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You see an agreement by basically 98 senators to vote today and to get this wrapped up so we can have some certainty this weekend theres not going to be a government shutdown and have two senators so far only two who are blocking even getting votes done today. so that they can have a good day of publicity on friday. this is -- this is outrageous conduct and unfortunately thats an understatement. >> its absolutely an understatement. let me play you something the president said today about the mis...

All right. of course, it used to be everyone had a blackberry. i know i did. but those days, they seem to be over, really. and another sign of trouble for that company. they announced plans to go private. shareholders have not been happy with the stock prices. that is an understatement, plummeting in recent years. richard quest will take a look at where the blackberry went wrong. >> reporter: it was the essential device for the titans of global business and politics, the once mighty blackberry. ...

That law enforcement is not taking very lightly and continuing to work multiple angles. gregg: and lets move our multiple angles. steve is standing by live with the latest information. >> the latest is that metropolitan department is planning to hold a news conference here and tell us whatever they can tell us. we dont know when that will happen. they said stand by. theyll try to put somebody up. its a fluid situation. that may be an understatement. this situation seems to be not totally resolve...

They did that in an area that was, as its called, underserved, where major chains feared to tread, where others preferred to abandon, koreans moved in. so 1992 -- four l.a. police officers are on trial for what sure as hell looked to me like a wildly excessive and prolonged beating of an unarmed rodney king. in april of that year, they were acquitted. for me, it was a holy -- i never saw that coming moment. for african-americans it was a somewhat ruder surprise. to say people were angry would be...

Studios, dry cleaners. they did that in an area that was, as its called, underserved, where major chains feared to tread, where others preferred to abandon, koreans moved in. so 1992 -- four l.a. police officers are on trial for what sure as hell looked to me like a wildly excessive and prolonged beating of an unarmed rodney king. in april of that year, they were acquitted. for me, it was a holy -- i never saw that coming moment. for african-americans it was a somewhat ruder surprise. to say peo...

They did that in an area that was, as its called, underserved, where major chains feared to tread, where others preferred to abandon, koreans moved in. so 1992 -- four l.a. police officers are on trial for what sure as hell looked to me like a wildly excessive and prolonged beating of an unarmed rodney king. in april of that year, they were acquitted. for me, it was a holy -- i never saw that coming moment. for african-americans it was a somewhat ruder surprise. to say people were angry would be...

The congress is not working too well as it is. >> understatement. >> the president may want to use his executive authority wisely. the drug wars, minimum wage, keystone. >> the president, the hill doesnt want to deal with this. part of the mood of the country in terms of being opposed to intervention is a mood about exhaustion with work but also with the cost of anything that we are doing outside the country, the idea that we have very high unemployment and domestic priorities being ignored. doe...

And so far, if youre keeping count since the revolution began in syria, not quite three years ago, more than 100,000 people, dead. men, women, many of them children, dieing in that country, and we want to be very clear. cnn cant independently confirm these numbers, and to be frank, syrian government officials dont usually provide any kind of official death toll. so say its a murky situation is clearly an understatement. united nations human rights groups are recording that syrian government forc...

And verification that this is actually gone through? >> well, you have already, i mean, listed some of the major hurdles and difficulties. to say it is complex and difficult is an understatement as you know. no one is suggesting that its going to be easy. and simple. and done very quickly. thats not the question. first now -- the focus has shifted from war to diplomatic -- negotiations between the united states and russia. and russia is very serious because remember, russia has a vested interest...

Working its way through the senate. they are crafting something that would actually pass because its very -- it rains in any action and ties it to the u.n. diplomatic process. i think that is where the hell wants to be because now they dont want to be on the record. >> i would not underestimate this. you could see it pushed back where people will begin to accuse the president of not having credibility or strength if he doesnt move. i think the president could very nimbly move and say, my legacy ...