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December 21, 2012
Left out a bit, understandably. but this is how a negotiation works, right? i mean, whether or not you like the content of how exactly they are negotiating, it seemed like they were making the right mechanical gestures at least. heres my start. well, heres my start. well, heres another idea. and now its john boehners turn. and now john boehners done nothing for basically a week, until tonight. when he decided that rather than making any further offer he would insist that the house, house republi...
December 20, 2012
Assassination just to name one -- he gave testimony at the murder trial of o.j. simpson -- hell be here live to talk about why a geneticist has joined this case and what he could possibly do. well, yesterday hundreds of mourners paid their respects to one of the heroes in the newtown shooting. the principal of the school,down hochsprung. when adam lanza burst into her school last week, some hid, understandably, but we are told that dawn lunged at the gunman and quickly notified those coming ou...
December 15, 2012
Illegal. >> thats clearly what we have in this case. >> thats what we have, the guns were legal. so what we never want to do is go to where the power and profit sits. so what we do, we talk about we need this for children. and we need to deal -- we need to criminalize the mental health which is what we will do, but what we dont do is treat the issue. >> also, we have a security mind-set, understandably, right? exactly. the impulse of apocalypse for security is primal and some ways the way all ot...
December 14, 2012
The small central village area filled with stores that cater to kids and the sign in the window, of a fun cut hair salon and consignment shop says it all. inside, the owner was trying to come to grips with the loss of so many children. >> i know the whole town, practically. im just worried and im sad. it put myself in their position. its terrible. its a shocking thing, because you see this on tv and some place else. you dont think of it, as being here. >> grass the sadness they will face in comi...
December 13, 2012
He cant let john mccain pick secretary of state. >> crystal had an interesting article in the washington post in which he talked about what the choice of whether or not to fight on rice would say about obamas second term. if we could put that up. chris wrote what susan rice can tell us about obamas second term. white house insiders make clear that obama remains genuinely undecided on who to nominate for secretary of state, and understandably so given that how he picks could well set the philosop...
December 10, 2012
Unions at this point? you know, off the election, off of a win in michigan? how hard does he need to push this? >> i dont think he -- he is thinking he owes them a ton, but this is an threat to labor. this is a violent attack on the right to organize. its much more radical than what was attempted in wisconsin or ohio. labor is flipping out, understandably so, and i think theyre trying to stop snyder who may have wandered into a fight that is more extreme than he ever intended to. >> obama ultima...
December 1, 2012
>> it came to me. >> im serious. in terms of what that word means in everyday language. >> right. >> to get back to whether this is whistle blowing and how we judge that. the whistle-blower protection law that was just passed does not cover national security federal employees as far as im pa wear. >> executive director. >> but the executive directive is viewed by some as toothless. it doesnt affirm a new right as far as i know. just to -- so the public right to know is probably most important in...
November 30, 2012
>> senator mcconnell, second term is here, things have changed, and the obama -- the last term where he was reaching out offering to negotiate from the middle, is gone. you know, hes going to put out there what he wants because he won and there is not a chance of defeating him now. at least in an election. and i dont think on this issue. on the issue of middle class tax cuts republicans want to go forward saying we raised taxes on the middle class. >> but chris, doesnt the white house have to be...
November 16, 2012
Benghazi was an act of terror. contrary to what the administration said initially. >> he made it clear that there was significant terrorism involvement and that is not my recollection of what he told us. >> he put together the information. he personally didnt brief susan rice. >> and we have these pictures we just received of david petraeus arriving back at his home. he left the hill -- arrived on the hill and left probably coming in through one of the tunnels from one of the adjacent buildings ...
November 15, 2012
Throughout southern europe. it is designed to get the deficits and these enormous debt to gdp levels under control. the problem, of course, is there a human cost and there is an economic cost. the cost of the human front is unemployment. in spain and greece, for instance, 25% of the people are unemployed. and there is negative growth. in spain today we had negative 1.6% gdp figures. if austerity goes on, the people you see on the pictures are protesting and understandably. theyre seeing the stan...