Could mitt romney run again . We want your calls and comments on whether or not you think he should or will run again. And for the first 45 minutes we want to hear from republicans only. Were dividing the phone lines among the eastern half of the country. You can join us on facebook at facebook. Com cspan or send us a tweet. Were taking your emails, journal cspan. Org. Good thursday morning to you. Well get to your calls and comments in just a moment and let you hear what governor romney said. But a look at some of the other headlines. The Richmond Times dispatch following the story of the former governor of virginia, as the defense wrapped up its testimony the daughter testifying on the relationship between his mother and father, and the jury could get the case as early as friday. And this from the miami hair ailed, Governor Scott winning his republican nomination. He will be challenged by the new democrat, governor christ, former governor. Records on Governor Scotts plans kept secret
Answer. All the opposite side has to do is to stop supporting a bill that would allow the biggest banks in america to rip off the people one more time. We bailed out the richest banks in america with the peoples money. The people do not want that anymore. And so this provision thats in the bill that would allow them to basically put us all at risk because they want to trade these derivatives and be protected with fdic cannot go on. And so there are a lot of other things in this bill thats unacceptable. I am the Ranking Member of the Financial Services committee and i worked on doddfrank. Theyre trying to undermine doddfrank. Theyve been trying to get rid of doddfrank piece by piece. We have to fight it every day. I am not going to let the people down. Democrats are not going to let the people down. Were not going to vote for anything thats going to give the store to the biggest banks in america one more time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex wit witt. Heres whats happening. Three dynamic weather events unfolding at this hour. First, the snow. Blizzardlike conditions in early october. As much as three feet of snow fell in parts of south dakota and montana. In wayne, nebraska, a possible tornado caught on tape. The storm destroyed at least four homes and a sports complex. 15 were injured. Tornados reported in iowa and south dakota as well. To the south, Tropical Storm karen is headed to the gulf coast but she is losing some steam. For more on the mixed bag of weather, heres nbc meteorologist bill karins. Good morning. Good morning, mara. We didnt throw in the fire danger in california. We have smoke going into San Francisco last night from some of the blazes. As far as karen goes, this is the best news of all. This has been an incredible hurricane season. None of the storms have overachieved. They have all overachieved. Theres a good chance it goes down to tropical depres
Lets just make it easier for democrats. With theirtable inability to cut spending. I am 96 years old. I am a political junkie. These things will change. We all have our up finance. Opinions. I have to thank cspan. Up to stay up this late at my age, it is a to talk on ce span. I have done wanting to talk for a long time. We are glad to hear from you. I waited a long time for you to answer my call. We werent ignoring you. God watch all the time, and was america. God bless america. I want to end by saying obama will go down in history as the peoples president. What do you think of cory booker winning in that special election. I spoke to him, and he impressed me. I was amazed. , here ise a feeling another black man who sounds intelligent. They gave me a boost. About that, aaron blake tweets that it will mean they. Ill reclaim the majority the ninth African American senator in history. The seventh since reconstruction, and the first from new jersey. I just want to say i agree with everythin
What it was like to live in the United States of america in 1964. And this is not being done to shame anyone, its not being done to cause persons to have some sort of guilty reflections. This is being done so as to help us commemorate some things and celebrate some others. Its important to understand the times that we lived in. The lived i lived during these times. And id like to start with april 12, 1963, and then id like to walk us up through some events that will bring us to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was april 12, 1963, that dr. King was arrested in birmingham, alabama. He was there to work with others, to integrate a city that was deeply segregated. And in so doing he was informed by some members of the clergy and others that he was taking inappropriate action, he was acting too soon, that the time was not ripe for what he was doing in birmingham, alabama. As a result of being there and protesting, dr. King was arrested. He was taken to jail, stayed in jail fo