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Leaders? joining us with expert insight is the president of security studies jim hansen. a lot to break down. what is going to help or hurt here? what are the possibilities we are looking at? >> this is a disgraceful effort by the democrats to use the presidents negotiating authority and operations with foreign leaders for political purposes. he gets a lot of latitude when talking with foreign leaders to try to get them to do what the us wants. we dont give military 8 or any other kind of aid to...

Should you always in -- weigh in on these tariffs with these big bold moves?io >> the president has negotiating authority and what the dow futures are telling you based on the latest rhetoric. i was just ovomer in china from my standpoint the top priority not to be to encourage them to cooperate withan us against north korea to have a massive slaughter of human life doesnt happen if that should is the primary focus right now with the north korea situation then work with our other trade partners ...

Week the things he supported have been vindicated. he had a good week on the trade measure that he wanted to give him this negotiating authority. which meant the trees could be produced it would have to be up and down no amendments by congress. of course he could not get that without the support of his own party. it would require massive supports from the republicans to do that. it is a victory nonetheless, but certainly not a strength within his party. the points that he favored, the obamacare,...

The transpacific partnership deal to pass, but currently it has not been shown publicly to anybody. that im more in the position of reserving judgment on. i agree with you the house democrats attempted to try to keep obama from having the authority to move that trade deal through without amendments. that has fallen flat obviously. it is completely reversed now. i think it is still early to see how much trouble tpp has already. it has had more friction than i would have expected. i dont want to m...

♪ >> this is the biggest winning with week for president obama in his second term and its only thursday. he won a big legislative victory on international trade, securing fast track negotiating authority that will allow him to complete negotiations on the transpacific partnership trade bill and the president won big in the supreme court today. preserving his presidencys most important domestic accomplishment -- health insurance subsidies for 6.5 million people in 34 states came down to the cor...

First-degree murder. alex alex? >> what do we know about daron and his past? >> reporter: we know he came from guyana in 2000. he worked for iron works from 2003 to 2005. we dont know much about him since 2005. >> okay. well, we are looking at a bit of details on things hes been convicted of i assault, that has happened as well. adam reese, thank you so much. late last night the senate voted in favor of the presidents trend bill 62-37. this will fast track the presidents negotiating authority ...

Blocking guard for the president, thats the reason he didnt have to use the veto. he had harry reid. with harry reid gone and mitch mcconnell run aring the senate, they are able to enact agenda. they have an agenda. and they should be willing to pass whatever they can and to dare the president to go ahead and to veto. now, they can do stuff that they know the president will sign. the most obvious thing is to trade negotiating authority. harry reid was holding it up because of the unions because ...

Representative, to look out for those concerns that have to do with protecting wages in this country and environmental aspects of this. i mean, how do you interpret that any other way? i understand what youre saying about congress duty. but theyre looking for fast track in order because they say, you know what? if the president doesnt have this negotiating authority when you enter into these trade deals then other countries wont enter into the trade deal at all. >> thats right. and, chuck, i wou...

How do you negotiate with somebody, lawrence, when you get a deal it lasts a nano second until senator cruz calls or whips up the tea party caucus in the house. and this does not bode well going forward. because -- assuming we get over this hurdle. we have just got these -- new timetables set you. have january 15th. february 7th. and unless speaker boehner is able to finally get negotiating authority. there is no sign he will. it is going to be very hard to conduct the budget negotiations and av...

Scott walkers act basically gave all -- it basically required workers to recertify their union with a majority vote every year. so the union now has to basically earn its members respect. >> i can see, kim, this is why the unions fought walkers reform so dramatically because they were worried that if they no longer had government putting them in the cat bird seat in negotiating authority that when union members get a choice, pay dues, dont pay dues, they often say, you know what, i think i wont ...