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Killer of human beings. shepard: democrats also say the repeal would actually increase the deficit and the congressional budget office agrees. but republicans are accusing them of using fuzzy math to make the claim. jim angle is live on capitol hill tonight. jim, the two parties are pretty far apart on this one and you wonder where the people are on it. i will say, shep. as you said, the congressional budget office or c.b.o. originally said the bill would reduce the deficit. that is why you now have democrats saying if you are going to repeal it, that would increase the deficit. as far as i can tell, this is the most expensive one-page bill in american history. now, the cbo originally said the law would save $143 billion in the first 10 years. but republicans released an analysis that shows not repealing it would increase the deficit by 701 billion. almost a trillion-dollar ....
Vigilant. because as they say and also our own former cia operative and security analyst mike baker says at some point an attack, whether it s here in the u.s. or there in the u.k. will happen. listen. at some point, it s coming, yes. and what we have to hope for is that we stay ahead of the curb to the degree that we can. and the systems that are in place right now perfect knowledge, human led effort. it s never going to be fool full proof. in the u.k. security officials have told us in the past that they are monitoring something like 2,000 terrorist suspects at one one time. belonging to several dozen cells. they believe any one of those cells could become operative at any time. that s why there is much concern there, shep. shepard: jonathan hunt live in new york city tonight. thanks. the unemployment rate fell to .4%. so came the word from the labor department, which reports the percentage of people out of a job and actively seeking a job ....
Willing to work with us. i hope we will not conflate arguments about the budget with playing games with the full faith and credit of the u.s. government. the white house says the president is willing to work with republicans on spending cuts. and that his next budget in february will prove it, shep. shepard: of course, the clock is ticking. the debt goes up every day. howhow much time before we are expected to hit the debt ceiling. this week the treasury warned that our national credit card could max out at 14.3 trillion as early as march 31st but as late as may 16th. treasury officials say they could take extraordinary technical steps, we have a list of them here, to keep the government funded. officials say that these could buy washington up to 8 more weeks to finish work on a new debt ceiling agreement. shep. shepard: beater varnes reporting tonight from d.c. peter, good to see you. thank you. as the government borrows more money, so too do the people. just barely. ....
Are not saying much of anything. we have confirmed that the package today was addressed to janet napolitano, the homeland security secretary. doug mckelway is live in washington with more about this. doug, what do we know about the package today? well, we re getting a further description of exactly what these things look like. shep, i was speaking to you early this afternoon from pikesville, maryland when we thought this thing was limited to just two instances of incendiary packages. at that time the maryland state police superintendent offered this description of those two boxes at the time. they are both white. they were 7 inches long by 4 inches wide by about 1 inch deep. now, we don t know today whether that s the dimensions of the box that exploded here. but it certainly sounds very much i shouldn t have exploded, ignited here but sounds very much like that. shep. we also know that those two containers that ignited yesterday contained this letter. we ll put it up on the screen ....
Have lessoned the tension on the peninsula with the south koreans. the pakistani government survived when they looked like they were in trouble earlier in the week. now we know a lot more about the shared history of the two groups, pakistan and north korea sharing nuclear secrets tonight. shep? shepard: fascinating. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon thanks. thousands of embassy documents that wikileaks released. the state department reports it s alerted hundreds of journalists and human rights workers and government officials to boot telling them they may be in danger, especially in what it calls repressive countries. in particular cases, we have made it clear to governments that any adverse actions against individuals identified by wikileaks will effect future relations with those governments. shepard: the state department reports it s helped relocate a handful of people named in those cables. protesters running to avoid tear gas and something called skunk ....