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The offer. Reporter bart at 30. 50 an hour ranks third behind new york and boston. But ahead of washington and philadelphia. In the bay area bart is top paid among transit systems. Ahead of muni, sam trans, a. C. Transit and the golden gate transit district. The offer they knew in advance we would be unable to accept. Reporter why that last offer is so important is at 6 00 p. M. , but live, the president of the bart board of directsers about to announce directors is about to announce that. What compliments that is a a. C. Transit strike as well. Speaking of the a. C. Transit strike this will b...

They dont want anything to work with the president s name connected to it. Our top political priority should be to deny president obama a second term. You lose good day, sir there are a lot of opinions about what direction to go. Wasting the publics time. And in this case, time is money. Were talking with our members on both sides of the aisle. You cant fight in here, this is a war room. That really does compromise Speaker Boehners leadership. Sabotaging a good faith, bipartisan effort, coming out of the senate. And after all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise john boehner as l...

Incomes below 250,000. A senate bill would likely contain an extension of expiring unemployment benefits. And the other big news of the morning, treasury secretary tim geithner unveiling a plan to buy time under the debt ceiling. In a letter to congress, geithner saying that treasury is going to begin taking steps this week to delay hitting the governments 16 16. 4 trillion Borrowing Limit. Treasury will take several measures to save that next year to keep the government from reaching the limit for about two months. But geithner warns it is harder to predict how long the delay will last becaus...

Meltdown. Technically the nation went over the fiscal cliff when the new year began. But practically the senate pulled a parachute that should soften the fall. About 2 00 a. M. Eastern, senators passed a round of compromises with a vote of 898. I said should. This deal is far from done. Now it is up to the house to stop 600 billion of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. At this hour, though, a vote is not scheduled. Multiple house members took to the floor today to say their vote will be no. The current agreement with the fiscal cliff was agreed to, were told, somewhere around 11 30 last ni...

Made a tactical mistake by talking to president obama at that stage. Which takes me back to the game that Ayatollah Khamenei is say ising. He is on record for saying he embraces this diplomatic initiative. He is also on record for saying that he does not trust america as a reliable partner. He believes america is going to get what it wants, and then theyre going to go to the business of overthrowing the Islamic Republic of iran. Now, if these negotiations succeed, Ayatollah Khamenei can come out and say, look, i told you that i accept that i embraced the diplomatic initiative. If on the other ...