shaheen: mr. president. mr. murphy: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: will my colleague yield for a question? mr. murphy: i would. mrs. shaheen: senator murphy, i'm really pleased -- sadly pleased, but i think it's really appropriate that you brought up the issue about holding state department nominees because one of the things that has been unfortunate about senator cruz's approach to nord stream 2 in recent weeks has not just been his holding up of nominees but has been his suggestion that the change in response on my part and on others who oppose nord stream 2 has been partisan. but, as you points out, during during -- as you point out, during all of the trump administration, senator cruz did not hold one nominee because of north stream 2. is that your understanding? mr. murphy: that's my understanding. my understanding is that there may have been private advocacy or public speeches given, but that there certainly wasn't the tactic used thats that been used during 2020, which is ext

i authored that bill along with democratic senator jeanne shaheen. and in 2021, congress expanded those sanctions in the protecting europe's energy security clarification act. again, i authored that bill along with democratic senator jeanne shaheen. for the next several hours this body will revisit and debate this issue once again. we will revisit our successes from 2019 to 2021 in using targeted sanctions to end construction of the pipeline. when president trump signed our bipartisan sanctions into law, putin stopped construction of the pipeline literally 15 minutes after the law became effective. sanctions worked. they succeeded. together we won a bipartisan foreign policy and national security victory. but we will also revisit in this debate the catastrophic decision president biden made in may of this year to waive those sanctions, the sanctions that had worked, the sanctions that were successful. president biden waived them nonetheless. when this debate is over, each of us will have to decide whether he or she will vote to finally and definitive

s>> first and foremost let me thank senator shaheen. she's been a leader in the senate and in our pockets on raising alarms about the dangers of nordstream 2 to european security and ukrainian security. i've been so glad to work with her over these past h several years and i'm here on the floor to join her in our strong opposition to the legislation pending on the floor as we speak. if this bill passes it will won't make the nordstream 2 pipeline any less likely. fit won't stop russia from invading ukraine . in fact, it will do the exact opposite. it will make the completion of nordstream 2 more likely and it will be a guest to russia. dividing us from our european allies. right at the moment when we need to be in solidarity with them in order to deter russian aggression. i'll try not to repeat too much of what senator shaheen has said but let me justópoints that she has made . first, the sanctions in this bill are unfortunately pretty feckless. there feckless because they can be undone easily within 3 to 60 days by the russian governme

senator shaheen, you first.s who are right now preoccupied with covid and a number of other things at home, explain to them why it should matter to them, whether russian troops go into ukraine. [44.5s] -- into ukraine. >> well, we don't want to see a reprisal of the cold war, and unfortunately, that's what we began to see with vladim putin. and the fact is, if he does invade ukraine, it would be the worst conflict on europe since world war ii. that's not good for our allies, and it's not good for america. we want to see ukrainis like americans and other democracies have the opportunity to determine their own futures. and we do not want to give vladimir putin and russia a veto power over what happens in ukraine in the future. judy: but senator portman, if the united states is not prepared to send troops of its own into ukraine, which is what bipartisan leaders are saying is not in the cards, how are the american people to understand why this is a priority for them? >> well, first of all, the cause of freedom is b

i have set my colleagues murphy and shaheen had an odd quality. because they decided to go after me personally instead of focusing on the merits of the issue. and in particular they said when trump was president, senator cruz did not hold his state department nominees over nord stream two. when trump did not impose sanctions over nord stream two. no mr. president i recognize in politics sometimes the heat of the moment you say things you do not entirely think through them. but even in the annals of bad arguments, that is a singularly absurd argument. it is true i did not pull the state department nominees over erica mokay's troops for trump did not have sanctions why qwest work because we stopped to nord stream two. we were successful. when it offered the bipartisan sanctions there were significant element of the trump administration that resisted by the treasury department fought mightily against it. and i was more than happy to battle my own party on this because it's the right thing to do for u.s. national security. as or even one democrat with

shaheen: mr. president. mr. murphy: i yield the floor.siding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: will my colleague yield for a question? mr. murphy: i would. mrs. shaheen: senator murphy, i'm really pleased -- sadly pleased, but i think it's really appropriate that you brought up the issue about holding state department nominees because one of the things that has been unfortunate about senator cruz's approach to nord stream 2 in recent weeks has not just been his holding up of nominees but has been his suggestion that the change in response on my part and on others who oppose nord stream 2 has been partisan. but, as you points out, during during -- as you point out, during all of the trump administration, senator cruz did not hold one nominee because of north stream 2. is that your understanding? mr. murphy: that's my understanding. my understanding is that there may have been private advocacy or public speeches given, but that there certainly wasn't the tactic used thats that been used during 2020, which is extraordina

