Thank you so much, everybody. Im going to be relatively brief. I came up here right after the storm. Was on the jersey side. And i had promised to everybody that i was speaking on behalf of the country when i said we are going to be here until the rebuilding is complete. And i meant it. So im going to come back today but im also going to be coming back in the future to make sure that we have followed through on that commitment. I want to thank the outstanding leadership thats been provided by state and local officials. Obviously, Governor Cuomo and mayor bloomberg have done an outstanding job. To borough president , thank you so much for your leadership at a time when the folks here on this island were obviously going through extraordinarily difficult times. The people of long island who are going through really tough times. Across the board what we have seen is cooperation and a spirit of service and, you know, for the First Responder who is are here, the police officers, the firefigh
Create jobs. The golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. Those are facts. If you ever raise taxes on the rich, youre going to destroy our economy. Not true jennifer an International Story caught my attention and to me its really troubling. In ireland a 31yearold woman went to the hospital in extreme pain. Turned out she was pregnant. She was told that her baby would not survive and she would miscarry. They said that would take only a few hours. She was in terrible pain for three days until the baby eventually died in his or her womb. During that threeday period she asked doctors to terminate the pregnancy several times. Begged them because it was so painful and the baby was going to die. They told her because ireland is a catholic country, its illegal to abort a fetus with a detectable heartbeat. After the miscarriage the womans only health continued to deteriorate. She was then put in
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront tonight, we have late breaking developments in the petraeus scandal. First, we are just learning the name of the fbi agent who helped start the investigation that eventually led to the resignation of the nations top spy. The name of the agent is frederick w. Humphries ii. Hes 47 years old. He was the investigator who first learned of a complaint from jill kelley that she received harassing emails. The government has taken away for now, the top security clearance of Paula Broadwell, the former mistress of David Petraeus. This is after investigators found substantial classified information on her computer and the glaering question tonight is did broadwells relationship with David Petraeus give her access to these classified documents . Outfront tonight, Cnn National Security contributor, fran townsend. Shes also a member of the cia external add voizry committee and knowed a lot about what it means to have top clearance. The name of the fbi agent
Its unfortunate that the egyptian ambassador had to go, so we will see, but that should not be a reason to stop any kind of that we have to face. Israeli defense minister ehud barack joining us live from tel aviv. Do stay safe, and we wish the best for not only the people of israel, but the palestinians, and we hope that you can somehow come to some kind of a consensus to stop this violence between your two parties. Thank you for being with us and for answering. Our apologies for the difficult connection, but we have been struggling throughout the hour to make that connection with the defense minister, and now we know why. The air raids going in israel. Particularly in tel aviv. Thank you for watching us in this hour. Please stay tuned now for my colleague Suzanne Malveaux who takes over with newsroom international. Welcome to newsroom international. Im Suzanne Malveaux. Were taking you aron the world in 60 minutes. Former cia director David Petraeus is breaking his silence with the me
Whatsoever on the first 250,000 of everybodys income. We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy. We should at least do what we agree on, and thats to keep the middle class taxes low. Eliot the president also emphasized what he would not do a sending time to make a tax deal with house republicans. Obama what im not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 that we cant afford and according to economists, will have the least positive impact on our economy. Eliot mr. Obama also waded into the scandal that saw general David Petraeus step down as director of the c. I. A. He offered assurances that damage from petraeus affair was at least so far confined to the general and his family, and offered some words of support. Obama i have no evidence at this point from what ive seen that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our National Security. I want to emphasize that from my perspect