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Of providing support for what the department of education is doing in terms of reducing zero tolerance policies across the country in the schools, that requires policy changes and require the scale is whats the big issue here, craig, we have to bring them to scale to properly address the problems and we cannot rely on philanthropy or charity for social justice for the young people. >> there have to be major policy shifts in this country. heres the other part of this. >> absolutely. >> we all kno...

Making money from legal marijuana got a lot easier thanks to the federal government. the justice and treasury departments announced new rules allowing banks to take money from state licensed marijuana businesses. they let banks do business with legal marijuana shops without being prosecuted. marijuana is still illegal under federal law. some banks were refusing to take money in places where its legal like colorado and washington state. they were afraid for repercussions. we are talking to evan p...

But lets talk about what happened in the house. this is not just inside baseball. this is important to everyone who has been watching the brings manship may out in washington. the boehner rule, boehner back in 2011, the speaker said any raise to the debt ceiling has to be met with an equal or more amount to the debt reduction. why is this so significant? >> it shows that the issue of the debt ceiling may go back to what it has been for so many years, which has been a political vote, one in which...

Comments that she may make about how the economys doing or if she hints about any policy changes, especially with the stimulus thats ongoing. economists think it is unlikely that yellen would make such a statement today, but markets will still be on the edge of their seats watching. this is the first time were going to be hearing from yellen since she began her new job as head of the fed earlier this month, and shes going to be appearing on capitol hill this morning at 10:00 a.m. and then before...

Administration will fully enforce any law. bret. >> mike emanuel live on the hill, thank you. the new head of the fed says do not expect a lot of policy changes. janet yellen made her first public comments as federal reserve chairman and said things will not change much from the ben bernanke era. >> i expect a great deal of continuity in the fomcs approach to monitoring policy. i served on the committee as we formulated our current policy strategy. and i strongly support that strategy. >> wall...

We are following some breaking news this morning. cnn confirming that a hollywood legend has died. shirley temple black, who was a child star in dozens of films. she later became a u.s. ambassador and ran for congress. she died at her home in california of natural causes with her family by her side. the child star who was a fixture in dozens of films, shirley temple black was 85 years old. alison kosik joining us now with a look at the markets. alison? >> good morning to you. global markets lo...

Said about a reduced need for unmanned strikes. >> reporter: and top al-qaeda leaders remain in pakistan. >> let me be the first to say. the presidents policy changes are utter and complete failure and they leave americans lives at risk. >> reporter: the white house would need afghan president hammid karzi to sewn a security pact and use the air base. >> and the project of using pakistan nuclear enemy india and rile the pakistanis and add to tension. tea party republicans want any other commitme...

And the advocacy money thats coming in? the people that dont want unemployment insurance advanced, the people that dont want wages to go up, the folks that are against the health care law. you could go right down the list. you know, i was really impressed with the president on tuesday night at the state of the union because he really boxed in the republicans as i talked about on this program last night. boxed them in because he basically said, you know, lets get with the rest of the country. he ...

Specific suspicion is developed. and depends how they decide to implement this. if its the kind of custodian model, im not sure why from a civil liberties perspective you should be that much more reassured its booze allen maintaining the server this datas on instead of nsa. >> youve been writing about this for well over a decade. you care deeply about this issue, youve talked about it a lot on this show. what do you think about what the presidents proposing to do? >> this was a significant speec...

Did reduce the fiscal damage that was baked in the cake for 2014 and 2015. so, again, if you kind of look at some knew answered policy changes, you can see some recognition that the agenda that republicans have had on jobs has been a big failure. but you got to look pretty carefully to see any of that. >> that is for sure. thank you, michael thomasky and jared bernstein. we discussed ohio governor john kasich who is facing potentially a reelection challenge on the far right from tea partier te...