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Thats it. Thank you very much for coming. Recently, a hearing held on the increase of number of unwanted phone calls and scams aimed at Senior Citizens despite laws allowing people to opt out of receiving marketing calls. We heard from someone who was a victim of one of these phone scams as well as a federal trade Commission Top regulator and a Computer Science and networking specialist. You can watch the hearing at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time and well take your phone calls and questions immediately after. Over on cspan. The cspans city tour visits sites across the country to hear from authors and Civic Leaders every weekend on cspan 2s book tv. And American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress o ....
I was nervous because i am the panthers fan and there was an onscreen teeing lombardy in this battle skid they had to do and all of a sudden there was a commercial. I was not really focused but i saw a freeway sign that said detroit and i got my attention and the pocket of backbeat of music and all the symbols of between, joe louis downtown, the diego rivera murals, incredible murals in evoking the manufacturing sculpture, the spirit of deflate downtown and a black sedan driving a couple woodward avenue, the main thoreau fare of detroit, and c. Eminem in the car. I am not an eminem guy. I am now but wasnt then. I love the music that was playing in the background, but he gets out of this restored theater in downtown detroit and walks down the aisle and there was a gospel choir. This is the motor city, and it got to me some way. What detroit meant to me. And my earliest strongest memories of that city, and that commercial, set me on the path to thinking about what do i do . How can i hon ....
The taliban were about 40 miles away in a very precarious Geographic Area they were barely able to hold them back in. This area of the province it is south of tajikistan. South of the river and geography is very important. The story is how he and his ragtag force was able to maintain any kind of defense. So it turns out he has the only operating mine in the world. Goes back 1000 years. He has two emerald mines. Of course he allowed his men to grow opium because that was the only way they could get cash. That was smuggled across to pakistan but he also knew in may, this is four months away from 9 11 that something was going on in kandahar with bin laden. Something he heard was up through his contacts. Now he is tajik. So he has a very difficult time infiltrating a pashtun mafia for lack of a better word and particularly for the arabs who would be very suspicious of somebody with a different dialect even if they spoke pashtun. So a ....
Degree turn in testimony today . In september he said it was videos and spontaneous demonstrations. Today he said the cia knew all along it was a terrorist attack in libya. This story gets worse and worse, more and more complicated and we are going to parse through it. First up, with the fiscal cliff only 45 short days away, are we facing a stalemate or is there a new kissy huggy era coming to washington, d. C. . Weve got two kissy huggy cnbc contributors. Jared bernstein, former Vice President , biden chief economist, and kissy huggy Jim Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise institute. Jimmy p. , i love this New Washington picture. And i dont want to be pessimistic. I want to be optimistic. Maybe they can make a deal. But heres what i worry about, jimmy. Her ....
On what happened, thanking his voters but conceding that his side has lost. Hello, and welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world as we continue our special coverage of scotlands referendum result. Its 7 00 in the scottish capital, and people around the country are waking up to the news that they have rejected independence from the United Kingdom. Were still awaiting the formal, final result, but everyone has been giving their speeches, including alastair darling. 45 voted for independence. 55 voted no. Turnout was high as expected. Were waiting to hear any moment from the british Prime Minister cameron. He tweeted, i congratulated them on a wellfought campaign thank you to scotland for 1. 6 million votes for scottish independence. Its important to say that our referendum was an agreed and conse ....