Mr. Obama coming very close to yet another red line. Putins aggression. It is true that if, in fact, diplomacy fails, what ive asked my team to do is looking at all options. What other means can we put in place to change mr. Putins calculus . And the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options thats being examined. Lou all options in obamiyan language, thats tough talk, too tough for the president himself, here he is ten minutes later making it categorically clear, he did not intend in a categorically clear way to threaten mr. Putin or russia. So theres not going to be any specific point at which i say, ah clearly lethal defensive weapons would be appropriate here. It is our ongoing analysis of what can we do to dissuade russia from encroaching further and further on ukrainian territory. Lou well take this up with k. T. Mcfarland in a moment. Also, the white house claiming they rejected Prime Minister netanyahus address to congress because of an upcoming israeli ele
The revenue base is inadequate and have no way of getting to the specific spending reductions to hit their deficit targets of the plug the hole by rationing down Discretionary Spending in a way that is not what is the appropriate Revenue Target . If you look at the 2020 horizon and try to do the math, i think we need about 2 of gdp in additional revenue compared to current policy. That would come if we just allow all of the tax cuts, not just those of up to it pretty thousand dollars in income to expire. Not something we should do it immediately those of up to 250,000 in income to expire. Not something we should do it immediately. Beneath to we need to tackle entitlement as part of the package. When i get to the bidding cut out of the nondefense Discretionary Spending. In terms of the revenue, the key is broadening the tax base, bringing down the tax expenditures. There is a lot of revenue to be had in doing that. A plan that raised one put by of gdp without higher tax rates is feasibl
What they called an anti operation to reach Eastern Ukraine of pro russian elite and tutsis government buildings there. This is any use of force in the region was tipping ukraine into simple. A crushing defeat for the main separatist party in quebec and their hopes of independence. The liberals in favor of canadian unity with the legislative elections and frances new Prime Minister gets set to get his first big speech in parliament. Based on the continents. Jenny to cheer on all spent at first the new covenant in kiev has launched an anti operation in ukraine second biggest city of turkey that the interior minister says around seventy purported pro russian separatists have been arrested. Steve is one of three eastern cities to have government buildings taken over by the pro russian protesters some of that have gone so far as to de clare Eastern Ukraine independent clean hildebrand test that detects the true russian been considered sweep their flag of choice as it burned tires outside a
You will hear his remarks to the obama administration. And we introduce you to huddle house, a Company Making a business footprints across the United States. Lets start in washington, d. C. Mark zuckerberg and five other Technology Executives meeting with president obama at the white house right now. They are talking privacy and government reforms. Bloombergs megan hughes is outside the white house and means me now. What do we know about this meeting . This meeting got underway at 4 00. No sign of them coming out just yet. They have been in there for an hour now. You mentioned facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg. Also google chairman eric schmidt, Reed Hastings from netflix, another from dropbox among others. Among those who declined the invitation, marissa mayer, the ceo from twitter. Some of the things were watching number one, zuckerbergs growing public frustration with nsa surveillance. We know that he spoke with president obama earlier this month over the phone. He posted of facebook blo
Ukraine to both create chaos frances new Prime Minister pledges to cut taxes and downsize government and speaking of confidence vote auspicious to race again breaks thomas said as he described the moments which he shot his girlfriend. All all. Chavez called it a repeat of the pattern that preceded the invasion of crimea in the countrys second largest city car keys doesnt snow in custody after authorities. We took in the station building from pro russian separatist but into other cities. Its day three of a very tense standoff meanwhile washington winning russian agents in special forces for the takeover of government buildings in Eastern Ukraine. It is clear the Russian Special forces and agents been the catalyst behind the chaos the last twenty four hours and it really is clear. Must be the reality that the United States and our allies will not hesitate to use twenty First Century tools the whole russian accountable for Nineteenth Century baby. It doesnt have to be this way. They will