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Terrified survivors. Witnesses say people were standing in lines for bread when a Syrian Military jet bombed the bakery. More than 100 people were reported dead. That number may go way up as night goes on. Full report from the region in just a moment here on cnn. Nine days left before you face a new year with higher taxes. Apparently a fiscal cliff solution is not wrapped up as a gift under your Christmas Tree. Lawmakers are home for the holidays. House Speaker John Boehner is in ohio, president...

Wounded today in a small village in syria. Terrified survivors. Witnesses say people were standing in lines for bread when a Syrian Military jet bombed the bakery. More than 100 people were reported dead. That number may go way up as night goes on. Full report from the region in just a moment here on cnn. Nine days left before you face a new year with higher taxes. Apparently a fiscal cliff solution is not wrapped up as a gift under your Christmas Tree. Makers are home for the holidays. House Sp...

Is all happening at the government level. They will participate in a roundtable discussion on Prescription Drug abuse. We have been working tirelessly in each one of our states to try to slow that growing epidemic of Prescription Drug abuse. Robert bentley at alabama, myself really looked at what the problem is in prescribe some solutions. That weapplied measures can really begin to slow down this epidemic. Vermont gave and devoted his entire state of the state address in january. Were going to ...

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was vie...

Memorial, israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The people of israel bow their heads for the departure of ariel sharon, the former Prime Minister. A warrior. I believe he was one of the greatest military leaders we had in modern days. We will get reaction from noam chomsky. Israeli historian avi shlaim, and Rashid Khalidi. Ariel sharon began his career as a military commander with atrocities in 1953 and continued through masterminding the lebanon war in which 50,000 became casualties. He en...

Diplomatically in iraq. Gennaro odiernos comments were part of the hourlong speech on the future of the u. S. Army. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Press club. My name is Angela Greiling keane. Im a reporter for Bloomberg News in the 106 president of the National Press club. We are the worlds leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through programming with events such as this fostering a free press worldwide. For more information ab...

The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i d...

Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people...

Okay we have an important guest with us today. Governor shumlin of vermont. Governor shumlin was elected governor of vermont in 2010 and reelected in 2012. How many states elect governors every two years . You were running again for election. I have not announced yet rated i have a lot of work to do. You may announce it yet. I would bet on you to win because i checked. No governor of vermont running for reelection has been defeated in over 50 years. We are hoping to keep it that way. Back in 196...

Security issues . What are the things that we have to be concerned with as a nation and what is the armys role in those National Security issues . So i hope we will have a good discussion on that today. We face many challenges today, whether it be budgets and balancing our budget, reducing that debt and what is the right level of funding for our military . We face social problems which was mentioned, such as assault and harassment. We are working on the issues of suicide, the issues of taking ca...