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Ali, b.a. was determined to beat the strike. what they did is they hired in charter planes, put passengers on other airlines. and they retrained volunteers to act as cabin crew. now, b.a. says they managed to get out about 50% to 60% of their flight. the unions say it was a lot less than that. that is a straightforward he says/she says argument. but i can tell you, b.a. has been flying. >> what was the point of these splitting these strikes over weekends, the next one is going to be over easter?...

Saturday, a week from today. then it would move over into the senate where republicans have said that they will do everything they can procedurally, use every means at their disposal to try to trip this thing up. scott brown is the reason why theyre going through a lot of these procedural ramifications and rigmarole, whatever you want to call it, after he defeated the democrat in that race in massachusetts. he spoke today in a radio address, and he gave us a little foreshadowing of whats to come...

House democrats led by michigan democrat bart stupak, says it must include language that pertains to that. katherine sibelius said today in the end she still believes health care legislation be passed. i think well have the votes to pass health care reform. a bill has passed and bipartisan majority and super majority that has never been done before. what were talking about the president is finishing the job. >> reporter: to finish the job there is a lot of work ahead for the obama administrati...

Oxford, yale, so son and so forth, he has impressive academic credentials. is there any getting to the bottom of this one or does it remain a matter of speculation, can we find out for sure whether there was a wink and nod with respect to to this nomination? >> this is a deal, i dont think its the kind of thing that you get certified and someone says heres the dotted line that connects these two events but to my eye, i watch politics like you do and i think its inescapable that you would draw th...

If members go home for easter break, they are gonna get beat up like last august and come back and not be willing to support this. democrats have a 255-178 margin in the house of representatives and the chief of staff to the speaker is saying we to get this done before members have interaction with their constituents back home otherwise this bill is going down. cnn poll last week said 25% of americans want the bill to be passed, the senate bill to be passed. 48% said, start over. bipartisan effo...

Have called on both men to step down. and at westminster, there are demands from all the opposition parties for parliament to be recalled from its easter break. heres our deputy political editor vicki young. we all have images we remember from lockdown — the queen forced to sit alone at her husbands funeral. but for many in downing street, it was different. drinks in the office and garden, dancing in the basement and now police have decided that the wrongdoing went right to the top. today, the...

Organize boycotts for perceived unforgivable offenses or preventing speakers from being heard on a college campus its all coming from the same place, a desperate desire to stop debate by branding your opponent unacceptable and driving him or her from the public square. in just the past week, while i was on my easter break, we saw more examples of the totalitarian agenda in action. popular black conservatives diamond and silk noticed their facebook fans werent receiving notifications of the new c...

France. >> nima, from what we know, does the government in the uk there support this or the reaction from people in the uk over this? >> that is slightly more tricky ground. the prime minister chose not to take this to a parliamentary vote. parliament is on recess. but she is appearing in front of parliament on monday after theyve come back from their easter break. and the sense is from the statements were hearing from the oppositions here that thats going to be quite a difficult conversation sh...

Easter break as well as things like the town hall meeting held by lindsey graham in south carolina and other members will do this, trying to measure what do voters think after health care? are they wanting this white house to take it up again? are they feeling a victory that the health care law, obamacare, remains in place? thats part of what leadership will be looking for is how do voters, constituents, respond to all of this when their representatives either from the house side or the senate s...

Evacuated. 2 are in critical condition. late last night they tweeted the fire on the platform was dying and the platform has not collapsed its been a major controversy all week but today be prepared for new developments on freedom measures in arkansas and indiana that some say give businesses the right to discriminate. we are live in indianapolis. lawmakers worked late into the night. what are they trying to accomplish? >> reporter: trying to accomplish some language that will make it clear dis...