at same time here at home, the senate voted unanimously to confirm bridget brink. she will be the first diplomat to fill the post in ukraine since 2019. when former president trump ordered the removal of then ambassador marie yovanovitch. in just a few hours the senate is set to hold a final vote on a $40 billion aid package for ukraine. chuck schumer has now secured enough votes to pass the measure. already passed by the house. it then will head to the president's desk for his signature. the aid package delayed recently in the senate because of an objection from republican senator rand paul of kentucky. joining us now, former u.s. ambassador to russia, now director of the institute for international studies at stanford and an nbc news international affairs analyst, michael mcfaul. ambassador, it is great to have you back on the show this morning. let's go back a couple of stories to the meeting that is about to take place between the prime minister of sweden and the president of finland and the president of the united states. a extraordinary site when you go back

. >> marie's friends and co-workers bridget harris and jean jones apthel. >> he was, like, the apple in her eye. she just sparkled every time he was around. she loved hugging him. >> we traveled a lot together so it was just us two. >> for her job? >> yeah. >> marie worked for the federal government in los angeles, but friends say she was driven and ambitious in other areas, too. >> she was an entrepreneur, that's what i know most about her, because she talked about owning her own business. >> but marie wanted more than work and success. >> i know that she wanted to have somebody in her life. >> what kind of guy was she looking for? >> someone that will take care of her, love her, protect her. >> that was kind of missing. she didn't have that guy figure, the father figure from marcus. >> then one day, marie told her friends -- >> i met this guy, you know, they had a lunch date and he was cute and just, you know, the excitement of meeting somebody new. >> his name was andre jackson. a handsome single father of two. sparks flew immediately. >> i mean, she would just light up every time

ambassador bridget brink to be the ambassador to ukraine. ambassador elizabeth richard to be the coordinator for counterterrorism. ambassador alexander laskaris and to be the ambassador to chad . we will recognize senator peters at this point. sen. peters: it is my honor to introduce ambassador bridget brink to the committee. i also want to recognize her family who are with her today. her husband, who is also some in our country as a diplomat. and her two sons, jack and coke. like our service members and their families, our diplomats do not serve alone. their families often go unrecognized as a diplomats perform their crucial work in foreign lands thousands of miles from the country. so we want to thank all of them for their service. ambassador brink was born and raised in east grand rapids and graduated from east grand rapids high school in michigan. she remembers driving by assigned that recognize her home town as the home of president gerald ford. president ford's decency served as a marker for the midwest values that ambassador brink liv

ambassador to ukraine, bridget brink. how essential is it for the united states to have an ambassador in place in the capital of kyiv to reopen the embassy there? how soon do you think she can be confirmed? >> i hope she can be confirmed in a matter of weeks. this is a career state department leader, someone who has deep experience in the region, no question about her qualifications. it comes at the perfect moment when the europeans are beginning to send diplomats back in. i know that we are beginning to think about the conditions upon which we can reopen the u.s. embassy. a little bit different for u.s. embassies. we tend to be the first embassy that gets targeted so we have to make sure if we're going to send diplomats back in that they are 100% say, but i think we can confirm her hopefully in a matter of weeks if not sooner. >> she's a career diplomat, a foreign service officer. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, is there any viable diplomatic solution left of the war in ukraine? i'll ask a key member

kennedy was bridget murphy kennedy. but i couldn't quite figure out. that point forward for many years exactly how to find a way into a story about the early kennedys what i wanted to understand was where did they come from who came to america first what was life like for them when they got here, you know, i know we're not always the most welcoming country to incoming immigrants. we say we are many of us believe we are and should be but it's not always the case and it wasn't the case for the incoming irish. so i wanted to find a story that told many stories. in fact, i wanted to explore the origins of the kennedy. family in america. i wanted to understand irish immigration in america. i wanted to understand life for irish immigrants in the 1800s, which is when bridget came here. other books kept getting in the way and it wasn't until 2016-17 when we started having very different more aggressive more angry conversations about immigration immigration in this country where i realized i have to figure this story out. i have

