On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole  Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how after months of talking,  begging and offering concessions the Biden administration’s dead-end  strategy of appeasing right wing Democrat Joe Manchin  has gone up in flames. Now Manchin wants to pulls the plug on the  “build back better” social programs entirely, and only a people's  movement can stop him. They also discuss the victory of Gabriel Boric  over his fascist opponent in the Chilean presidential  election, new revelations about the scale of civilian casualties from  U.S. airstrikes, the spread of the omicron variant, and more.

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