Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown after talks between president obama and Congressional Republicans stall, the house moves toward a vote on Speaker Boehners planb for limited tax increases. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we sort through the state of play and the latest political maneuvering with congress watcher Norman Ornstein and Political Editor christina bellantoni. Brown then we look at the suspension of the u. N. s Polio Eradication Campaign in pakistan, after the killings of nine aid workers. Suarez from capitol hill, ame lman repor on two congressional hearings today where state Department Officials accepted blame in failing to protect the u. S. Diplomatic mission in libya. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in benghazi. We owe it to the Security Professionals who acted with such extraordinary heroism that awful night to try to protect them, and we owe it to thousands
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown the u. S. House of representatives headed toward approval this evening of a tax plan that republicans backed and democrats said was a waste of time. The division demonstrated that efforts to get a bipartisan agreement and avoid the fiscal cliff are stuck in stalemate. The house will be in order. Brown House Republicans pushed their plan b. Despite a veto threat from the white house and the strong opposition of senate democrats. Speaker john boehner insisted the president had left him with no alternative. For weeks the white house said if i moved o
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown after talks between president obama and Congressional Republicans stall, the house moves toward a vote on Speaker Boehners planb for limited tax increases. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we sort through the state of play and the latest political maneuvering with congress watcher Norman Ornstein and Political Editor christina bellantoni. Brown then we look at the suspension of the u. N. s Polio Eradication Campaign in pakistan, after the killings of nine aid workers. Suarez from capitol hill, kwame holman reports on two congressional hearings today where state Department Officials accepted blame in failing to protect the u. S. Diplomatic mission in libya. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in benghazi. We owe it to the security professnals who acted with such extraordinary heroism that awful night to try to protect them, and we owe it to thousa
Team in major league baseball. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Live pictures from menlo park, the scene of a tragic crash last night. Two people hit and killed by a car while out walking their dog. The new details we just learned. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im Tori Campbell. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve, tori would appreciate some sunshine. Well have more today. Had a nice sunset. Finally the clouds got chewed up a little bit. This is helping to produce some clouds. A little bit of fog. Nothing compared to yesterday. It will still be mostly sunny to partly sunny today later on. We have to get rid of the low cloud deck. The low will not be moving over us. The weekend looks better. Mostly sunny and warmer. A little breezy. 30s for some. 40s and 50s. The north bay, mostly sunny skies. But some patchy fog forming there. The low will send in clouds. The low clouds are there but they will burn off. Even if you had the sun, it was breezy and cool. 70s for some t
Understanding of pakistan, and if they were extremists they would have claimed to acquire Nuclear Weapons from pakistan. Saudi arabia is so exasperated with the United States that they probably judge that the time for ambiguity is passed. They have also shown elsewhere that they can act counter to u. S. Interest and pay for the consequences, they could simply contemplate pakistan for the greater cost of delivering nukes. The Saudi Arabians said they could never imagine that there bomb. Only be a shiite the guardian of the two holy sites and the champion of the sunni world. This is in their dna and secondly, there is lots of circumstantial evidence. Evidence of recent contingency planning. Saudi arabia has created additional launch pads for their chinese made ballistic missiles. They target israel and iran. Wererly 2013, reports circulating that warheads were ready in pakistan. The former head of Israeli Military intelligence argued the september that the attempt from iran to go nuclear