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Increasingly this complex, global, integrated that oldfield or marketplace. Such is the nature of war and risk we have to understand better. Secondly, cyberspace. My good friend, general mike hayden has talked about the coming pearl harbor in cyberspace and i agree with him. Its going to happen and we are willfully bug prepared. The third area i was stressed is the growing demographic shift worldwide. For the first time as of last year more people live in cities and that trend is accelerating. I...

Destruction. Truck drivers will not haul freight. Best of all, i dont pay property tax strike in solidarity with the truck drivers. Be sure and tell em large marge send ya. You cant tie a trucker down. You certainly cant. What a day in the news it has been. Today is tuesday. I cant wait until thursday, because thats when the truckers come to town. The first level of scheduled disruption in america, because of whats happening in washington. Today has been a war of words, back and forth. The presi...

He said it got fixed within a month and a half, he said it was up and running and then he said now its working the way its supposed to. According to the president of the United States healthcare. Gov is now working the way its supposed to. Mr. President , the president of the United States is in denial. This is an incredible statement that he has made. I find it especially hard to believe when i looked at the Washington Post the next morning on monday, the day after the president s interview whe...

Trust fund may run out of funds as early as september 2014, which would create cash flow problem for states during the critical summer construction season. Due to the uncertainty leading up to that bleak scenario, states are already beginning to develop contingency plans to prepare for reductions in federal transportation funding, which includes cutting pending projects. This is terrible for businesses, workers, and our nation. According to georgias department of transportation, if federal fundi...

Push the middle class tax cut message by spending time with an actual middle class family. The message that i got from tiffany and the message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is, this is a solvable problem. Im not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 , but i do remain optimistic that we can get something done that is good for families like this ones. And this actually appears to be working. A new poll shows the ...

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 ...

Manufacturing coming up. A lot of earnings. Janet yellen is expected to testify before the Banking Committee today. She gets a snow day every once in a while. Lets get a data check. Futures were up, now they are down. Go right on to the next screen. These are the currency markets. Yen abruptly moved on the crimean is. Crimea news. Ukraine currency is out of control. Shows anruble so injection as well. I am watching the japanese yen. Strongerews flow, a yen. That is the place to go. Buy it and se...

Thank you. Nelson. In my 20 years of daily and weekly engagement with brie bsh brazil, which, by the way, in this room i know is a flash in the pan. Than our moderator. So i dont know if the rules permit this, but given weve heard tom shannon side of the u. S. Side of this. Could i ask our moderator. What will it take from the brazilian side for us to put this disclosure issue behind us . I think its a recognition in brazil of the importance of the relationship. You can see it coming from the Bu...

After decades of service to the country, women warriors are the gold women lawyers are the gold standard. She said why should we trust nsa or any Government Agency to put the technical side of this together . Why should we and then why do you trust them and i said well, i start with this there are bad guys out there trying to attack us to read what sort of the terrorist piece of this. I want to know who they are and disrupt them before they do that. My assumption is most of them are in some Fore...

Continues. Host we want to welcome back to the table thomas mann, who is the coauthor of its even worse than it looks, along with his coauthor, Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at American Enterprise institute. Thomas mann is with the brookings institution. We are halfway through the hundred and 13th congress, and they have not passed a lot of legislation, but it looks like they will have a twoyear budget deal on the table. Thomas mann, what do you think . Guest we should give thanks that in al...