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The government shutdown may finally be in sight. have to emphasize those words. vice president joe biden for one was mum. >> is there a deal? >> but he looked very cool in but senator reid and mitch mcconnell made their feelings very clear. >> im very optimistic. >> i share his optimism. >> i think the thing to hone in on is the word "share." it would create a december 13th deadline for a budget deal and raise the debt ceiling until february 15th. there are lots of problems with those dates. but...

Care and whether in a sense you want to blow it up over that -- >> we agree. the republicans are not divided in their opposition to obama care. >> to whats going to happen and how we get out of this mess, i think once the government shuts down, there will be negotiations of some sort. i think thats inevitable and i think the key question is whether speaker boehner is willing to violate the so-called hastert rule and bring something to the floor which does not have majority support in his caucus....

>> the insiders. >> bill: that guy is samuel betances 71 years old. white mother, black father. sociology professor northeastern university. received a doctorate from harvard. obviously a very liberal guy. and old sam is cleaning up. is he a big winner here. sam is the big winner, right? >> he will with, is he making a lot of money. he and his firm. he has an extraordinary background. you know, there is some good stuff in there he has good advice. he has been around the block a few times. this p...

Joined what is traditionally perceived to be the other side. >> thats right but he did it in a very tricky way and that he said that it was not constitutional under the commerce clause but is constitutional as a tax. and he also warned of course in not so many words but elections have consequences and it is not the courts job to sort of police the political actions and votes of the public. and i think thats a key thing there, jon. jon: because some conservatives are saying that, in many respects...

happened. he was sitting in the sixth row. he saw the captain leave the cockpit and then try to break into the bathroom. there was someone in there. he said the pilot was knocking on the bathroom door. then the flight attendants start started to pay attention there was a bit of commotion. the steward got on the phone and was talking to someone in the cockpit. then they changed the codes on the door. he overheard part of that conversati conversation. then they tried to take the captain ...

im going to be 85 years old and weigh 85 pounds. >> claiming the tsa agents at jfk airport pulled down her pants and strip searched her. now shes talking about taking action on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is monday, december 5th. ali and carol are both off this monday morning. im christine romans along with alina cho on this "american morning." nice to see you. >> good morning. nice to see you. a highly classi...

in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. its hard to live in the moment and make decisions. lets go back to the beginning of 2009. thats when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning ...

and at 3:00, well talk to general russell honore. plus fredrickas interview with tiger woods. im alina cho. see you in one hour. "your money" starts right now. im ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in ...

i want you to see. one of them, a nascar superstar who will be racing next week in honor of the 9/11 pentagon victims. ryan newman will join me live from the atlanta motor speedway. also this morning, an exclusive. another comedian saying something he now has to policies for. katt williams is who were talking about, joining us live here on cnn, just minutes away, asking him about his controversial remark made about mexicans during a stand-up performance in phoenix. those comments have ...

And here it is today, with two of the reactor buildings destroyed. crucially, though, the reactors inside are thought to be intact. thats the assessment of the international atomic energy agency. its experts are monitoring the disaster and they believe the vessels holding the reactors and the main containment systems have not been damaged. >> reactor vessels and primary containment vessels, these are designed to prevent the massive release of radioactivity stay intact. as a result, the release o...