But said the president wants to sniet writing. Libyas Prime Minister was on abducted by a group of armed gunmen, but they are not going into specifics on the deal. It was a retaliation for last weeks special forces raid that captured an alqaeda suspect in libya. The state Department Says egypts interim government must show more progress towards democracy before aid is resumed. Those are the headlines. Inside story is next on al jazeera america. Attitudes and laws on marijuana are changing, creating a dizzying picture for smokers, Law Enforcement, and the federal government. Pot and policy, the inside story on al jazeera america. Hello, im libby casey. Its now legal to smoke pot if you live in Washington State or colorado. Some other states have decriminalized marijuana, so you wont get thrown in jail for having a small amount. But wait, smoking pot is still a federal crime, and thats a conflict that hasnt been solved. The debate over marijuana is now woven into layers of social policy.
Why is that . Is he couldnt ihe couldnting. He seems to be the person that makes donald trump the most nervous. All of those stay strong, he drnt wadidnt want to fire him. But i think that is looming out there. So you have this committee that is chaired by Jeff Sessions where the gentleman who was in charge of it recruits in papadopoulous and he is now actually also talking to at least the Senate Committees and probably to muellers team as well, you have this team that now seems to be kind of in low customer of the contacts with russia in addition to trump jr. , to kushner and others. Locust of russia in addition to trump jr. , to kushner and others. But carter page overnight is now saying that shortly after his trip to russia to meet with russian officials in july of
2016, which we now learn he did meet with russian high official, not Just University officials or whatever he was trying to say before, but shortly after the trip, he sentd an email to one aide describing insights he had.
Falling fast and very fast. And that feels pretty good at the pump, but dont look at your 401 k . It might feel the pain. So welcome once again. It didnt get done yesterday, so now the senate is meeting today in a rare saturday session to see if they can strike a deal on a spending bill. Senate majority leader harry reid has been locked in a battle between democrats and republicans over passing the measure. And it appears now any vote will be tomorrow. So for today it looks like they will try to knock out some nominations instead. Our chief Congressional Correspondent Mike Emmanuel is on capitol hill. Sorry about that, mike. How troubling is this . Can they get it done . Kelly, at this point theyre going through some procedural hurdles. All indications are theyll vote on this massive trillion dollar plus government funding extension, maybe tomorrow, maybe monday, but at some point they will. Right now Senate Majority leader harry reid is using procedures to introduce nominees he would
Apparently areneding understand happening here. Its by no means a done deal. Were going to bring in mike emanuel. You have more on this developing story. Tell us whats going on, mike. There is a deal that has been made but its not a sealed deal yet, if you will, right . Reporter arthel, what they did was pass a shortterm government funding extension. Right now the government is running out of money late night tonight. So the house as a precaution passed a measure to extend money to wednesday night, through wednesday night to give the senate more time. So in the last 30 minutes or so, Senate Majority leader harry reid brought up that piece of legislation, it quickly passed. Its been a very tense day here, a rare saturday session, and senator reid sounded off earlier. Regrettably a small group of Senate Republicans has determined its in their political interests to hold this legislation 7rbiyhostage. I remind everyone at 12 00 midnight, 12 00 a. M. , the United States government tonight
Metro jet 9268 crash, that and president obama now for the first time openly raising the possibility that a terrorist bomb brought the russian airbus down. I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board. And were taking that very seriously. Were going to spend a lot of time just making sure that our own investigators and our own Intelligence Community figures out exactly whats going on before we make any definitive pronouncements. But it is certainly possible that there was a bomb on board. That was president obama talking to cbs radio affiliate kiro in seattle as new video emerges of the immediate aftermath in egypts sinai desert. David cameron going one step further calling it a strong possibility a bomb did this more likely than not in his words. American and British Intelligence sources telling us the signs point to isis involvement. However, maybe this is selfevident but possibly or a possibility is not the same as a certainty. Indications are not evidence and the h