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July 11, 2014
You said something before about impeachment, so clear this is not a caucus where you can dangle one piece of red meat, they want the whole cow, and bob adams in the daily beast, runs the revive america pact, because america apparently isnt breathing. there are a lot of americans say to ride out the storm, i say this banana both capsized a long time ago. he is comparing the presidency of the united states to a banana boat. setting that metaphor aside, the lawsuit they see for what it is. erick er...
July 11, 2014
Affordable care act. speaker boehner claims the president violated the constitution when he delayed health laws mandate for businesses without getting the go ahead from congress first. in an irony worthy of alanis more i set, the house gop is planning to sue the president over delaying the employer mandate. they voted themselves to delay the employer mandate a year ago next thursday. potentially more problematic for the gop than spending taxpayer money suing the president over something they agr...
July 11, 2014
Measurement in 2008. so how do people feel about this eroding of their liberty, this tyranny? as it happens, theyre quite pleased. a new study by commonwealth found three-quarters that got coverage are very or somewhat satisfied with it. nearly 60% say theyre better off with the new coverage, while only 9% say theyre worse off. here is the kicker, roughly three out of four republicans say theyre satisfied with health plans, health plans that republicans and congress fought like hell to prevent o...
July 10, 2014
Moment. but you have these tens of thousands of undocumented children, overwhelming the texas line. this is the topic of the senate appropriations committee hearing on capitol hill this hour. it starts in just about a half hour. homeland security secretary, jeh johnson, will be testifying, specifically about this dollar figure we have been reporting this week, this $3.7 billion. the president obama wants to help spend to alleviate this issue it at the border. this is what hes asking congress for...
July 9, 2014
Lets help families with childcare costs. there are all kinds of things we can do. dont be mad at me for doing something. how about teaming up with me? lets all do something. lets all get america working. >> that was the president in denver this afternoon trying to shift the conversation. hes not the only one. congress has just 15 working days left before the august recess. and 15 more days to fund a critical program that affects everything from the job market to the roads we drive on. the highwa...
July 8, 2014
With millions of mostly poor people pour into the country without resources to care for them, reeducate them, relocate them, is simply anarchy. martha: bernard whitman a former pollster for president bill clinton. gentlemen, welcome to you both. worth noting this conversation on the border between the governor and president has been going on for some time. we have a picture here of in 2010, jan brewer. this is rick perry. rick perry gave the president a letter on the tarmac saying please come do...
July 7, 2014
Talking to the israelis and the palestinians because they are on a powder keg right now. >> i like john mccain. i think that now is not the time for the secretary of state to re-engage in this process. >> what can the u.s. -- the u.s. has a lot of influence with the israelis and palestinians. >> they do. but the blood is up right now. if -- between hamas and israel, theres little the cause do. >> equgypt has problems, too. they have a history of dealing with netanyahu. shouldnt the u.s. do somet...
July 2, 2014
>> from the age of 5 until i was 14 larry was sexually molesting me. i wanted to go do something, he would tell me i would have to do something for him first. >> melody was larrys stepdaughter. she also presented evidence that her mother knew what was going on and that larry had the motive to silence her. >> when she was a little girl, before her mother was murdered, she was being molested by her father in a bedroom. by chance her mother, judy bruce, came into the bedroom. she witnessed the mole...
July 1, 2014
Hes suffering some of the blowback politically and it is now turned away from policy to politics. >> i just wonder what you make of oh this. the republican case against president obama, this lawsuit is the idea that hes over using executive power. here he is about to use executive power. he says hell only use it because congress refuse act. if connell decides not to do something, they can. isnt it up to the vote arerses? why does the president get to say, hey, congress wont do something, so i wi...
June 23, 2014
Information, this all was a result of a response by the irs and high-ranking officials in the irs. >> who? >> lois lerner among others. the fact of the matter is they were concerned about the citizens united decision and the political pressure being brought to bear on all these service employees and they were trying to, quote, do something. we just learned because the investigation has been allowed to continue that lois lerner sent the data, a database of 12,000 citizens organizations to the fbi...