are going to come back and try and rein in the president on his executive order on immigration by putting riders on the department of homeland security s funding bill. look, i think there is a wide consensus within the republicans, both in house and senate, this ought to be done. there is a difference over tactics. congressman salmon wanted to have the battle now. speaker boehner wants the battle in january. rather than having 45 republicans in the senate, there are 54. rather than having 234 republicans in the house, there are 245. and he thinks that that will not only mean a stron also means a greater likelihood that democrats will come along with them. bill: wow. very hard to see bill: you think that boehner s strategy will appease the conservatives who voted no last night? i m not certain it will, look, there is a group within that element, no matter what boehner does they will be uncomfortable and unhappy wit. there is a small group of them. not all of them but a small
now, here s some news you may find even more surprising. we re comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. bill: so we ve got an eye on what s happening in london right now where the entire air space is closed after a computer breakdown. greg talcott s watching that live in the our bureau now. greg, what do you have? what happened? reporter: bill, this all happened in the last 25 minutes or so, the reports came out. apparently, the air space over southern england is closed. this due to a power outage at a air traffic control center in the southern part of this country. it is making a real mess out of the very busy skies around here. heathrow airport, arguably one of the busiest airports in the world, is shut down as we speak.
of the most hotly-contested cities in the territory. israel has sent in reinforcements as it deals with a shaky security situation, and that story is not going away anytime soon. bill: in the meantime, the timing of the cia interrogation report released exclusively by democrats is being called into question. isn t it interesting that we wait until al-qaeda is on the run and the terror threat has been minimized? it s been 13 years before all of a sudden everyone wakes up to the problem. where were they in 2004? bill: is america turning on its warriors because they feel safe iser now than they did safer now than they did after 9/11? general jack keane will take that on today. martha: then congressional staffers stage a walkout on capitol hill. what was this all about? we ll tell ya. bill: late last night this woman voted against, voted no on the house spending bill. michele bachmann is our guest in a moment.
[laughter] bill: i mean, last hour they said go navy, so we re just trying to keep it even. martha: better watch out for general keane. the army needs everybody s prayers here. martha: maybe he should get out there and put a jersey on. bill: thank you, general. talk soon. thanks, bill. martha: so a time capsule hidden for centuries was just removed from the massachusetts statehouse in boston. this is fascinating, this story. it was put there by two american patriots, samuel adams who brought us the great beer, right, bill? and paul revere in 1795. chief correspondent jonathan hunt, a revolutionary himself [laughter] is live in our new york city newsroom. so, jonathan, what is in this capsule? first of all, i have very mixed feelings about this paul revere character [laughter] i guess i can embrace him. we re told that inside this capsule, martha, are coins and engraved silver plates and a
interesting word. first of all let me say i think there are some larger trend here we have to take into account. i think there are more minorities in the country than ever, more than 1/3 of the population easily and headed toward half. secondly there are more immigrants in the country. i think politics as mary catherine was referring to have become rashallized because republican party is overwhelmingly white and democratic party stands as representative of the minorities in the country. i think on all those fronts, when you talk about, is it a difference over policy? do you not like obama because he is black, obama has some responsibility in the poll that you have, bill. you will see most people think he shouldn t get more involved but you know what? bill: you know, juan, so many people in 2009 were saying it would get better. democrats and republicans see it differently and perhaps not surprisingly blacks and whites see it differently. mk, go. yeah. i mean i think was one of those