in her own district. if you than on thursday, in 8 hours, 4 c

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. >> sreenivasan: li jamali, correspondent for kqed and npr's california newsroom. much for joining us. >> thanks, hari. >> sreenivasan: it's been 50 years since jackson browne's first hit "doctor my eyes," a song in which the world's troubles cause the singer's tear ducts to run dry. 15 albums, eight grammy nominations, countless benefit performances, and a slew of humanitarian awards later, browne has just issued his first new recording in seven years. special correspondent tom casciato visited browne in los angeles to discuss his new work and the themes and subjects he often returns to on his songwriting journey. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporr: it's no surprise to learn from jackson browne that his new album begins with his telling listeners he's on a quest. ♪ i'm still looking for something ♪ i'm out here under the streetlight ♪ still looking for something in the night ♪ >> the songs are about personal experience and about a search. >> reporter: searching is one of several themes he has pursued throughout more than half a century as a singer/songwriter. though in one of his bi

i will start here, a question from npr. who decides how many times reconciliation can be used and what it may include? molly: i think your answer to the question about the parliamentarian speaks to this well. i will underline a couple of things you said. there is a difference between what the parliamentarian advises and what the senate is willing to do. the parliamentarian could say that something is a potential violation of the byrd rule, and the drafters of the bill could say ok, we hear you, but we are going to ignore your advice, keep it in the bill. there could be a challenge to that provision on the floor, and it is possible for a simple majority of senators to -- in the current senate, 50 democrats plus the tie-breaking vote of the vice president to disregard the advice of the parliamentarian. but i think it is clear or in many situations clear that there is a difference between what a majority of the senate wants to do policy-wise and what they are willing to do risk-wise, stretching the process, to make that happen

yes, indeed it's not enough for you nice white allies just to listen to npr and giggle at how stupid the white male differences are in commercials nowadays and admire how that splendid u.s. ladies soccer team is so committed to getting the taking the new stuff just like that they've given up all scoring. these are mere gestures. they cost you nothing. but are used efficiently all into ticket it to the next level of child sacrifice? at least as far as education is concerned. here's how the pledge goes. as a white person with privilege, both from my whiteness and my neighborhood, i realize the idea of making sacrifices to correct hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities perpetrated among people of color. i understand that access to top schools is a key component in economic and social advancement, therefore i commend let my children will not apply to or attend any ivy league school or >> deposition is available for people of color to help the mac don't be a racist hypocrite. sign the pledge said just in case your thinking

npr. reporter: thank you so much for taking my question. it's two questions but i'll make it quick. a lot of people who have gotten the j&j vaccine are wondering if they can or should get an mrna booster. i know it's not recommended that the time but are you recommending against it or should patients and their doctors make a decision about that? also, wanted to get an update in early june. you announced a plan to share 80 million doses globally. by the end of june. it's little -- the mid, late july. what's stopped you from meeting that goal? jeff: let's start with the j&j booster vaccine question. dr. fauci: thank you. the j&j vaccine, the data that i showed on the efficacy slide was one of the slides i showed, is a very effective vaccine. there is no reason to believe right now that people who have taken the j&j vaccine are in need of a booster dose of any sort. there are no data to indicate that that is the case. back to you, jeff. jeff: on the global front, as you know, the president has committed to sharing 580 million doses of vaccine to the world. half a billion doses of pfize

ap july 12 meticulous internet cut off, the goat to taxi to suppress, npr october 15, 2020 here in theted states. twitter and facebook with a new york post story on biden's son. you need more? you're going to destroy a country and swell up step country. communist knew this a long time ago, check out these headlines. june 21. high inflation exacerbates crisis in cuba. here's cnn july 13. the crisis keeps soaring, inflation rockets to a 13 year high. this last one, in case you are really not convinced that this couldn't happen here. here's july 13. faced with rare protests, cuba curbs social media. here's a new york post july 15. white house viking facebook to censor over covered misinformation. folks, the democrats are hypocrites, they can't condemn socialism and communism because they are socialist communism sympathizers. they are not only hypocrites on that, they are hypocrites on immigration, to. you have democrat begging for illegal immigrants to come to the united states from mexico and central america but when it comes to actual freedom fighters and refugees from cuba, let me be c

listen to this short article from npr national public radio in 1975 number two say to you that joe bidenthe most racist president in the oval office since woodrow wilson. >> those are those who think somehow that if we just secretary men, individual characteristics and traits by making sure presently heterogeneous society becomes a totally homogeneous society that somehow we want to solve our social liberals like to the contrary, the concept into the into that concept is the question just ask we are going to people so they all have the same access next line with one another is a rejection of the whole movement of life, and rejection of the entire block awareness concept with black is beautiful, black culture should be studied in the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity and individuality and i think that is a healthy, solid proposal. there are a lot of people opposed that back then who weren't racist including certain supreme court justices and others, democrats and republicans and black people and white people given long distances, buses had to travel and so forth.

