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Make the clock radio wakes you up and you hear the news being reported about the slim losses by republicans in iowa. You wanted to lay there and think to yourself, if i had only done a little bit more. If i had only put aside some of my personal pursuits for that 110 days, and put my state first, put my country first, just for 110 days, if id done that, maybe wed have had a different result. Governor branstad would have had a legislature who would have been moving fully in the direction of his b...

And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agenc...

That lets people know when thers been a problem there . There are multiple alarm systems within cdc. In this case, it was a crosscontamination of a culture. So somehow, and we havent figured out how yet, a relatively low virulence Avian Influenza was crosscontaminated with the highly pathogenic h5n1. Is there any evidence of cover up here from employees not wanting to let someone else know that no. Weve seen at this point no evidence of a cover up, but we do see the need to strengthen the cultur...

Exportdriven growth to domestic demanddriven growth, and we should be grateful for that. Were concerned about chinese expansionism as were concerned about russian expansionism. New elements, perhaps, on the scene and how and in what way we deal with them. Its critical, in my view, that with major countries that are part of what now is a multipolar set of directions, if i can put it that way, from the major countries of the world, that we seek several things. That we seek to find those win wins w...

We just want to be a pleasant Little Country on the fringe of the world, leave us alone. The world will not leave us alone whether we like it or not. We have to decide how we want to behave in that world. For almost seven decades we have shouldered the role of being the worlds policemen but we have also benefited the most big the worlds policeman. We benefited from this remarkably free, prosperous, technologically advanced integrated Network World and we want the world to carry on. No one was wa...

Slow and steady pull out at the time. That enter ocular test forced people to be more clear about things. I give a lot of credit to steve hadley for running a very that wasprocess inclusive of peoples views but got to frame up a distinct set of decisions. One of the things we love to do in washington is a model things together. Take a little bit of this and a little bit of that and muddle them together. Everybody walks out thinking their position prevailed. Quite frankly, you saw a bit of that i...

Burmese president , meeting separately with the opposition country. The the trip concludes in australia on saturday and sunday with the g20 leaders summit. The president is expected to there. A posse address policy address there. Servicesh and human secretary Sylvia Burwell talks about the upcoming open in the healthiod insurance marketplace, which 15th. November she sat down with governor ted strickland. For American Progress hosted this 45minute event. Good afternoon, everyone. Id like to invi...

Considered the sexiest of them all. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart check the big board. Nothing to laugh about. A private joke with kt. The Dow Jones Industrial average down 80 points. Chinese imports down 20 . Not good for the worlds second largest economy. Greece plays hardball with germany. Are they leaving the eurozone . Maybe well get a decision fairly soon. Markets down on all this news. Price of oil is still moving higher. It gained 7 last week. And its now up another 1. 52. You...

Last year, but this year, way milder. And we can expect again the sunshine to brighten up as the day goes on. And with those gusts as high as perhaps 40 Miles Per Hour, could sends your Christmas Decorations flying Going Forward here. Keep that in mindment specking the clouds to clear out nicely. Still mild in the meantime with our temperatures into the low and mid 50s, as the day goes on, and then we start to see that breeze start to wayne, i would say, little later into tonight. So temperature...

Doing. The real fight of the century. Romney holyfield. Down goes holyfield. The onetime president ial candidate sending the former heavyweight champ to the mat sort of at a boxing match all for a good cause today, saturday, may 16th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im john roberts. Wasnt that amazing to see holyfield and romney in the ring . There was n...