congress reaches a deal to fund the government without all the drama to start 2014. another very tiny expression of bipartisanship, they voted to take up debate. dean heller, a conservative-backed venture was the first republican senator to say he would side with the democrats. i spoke with him earlier in the show, and i asked him why. the message i was hoping to bring out, first full day back from our recess was maybe republicans and democrats can work together. is this going to pass the senate? i hope so. here to talk about this and form, former senator and chairwoman of it s my business blanch lincoln, and dploria borger, so ron, heller went on to say he does not think that thing will get more chummy in the senate, especially in an
harder to get this legislation through the house. of course, this just one of the battles on the horizon now that 2014 is getting underway. president obama really trying to restart and retool his presidency after a rocky 2013. so another big issue he s going to be taking on in 2014 is the issue of the minimum wage. he s going to call for an increase in the minimum wage. you can expect some democrats to use that as a campaign issue in 2014. another big looming battle, immigration reform. of course, with the midterm elections looming, folks are really going to have to get down to business early if they want to get anything done because soon it s all going to be overshadowed by the elections. alex? break s over. there you have it. kristen, thank you. an investigation is underway after a small plane made an emergency landing on a new york city highway. it happened saturday afternoon in the bronx. here s some cell phone video taken by a driver on the northbound side. the faa says the la
reporters than me that cover congress more than i do told me basically what we re looking at is a strategy by democrats to sort of do what they did with the violence against women act, in which their going to try to pass this thing out of the senate, senate to the house, and kind of shame house republicans into doing something they do not want to do, which is to extend these unemployment benefits. and just to add a little bit of context to the debate, while we are seeing unemployment level declining, long-term unemployment remains stuck at very high levels. you know, we also have seen the deficit falling at a record pace. seems like this is something we need to do since this congress can t seem to get their act together to deal with the unemployment crisis. i wanted to ask you about another part of the labor market. we re hearing a lot about pushes to increase the federal minimum wage. we re seeing across the country states taking matters into their own hands. 13 states are set to ha
the clock is ticki inin inin 2014. another world record setting performance for the co-owner of hockey s pittsburgh penguin s bought the champs gold metal. that is 9 highest price ever. he was 23 years old when he shocked the world winning four gold medals. his wins broke barriers for generations to come. it is dispushing that his medal
down. it is becoming a big worry to counter terrorism officials. wolf? do you see any evidence at the pentagon that the military is beginning to get more involved in these controversial drone strikes, taking over responsibility from the cia, going after suspected terrorists? well, we know that that is where this is all headed, that there has been a policy decision to try and at least publicly say they re going to put more of the drone strikes with the u.s. military, that is purportedly to give it more visibility to the american public and to people around the world, make it not so secret. but i think it is a safe bet that the cia certainly will continue drone strikes in some critical parts of the world, pakistan, yemen, perhaps even in north africa. wolf? while i have you quickly, barbara, there are still 60,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now. all of them are supposed to be out by the end of 2014.