Welcome to PlotSafe America, I'm John Favreau and filling in for Dan Fifer while he's

on vacation hysteria's own Aaron Ryan Aaron welcome. Oh John it's always great to be here you make me feel like I fit in like a weapon and Madison

cauter and carry on luggage. I'm glad you're here we were supposed to be in studio together but I have COVID so we are all we are all isolating at home the whole

family where we're all we're all fine so far so just annoying very happy to be vaccinated and boosted. Yeah it's it's like at this point if you're vaccinated and boosted it sort of like getting a lottery ticket like all the scratch off options are just terrible and you're like I want the least bad option. Yeah so it's I'm glad that you've got like the least it sounds like among the least bad options. I'm probably the worst in the family and I have like I would qualify I would I would

classify as like a bad cold Emily is asymptomatic and Charlie has pretty Charlie has a little cough but is still him still himself so.

I'm not you were humbling nothing we're humbling that a baby out braving you you know totally he was like he was like he was very happy that I came back into the house because I was isolating myself.

So he's been like sitting on my lap watching truck videos in YouTube for the last. I'm like extremely needle phobic like when I get blood drawn I have to like lie down and like

breathe or whatever and the last time my daughter had blood drawn she took a nap like it's embarrassing she's so much.

Babies are so much brave they really are they really are yeah now I take a lesson. All right on today's show we got some good news and bad news about

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Joe Biden's agenda the good news is that two Democratic House members told the Washington Post that during a meeting with the Congressional

Hispanic caucus this week the president quote gave his strongest indication yet that he is prepared not only to extend the current moratorium on student debt

but poised to take significant action to relieve student loans altogether a move that could include canceling tens of thousands of dollars in debt for some people

and one that he wants to take sooner rather than later Biden himself confirmed on Thursday that a final decision will come in a few weeks.

So that's great now for the bad news also from the Washington Post Jeff Stein Joe Manchin we haven't said Joe Manchin so long on this pod and now now we're back

Joe Manchin has started meeting with Republican senators about a bipartisan energy bill causing quote real fear in the White House

that they'll fail to reach a deal with the West Virginia senator on a Democrat only reconciliation bill that would invest in clean energy lower the cost of prescription drugs raise taxes on the rich and cut the deficit for policies that

Manchin keep saying he supports let's start with the good so Aaron what are your thoughts on the student debt news and what do you make of the timing on this.

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