There is word of a truce after bloody and violent clashes in kiev. How fragile is this . Take a listen. That was the scene less than 24 hours ago in kiev. As you can see, this violence and bloodshed has been incredibly difficult could control. 26 people have been killed since the governments decision to align with russia instead of the west. President obama made it clear where the United States stands. We hold the government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protestors in an appropriate way, that the ukrainian people are able to assemble and speak freely about their interests without fear of repression. Well be monitoring very carefully the situation recognizing that along with our our r European Partners that there rb consequences. The secretary of state john kerry said the United States is considering additional sanctions. Now this fight is important to the United States in one way describing it as this, its a proxy war. The ukraine on a map, smac
Investigating the traffic problems in ft. Lee. In short, the answer to that question is, a lot of adjecti s adjectives. Strange, unnecessary and idiotic, abuse, shocking and disorienting. Cavalier, reckless and perplexing episode. That was just in his opening statement. He asserts he nor the governor had any involvement what so ever in this whole, strange, idiotic perplexing episode. He got the first press inquiry on bridgegate on september 17th of last year, days after the lane closures ended. He detailed the response when he went to the key players in the saga starting the deputy chief of staff, Bridgette Kelly. She was kind of just back of the hand, dismissive, oh, its nothing, you know, its Port Authority stuff. Its, you know, ahh, Port Authority stuff. And what Port Authority point man, David Wildstein . He was very matter of fact, this is about traffic study. We have conducted a traffic study, no big deal. Its going to be short lived. If there is anything this has proved not to b
It is election night. We have results to bring you from the races we are watching he won handily with fully 69 of the vote. Challenges. Thats called resilience. I think we are in for another one of the periodsen our history where we have to stand up and fight for what we want to see in america again. We have to deal with those hollowed out communities. We have to deal with the people in despair. We have got to find work for the 6 million Young Americans who are neither in work or in school, whose whole futures can be adversely affected by that. There is a chorus of doubters and minimalists who say, look we cant do big things anymore. Our politics are too broken. Our budgets are too tight. Our horizons are too small. Thats not the america that i see. What you have there is Hillary Clinton at a Health Care Summit outside of washington taking an implicit swipe at ted cruzs and rand pauls of the world and view of austerity politics without having to say their names. Hillary clinton isnt re
Rove were denouncing the polling as skewed, fake, unfairly biased against the republicans just like all the 2012 fake polls that told us that president romney would lose the to barack obama. That was the big news out of the south for this years elections. In alaska the democrat in the senate race there mark begich was helped by republicans many the alaska state legislature. They made decisions closing out their session that will probably put on ballot the issue of raising the minimum wage and legalizing pot, two items expected to pass alaska if they are on the ballot and they could drive up voter turnout for voters who are likely to vote democratic. Thats good news for democratic u. S. Senator begich who would be giving everyone a raise. Thats a comfortable place to be on a ballot. The democrat running for reelection in colorado, senator mark udall. His opponent is named cory gardner who has a long history of supporting and sponsoring antiabortion he measures that would ban the pill an
Tonight broke big news about the federal criminal investigation that has dogged new Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie for nearly a year now. Wnbcs jonathan dienst reporting late tonight while federal prosecutors in new jersey continue to investigate the shutdown of lanes onto the George Washington bridge last year, as some still unexplained act of political retribution, federal officials tell wnbc tonight that those investigations thus farce have found no evidence that governor Chris Christie personally had advance knowledge of the shutdown plot nor have they found evidence that he took part in the plot personally. Again, the investigation continues. But that is the first substantive leak from the federal criminal investigation of the bridge shutdown in new jersey. The u. S. Attorneys office in new jersey has been incredibly tightlipped. Thats the first reporting weve had from that. Well have more coming up in a few minutes including governor christies own reaction to that leak