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let's get perspective from jeanne shaheen. grateful for your time today.y who still might have a little trauma left over from recent experience on build back better and say, hey, are we at risk of losing senator manchin again? are we at risk of losing senator sinema again? senator manchin just said today he's open to supporting a biden pick more liberal than him. do you have any fear that the democrats can keep all 50 of your votes locked in here? >> i don't. i think this -- i'm looking forward to seeing who the president decides to nominate. and i'm not on the judiciary committee so i won't be part of those hearings. i'll certainly do my due diligence, but i'm confident that whoever the president decides to nominate will have support in the senate and hopefully we'll get that nominee confirmed as soon as possible. >> what would the shaheen standard be for a fair process? i know you were unhappy, closer to the election in 2020. the president made his pick of justice coney barrett in september and republicans said we are going to rush this through. we're ha

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a ministry of beauty and no blue shaheen isn't important anymore in art today. put some sort of standards. i mean hear me out. imagine if incentive, you're amazing mind boggling. north angel. it was some weird installation that no one really understood, no standard, but it is art for someone else who made it. and then people have to look at it every day. are you going to do with it? i mean, it's not a piece of chicken. the cookie can eat for yourself and you're done with it. this is something that you put in a space, not your personal space, but you put it out there for people. i think this is a really good question. what it, what, what gives any one the right as it were to litter the world with things that were not asked for by, as it were, communities or people. when you do decide to work in collective space, i think you have to work with the collective body. so you say my angel is not my angel. i had an idea. but that, that, that idea was already a response to a desire over community. a community that had been told by the middle of the eighty's that it has no

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with just 3 months ago, the tropical cyclone. shaheen made landfall in northern oman, and it brought about 2 years worth of rain to musket. so here we go. again, we're going to go in for a closer look. we'll see some of the solid bands of rain here in boss got the drench the area in and around. so this time around, we picked up about a quarter of a years worth of rain, but the bottom line with this that is still too much rain too fast. and it's a bit of a one to punch here because this is a mountainous area. so you've got all that rain falling high above it just rushes right down to the ground and the ground just cannot hang onto it. so that's when we see those scenes of flash flooding. now let's try out where this energy is going on sunday, because i think we could see more images of flooding emerge across the middle east, a potentially que wait, look at this. the darker the yellow, the more intensive rain is also through eastern saudi as well. and southern sections of iran, but that threat for iran not just sunday into monday as well as this energy moves more toward the north and a

senator sha shaheen, our colleague from new hampshire concluded it has not served us well. even senator schumer, the majority leader, has said i wish it hadn't happened. and as a reminder, this is only in reference to federal judges. these individuals hold tremendous power, no mistake about it. but now we're talking about rule changes that stipulate how laws are made, not how nominations are considered. this is the so-called legislative calendar. what happens in the wake of this change would impact every single family across the country. when republicans inevitably at some point take the majority again, it would be a simple thing with 51 votes to dismantle all of the laws that our democratic colleagues have passed, if they were to eliminate the filibuster. then, of course, when democrats take control again the reverse would happen. you know, i think about the 60-vote requirement as forcing us to do something that doesn't come naturally, and that is to force us to work together, to build consensus. i think that's what the american people want us to do, to work together, and

