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After a weekend of trading accusations over the lack of progress on avoiding the fiscal cliff, both sides now have put their opening offers on the table. Last week, it was treasury secretary Timothy Geithner meeting with top republicans. This afternoon, House Speaker john boehner sketched out the g. O. P. Proposal in a letter to the white house, and the proposal borrows suggestions from the president s own Debt Reduction commission, whose plan was ignored last year. The republican letter offered...

1 can one man reverse of country wiis financial decline . He has stepped up to the plate and says he is the man to tackle the economic woes plaguing his country. He is poised to become italys third consecutive unelected Prime Minister. The 39yearold mayor of florence has his work cut out for him. Rising unemployment and a government mired in bureaucracy. Until recently few people outside italy would have recognized matteo renzi. Now he is on course to become the next Prime Minister and to put an...

She has local and state level experience, serving senior roles in two denver mayoral administrations as well as extensive experience here in washington, serving as the chief of staff to former u. S. Secretary of transportation Federico Pena in the 1990s and more recently to hilda solis. Between her years of Public Service here in denver and also in washington, katherine consulted with charities, nonprofits, cities and regional governments and businesses to help them pursue Workplace Development ...

Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community h...

We know from the ethics including as we work for the last 15 years on these challenges that there is so much suspicion about medical research when it comes from the west. We saw what happens with polio and meningitis and we go in with the best of intentions thinking that youre going to hell. Whether the research is sort of just taking blood for all of these virology studies, which can make a tremendous difference, we all know that it happens when we take blood and then people die and then the ru...

But also overseas the breakup of the u. S. S. All ah, alabama. Laura kyle, this is al jazeera live from dough ha. Also coming up, accused of threatening a judge pakistans, former Prime Minister and wrong con is due in court. Will be live in islamabad and com in the capsule, but a rocks Prime Minister threatened to quit f rivalries continued. Ah, began gorbachev the soviet anita who helped ends. The cold war has died at the age of 91 born into a poor farming family. He rose to become the most pow...

Inshestors shrugging off a drop in First Quarter sales. They were hit by adverse currency effects. And the italian Prime Minister shakes up the corporate sector proposing ucos and investors take a dim view. Shares trading lower. Welcome to todays program. Well take a look at where we stand with equities. Just over an hour into trading. Pretty even stephen advancers versus decliners. Of course, yesterday it was up 22 points. Very strong retail sales out of the u. S. That pumped the u. S. Markets ...

Response. You just said that there was unanimity on unconventional measures, but several exponents of the ecb have also said these will not be imminent. Whereas the ores said the the others said the sooner the better. So what is the message youre going to deliver to them later today when you meet them . Well, i can im, obviously, on the same page as my chief economist, right . So the sooner the betters good. But, you know, we have an ongoing dialogue with the european authorities, and we highly ...

There are swarming capitol hill, a lobbyist. I got 100,000 i had a hundred thousand people write me their objections. The first thing i would do is stop this deal. I would not let this go through. Its not up to me. Its up to the fcc in the doj. Senator frank and weighs in on the proposed comcast Time Warner Cable merger tonight on the communicators at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. And over tonight at 8 00 eastern a debate between former director of the cia and the nsa. The nsa is Data Collection...

Was a patriot. Called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr. Snowden main these leaks. As president obama outlines proposals to reform the surveillance programs, the Guardian Newspaper reveals new details about how the nsa had permission to search databases of phone calls of americans. We will speak to senator ron wyden. Then we look at the lives of civil rights legend Bayard Rustin. We need a group of angelic troublemakers. Ability tos in our make things and workable. T...