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Would be terrorists in this country, the key parts of it may expire tomorrow night if congress cannot agree and pass what some are calling a compromise. what does it mean for you, next. art has a power to let children discover who they are. every child needs to have space for them to create. when i moved to new york city i noticed that access to art education was lacking. i decided that we need to be the ones to put paintbrushes in the hands of kids. we opened art classes in public libraries t...

Documents. congresswoman says its too little, too late. >> they have been working at this for four and a half years. and now they have come because they know the fast track is in jeopardy, they know that this treaty is in jeopardy and say, oh, we would like to have you read the text. but, its classified. >> so what it comes down to is the obama administration is making a last ditch effort to get enough votes on the democratic side to appease the house and make this thing go through. members say ...

That authorization, he wrote, if you guys in congress cannot agree on some kind of new authorization for the us of american military force, the administration says, thats okay, we already have the authorization we need. what do you think of that? >> its a bit of a ridiculous situation. the president has been at war in iraq and syria for six months now. he would now like cross approval of that war while failing to appeal the underlying law. it would be nice to have your approval and stamp but if ...

>> the president already has statutory authority to act against isil. but a clear and formal expression of this congress backing at this moment in time would dispel doubt that might exist anywhere that americans are united in this effort. >> in the presidents letter to congress requesting a vote on that authorization, he wrote, "the existing statutes provide me with the authority i need." if you guys in congress cannot agree on some kind of new authorization for the us of american military force...

Have more black electeds than ever before but the truth of the matter is we probably have less power than ever before because most of the us are in the minority parties, whether it be in the federal government and/or the statehouses. and that drives the impact. >> and look at the restrictions on voting. at least 40 restrictive bills introduced or carried over from 2014 in 17 states. i.d. laws making voter registration harder making it harder for students to vote reducing access to absentee ballo...

Of the department of homeland security as congress battles over funding. this showdown happening at a critical time. the united states and britain are vowing to hunt down the cold-blooded isis killer known as jihadi john. the londoner who has brutally slaughtered western hostages on camera. but while the world now knows his true identity mohammad emwazi was known to british security services for years. he was detained more than once. so how did he escape that scrutiny and become a key figure in ...

Essentially fact-free. what u.s. officials have said on background to the "washington post" is that its fictional. hes living in fantasyland. >> you dont believe iran is as close to getting nuclear weapons as he will say they are. >> well its not me. you have the almost the entire israeli national security establishment, 200 israeli generals came out this week to say that netenyahus claims are not accurate. you have the white house spokesman saying his claims are not accurate. the entire u.s. na...

Yet, another block buster allegation against bill cosby and another report casts even more doubt on rolling stones campus rape story. "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. the government is facing prospect of a shutdown at midnight if lawmakers in congress cannot pass a bill to fund the government. both backing a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill known as the cromnibus. house speaker john boehner backs a bill. but senator elizabeth warren and house democratic leader have co...

Budget is, and i dont care how many caveats are in there or how many deal can be cut, congress cannot set the table for wall street to run amok again, we were on the verge of this country having a total financial collapse, worse than the depression and we want to go back to that? you see, the republicans, they want no regulation. they want no regulation because the boys on wall street line their back pockets when it comes to reelection time. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you thin...

Congress regulates the cia. martha: which congress disagrees with precipitously. >> the congress relates the cia in secret. they have to be brutally accurate with the congress. the senator and 11 of the 15 people on the committee said the cia was not truthful. martha: the cia says that is very convenient because we told them in detail what the program was doing. -this comes down to an ethical question. so if -- >> if it is a legal question. is it torture? absolutely is. the congress cannot do so...