House over the weekend . Stephanie i dont know. I wouldnt want to bring you in to harms way my bff. I love this boner not so much about the compromising. [ laughter ] stephanie im sure jacki will give us all of the latest from behind the bulletproof plexiglas. The white house is asking congress for 64 billion for emergency aide to help states rebuild in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. They will take a vote on it today, but republicans are pursuing a much slower give the money as it is needed approach. The states will spend about 9 billion in 2013 and the rest will be divided fairly evenly over the last two years. Last nights 1212 benefit concert raised money for poverty in the area. And while congress is waiting on the president and House Speaker john boehner to come to some sort of deal to avert the fiscal cliff it is keeping busy with other business. It is passing the no fly act to allow them to determine which luggage will be rescreened. Most bags with checked a second time and th
Isis . I would hit them so hard and find our proper general and hit them so hard your head would spin. Nobody bigger and better at the military than i am. Should the press take the donald seriously and did jeb bushs speech help change his media image and ted cruz punching back for portraying him as kind of crazy. The main street media is not fair and impartial. They have served i believe, as the guard protecting barack obama and this presidency. No one is more ready for hillary than the mainstream media. My conversation with the senator as we continue our sit down with the president ial candidates. Plus nbc decides against bringing Brian Williams back as anchor after his iraq provocation. Lester holt getting the nod instead. Williams will become breaking news anchor for msnbc and is now asking for forgiveness. I was sloppier and said things that werent true. Looking back thats plain. Can he rehabilitate himself and how bad as nbcs brand been damaged . Im howard kurtz and this is mediab
Quick thought . Were all hoping he doesnt pander to the countrys fears right now and gives us an honest assessment of the dangers we face and the costs and the effectiveness of what we can do to meet those dangers. We never got that in the previous administration. And the countrys hungry for it. Tell us what the real danger is at home here in america and what the danger is over there and what can we effectively get done in the shortterm. Dont overstate how powerful we are. Because this is going to be a very tough fight. We see from the polling data heading into this discussion tonight that the American Public is alarmed by isis, that they see isis as a threat to the extent that the president can speak to that with any specificity tonight it may help calm fears rather than augment them. But we have to see what direction he chooses to take it. What were looking at is a live shot of the podium on the state floor of the white house. Were expecting president obama right now. My fellow ameri
First, we will conduct a Systematic Campaign of air strike against these terrorists. Working with the iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so were hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, i made it clear we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country wherever they are. That means i will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria as well as iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. Second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. I will assess how we can best support Iraqi Security forces. We will send Additional Service members to iraq. As i said before, these American Forces will not have a combat mission. The president tried to make a particular point to distinguish the choice hes making tonight from president george w. Bushs decision to go to war with iraq or weapons of mass destructi
Weve got all that coming up, but lets begin with a big interview. Its with one of the handful of men who are really determining the future of all media. These moguls, they refer to each other an a first name basis 37 brian or Brian Roberts of come cast, jeff for jeff bewkes, bob for bob iger of disney. Rupert for Rupert Murdoch of stock and les for les moonves. Moonves is a legendary media mogul credited with friends and er and taking over cbs and making it what it is today, the countrys most popular tv network. What does the future hold for cbs and for showtime . This week moonves launched a streaming news service and talked about making shows for sites like netflix while still trying to grow his core business. He is perhaps the most fascinating man in the broadcast business right now, and every move he makes affects how were all going to watch tv and read books and get news in the future. So take a look at this. This is a trip to the cbs board room where there were some big surprises