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Did he just make perhaps a difficult situation even worse? thats what a lot of conservative columnists are saying. inept, disorganized and that if theres a deliberate attempt to obstruct, he added fuel to the fire with that performance. >> his confirmation hearing did not go well. he came off as halting, tentative, ill prepared. and there was a lot of fodder for his opponents. plus he was up against the fact that there are about, oh, id say five or six of the committee republicans who already pl...

They have joined an organization that is at war with the united states. >> joining me now is senior congressional reporter for politico. thank you for joining us, manu. >> great to be here. >> a lot of things going on. senator menendez. i know you wrote about that. how does this or at least some of the events we saw this week impact what the president says in the state of the union? >> i think that hes going to touch on all of those issues that have really come to the fore. gun control, of cours...

Its guidance on your terms, not ours. thats how our system works. e-trade. less for us. more for you. hi, everyone. im tamron hall. "news nation" following this massive winter storm barrelling in to the northeast. its already brought travel to a grinding halt. this is video, in fact, just coming in. the snow being blamed for a 19-car pile-up on an interstate in southern maine. state police say there were several minor injuries but you see a lot of damage to those cars and right now blizzard wa...

Now more on the massive storm affecting millions of people up and down the east coast. more than 100 flights canceled in the last hour. bringing the total of storm-related consolations to more than 4,000. understandably, a lot of passengers frustrated. >> well, we have been checking online. it is great. until were on it and leaving, theres an element of unknown. >> i first got a call in the hotel room at 8:30 a.m. saying my 11:50 flight was canceled but when i called the airline, they had resche...

If you look around me, less than an inch an hour. you can imagine what it looks like, not much. a whiteout. you just will have impossible conditions leading in to tomorrow morning. as we head through today, well start to be dug out and i talked to a woman here from florida. she had a flight today canceled and she was told monday maybe get out of boston. strong impacts here, tamron, probably lasting through the weekend and next week. >> thank you. now lets get to nbcs ron motte in providence, rho...

Operations but budget reductions of this magnitude about impact the size and capabilities of our military, and as i said before, true national security cannot be achieved through a strong military alone. it requires strong diplomacy it requires strong intelligence efforts, and above all, it requires a strong economy, fiscal discipline and effective government. the capability, readiness and agility of the force will not be sustained if congress fails to do its duty and the military is forced to a...

Through the mechanism of sequester. that would force us to shed mission and commitments and capabilities that we believe are necessary to protect core u.s. national security interests and it would result in what we think would be a demoralized and hollow force. that is not something that we intend do. and finally, id like to also address our men and women in uniform and the civilian employees who support them who i know have been watching the budget debates here in washington with concern about ...

Effect in january 2013 through the mechanism of sequester. that would force us to shed missions and commitments and capabilities that we believe are necessary to protect core u.s. national security interests, and it would result in what we think would be a demoralized and hollow force. that is not something that we intend to do. finally, id like to also address our men and women in uniform, and the civilian employees who support them, who i know have been watching the budget debates here in wash...

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We saw the buses going by. the governor a little while ago warned the roads can close down at any moment. afternoon. theyre just waiting to see the conditions because they absolutely want to keep things clear for snowplows and other emergency vehicles to get through. now, the big concern, of course, power outages. the governor said he thought about 30% of the state might get knocked out based on previous estimates and he and others here say that the thing theyre concerned about, new england has ...