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Of the sky. so this isnt the lowest our relationships have ever been. but there are a number of sticky issues. i think one more thing that the president will want to talk about in syria is our position with iran. the assad regime with russian airpower looks like it is there to stay after essentially being ignored by the obama admin station. now it is, how do we keep isis destroyed and how do we keep hezbollah and iran from building up on our ally, the israelis? and we have not gotten into north ...

Minute because i want to tell you about this major victory for president obama concerning the iranian nuclear deal. democratic senator barbara mikulski has announced her support for the iran nuclear deal and that would provide the white house the votes it needs to prevent republicans from scuttling that agreement. so lets head to washington and talk about that for a bit. tell us more. >> reporter: thats right. her support means it will become a legacy. the admin station had been trying to get to...

Religious exemption for any future executive order on lgbt issues and the letter states we focus the religious exemptions and they do not hire lgbt americans from receiving federal contracts. this is from friends of the admin station and one of them worked for the white house. whats doing here? >> this is predictable and this is what the dissenting view thought would happen. it was not a narrow ruling at all. and puts obama in the uncomfortable position and he will will not grant the exception a...

Hezbollah made a rare public appearance to rally hundreds of supporters who gathered for a peaceful rally in bay rule back in libya where this all began, the burned out consul slat sealed off and security has been stepped up, amid the investigation into the deaths of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. but the admin station is having trouble with a key question, why wasnt there more security before last tuesdays attack? the u.s. ambassador, the u.n., susan rice, "meet the press,"...

breaking down the july jobs report this hour. i want to get to t employers added 163,000 jobs in july, much better than the 95,000 that economist also predicted. the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%. the latest political spin as president clinton and mitt romney weigh in on this report. go beyond the numbers to find out what the report says about the state of our economy. we are also going to see how wall street is reacting. president obama and mitt romney did not waste any time giving t...

States are going to have to comply with the new conditions in order to get new money. they certainly will. >> ask you one other question about the part of it where the supreme court says the mandate as such is unconstitutional but not the penalty what is the teeth then? someone says im not going to buy insurance and not going to pay the penalty? >> pay the penalty. theç thing is this. as a practical matter, down the have to buy health insurance if you pay the tax. the admin station believes an...

Of reading around all the experts preparing;h#or this da most of what folks were expecting, they would strike down individual mandate but uphold much of the rest but by striking down individual mandate, it would be sort of the thread that allowed the rest of the sweat to unravel. i got to say the notion it was upheld -- and upheld specifically for tat least a plurality under the commerce clause and roberts allowing it to be upheld as part of the taxing power of the u.s. congress is not only goo...

>> andrea i know you have a question for pete. >> i was going to follow up, pete, exactly to your point just now. without the economic incentives for the states to expand and we have seen in several cases where people are really underinsured, places like texas, for instance, without those incentives on medicaid and without incentives on the other part of the law, can health care survive intact? i know the admin station will argue that it can, but out in the real world of insurers and consumers, ...

Doesnt have that power. the court basically send the argument of the critics here who said that those three words in the constitution that congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce, means that congress can regulate people already involved in commerce but if you dont have insurance, not in commerce, therefore, they cant drag you into the stream of commerce to regulate all the court by a very narrow margin upheld that or at least is there a controlling number of justices who would hold t...

Vetted today in each of the 67 counties throughout the state. >> roy moore has not conceded. is that relevant? >> well, i am sure its relevant to them and to others but i dont think its relevant to doug jones today. i think thats something that will get additional attention as time continues to move forward. >> what is your sense of why doug jones won? >> well, i think a lot of people in our state were very discouraged about information from the allegations that were introduces. i think theres a...