people to stay away from dangerous areas. least 12 people were killed back in october after cycling. shaheen hit the sol tonight. israeli forces have launched as strikes in garza, they believed have landed in empty fields and are casualties have been reported. it seen as a show of force following the launch of rockets, atlanta off the coast of television. it's not clear if the rocket fire was intentional or a test launch, egypt is mediated to defuse the situation. those are the headlines. denise continues here on elk 0 after inside story. stay with. ah! coven 19 has changed the way we work. restrictions have forced people to operate from home instead of the office, but millions are also now quitting their jobs in what dub the great resignation. so will 2020 to be a turning point for labor relations. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program my, my, my job for 2 years now because of the pandemic, many of us have had to change the way we work. working from home is becoming the norm. as people avoid crowded transport systems and offices, even some journalists producing this prog

it was bipartisan, led by senator shaheen and myself, senator wicker, senator kramer, we're part of that congressional delegation. this morning, we were able to attend a secured briefing by the president and his team. let me echo some of the concerns that have been raised by my colleagues. we need to stand strong and unified in letting vladimir putin and russia know should there be another physical invasion of ukraine, that the consequences will be devastating for russia. both in terms of sanctions, we talked about nord stream 2 earlier. it is a bad idea. it's an even worse idea now that russia has mobilized this massive unwarranted force along the border of ukraine. but the other sanctions that must be discussed publicly and made clear would go much further than just sanctioning nord stream 2 which, of course, has to happen. we also need to let russia know that we are going to provide additional military dive lethal methods to ukraine. already we're doing that. i was pleased to see, as we left ukraine yesterday, the c-17 landed. it was from the u.k. one of our strong allies. and it had

. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr.hairman and thank you for being here today and your ongoing good work. ambassador robinson i would like to begin with you new hampshire, like ohio has a very difficult problem with substance abuse. as i hear from law-enforcement and are dea agents, the majority are coming across the southern border from mexico. i wonder just a follow-up on senator portman's question what specifically are we doing with mexico to address this problem? whatever we have been doing has not been working. >> think you senator, i agree with you. there is nothing more heartbreaking than what drugs like fentanyl is doing to our communities across united states. i was in mexico with my colleague for negotiations at the high-level security dialogue. we work very closely with the government of mexico they have agreed with us on a number of things that we were to do including greater cooperation on intel exchange, working more closely with the inner agency and fbi, dea, they just agreed to more visas for dea agents

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arizona's mark kelly and new hampshire's jean shaheen have suggested more modest changes and delaware's chris kuntz, a close ally of the president's, he's still weighing what the right path is. president biden says history will be the judge of that vote shep >> kayla, thanks >>> more than 145,000 americans are in hospitals sick with covid. that's a record high according to hhs data. right now omicron is spreading faster than ever and it shows little sign of slowing well, maybe just a bit not in the united states and not around the globe the world health organization warns omicron could infect more than half of all people in europe in the next six to eight weeks. we are yet in another critical point in the fight against covid, but here in the u.s. the growing number of health experts is pushing back against the government and its handling of the pandemic here is the former fda commissioner and cnbc contributor dr. scott gottlieb i think we made a mistake for the last two years looking to the cdc for guidance when we should be looking to more local authorities for that guidance. >> that f

it also includes mod rilt democrats like manchin and jeanne shaheen they're talking about things like clarifying the 1998 electoral count act to make clear what the vice president's role is and congress's role is in counting electoral votes and looking at new laws to protect local officials from threats and intimidation and harassment that we've seen the kind of in recent months there's guarded optimism they can pull this off because there's a real bipartisan consensus amount that narrow and limited issue of preventing future candidates of trying to steal the election republicans and democrats are quite troubled by former president trump's such attempt after the 2020 election. you see the names on the screen there, these are the type of individuals who have supported bipartisan deals in the past and one template for success here is the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has overlapping members, which now like them, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was sort of the on the periphery had encouraged the talks and only stepped in later, ultimately delivered 19 republican votes an

meanwhile senator jean shaheen of new hampshire says reform is needed but is promoting more modest changesht, hugh? >> you know, bret. this has been a dead issue since december 19th when joe manchin told you on "fox news sunday" he would not vote to change the filibuster. it's all theater. i was watching the president today and thought he was doing a pretty good job with his speech until he went way off the rails. ended up calling everyone concerned about voter security jim crow 2.0. when you go off the rails that suggests to me desperation about his numbers, desperation about the outcome, desperation about his base. that desperation is deserved. they have not moved the needle a bit. mitt romney gave a speech in defense of the filibuster today which was very good. he is the center of the senate this is a doomed effort. >> bret: meantime stacey abrams running for governor on the democratic side, morgan, did not show up for this event today. the president was asked about that. take a listen. >> stacey abrams had a scheduling event. her car is getting a tune-up so you can understand. >> she i