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there was no proof magdi knew the alleged killer, anthony bridget, no evidence he'd paid bridget any money. and while detectives had their suspicions about the involvement of a middleman, they still couldn't prove it. and, as you'll see, even that undercover tape could be seen through a different lens. >> who was the middleman? >> on the eve of the trial, richard and ryan got ready for the big day. their suits were pressed. they reviewed their prior statements. and they weighed the consequences of what this moment meant. >> i'm happy that we will get closure, but then it's just sad, because it's like, we lost our mom, and then in the same light, it's like, we lost our dad, too. >> their only surviving parent, the one they'd lived in fear of for years, would be the one they had to face in court. >> part of me is scared of him, but also, part of me wants to stand up and let my voice be heard after all these years. so, i want to be strong. >> and so, the brothers walked into court together that first day of opening statements, standing strong, united in their quest for justice for their

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you sound like you want to say something, bridget. >> yeah. if i may, commissioner fung. >> president: can i just ask a question. i just want to clarify what you said. is it that you don't support any architectural standards. >> commissioner fung: i don't support any architectural standards unless you want to landscape things into planning which is fine. >> president: i think the only thing i would say in my understanding is that without this under sb9, there can be no feedback. if there's not an objective standard, it's whatever goes. so that can be fine. i don't really have a strong opinion. i think that's the reason why they're here. >> commissioner fung: to the director's comment, it sounds like everyone wants to have something on the book. i can support that. i can support the massing portion of it in general. okay. >> yeah. i think just one comment we were saying of planners implementing this, if we have no design standards, then there's no review. so the department has long had a policy of not allowing vinyl windows at the front. so if

bridget, brock, brian, brooke, brad, brenton. and my family like has one of those relentless senses of humor, like, where they make fun of each other until someone cries. and when you're the youngest, that's you [ laughter ] so they used to call me fang, because i had one front tooth, and then they called me lurch because i have broad shoulders i was a talented swimmer you know, from "the addams family." of course you call me that, i'll [ bleep ]. thank you so much. [ laughter ] >> seth: family only that's family only >> family only >> seth: i've also read that part of this show is a love letter to your mother. was she someone, growing up, that made you laugh? >> my mom is, like, one of those accidentally funny people. you know, we grew up in kansas, and by the time she had me -- i'm the sixth kid -- she sort of just like, didn't care anymore, right? so we would go to the grocery store in the dead of winter and she would have like a paper-thin nightgown on with no bra, because why? [ laughter ] and she has these beautiful long --

tonight we'll vote to advance the nomination of bridget brennan. bridget brennan is a current u.s. attorney. she served ohioans as an assistant u.s. attorney for over a decade. she's taken on complex and difficult issues. she's focused on cases that help make our community safer and more just. ms. brennan's dedicated her career to making the northern district of ohio a safer place for victims of human trafficking, including children. she served as the lead prosecutor in the largest juvenile sex trafficking case in the history of the northern district. a horrific case that included victims as young as 12. she achieved the country's first conviction for a sex trafficker's use of heroin to control his victims, convincing the court to recognize heroin withdrawal as a threat, quote, threat to serious bodily harm for the purpose, -- unquote, for the purpose of proving coercion. she's been a champion for liberty. she successfully prosecuted 16 defendants in a single case. under hate crimes statutes for their roles in religious motivating assaults after she viciously attacked members of oh

you sound like you want to say something, bridget. >> yeah. if i may, commissioner fung. >> president: can i just ask a question. i just want to clarify what you said. is it that you don't support any architectural standards. >> commissioner fung: i don't support any architectural standards unless you want to landscape things into planning which is fine. >> president: i think the only thing i would say in my understanding is that without this under sb9, there can be no feedback. if there's not an objective standard, it's whatever goes. so that can be fine. i don't really have a strong opinion. i think that's the reason why they're here. >> commissioner fung: to the director's comment, it sounds like everyone wants to have something on the book. i can support that. i can support the massing portion of it in general. okay. >> yeah. i think just one comment we were saying of planners implementing this, if we have no design standards, then there's no review. so the department has long had a policy of not allowing vinyl windows at the front. so if

