Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode here at the damage report. Ted Day is a Thursday

mystery guest Thursdays. Who do we have for you? You'll be very excited to find out Viviana

Behello returns. Viviana has a going. Hi John, I'm excited to be here as usual.

We're glad to have you back before the show we were chatting about some recent animal

trubs that you've had. It's important that you bear in mind that animals are innocent.

No animal. It's armed. Exactly. No animals around. We were talking on the pre-show about

the Manatee die-off that's happening in Florida right now. It is a rough time to be a sea creature.

That's been a consistent part of our news coverage for the past few weeks. So maybe as humans,

we should do something about it, but probably not. Anyway, great to have you here, both you Viviana

as well as you and the audience. Thank you for being here. Please hit the like button, share the

stream if you haven't already. And as we go through the next hour and a half covering things as

diverse as details on the infrastructure bill as well as responses from some progressives,

updates on the vaccination effort around the world as well as meanwhile in which we'll be coming

up to close out the show. We've got news from around the world. We've got news from outside of

the world. So a lot to look forward to. And you can send us messages and comments and tweets and

all that and we'll respond as we go. But with that said, Viviana, you ready to do this thing?

Do it, John. Okay, let's get into it.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill isn't going to have much that really excites progressives.

But supposedly the reconciliation bill just might. And I recently watched a video with Bernie

Sanders explaining you what he thought about it and it gave me a little bit of hope. Here's some

of what he had to say. Under the proposal we are bringing forth no family in America would pay

more than 7% of their income for childcare, universal pre-K, free tuition,

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