and i got the new york times, washington post, the associated press, npr, all to agree to do stories. on the 75th anniversary, all of a sudden there was all of this national news. but, here's the trick. he took all that coverage to the governor and the state legislature and said wait a second, we have this horrible event here, there was never an official report on it, we need to create a commission on it. so, they agreed to do that. the tosa race right commission. i'm sure the legislature said we will just give these guys a few thousand dollars, they can do their report and we will ignore it. but, don ross had other ideas. he is out to win reparations. he made sure there was a majority of commissioners in favor of reparations. the commission is established. i am hired as the lead scholar. to help create the report and do research. and, there was a feeling amongst the commissioners, white people are still holding onto all of these records. we need to see them. i thought there are no records. i went and looked, they're not there. they are gone. what can i do to help make a contribution?

miles parks, npr. only covering specific stories bolstering the conservative agenda. still come away from the content with the impression that republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation's greatest threat. [laughter] who would have thought? conspiracy, a conservative outlet like the daily wire having the cojones to cover conservative news if that's it, put him in jail tomorrow. open the torture chambers. who would have thought? here is the worst part. you can't attack freedom without literally attacking freedom. have you seen what's gone on in australia right now, a formerly free country? check this out. >> across sydney, retail shops will now close, small list of essential stores can remain open. construction sites across the city shut down. from midnight tonight, 110 suburbs across livable, fairfield and bank account will be sealed shut. 900,000 residents who can't leave the area, even to work. dan: >> human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly. unfortunately, this is not the time to do that. even if you

they would rather nod along to the drones on npr or how crummy life in america is. so mingle with a bunch of americans who come out to celebrate their country singing things like god bless america, never. case in point one of the most loathsome figures on the political scene today freshman congresswoman from missouri corey bush, a bernie sanders buddy commemorating the nation's birthday by tweeting that black people still aren't free and it is a holiday for white people. she is literally a sitting congresswoman sitting blacks aren't free. my question is should st. louis be given back to the native americans kisses she think of the absurdity of all these positions? of course not. as with her pals in the squad like ilhan omar and so forth bush's stock in trade is racial grandstanding. last of august when she won of primary against william conway she into that revolution. >> we decided we aren't going to wait any longer for change. if you didn't understand what happened right here in st. louis, missouri and ferguson, we are about to show you. >> what she hasn't shown u

npr. reporter: thank you for taking my question. my question is, i notice that you talked about the next steps and the next phase, you're talking about the surge response teams going into states. is that the next phase of this push? is it more focused on the states? you talked a lot -- your language talked about states asking the federal government for help. at this point, is this shifting from cabinet officials, barn storming the country, begging people to get vaccinated, to, well, stathes states, you figure it out? -- states, you figure it out? >> not at all. absolutely not. the surge response teams are important to be ready to work with where called upon states and counties that are in a situation where there's fewer people vaccinated and cases are increasing. so that's capabilities that we've had in place that we're mping up to deal with the delta variant. that's an important area of focus. but even as vaccinations have slowed sbha a-- somewhat across the last month or so we are still vaccinating millions of people each week, mo

lisa: we turned to amy walter of the cook political report and tamra keith of npr.irst in person reunion. high stakes, and i want to turn to an issue that might get lost but is part of this budget reconciliation package. democrats are talking about attaching immigration reform. they don't know the details, but i want to go to you. how does the biden administration handled this idea of adding some legal status, pushing for that for some illegal immigrants, while at the border, seeing more and more undocumented immigrants entering. tamra: in june, 180,000 people were apprehended on the southwest border. that is a 21-year record. in terms of the reconciliation bill, the budget bill, a federal judge in texas said that the dreamer program that was put in place during the biden administration -- lisa: the obama administration. tamra:tamra: the obama-biden administration, that programs needs -- that program needs to pause and may get thrown out. president biden, they don't have a lot of options left. he said, congress should do something. congress has been doing it for mul

