broken with the majority to vote for issues, storm aid, things like that, that democrats favor. he also knows that in the senate there are a number of senators who are very uncomfortable with the sort of constant battle that s been going on. so i think he s trying something here. but i think it is very, very important that this president not play the big three cards at this point. if he does, he ll get nothing. chris, what do you make of some of these senators didn t even know what the president had put on the table? number one, it s on the website. so they re not doing their homework. but that had not been communicated by leadership of the republican party to these senators that had dinner, some of them that had dinner with the president. yeah. to be honest, i find that really hard to believe. if they didn t get it themselves, i have a hard time understanding how they didn t get it from their staff. you know, putting that aside, i think what ends up happening in these situations,
ranks. president obama knows that 60 to 80 republicans in the house have broken with the majority to vote for issues, storm aid, things like that, that democrats favor. he also knows that in the senate there are a number of senators who are very uncomfortable with the sort of constant battle that s been going on. so i think he s trying something here. but i think it is very, very important that this president not play the big three cards at this point. if he does, he ll get nothing. chris, what do you make of some of these senators didn t even know what the president had put on the table? number one, it s on the website. so they re not doing their homework. but that had not been communicated by leadership of the republican party to these senators that had dinner, some of them that had dinner with the president. yeah. to be honest, i find that really hard to believe. if they didn t get it themselves, i have a hard time understanding how they didn t get it from their staff. you know,
for issues, storm aid, things like that, that democrats favor. he also knows that in the senate there are a number of senators who are very uncomfortable with the sort of constant battle that s been going on. so i think he s trying something here. but i think it is very, very important that this president not play the big three cards at this point. if he does, he ll get nothing. chris, what do you make of some of these senators didn t even know what the president had put on the table? number one, it s on the website. so they re not doing their homework. but that had not been communicated by leadership of the republican party to these senators that had dinner, some of them that had dinner with the president. yeah. to be honest, i find that really hard to believe. if they didn t get it themselves, i have a hard time understanding how they didn t get it from their staff. you know, putting that aside, i think what ends up happening in these situations, even amongst senators they get aw
ago coupe, opening the way for travels in northern mali. new crackdown on prescription drug thieves it involved hiding g.p.s. tracking devices inside decoy pill bottles. the new york city police departments will start asking pharmacies to legitimate supplies. if there is a robbery investigators will be able to track down the thieves. this comes in response to a growing black market nor prescription drugs. several high profile climbs including the 2011 pharmacy holdup on long island, new york that left four people dead. first, they lost their homes to the storm. then they lost everything else to looters. now months after super storm sandy, some victims say they re still waiting for help. we will will hear one family s story as washington has acted tonight. lawmakers are still voting but it passes, tens of billions of dollars in storm aid for the northeast. and it looks like a bill for super storm sandy will be of great help. it s not final but it s done. go to capitol hill and see wha
funding. we re talking politics here, congressman. in the new york daily news, headline, stabbed in the back, new york polls blast sandy betrayer boehner. and the new york times had you know what look at this stalling of storm aid makes northeast republicans furious. you weren t one of them? no. well, let me put it this way. i was unhappy that boehner didn t respond to the governor. he should have said, you know what? we re going to deal with this step by step and in the first week of the new congress we ll get it done. but we re not going to pass the $60 billion bill. that would have been a responsible way i think to communicate that. remember jerry ford losing a goes collection to jimmy carter after the headline ran, ford in new york drop dead. part of this is pure poli politeness but politeness relates to political power and tribal allegiance. john boehner didn t feel on the night of the big fiscal cliff vote either the energy or the responsibility or the sense of