What would you like to happen to this house . I want a medicine man to go in there and pray, you know and let her go and all that. Let her spirit go, because i feel like shes still in there. [ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. What do you say . It is thursday morning february 28th. This is the full court press. Welcome to the program here on current tv as we boom out to you live from our studio on capitol hill and bring you up to date on all the goings on today here in our Nations Capital. And around the country around the globe. Today is Benedict Xvis last day on the job as pope. It is jack lews first day on the job as our new treasury secretary. And today is the last chance congress has to take any action to avoid the sequester. It aint gonna happen. The cuts are going to kick in. Now, the only question is who is going to get the blame . We know who deserves the blame republicans in the house of representatives. Thats it. That and a lot more for the full court press. First, l
He would be in basically 24 7 lock down for the rest of his life. What were learning about a possible heroin ring inside the prison. Some of the employees have told officials that there is heroin use amongst the inmates. So the question is are the employees involved in that . Also Independence Day alerts. I wouldnt be surprised if were sitting here a week from today talking about an attack. Why the feds are warning local cops about possible temperatureterror attacks over the july 4th weekend. Plus why the president wants to make 4 million americans eligible for overtime. Could that drive his polls even higher . Lets talk in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im pamela brown in for carol costello. Thank you so much for being with us on this tuesday, a very busy tuesday. This morning convicted killer david sweat is upgraded from critical condition. He is revealing crucial details of the prison escape the sbi intricate planning and the scramble to improvise. And a possible heroin ring operat
Floor. Representative jenny horne said quote, we are not fighting the civil war anymore and tearfully reminding the house why they were there. If we amend this bill we are telling the people of charleston we dont care about you. We do not care that someone used this symbol of hate to slay eight innocent people who were worshipping their god. Last night was the threeweek anniversary of the massacre in charleston and it was noted on the floor after my remarks and i have to tell you that its the least that we can do as a body. If you would have asked me last year if we would ever remove the flag from the statehouse grounds in my lifetime i would have said theres no way. Lets take you now to columbia to my colleague, nick valencia. Nick you pointed out that there are still some protesters some holdouts behind you waving their Confederate Flags. Bottom line in one hour governor nikki haley is signing that bill into law. Reporter a monumental day. You can feel the gravity of the situation th
They crowded around me. Have i been blind . Have i been lost inside myself and my own mind, hypnotized, michael this is the war room, im michael shure. Coming up tonight its true that all politics are local, but someone might want to remind washington of that. [ theme music ] michael it was a busy day on the political front jfshgs and were going to get to all of this, but im fascinated by the rise and fall of jesse jackson, jr. , and thats where were going to start. The former illinois democratic congressman is going to prison. Today he pleaded guilty to taking 750,000 in Campaign Funds for personal use. Items such as a 43,000 rolex, fur capes, and memorabilia from Michael Jackson and bruce lee. The list goes on and most of it so ridiculous. Outside of the courtroom, jackson said tell everybody back home im sorry. He could spend up to four years nine months in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on june 28th. So what happens to his snaet next tuesday voters will go to the poll to s
To stop. No matter what you do, they just keep on coming after you, hungry and ready to tear you apart. You can never just sit back and relax, because after these zombies, the ones right in front of you, there are thousands more right behind them and a thousand more behind them, and theyll all want a piece of you. Maybe you have a plan for the zombie apocalypse. The cdc certainly does. No, really, thats a real post from the federal governments zombie preparedness campaign, but what about if the government defaults on its debts . The way some are talking about it, it sure sounds like an apocalyp apocalypse. In order to admit default would be, and im quoting here, insane, catastrophic, chaos, these are the more polite words. Warren buffett likened it to a nuclear bomb. But the real zombies in this metaphor arent the countrys debts, the real zombies are the congressional republicans. See, no matter how much you think theyve been defeated, they just keep coming back. The Affordable Care ac