bridget floyd could be a justice for the rest of us, or at least a slice of the rest of us. matt walsh is the host of the matt wells show, and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. it's hard to believe that a series country that still leads the world could go about the process in such a nonserious and childish way. not a result of that person's effort. >> i'm glad you brought it up, because i was looking forward to having our first trans-nonbinary indigenous furry supreme court justice. but we do see the absurdity of identity politics and how incoherent it is, how it is time for a black woman to be a supreme court justice. is there a waiting list? who determines that's exactly? joe biden and determined that ahead of time which as you point out, it only means because he said ahead of time, i'm going to appoint a black woman to the supreme court. he could've just done it. he didn't have to say it. he could've just said she was the most qualified for the job and maybe she would be, there's no way for us to know what his motivation was. but when you announce it a

bridget everett. cordae and featuring the legendary roots crew >> questlove: 1580 >> steve: and now, here is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: oh my goodness, yes. [ cheers and applause welcome. welcome, everybody please welcome, have a good time welcome to "the tonight show." thank you for tuning in. thank you for being here [ cheers and applause well, guys, today, the ceo of pfizer said that it's vaccine for the omicron variant will be ready in march so get ready for the craziest st. patrick's day in the history of the world [ laughter ] "omicron." [ laughter ] pretty soon the ceo of pfizer is going to be on instagram live like "new vaccine just dropped, sound off in the comments what!" [ laughter ] it feels like this march madness, we'll be filling out brackets to predict which of the 68 variants will become the dominant strain. [ laughter ] listen to this according to the cdc, only one in ten adults in the u.s. eat enough fruits and vegetables good timing

bridget bailey. can you hear me okay? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >> so thank you again for your support of this landmark designation. as melanie mentioned, and after commissioner nageswaran's comments after the last hearing amending the character defining features, i just wanted to say i'm in full support of that. i will say when i wrote this landmark designation report, i modelled the character defining features off the list of the character defining features of the six other carnegie libraries, so at some point, i would encourage you to encourage staff to amend the other library designations to have more character defining features list. i know that might seem like a hurdle, but i think that's important given that the designations of the other ones were done a little while ago, and they were very formulaic, and i'm hoping we can address this report. that's my comment. i'm hoping anyone has a question for me. i'm happy to answer them. >> clerk: okay. thank you. last call for comments from members of the public. you

. >> reporter: bridget says when deals are this good she is already shopping gifts for next year. >> my total savings today was $99 and that is gas for me for two weeks. >> reporter: next up bridget's business decorations and a lot of stores are trying to get rid of those items at 50% off. >>> as of today christmas sales across the country have risen eight have percent compared to last year according to master car spending. >>> the police are looking for a driver accused of injuring two officers during a car chase and the incident first started near bailey road in bay point earlier this morning and police say they tried to stop a blue subaru outback but the driver sped off. that led to a short pursuit until the car was stopped the chp. officers then say the driver took off hitting other officers. police say the car was found abandoned and they are still looking for the drivers. the officers were hit and are okay. >>> they were rescued from a mobile home fire on christmas and authorities say the fire started because of an unattended candle left burning while the homeowners were way. t

bridget and returns. march 25. march — bridget and returns. march 25. march 25 _ bridget and returns. march 25. march 25. march 25. she always has the gossip. _ march 25. march 25. she always has the gossip, doesn't - march 25. march 25. she always has the gossip, doesn't she? i has the gossip, doesn't she? 2022! — we can now speak to the entertainmentjournalist kj matthews who joins us from los angeles. i know you are a massive fan and i know the fans are hugely excited about this. why is this second season such a big deal? it was a big deal to me that on christmas day, even though i went out to be with my family, i took time to watch this. it was very important to me. but it is important that they are releasing this promo to talk about a date for next year because i don't know if you recall, but last year on christmas day that was when the show debuted, can you believe it? it is only been one year since it debuted in one of the reasons why it was such a success was because it happened around the beginning of lockdowns in the beginning of the big pan