out, is to proceed by blessing this bipartisan gang form eed in the addressing election like jeanne shaheend include people like kirstkir s kirsten sinema and joe manchin and are they clear to do something on lek shuns this year is the way to do it, but it is what shook loose the infrastructure last year and forming one of the gangs in the senate, and the question is now are they willing to do that on a fundamental issue for the party. >> and can you get 10 republicans as it gets closer for the mid-term elections to the magic number of 10, and so that is why the mid-term election is off to a rough place for the president. and the president's numbers are down, and the covid numbers are up, and the calendar is a giant flurry. liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here! shh! i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. what about rob's dry cough? works on that too, and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long? mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs. people with moderate to severe psoriasis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the entrance they make, the surprises th

think president biden made very clear and i by the way started the day with senator portman, senator shaheenreporting back to the president. he met with the group for an hour and about what happened. and i think he made it very clear when he clarified his comments that russia is going to pay a heavy price. those were his words for any incursion. and as someone that visited the frontline a while back with senator mccain and senator graham, i was able to see firsthand meet the widows 14,000 people have died in ukraine since this-what we will call an incursion that was a lot more than that invasion of crimea, the invasion of parts of eastern ukraine, and now he is threatening to do more. so while we went as this bipartisan unified group we want to say if you are betting on divides in congress on this, don't bet on that, vladimir putin. because we believe strongly there must be swift and certain sanctions if there is an invasion. we met with slens. we met with the defense minister we assured them as you know that there have been lethal arms coming from from the u.s. and allies to assist them. th

. >> i don't think mark kelly and jeanne shaheen -- >> you mean megan hasan. she's the one. >> and mark kelly in arizona. they don't want it. >> that's the question. amna, what is the window? >> to andrea's points, if there are steps ahead, it will be for the individual kind of things that some of the existing legislation, the clearance, campaign finance disclosures, making it harder for gerrymandering. when you talk about all the things in the legislation, the freedom to vote act was the compromise. that was the smaller, narrower compromise. >> correct. that manchin signed. >> build back better and voting rights, a busy spring or frustrating one for democrats. >>> when we come back, covid case numbers are still breaking records, but are the rural hospitals ready for what may be coming their way. stick with us. for what may be coming their way coming their way stick with us. stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed. the brand i trust is qunol. it's time for our lowest prices of the season on the sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movements and automat

you have moderates up for reelection and purple states like mark koester and jeanne shaheen and thenjoe manchin who are still very much against this. >> majority rule in a country, do you agree with that? >> we all understand how the senate works. later schumer insists he's almost there with the vote and he's not sure about the pressure campaign that democrats have going on right now. >> everything up one of the 50's talk individually to manchin and kyrsten sinema and they are saying things like i will lose my election speed. we will lose our majority vote. >> so charles, right now, schumer is still strategizing on how to bring this to the floor and some democrats think they will be working to the weekend i might see something happen on monday by the deadline. >> thank you very much. sky high inflation and covert confusion in the white house, talking about voting rights. >> they are willing to say and do anything to get what they want but thankfully members of their own party are not on board and they are not going to succeed at. this will be another example of president biden and hi

. >> i don't think mark kelly and jeanne shaheen -- >> you mean megan hasan.ark kelly in arizona. they don't want it. >> that's the question. amna, what is the window? >> to andrea's points, if there are steps ahead, it will be for the individual kind of things that some of the existing legislation, the clearance, campaign finance diz closures, making it harder for gerrymandering. when you talk about all the things in the legislation, the freedom to vote act was the compromise. that was the smaller, narrower compromise. >> correct. that manchin signed. >> build back better and voting rights, a busy spring or frustrating one for democrats. >>> covid cases are still breakingrecords, mass general brigham. when you need some of the brightest minds in medicine, this is the only healthcare system in the country with five nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renowned academic medical centers, in boston, where biotech innovates daily and our doctors teach at harvard medical school, and where the physicians doing the world-changing research are the ones pro

