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With racism. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell im Norah Odonnell. Scott is on assignment in havana and well hear from him in just a moment. It was the bestkept secret in the world until president obama went on National Television today to reveal it. Today, the United States of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. Odonnell nearly 54 years after president eisenhower severed diplomatic ties with the communist dictatorship, president obama said it is time to restore them. Two countries separated by just 90 miles, but more ...

Meaningful action. He was notified by Homeland Security advisor john brennan. He ordered flags lowered to half staff. This is about 5 minutes. I spoke with governor malloy and fbi director muller. I offered governor malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate this crime, care for theirctimw and families. We have endured too many of these tragedies. Each time i learned the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. That was true today. There is not a parent in america who does not feel the same...

Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington politics . Take a look at some of the headlines this friday morning beginning with the l. A. Times. ...

Form 1040, they have a pie chart that shows this goes to defense, this goes to social spending, paying interest, but i really think it could be much more detailed. I think that kind of education, letting taxpayers know where their money is going, will make a more informed citizenry and update the debate on where you want your money to go as the tax paying public. That is something that i am strongly advocating. I think that will go far. That is the first step to saying, wait a minute, i do not want this amount of my money going or i am ok with this now that i understand. Host from one of our v...

And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you dont know when the Business Cycle or an economic crisi...