They say the proposed rules wont allow any new testimony or evidence while we have 2 reporters covering this historic day in washington d. C. Can be how could our White House Correspondent is standing by to tell us about the president s legal strategy and who his defense team is and well be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st we go to heidi. On capitol hill heidi all right so talk us through what is going to be happening in this next hour we heard the Senate Majority leader there lay the groundwork basically tell us whats going to be happening break it down for us. Thats right and you know were actually going to be hearing likely more of the same but the official version in a few minutes time thats because what we heard just now was their regular call the order for Senate Business at exactly 800. 00 g. M. T. Is when we expect the Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts to then call the Impeachment Court which is the other persona the senate will be adopting throughout this trial
Here before . I am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you i was looking, the Pulitzer Prize winners were recently announced. There were five books nominated for a pulitzer or won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this and i said i dont know. We must be slipping. We only have three of those five to show and one of those was poetry and we dont do a lot of poetry. I told him we better do well this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. Hes a filmmaker, writer, journalist, he started his career in washington dc with richard holbrook, Foreign Policy magazine. He was a correspondent for life magazine. I am very envious. He spent 20 years at 60 minutes, he was that abc news, won multiple emmy awards and peabodys, an investigative journalist, the journalism award, he is executive producer of programs like spymaster, cia and crosshairs and the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which led to th
Will come here and speak for a couple hours. Day one of negotiations. Nobody is expecting huge news but as jim has already tweeted out this morning, the market is going to look for signs that this tone of compromise that weve heard so much about all week long is that for real or are talks going to break down in early stages . The market specifically is going to depend on that tone today and well bring that live when the meeting happens a little after 10 00 a. M. Weve seen reaction of futures to the possibility of a deal. Weve been down for six of the past seven days but the dow this morning implied open is up 33 points. Sapp looks s p looks to add fiv. Here we have italy down threequarter percent and mixed bag for the rest. Carl . Okay. Were going to go to the road map this morning. That is where carl is in washington d. C. Reports this morning that hard decisions surrounding deficit reduction could be kicked down the road until 2013 in favor of a smaller package of tax increases and s