Children. And the president said, even if our actions would only save the life of one of those children, its worth it. While the Vice President remains optimistic about administrations plans, it is not just the gop has expressed doubt. Some senate and congressional side stepping and questioning the president s push for new gun laws. Our next guest saying not only can democrats push for gun control in the south and win, some have already done so joining us now is our favorite nerd in the world, nate cohn, staff writer for the new republic. How are you . Good to be back. You say in the new article, progun control dems can win in red states and succeeding in dixie with a f from the nra. What . How . Who . How are they doing this . Best example is bill nelson who ran for the first time in 2000 when gun control supposedly cost al gore the presidency and won the state by five points and most importantly, he was winning in pensacola and not pence ka lo but the florida panhandle. He was carryi
Schmooze. Here we go. Good morning, everybody. It is friday. Today. January 25th. Thank you for joining us. Live from our nations capitol. We will tell you whats going on this morning. We will take your calls. How about it . This is the year they were going to fix the filibuster but it didnt happen. Ininstead of getting rid of the filibuster, instead of making senators actually come to the floor and filibuster harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell agreed to a minor tinkering of the filibuster that, in effect makes no changes at all. I mean, look the senate is broken. Why did harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell chicken out . Doesnt make any sense. We will talk about that and a whole lot more on todays fullcourt press, but first, we take time out to get the latest. Todays current news update. And look at this. We stole her from Stephanie Miller, the one, the only the talented jacki checkschneckner. Good morning, everybody. Vice President Biden is traveling to Richmond Virginia today along with Homel
186655press. On all of the stories of the day. Well also look for your comments on twitter. Welcome your comments on twitter at bp show and on facebook, become our friend if youre not already, facebook. Com billpressshow. Lot going on. President obama coming up to capitol hill yesterday, meeting with House Democrats and meeting with Senate Democrats. Where he apparently got a lot of questions about the Keystone Pipeline and questions about rumors he might consider appointing Larry Summers, former treasury secretary under bill clinton, appointing Larry Summers to be the new head of the fed. A lot of members of congress unhappy with that prospect because they had such a terrible time with Larry Summers when he was treasury secretary. Also, on the hill, the nsa came underfire in the Senate Judiciary committee, republicans and democrats raising serious questions about the big phone spying program of nsa. Well bring you up to date on that and a whole lot more right here on current tv. vo cu
Republicans and democrats now have just 32 days to make a deal or your taxes are going up and more than 1 trillion automatically will be cut from vital federal programs like defense, education and housing assistance. As referred to as the fiscal cliff. And when it comes to doing something to avoid it, House Speaker john boehner bluntly told reporters today, there is a stalemate. For his part, president obama is trying to break that stalemate by asking voters to put more pressure on the republicans. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin and chief Political Correspondent Gloria Borger join us right now. Gloria, guess ill start with you. Does the president have any leverage . He has a lot of leverage right now. I mean, if you look back to the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011, you recall the president was accused of negotiating with himself because it was sort of a time of weakness for him. Right now, look, joe, hes just won reelection. 67 of the American Public according to
All charities are not alike. There are good ones, there are bad ones, theres a lot in the middle. Weve got to get money to the best and breed so they survive and the others dont. With little accountability or measure of effectiveness, with charity for all author i cant think stern looks at the world of nonprofits on after words, tonight at 9 this weekend on cspan2. And now from politics prose bookstore here in washington, d. C. , Womens Health activist Sarah Erdreich presents her thoughts on the prochoice movement 40 years after the Supreme Courts decision on roe v. Wade. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you so much again for coming. My name is sarah, im the Events Coordinator here, and really on behalf of the entire of staff, im so pleased to welcome you. And im so pleased to welcome Sarah Erdreich to discuss her book, generation roe. In the book sarah presents some of the voices of the women who choose abortion and why. Her writings on abortion have been noted by jezebel and the Natio