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Republicans made funding conten jents on killing or dough raying the president S Health Care law, then the senate would say no. Then they would send back a straight up government funding bill. And republicans would try it again, try it again and try it again right up until the bitter end. As of this hour we have no deal. One last maneuver was tried to get the senate to negotiate over their demands to kill obama kashs but the senate has rejected that manure. Id like to say good evening, but it isnt a very good one. As we gather here right near stat wary hall, im reminded that president washingt...

Day of their vacation yesterday. It lasted through the afternoon. It lasted into the evening and it lasted into those very late night hours. By the end, there were tensions and there were confrontations on the floor. This was even one member who suggested that the president of the United States ought to be placed in handcuffs. One of those bills that had congress approving 225 million for israels Missile Defense system, thus allowing israel to restock its iron dome Defense System which is responsible for shooting down dozens of rockets during the 3 1 2 week long war. The bill goes to president...

Live from lower manhattan. And give us a sense of the mood there. It is 13 years on, but as we saw from that clip a Family Member reading names of their loved one, theres raw emotion for the survivors of the 9 11 attacks. Without a doubt, joy. This is an emotional day. And each day we come up on 9 11 remembering what happened, it is still charged we motion. There are heart wrenching images. One of the things, i want to share numbers with you. And that is this. Of about 3,000 children who lost their parents on 9 11, some 300 of those children were in kindergarten. Think about the span of time, ...

Thats almost 21 higher in just two weeks. Bill 17 points in about three weeks. Its a huge move and it makes the president s job tomorrow when he makes his case to the American People for taking action in iraq easier. It shows what the president wants to do, bomb isil, arm the kurds and deliver humanitarian aid. The public is already there. They support those moves. Bill 2 3 support strikes in syria. You wonder how of that number could support the white house. Thats a line the white house has not been able to cross yet. The American Public on this issue is ahead of the white house. It gives con...

The balance of government power. Tuesdays midterm elections put republicans in control of the senate for the first time in eight years and allowed the gop to expand its majority in the house. The republican takeover in congress has added president obama to the list of secondterm president s, including ronald reagan, bill clinton and george w. Bush who all spent their last two years in office with a congress in which both houses were dominated by the opposing party. Its an odd position to find yourself in as a president , knowing for the remainder of your time in office, all anyone would care a...