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The First Time Since 1970, congress is meeting between the christmas and new years holiday. Preparations are underway as lawmakers if lawmakers fail to act. We are 17 hours until the deadline. Midnight is the deadline east coast time. Here are the numbers. Host also, send us an email and jonas on facebook, join us on facebook or you can send us a tweet. Lets take a scan of the headlines and we begin with the atlanta journalconstitution. A lot of talking but still no votes. The deadline has come ...

General provides one, the economy, two local communs where they may be located. It may be the largest employer in a particular city or county. The amount of community outreach. The amounts of donations and sponsorships. Carriers are not just big brick buildings filled up full of cash. They are filled up full or employees. They are full of very giving folks that add to the fabric of a particular state or their economy or even the national economy. So i bring i kind of carry all of that stuff arou...

I wanted to follow on the question, just to clarify, is the president negotiating on whether or not to reopen the government and raise the debt limit . Our position has been no ransom for reopening the government or congress responsibility. Is he not negotiating . The president has had it depends on what you mean by negotiate. He has been having conversations with lawmakers. What he has firmly made clear again and again is give the tea party its ideological agenda wish list in exchange for Congr...

Later today discussion on the nsa trevelyans programs. The meeting will focus on privacy issues and that gets underway live at noon eastern here on cspan. More from the road to the white house 2016 with ted cruz. Hes speaking at the annual Iowa Republican party reagan dinner. You can watch a live at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. A pair of profile interviews. We spoke with joe manchin and Cathy Mcmorris rodgers. Those conversations will air starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. , the yesterdays hearing...

Good morning. It is my great honor to be your master of ceremonies this morning as we commemorate and honor all veterans that served our great country. To all of our veterans and servicemembers, past present we owe a debt of gratitude for their service to our country. And you all for being here today. A special thanks to veterans for your service and sacrifices for our nation. I am pleased to introduce the official party for todays commemoration. Firstly, the governor of the great state of maryl...

I mean do you read about him today i guess the first question id ask could he be elected president today . I think so. Thats really the challenge of the book, whether we can choose someone who is as principled as he is as president. He did not believe coolidge who was president from 23 to 29 that perception is reality which he thought principle is reality. The challenge for us is we just have to have someone who is good looking and speaks well and good salesman or someone who has good principles...

Immigration laws on the books. Nothing broken, just not enforced. Any of immigration or these topics that we have focused on let me turn you to the cover of cq weekly. The deal worked out between patty murray and paul ryan will there be any bipartisan deal in 2014 . Thank you for the question. That moveonk members want to see congress functional. We had a congress which passed fewer laws than at any point since world war ii. That is a mess. We think a lot of the reasons is that the Tea Party Fac...

Today, an encore presentation of human day, with the chief of washington, d. C. s metropolitan police. She talked about Department Growth in the past 23 years she has been a police officer. A lot of things have happened. Decline fromnitial the 500 down to the 200 range the declined over about 10 years. That was the kind of burning out of the crack cocaine epidemic. It was a 20 year run of sheer hell for most cities. The Violence Associated with crack cocaine markets we had 200 openair markets in...

Doing supplies and i was in an ordinance company. I was in an ordinance unit, rather, and my company was the largest of the unit. I could order a pen. I could order a machine gun. M 60s. Order i mean, these things were on the on paper. It is very interesting, the accounting for these incredibly weapons,nd powerful and at the same time, i need a royal a roll of toilet paper, some tissue. Its ironic. At the same time, you have unit. Upply you work with alphas. Alphas also work with the warehouse. ...

Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Coun...