another democrat involved is jeanne shaheen of new hampshire, the republicans involved include mitt romneyieve that there is an opening here for them to try to get this done. a couple of pitfalls to know, this is not -- this is far from home yet, this is far from a done deal. progressive democrats are not quite ready to embrace this because they don't want to be seen as quick to giving up on the voting rights push and republicans. we will see how former president donald trump reacts to this. if he lashes out at the group all bets could be off. >> there are a lot of dis appointed voters especially in the black community about that voting rights legislation that hit a brick wall. i know you got fresh reaction from black voters in south carolina, this is a state that saved joe biden's presidential campaign. what did they tell you? >> reporter: chris, you're absolutely right, if president biden has a base you could argue that it is african american voters, particularly in south carolina for that very reason that you mentioned because they really helped him turn around his primary campaign. whe

at least 12 people were killed in october after the fact that shaheen hit the sultan it. in the us, kentucky is governor, has declared a fater emergency as powerful storm straight through the state of cars, flashed flooding power outages and damage across the region. parts of eastern kentucky as well as tennessee, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. i also under a tornado watch deadly tornadoes, tor, through the region, 3 weeks ago, killing more than 90 people. and the severe weather has been blamed for the cancellation of more than 2700 flights across the us. airport in chicago were particularly hard haters. the snow storm headed to the area, nearly 6005 have also been delayed. airlines globally is struggling with fast shortages because of the pandemic. the global food prices are at their highest levels in a decades. many people are now struggling to make ends meet in fair be rising fuel and power prices are making matters even worse, lower burden. manley reports this new year. many in belgrade, choosing carefully well, they personnel, food basket, and that be

with just 3 months ago, the tropical cyclone, shaheen made landfall in northern oman, and it brought about 2 years worth of rain to mascot. so here we go. again, we're going to go in for a closer look. we'll see some of these solid bands of rain here in boss got the drench the area in and around. so this time around we picked up about a quarter of a years worth of rain. but the bottom line with this that is still too much rain too. fast and it's a bit of a one to punch here because this is a mountainous area. so you got all that rain falling high above it just rushes right down to the ground and the ground just cannot hang onto it. so that's when we see those scenes of flash flooding. now let's try out where this energy is going on sunday, because i think we could see more images of flooding emerge across the middle east, a potentially q way. look at this, the darker the yellow, the more intensive rain is also through eastern saudi as well, and southern sections of iran, but that threat free. ron not just sunday into monday as well as this energy moves more toward the north and also

it was just about 3 months ago that tropical cyclone shaheen made by fall in northern oman, and that wrenched the area of moscow with about 2 years of worth of rain. and so here we go. again, we'll go in for a closer look right now. and these are some of the hall benz of rain that we're setting up in and around moscow which just drench this area. so we saw in some spots pretty close to about a years worth of rain. but we need to remember that this happened within only a matter of a few hours. so the bottom line too much rain to fast here. and all of that to be said, we also need to remember this is a mountainous area, so that rain is falling high above its rushing rate down to the ground. and then also in the middle, we've got these waddy valleys, so those valleys fill up very quickly, the water is got nowhere to go and we have flash flooding. so let's talk about the risk where it is on sunday with these solid bands of rain as we track them out. i think we may see some more scenes of flooding as we look toward q wave eastern side of c, audi and into southern iran. now for southern ne

shaheen: thank you very much. i look forward to your strong stance when you were confirmed. dr. gutmann, as you are aware, the united states and germany last summer made a joint statement to ukraine about the importance of taking -- responding to russia's aggressive behavior in ukraine. using -- taking the opportunity to try to use nord stream 2 as a way to use energy to threaten ukraine and weaponize energy. as you are thinking about your role as ambassador, how will you work with germany, with this new government in germany around the nord stream 2 issue and holding russia accountable for its efforts to weaponize energy? dr. gutmann: thank you for that important i view our opportunity to advance our relationship to germany as one that has -- that is opened up by the new coalition government, germany being one of our strongest european allies. i believe nord stream 2 is a bad deal for germany, for the ukraine and terrible for all of europe and the united states. you have my commitment to focus on diplomacy that resists all threats, all human rights violations especially from ru

