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The economic vice may get tighter. the united nations is holding a weekend session and they are debating a resolution that would impose their own sanctions. julie banderas is covering that angle. >> julie: they are honing to get a vote while there is a broad support for a draft resolution to impose international sanctions against muammar khadafys government. some countries remain split over whether to refer the issue to the rarely used international criminal court. at a closed-door meeting, chin...

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The streets here. two cops were injured. well have all the latest details on that ahead. but, first, this morning, we start in the united states senate with the headline isnt that senators passed a funding bill last night to keep the government open for business, the headline is how they passed it. everything they went on behind the scenes all through yesterday and late into the night to make that vote ohappen. if the story before this weekend was all about elizabeth warren then a similar charac...

Value the oath i took to support and defend the constitution too much to exploit it for political expedien expedienc expediency." last year his desperate push to the affordable care act and the cruz forcing the senate into a weekend session. harry reid still has that title for a few more days and used the extra time to muscle through president obamas outstanding nominations that republicans have been blocking for months and hoped to kill off for good in the next week. so, his own party turning o...

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People. were about making sure that we are prudent shepherds of taxpayer dollars by getting disaster relief moneys out. it is only harry reid that is talking about or threatening shutdown, its not us. >> in an e-mail, kantors staff told house members that a weekend session may be needed to pass a different version of the bill that failed. neither the house nor the senate are scheduled to be in session next week. a bill must be passed by friday or the government will shuttle down. turning to th...

A bill for the s.t.a.r.t. responders and the treaty. >> if heed that taken more time with this, rushing it right before christmas strikes me as trying to jam us. >> and most republicans have no taste for holiday jams. >> somehow, do you think that beginning next january 5th, well all love one another, i dont think so. >> he said its not fair to the troops to have them working on christmas day and not to get a national security treaty done for the lawmakers to go home. democrats this afternoon, w...