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Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real argume...

Bad crash in oxen hill. Take a look at the aftermath. The cars were totaled. This happened around 10 00 last night on livingston road and livingston terrace. One of the cars were on fire when investigators arrived. Were still working to find out what caused the accident. Eight people were involved in the crash, three of them in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. The heart broken mother of a 9yearold boy shot in the head. She wants answers and wants the violence to stop. Jaden stansel wa...

And also, oversight over how tax dollars apart from social insurance are spent. This is an arena which is, at present, shaped heavily by corporations that, despite record profits, pay far less in taxes as a percent of the federal budget than in the 1950s and 1960s. The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after another cycle the least worst g...

One clear sign of the reign of corporations over our government is that the key laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s that we use to curb corporate misbehavior would not even pass through congressional committees today. Planning ahead, multinational corporations shaped the world trade organizations autocratic and secretive governing procedures to undermine nontrade health, safety, and other Living Standard laws and proposals to do better. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves ...

A National Security meeting to get updates on where we are and what we are doing. And particularly when were in the moment of a particular threat or challenge. I think what the department of Homeland Security was really talking about is sort of a generic set of threats and challenges that are out there that were working to respond to. We have an unprecedented level of communication and information sharing, intelligence sharing taking place. With other countries. We have the Counter Terrorism Par...

But theyre out of patience. And we couldnt contain that. And as you know, they went to the u. N. And i spent three weeks over Christmas Holiday working to keep people that we would like to be working with constructively from doing something negative. And in the end, by a vote where they didnt get the nine votes at the u. N. , so now we never had to exercise a veto. But theres a great deal of frustration build and this is not the moment to go into it in any depths. You know, were very anxious not...

No question about it. Netflix. Adding a Record Number of subscribers. You do not use stocks like this move very often. A lot more on this throughout the show. And then there is etsy. Look at it though. The thing has doubled. Opened at 16. Now it is 34. What a stock. Look at General Motors. Bankruptcy rules are tech the country from ignition switch planes. The stock is still up 36. The price of oil well a big change. Because of this relatively high price, gas is starting to move up again. Up a pe...

Prosecutors as they get set to rest their case today. And 14 years. The new study that shows hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause Linger Longer much longer than expected. It is getting the attention of million was women tuesday, february 17th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today. Did we mention that storm . Dont start with me. I had no idea. Not two. All three anchors s...

And what kind of, negotiations pressure whatever you want to call it, are we entering into with the u. N. So that does not happen again . Well, which, the short fall itself the u. N. World Food Programme . Right. Unfortunately people have made pledges arent stepping up and demand is increasing and this has reached it is largest humanitarian crisis on the planet today and it is going to get worse. Im sitting here, this is part of frustration. It is going to get worse. We are the largest single do...

Politico is reporting today that jeb bush has been preparing for a potential president ial run since leaving the Florida Governors Office eight years ago. Part of the strategy was to downplay the decision. Politeco says a sudden burst of fundraising now is part of that plan. In addition the former Florida Governor has head lined more than 50 events around the country and helped to raise an estimated 10 million for other republican and conservative causes. Today jeb bush will head to the Chicago ...