you have to be mindful of that of jeanne shaheen was asked on cnn about the legislative filibuster in1. and she answered just simply -- no, i would not support eliminating the 60-vote threshold, would not do it. senator jack reed was asked in 2017 during the same time period this letter came out, which he was a signatory for, he said the filibuster's not in the constitution. or in the original senate rules. but we have a bicameral system for a reason, and this legislative tool serves a critical purpose in ensuring the functioning of our democratic republic. yes, it sometimes slows the process down, and some have abecaused or -- abused or subverted it, but it remains an important part of our system of checks and balances. i agree. i agree with that jack reed. senator bernie sanders even was asked about the filibuster in 2019. he just replied -- no, i'm not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster. senator hirono from hawaii said i'm not particularly in favor of getting rid of the filibuster, because that means majority rule, and that's what happens in the house. senator bob casey was

operates, and at least what manchin and sinema and even others like mark kelly from arizona and jeanne shaheen that's how we started with the nuclear option under harry reid when this whole filibuster change started. stuart: if he fails on voting legislation, is that -- are we looking at a failed presidency? i mean, can i go that far? >> you can say that in the minds of progressives, and i think that barring some gang of 14 effort that has moderate republicans and moderate democrats together to try to get some piece of legislation through that then the biden administration takes credit for, barring that, you can say that this legislative agenda is pretty much stalled. stuart: there was considerable hostility towards senator manchin, and they actually chased senator sinema into a bathroom. looking at that right now. did that kind of hostility backfire? >> i think so. and manchin has mentioned it numerous times in different interviews, how much that upset him, how much when the white house put out statements about him and the political arm kind of went after him for past, you know, coal investme

senator sha shaheen, our colleague from new hampshire concluded it has not served us well. even senator schumer, the majority leader, has said i wish it hadn't happened. and as a reminder, this is only in reference to federal judges. these individuals hold tremendous power, no mistake about it. but now we're talking about rule changes that stipulate how laws are made, not how nominations are considered. this is the so-called legislative calendar. what happens in the wake of this change would impact every single family across the country. when republicans inevitably at some point take the majority again, it would be a simple thing with 51 votes to dismantle all of the laws that our democratic colleagues have passed, if they were to eliminate the filibuster. then, of course, when democrats take control again the reverse would happen. you know, i think about the 60-vote requirement as forcing us to do something that doesn't come naturally, and that is to force us to work together, to build consensus. i think that's what the american people want us to do, to work together, and

i was happy to see both sides of the aisle and hear the senators, senator portman and shaheen were two and kramer all go over there. what message do you think that sended to the russians and ukrainians, congresswoman? >> well, it's nice when we can stand together and show bipartisan support to our way of life and adversaries that we can as a country. also something a lot of people don't realize that under the budapest memorandum in 1994, ukraine used to be the third largest nuclear country, largest nuclear arsenal and we actually provided assurances that this country is going to be not attacked and you know, provide in the country. we find agreement russia and u.k. so we have some commitment if we don't want to have further proliferation of nuclear weapons. unfortunately, this administration does a lot of talk. doesn't do the work and has very unwise, i would say and and unreal his energy policy that embolden russia and have more control over europe and eastern and western europe. i think that is very dangerous. this administration needs to start doing some walk, not just talk. >> bria

i'm proud to have worked with senators cardin and wicker, senator shaheen, graham, and blumenthal on this legislation, and i hope more of our colleagues again on a bipartisan basis will join us in advancing this bill and making sure that our ukrainian friends have everything they need to deter, if possible, russian aggression. and if that's not possible, to make sure that vladimir putin pays a heavy price for attacking ukraine. mr. president, on another matter, it was one year ago today when we were all on the capitol steps, on a cold januare election of joe biden as president of the united states, and kamala harris as vice president. exactly 365 days ago, we were out there on the capitol steps and heard what i believe to be an important and welcome speech by the president, where the president said he would serve to be a unifying force in washington. he said, without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage, no initiation, only a state of chaos. wonderful, inspirational words. but now we find ourselves a year into the biden administratio