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Right now, it now heads to the house of representatives issue were expecting they have enough votes to join with what is to be a near unanimous Democratic Caucus in the house of representatives to get it passed. Now they have to work ough worka budget deal by december 15, i have to tell you, i cant imagine it is going to have great expected they will reach a budget deal. For now that increasing the debt ceiling to february, then treasury will use measure take that perhaps a few more months, it f...

Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff we lead off tonight with president obamas choice t...

Ifill and we close with a different take on the story of jesus. This time, from a novelist, poet and scholar of literature jay parini. I do think the story of jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information ...

Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff we lead off tonight with president obamas choice t...

Ifill and we close with a different take on the story of jesus. This time, from a novelist, poet and scholar of literature jay parini. I do think the story of jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information ...

There. Zip it a little more. Little less shirt. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. And msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Im rochablely overdressed. In washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie page joins us. Good to have you all on board this morning. We have a lot to get to. A couple of things. Hillary clinton is back in the news. She got some good...

Site, that was the administration aegs description, they insist the president didnt know about the problems nlg after the rollout. Do you know when he first knew there was a problem . Well, i think it became clear fairly early on. The first couple of days not before that though, not before october 1st . There was no concern at that point in the white house or hhs . I think we talked about having testing Going Forward and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a fiveyear p...

And im picking on the way the government works. So this is my last hoorah probably in the government. Especially after my reports who would hire me. But we have to turn it around. I said one of the reasons we publicize the reports is to try to turn the ship around. Yes, women be rk yes, we embarrass some people. But when you get embarrassed, many times you change what you do. And lets pot kid ourselves. Most people in the United States today think the government doesnt work. The vast majority no...

Quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from indiana. The presiding officer i believe we can cancel the quorum call. The presiding officer without mr. Donnelly i ask unanimous consent that when the Senate Resumes consideration of s. 1197 on wednesday, november 20, there be up to six hours of debate only on the issue of sexual assault, with senators gillibrand or designee controlling three hours, senators mccaskill and ayotte or designees each controlling 75 minu...

The federal government the diplomat that spent nearly two years trying to find a solution to the conflict in syria is leaving his post. Bangui moonannounced that Lakhdar Brahimi will resign at the end of this month. Al jazeeras diplomatic editor james james bays is at the United States. Ban kimoon called Lakhdar Brahimi a brilliant diplomat. Doesnt that statement indicate how detractable syria diplomacy is at the moment. Reporter absolutely. He did the job for two years, and the man before him, ...