bolton's wife bridget here with us today. and i'll share senator klobuchar's view that we will not ask her any questions that you aren't able to answer. but i know she's proud of your work. and i know the amount of work you have had to put in to cover this territory to come up with all the recommendations you have over the last 11 months, has meant that your family's had to be an important and patient part of that. and we're grateful to bridget for what he's done so forth this work as well. the impact on the department has been clear. though i think we're still trying to be sure we fully understand the impact today. the detailed 104 recommendations from your office, made with the help of the department's operational readiness committee has made a difference already. as i've said before, what you do and what we've talked about and what your report makes clear and what senator klobuchar just mentioned, you know, the frontline officers were the true heroes that day. securing that door at the capitol for a significant period of t

let's bring in meteorologist brent jeff -- bridget mahoney. i have to say we expect this weather to happen in the central part of the country. some or -- summer or maybe late spring. >> it is unusual to see this this time of year, but it does not necessarily never been seen before. we do see tornadoes in december time and time again, but it is one of the lowest periods of the year. we are seeing this devastating situation play out as as you can see this is look at the last several hours with radar as we see a lot of active and severe thunderstorm warnings them as well is tornado warnings that continue to spread into central illinois as well as indiana, hitting through kentucky national as well as arkansas as we speak. so fox weather, we've been monitoring the situation all night. here's a look at the severe storm risk as we go into the next 12 hours or so. this line cutting through and tracking often east. so as we put this future track into motion, this is not going to be the last of it. we are going to see the storms really thrilled to the e

bridget. a quick follow-up. you mentioned in this model that you developed, you can run different scenarios and you addressed one of them earlier, which was some sort of conflict inside of pong-- pyong yang. and is there another scenario na you ran in the model? >> the biggest change, i think the biggest and most interesting shift that we saw in refugee and displacement movement came with whether or not the dmz was open or closed. so it's been the case that china has been hardening somewhat its border with north korea over the past decade and a half. and that is -- that will remain kind of closed, but only relatively closed depending upon whether or not it's at a river crossing or that sort of thing. there are more porous and less porous borders. and it's a hard military border it's not just land, but out into sea as we all know. there are three crossing points, potential crossing points where people could cross and pass into south korea. were there the capacity and political will to accept people crossing the b

when we start with bridget? >> thank you victor and thank you for having us all to discuss this work. one of my favorite parts of an academic is convening to talk about work and share ideas so this has been incredibly frustrating not to be with everyone and i very much hope to be in seoul tright now so i'm jealous of my co-panelists . so just a quick five minutes. my way of opening the black box that is north korea or appearing into that black box is to look at innovative methods of finding out about north korea for fundamentally important questions. and especially regarding instability and stability in north korea.i have two different piecesof that . the first is how is north korea and weapons flow restoration affected by its state ability or instability? or regime stability or insecurity? the second i'm going to talk about more in depth is how will north korean civilians respond to dramatic instability or regime a,insecurity in north korea if that is to occur? specifically what with the scale, i'm interested i

so why don't we start with bridget? bridget: ok. hi. thank you, victor. thank you for having us all to discuss this work. one of my favorite parts of being in academic is convening to talk about work and share ideas and so this has been incredibly frustrating not to -- not to be with everyone. and i very much hoped to be in seoul right now. so i'm jealous of my co-panelists. so just a quick five minutes. my lay of opening the black box that is north korea or kind of peering into that black box is to look at innovative methods of finding out about north korea. for fundamentally important security questions. and especially regarding instability and stability in north korea. so i have two different pieces of that. the first is how is north korean weapons proliferation affected by its stability or instability? or regime stability or insecurity? or the second, which i'm going to talk about a bit more today in depth is, how will north korean civilians respond to dramatic instability or regime insecurity in north korea if that is to occur? so specifically, what