she has written for "national geographic" and npr all things considered and code switch the atlantic, slade and eureka and cheese the author of the award-winning memoir under my bed. growing up in new jersey as the new jersey factory town she had learned her and had become deathly ill from eating and apple. no one in the family in the united states or columbia spoke of infectious diseases and into her 30s she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare unless called chagas but as she dug deeper she discovered chagas or the kissing bug diseases more prevalent in the diocese and the zika virus. today more than 300,000 americans have chagas. why some infectious diseases make headlines and others fall by the wayside after and steps he began searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care but who ignore. crisscrossing the country's interviews patients from epidemiologist and veteran's department of defense. hernandez new book "the kissing bug" tells the story of how poverty racism in public policy have kept this disease hidden and how it intersects with her own identity as a

again, when npr, glen, writes an article about ben shapiro's site, the daily wire, in this thing they quoted jamie, the director of the social networks and political psychology lab at william and mary and she said they can't provide much context in the information they're providing. if you strip away enough context any piece of truth can become a piece of misinformation. glen, you can see where this is going. yeah. i mean, i think, you know, the reality of what's going on is that these media outlets are losing their audience. trump was kind of like a four-year sugar high for them, he saved their jobs. and with him gone, their audience is collapsing. there's data showing the atlantic, new york times, guardian, huffing ton post, have all lost between a third and a half of their audience in the last year alone. obviously the other two cable networks combined don't get anywhere near the audience of this network. and so they look to ben shapiro and other right wing voices and they're angry more people want to listen to them than the corporate media outlets and so the only option instead of

and now tonight, here's the headline at npr.president harris discusses changes to the filibuster with senators. this is what movement looks like on an issue like this. movement that appears to have been set in motion by congressman james clyburn of arizona. congressman clyde brynn joins us here live next. us here live next. experience our advance standards safety technology on a full line of vehicles. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing. hearing is important to living life to the fullest. that's why inside every miracle-ear store, you'll find better laughs at family barbecues. you'll find a better life is in store at miracle-ear, when you experience the exclusive miracle-ear advantage. including innovative technology, like the new miracle-earmini. so powerful, yet it's nearly invisible. we're so confident we can improve your life, we're offering a 30-day risk-free trial. call 1-800-miracle today and experience the miracle-ear advantage. i became a sofi member

according to a july 2020 survey from npr, over 40% of the hospitals reported having household members for low to come off the job or had wages or hours reduced as a result of covid-19. the same reports is over 30% of the a households had reported using all or most of the savings including over 80% of black and latino households. small businesses are the biggest drivers of economic growth in the united states and .4% of the workforce and generating two thirds of the new jobs. in rural areas, people are more likely to be small business owners and these businesses tend to be more resilientne than a larger community. the fda features a portfolio of small business lending grant programs and given the small businesses and rural communities are essential to the economic recovery efforts, the focus on the programs is necessary to ensure that the small and lowest resource communities are not left behind. i want to thank the committee for all that it has done to support the small businesses and in particular, creating the paycheck protection program. after significant advocacy efforts to help f

i saw on npr, a poll, the number 1 problem, the number 1 issue by far was inflation. deep second was wages. what do you make of it? >> yeah, charles, i mean, look, this is what is happening. you have inflation in every area. i was just talking to a friend of minerlier that has a company called forttruss anchorers. you're seeing it in every space. you have the housing market. forget about getting a pool in your back yard. there's a two-year wait. bicycles, everything. it's affecting every aspect, every avenue. >> by the way, it's laura fink with us, not marjorie. i apologize, laura. >> no worries. >> are democrats going to have to apologize for these prices going higher especially if they ram through another $4 trillion in spending? >> i don't think it's the democrats or the republicans fault. the prices are going higher. it's called the pandemic around it's a once in a lifetime experience we hope. we know the price increases have come down in certain areas. we saw it down 60%, lumber. so that means home building is going to increase. see improvements there. a lot of t

npr is reporting that vice president kamala harris -- just talk to senators about exceptions to the filibuster rule. harris also met today with democrats from texas who fled to washington in order to block a vote on a republican bill that would restrict voting back in their home state. the group is also pushing the senate to pass federal laws that will protect voting rights. >> they want to continue working with us and amplify our voices and ask us to amplify there's. maybe create the pressure. and the public demand for the senate to be able to pass both these laws and get them to the president's desk. >> the texas democrats also met this afternoon with senate majority leader schumer. tonight, senator joe manchin of west virginia, a staunch defender of the filibuster says that he will meet with the texas lawmakers on thursday. back in austin, republican members of the texas house voted to send law enforcement to track down and arrest their democratic colleagues now in the nation's capital. well, that may be very texas of them, it's also highly unlikely as long as they remain out of the state s