Page 20 - Backing Off News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Strong and needs to be passed. he's got a lot of allies. he's got a lot of business allies, a lot of republican allies, and he is showing, i think, a fair amount of courage in not backing off and trying to finesse this thing through the senate. >> is he not backing off, gene? sounds some days like he's backing off. >> i guess one of the conservative outlets said he would say one thing to spanish speaking entirers and another thing to english speaking interviewers. >> that's kind of a problem. there's only one way for him to go on this really, and it's forward. it's not as if this is some sort ...

Service is really, you know, the greatest honor that anyone can have. >> critics were loud, nasty and plentiful. kennedy ended up backing off and kiersten jigillibrand got the seat. then ted kennedy died, leaving a gaping hole in the senate. the kennedys were fading from political prominence. it would be a few years before a cousin, joe jr., went to serve in the house. but caroline kept going, straight into 2012. >> barack obama is the kind of leader my father wrote about in "profiles and courage." he doesn't just do what's easy. he does what's hard. he does what's right. >> and now the presid...

Enforcing federal laws against the recreational use or any use, for that matter, of colorado and washington. that's because in those states it is now illegal for employees of the state -- that would be not just administrators and bureaucrats, but police -- to help the feds enforce federal law. and what most people might be surprised to know is the federal government does not have the person power and resources to enforce all federal laws on its own. it needs the assistance of state and local police as well. they don't have that in colorado and washington because marijuana is lawful there. so i...

Our fiscal house in order, everyone knows you've got to deal with those entitlements, and i think that's where we could really make progress if the president and congress would come together. the president mentioned early on, maybe raising very gradually the medicare age and certainly the cpi in social security. both of those things would be supported by republicans, but it seems like when republicans said, okay, let's -- let's go to the table on that, that maybe the president started backing off. so i think entitlement reform is what republicans are looking at because those are cuts that we k...

Hammered. >> hammered. >> hammered. jersey is. all up and down the coast. we'll see what happens. >> two things about this, the storm surge, obviously, not looking like it's going to be backing off, but also the length of this storm. once it hits, it doesn't go away for quite some time. >> it's going to go for a while. >> it's going to be grueling. >> i think in the northeast the storm surge will probably be the worst coming into the city. i'd be surprised if a good chunk of lower manhattan is not under water, right, willie? >> not only have they shut down the new york stock exchange, they're ...