Melissa clock is ticking. Vote is imminent. Senate expected to vote on a deal to avoid default in the next two hours this is fluid and keeps changing. House committee preps for a vote later tonight. Here is what we know the deal will fund the government through january 15th. It extends the debt deadline to february 7th t keeps obamacare mostly intact. Will it pass the house and senate before the midnight deadline . Joining me from the hill, democratic senator mark pryor. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Melissa what do you think . Do you support it as it stands. I do and i think most people in the senate will. This is has been an ugly process. Should have never allowed the government to shut down and get this close to the debt ceiling. This hyper partisan gridlock in washington, this is what you end up with. Im just hoping some lessons here will be learned by politicians to not allow this to happen again. I hope voters out there and our constituents will insist we dont let
Melissa clock is ticking. Vote is imminent. Senate expected to vote on a deal to avoid default in the next two hours this is fluid and keeps changing. House committee preps for a vote later tonight. Here is what we know the deal will fnd the government through january 15th. It extends the debt deadline to february 7th t keeps obamacare mostly intact. Will it pass the house and senate before the midnight deadline . Joining me from the hill, democratic senator mark pryor. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Melissa what do you think . Do you support it as it stands. I do and i think most people in the senate will. This is has been an ugly process. Should have never allowed the vernment to shut down and get this close to the debt ceiling. This hyper partisan gridlock in washington, this is what you end up with. Im just hoping some lessons here will be learned by politicians to not allow this to happen again. I hope voters out there and our constituents will insist we don let thi
Disclosures have prompted an important conversation the math it of how the information was leaked has been damaging to the lesson. This is an important conversation that we needed to ive also said before that. The way in which these disclosures happen. And then. I have been damaged the United States. And damaging to our intelligence capabilities. And i think that there was a way for us to have discover station without that day. Damaging or not the conversation about who the nsa is looking into continuous. The new me from adwords town in just this morning. Rtc and sachs report on the latest. Just when the faith of the week couldnt get any worse the new Edward Snowden week drops this one jointly reported in the garden of the New York Times and their spiegel reveals that the nsa and its british spying partner gc hq are using their global drive to spy on economic diplomatic and humanitarian targets in more than sixty nations specifically the secret documents surveillance by american and br
And russia is working to solve long standing border issues with neighboring countries. Government leaders have signed a treaty with the stone. Anti government protesters and Police Showed no sign of backing off as clashes intensify in the ukrainian capital of kiev the worst violence in months of on rest has left twenty five people dead and more than five hundred injured the situation escalated into brutal violence on tuesday when police tried to stop demonstrators marching police stormed the protesters stronghold of Independence Square in central kiev. The people there responded by throwing fireballs Health Ministry Officials Say the victims include Police Officers demonstrators in a journalist. Protests began in november after president Viktor Yanukovich said he would seek closer ties with russia rather than make efforts to join the european union. Protesters and seized government offices and raided the facilities said Security Forces in western ukraine Kristin Yanukovich met with opp
Good morning. Im richard lui. We are now less than 20 hours away from a key treasury deadline. If an agreement is not reached, the nation could default on its bills. My expectation is it does get solved. But we dont have a lot of time and so what im suggesting to the congressional leaders is lets not do any posturing, lets not try to save face. Lets not worry about politics. Do whats right. Open the government and make sure were paying our bills. All right. Now, the house, tuesday, abandoned a lastditch effort to pass its own legislation. There have been no decisions about what exactly we will do. But were going to continue to work with our members on both sides of the aisle to try to make sure there is no issue of default and to get our government reopened. Some placing the blame squarely on House Speaker john boehner. Its about the psychology of one man and whether he is willing to put at risk his speakership by cobbling together a deal that will get the votes of democrats and republ