Concerned today than i was a day or two ago. In the sense at the moment policymakers are moving in opposite directions. In part thats the ways of washington and i think well see a few collapses before we ultimately get together somewhere in the days before christmas on a compromise. We have been talking about marginal tax rates, which i think are a key part not only of the budget question, but a key part of the broader economic question in terms of Economic Growth. And im hopeful that any solution that comes together is going to think a lot about Economic Growth and not just budgets. Host ethan . Guest i think i may be a little more hopeful than alex is. I think that theres a general agreement that the sequester will happen. Republicans and democrats and the president are all opposed to it happening. Theres also a consensus right and left it would be bad for the economy. So i think that when we are just looking at the tax component, there are certain things that we kev knitly definitel
Would you like to see set . I would like to see those in the cyber arena, those are going to be much more broad than the u. S. Cyber command, that would be part of it. Command,thin the cyber do you have the authorities and the policies to do all of that effectively. My confirmed need to be otherwise the level of expertise is required for potentially damaging operations, this is definitely lowered allowing achieve somes to level of success. How does this impact the allies and the foreign partners and our ability to work with them. I think it increases the level of risk for all of our rs. I think it increases the lovell of risk for all partners. Is a particular problem with allies and partners with less capable defenses than we do and how do you handle that . We have a strong dialogue with many of our allies and partners and we need to continue to build on that. I know that the pentagon wants more nato members to have more access to the unmanned aircraft. At there particular issues or vu
Today. And the order of business will be that i will start with an Opening Statement, provide some background, and will yield to mr. Cummings this morning, and other members who wish to be heard, then well turn to our witnesses. Well hear from all of them and then go to questions. Pleased to welcome, again, everyone this morning. Now, this is one of a number, we have actually held fourth in a series of full Committee Oversight hearings on amtrak and u. S. Passenger rail policy in the United States. We actually have two more scheduled. One will be on thursday, december 3, and that will focus on high speed and inner city Passenger Rail grant program. And then well have the final hearing on this important subject. Thursday, the 13th of december, and that will be on the northeast corridor. Ironically yesterday i was back in new york city actually looking at some of the flood and storm damage. Many of the transportation infrastructure facilities were adversely impacted, huge amount of damag
Off the coast of yemen ready to block possible arms deliveries to the forces but will irans navy push back . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. And the breaking news the Justice Department here in washington say its officially looking into the death of freddie gray the baltimore man who died from a broken neck. Federal shorts now say the investigation will determine if there was a civil rights violation that can be prosecuted. Six officers involved in the arrest have now been suspended and police have now identified them as well. There are new questions about the Police Version of how the incident played out and new protests are developing this hour in baltimore as well as here in washington as demonstrators say this is one more example of injustice. Ill talk loif this hour with the Baltimore Police spokesman and our correspondents are all stand by with complete coverage. Lets begin with brian todd. He has the very latest. Brian . Reporter wolf, this protest just Getting Sta
Having a pg e light green option. So, from that standpoint were going into kind of uncharted territory. The other thing is that to the extent that the local build out is the reason people might sign up for us, we do have to recognize that for all of the Unanswered Questions that we have on this part this is the simple one. This is by comparison a piece of cake, both to analyze and to implement. Much more difficult. The program thats been put forward for the local build out, this is a very aggressive program. How many what was the bond size . A billion dollars. A billdollar bond issue, thousands of Small Projects that have to be managed in a its a very ambitious program. So that all of the difficulty were having grasping just this first phase, if the first phase becomes dependent on the second phase, we have to get a lot smarter before we do that. Because a lot of those questions frankly havent been posed in a correct form yet let alone answered. That is to be continued. Further comment