let's learn more about bridget. >> i remember the first time i met bridget. her presence, her energy. she literally lit up the room. bridget is passionate about the cable industry and she's also very passionate about her roots in alaska. many people go to alaska seeked the purest form of natural beauty. that's bridget's strongest attribute as well. >> i joined nbc cable as the number two employees and within a week there was bridget baker. i was a lawyer and she came in as the distribution person. and i was just beginning to learn like what is distribution. and we worked together as a team. she had a great love for the business. and during those first few years, the business was tenuous. many on the broadcast side would come to us and would say, when is jack going to shut you down? and bridget was always there to say, never. >> she had a distinguished career at nbc universal. she was the company's first president of the tv network distribution. >> she wasn't just hard working and brilliant but she had the secret sauce. she had the connection and the emotional

with fast food workers there who were joining the fight for 15, and i talked to a white woman named bridget who was working class, irish american, was -- you know, grown up pretty anti-immigrant, believed a lot of antiblack stereotypes. and it wasn't until -- and by extension, i think, sort of bought the whole kind of myth about thehe hierarchy of human value and felt like because she had been paid $7 an hour her whole life, she wasn't worth much either and never would be but it was her fault. and it was only through organizing, like real church basement organizing, when she final saw herself and her life reflected in the life of a latino womanin and a black work basically a similar life story. she said to me, i know now it's not about us versus them, in order for us to come up, they have to come up too, bridget says in the book, because as long as we're divided, we're conquered. she actually said the thing that ended up being the great insight atsaid, that's e why this movement has got to workers, that racism is bad for them too because it keeps us divided from our black andac brown brothe

bridget - talk. -- downing street. that is all. we have time for. bridget chapman, think ofjoining us. we are going to headed over tojohn for the weather. the weather one factor. ., . ., ., , , ., factor. one factor. it has been a calm year. _ factor. one factor. it has been a calm year, weather _ factor. one factor. it has been a calm year, weather equals, - factor. one factor. it has been a - calm year, weather equals, waters. it is calm out there at the moment and showers are already falling away quite sharply, a frost developing right now, but that won't last on it long. change is afoot. this storm is going to bring strong winds, strong rains but also some snow, the impacts first of all hitting the northern uk. it is relatively calm out there at the moment, cold, but those temperatures will be on the rise in the early hours. increasing cloud and some showery rain turning up, by which time temperatures will be above freezing. different sort of day tomorrow. unsettled, rain around, heavy bursts, but dry spells as well. blustery winds, but despite

bridget chapman from the can refu . ee bit? bridget chapman from the can refugee action _ bit? bridget chapman from the can refugee action network. _ bit? bridget chapman from the can refugee action network. it - bit? bridget chapman from the can refugee action network. it seems | bit? bridget chapman from the can l refugee action network. it seems as though one thing the government on both sides of the channel are agreed on is the blame lying with the people smugglers who make vast sums from those migrants who are in desperate situations and will do anything to try and improve their lives. what seems to be harder is to reach agreement on how you tackle that and how you successfully solve it. later. a man has been charged with the murders of a couple who were attacked at their home in somerset. police found jennifer and stephen chapple with fatal stab wounds at a house in the village of norton fitzwarren on sunday evening. their two children were sleeping upstairs. 3a—year—old collin reeves will appear at taunton magistrates�* court. the government has indicated it will a

bridget was at the front. >> bridget is one of those people with a zest for life. she's always everybody's cheerleader. >> bridget baker has truly been one of those alaska front-runners, one of those female pioneers. we're very, very proud of her. bridget, you make us proud. keep it up. >> thank you to everyone at the cable center for this incredible honor. i'm thrilled to join the hall of fame and want to congratulate all my honorees. jeff zucker, who would have imagined this when we were at 30 rock. senator murkowski, your kind work, support and years of friendship mean so much. i won't be able to recognize everyone tonight. but there's no denying that from the moment i said yes to the job offer to join nbc as the company was plodding its course into the cable business, it has been my great good fortune to be a part of this industry. that was in 1988. i was just out of college working on capitol hill when i met my very first cable operators who were founders, jean and mark schneider, ron duncan, john malone and tonight's honoree, ted turner. i couldn't have known

