Headlines tonight. Su keenan watches the market watchers who are watching to see what the fed will do on wednesday. Yang yang has the latest details on attempts to get a budget agreement to president obama. Good evening. Good evening. The senate moved to the budget accord through a residual hurdle and congress is now one step away from passing the first budget in four years. Democrats needed 60 votes to advance the bill. The final tally, 6733. So not the overwhelming margins we saw last week, but enough to move the budget through for a final vote sometime tomorrow. The deal negotiated by congress and paul ryan and patty murray sets spending at 1 trillion for two years and reduces the some 20 billion without touching the bigticket items of taxes and entitlements. It is a deal neither side likes but most lawmakers agree it is better than the alternative of another shutdown. Reid said he was happy and satisfied with the result and thinks congress is turning a corner. Gridlock has got to e
Can follow this event live on cspan 2. A discussion on the federal judges ruling that said the nsa collection on phone records violates the constitution. This is 45 minutes. Back with James Andrew Lewis of the center for strategic and International Studies. Here to talk about the judges decision on monday, a District Court judge questioning the legality of nsas phone data records. What did he say . Guest he said it was a tremendous intrusion into privacy. It was unconstitutional that the collection of the metadata, greatbills, by nsa, was a risk to the Fourth Amendment and lot legal and not legal. Host what program by the nsa was he referring to . Guest they have a program essentially the phone bill of american citizens. Call, howt who you long the call lasted, where the call might have been. Possiblehem identify targets for counterterrorism or counterespionage. He objected to the fact that nsa, a foreign intelligence body, is collecting intelligence on american citizens. Host how . Gu
Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents and others, 202 5853882. ,end us a tweet at cspanwj post your comments on facebook, or email us. We will get to your phone calls in a minute. Yesterday we learned that three house lawmakers are going to retire. S headline. Itico shaking the 2014 midterm election. Timess headline, three house retirements complicate outlooks for the midterm. Representatives frank wolf from ,irginia, tom latham from iowa jim matheson of utah. They surprise colleagues and voters with their decisions, which came as congress was wrapping up one of its least productive and most contentious years in recent memory. The retirements are not enough to signal a shift in the dynamics for the race and control of the house in 2014, still decidedly republican. It raised hopes among democrats navigating what has turned out to be an unpredictable path into the midterm election. We want your thoughts with this news of the twoyear budget deal passing in the senate. Final passage could h
A fan. Its easy december seventeen i can watch. Ive been hearing a bit when youre watching our tea. N we begin today with an open letter that adverts and has written to the people of brazil and the letter which was published today in brazil spoke on newspaper son and said hed be willing to help brazil investigate the nsa spying on its soil but cannot fully participate in doing so without being granted political asylum. Because the Us Government posts will continue to interfere with my ability to speak. So then went on to say that of american senators tell us that brazil should not worry because this is not Surveillance Data collection they say its done to keep you say theyre wrong. There is a huge difference between needle programs and these programmes of dragnet mass surveillance that put entire populations and earned all seen time and say if copies for ever. Keep in mind that leaked documents have already revealed that brazil is the top and as a target mind america and that includes
Over the border. Eurozone finance ministers and to the second. Her head. This morning that determined stance was her turn the stability into it london welcome to cctv its on to win a game the president s of russia and ukraine met in moscow and its continuing demonstrations in kiev. Protesters of being demanding the resignation of president of top down or call the childrens decision to abort plans to enter into a trade agreement. But the european duty. Jenner coverage made a strategic advantage to what moscow and he has just secured a thirty five Percent Discount on the net for gas supplies from russia to have the safety of korean economy from financial collapse. Our moscow correspondent carry out bomb that took us more. I was of negotiations behind closed doors. The russian and ukrainian delegations reached accords on some very sensitive issues. Russian President Biden and putin stressed the importance that moscow places on its historic ties to ukraine reminding his guests. Ukrainian p