bridget was at the front. >> bridget is one of those people with a zest for life. she's always everybody's cheerleader. >> bridget baker has truly been one of those alaska front-runners, one of those female pioneers. we're very, very proud of her. bridget, you make us proud. keep it up. >> thank you to everyone at the cable center for this incredible honor. i'm thrilled to join the hall of fame and want to congratulate all my honorees. jeff zucker, who would have imagined this when we were at 30 rock. senator murkowski, your kind work, support and years of friendship mean so much. i won't be able to recognize everyone tonight. but there's no denying that from the moment i said yes to the job offer to join nbc as the company was plodding its course into the cable business, it has been my great good fortune to be a part of this industry. that was in 1988. i was just out of college working on capitol hill when i met my very first cable operators who were founders, jean and mark schneider, ron duncan, john malone and tonight's honoree, ted turner. i couldn't have known

>> greg: what do you think, bridget? >> it's just liberals -- severing art from the artist which is something i feel like libertarians and conservatives and anyone who doesn't share their politics has done for ages. and it's something that they created. i know i have to live by them. and i also want to know what they defined as classic rock because the kids these days think about the backstreet boys as classic rock. topple it. take it down. >> greg: i wanted to search -- okay the eagles, led zeppelin, and then i'm looking at what they are saying. the beastie boys! what is going on? i am so old. all right, coming up, the g.o.p. is euphoric because the win was historic. ♪ and my clothes smell so much fresher than before ♪ try gain flings and you'll be a gainiac too! the only detergent with oxiboost and febreze. as someone with hearing loss i know what a confusing and frustrating experience getting hearing aids can be, that's why i founded lively. high quality hearing aids with all of the features you need and none of t

a group of parents, including devon's mother, bridget, demanded answers and accountability from snap. in a letter to you in september, ms. stout, i want to know what the answers are. will you commit to providing more information about the automated tools that snap uses to proactively search for illegal drug related content as parents ask? >> senator, i very much appreciate you raising this issue of a devastating crisis impacting our young people. i want to make clear, we are determined to remove drug dealers from snapchat, and we have been public about our efforts in this space. first of all, we have stepped up operational efforts. my heart goes out to the families. i have met with bridget back in april and i heard from her and other families to understand what is happening with their experience and also what is happening on snapchat. we have deployed proactive detection measures to get ahead of what the drug dealers are doing. they are constantly evading our tactics. not just on snapchat, but every platform. we have also stepped up our work with law enforcement. just last week, we ha

bridget is out first, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i am very thankful to live in south carolina, right to work state. and i've sort of been antiunion, to tell you the truth. during my time working. but i wanted to know how much of the vaccine mandates are playing in these strikes, what is the role of the vaccine mandate? and also, i wanted to ask about the bureau of labor statistics. their third quarter review of average weekly wages, the year over year comparison, it is actually showing a decline in wage earners, in wage growth, a decline. the wages are going down. so, if you could speak to that, if you can? thank you very much. host: thanks for the question. dave jamieson, where do you want to start? dave: thanks for the call. first thing i'd say is if you a fan of south carolina's right to work law, you are not going to like the pro-act, because it would essentially ban right to work laws. we would basically see those off the books a lot of states if democrats managed to pass the pro-act. the vaccine mandate is really not playing a

earlier, bridget phillipson told us that the government needs to do more to support consumers and business. small businesses are seen risin: and business. small businesses are seen rising cost, _ and business. small businesses are seen rising cost, and _ and business. small businesses are seen rising cost, and the _ and business. small businesses are l seen rising cost, and the government is also putting up taxes at the moment, but isn't something we support. we need to see much more action to protect families and business. everything is getting more expensive— the weekly shop, finishing up your car, energy prices. on the government are also pulling away the £20 a big universal credit when families across the country just cannot afford to credit when families across the countryjust cannot afford to make up countryjust cannot afford to make up that different. we have not had, over the last decade, a real plan to support our energy industries, there are crucial to the future of our country. there are proposals, and the government should look carefully at them. more broadly, we are far mor