You can contact us via social media. Part in the conversation that is quite lively. Email,ant to send an these are some of the headlines. He Los Angeles Times this is the washington times. The wall street journal. Successor will inherit many of the thorny issues mr. Holder has wrestled with. We will read some more of that as we go. Npr, you brokeof the story. How did you get the news that he was resigning . It is fair to say that i have covered him and his inner circle for many years. I remember his confirmation hearings to be attorney general, even from the earliest days of this administration. He was a polarizing figure and a target for republicans. When heer the day reentered the Justice Department as attorney general. Employees greeted him with wild applause. Some of that early glow faded a given the controversies on his aate area to it has been remarkable a five and a half years. Was this unexpected . He has been signaling tot he has not intending serve a full two terms. Bosses, j
Heres david. We cannot make out that the point which direction stocks will be at least trending. For today the lead will be, australia is weak, blowout jobs numbers in the u. S. That sent stocks basically tanking. It sent yields flying. I will get you more on what the yields are doing at this point in time but certainly the odds of a rate hike from the fed, in fact Going Forward perhaps to june. Look at what options are saying data projecting 25 26 of that happening at this point in time. Obviously, that could all change given future job reports. This is what asia is doing now. Fairly mixed jafment pan half of 1 higher. You had the current account surplus there for january a little narrower than expected. 187 billion yen certain lips the japanese yen went above 1. 19. A little bee three but certainly strong dollar helping things along in japan. Half of 1 . What else do we have . Australia down half of 1 pr for the market there. Tony abbott managing to defeat the leadership. More on tha
Been described. They have to do that with 100 . Epublican vote. We stand ready our members have signed letters and petitions to open government, that we are therefore a coin legislation to open the government, clean legislation to lift the debt ceiling, that would take us on budget deal in any and all issues can be discussed. That is where we are. I am optimistic here at i believe because of the impact of not lifting the debt ceiling, on , is soalone actually catastrophic there will be those in the Republican Party who will see the light. We stand ready to supply the vote. If they go on the path they are on, they will need 100 republican vote. Thank you. I agree with the leader this was a very positive meeting. The president is very committed to getting the government open. Obviously, making sure america pays its bills. Thatsured the president those two objectives have the overwhelming almost unanimous support of our caucus. We have a letter signed on the debt limit and will be the ope
The deal that has been cut provides no relief to the millions of americans who are hurting because of obamacare. To party House Republicans conceded defeat this time. Anytime you stand up for the American People it is worth it. If the teajim jordan party would threaten to fall the robot care in february when todays debt ceiling deal runs out. Wrecks we could do this fight again. That is unlikely but what i do think were going to do is make those arguments. All caps did not gloat. There and there are no winners. Ahead to theoked next round. Ballot overnother i the budget. Here is a factoid for you. Republican majorities have raised the debt ceiling 40 times and the regrets 24 times. See more history on our website. The longstanding lawsuit against Baltimore City is finished 10 years after a protest against the iraq war. City officials signed off on the 100,000 settlement filed by the aclu in 2003. It was filed on behalf of a group called women in black targeted by police while demonstra
Congress, and the senate will do so as well. Our coverage on cspan and crmbing span 2, thanks for watching. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] as youve been hearing about all morning, today is the opening day of the new 113th congress and here on the cspan networks well have live coverage of both the house and senate floors. The house of representatives gaveling in at 12 00 to at 11 00 to conclude the 112th congress and at noob eastern, the 113th congress begins. Here on cspan watch the action on the house floor. The senate also gavels in for the day at noon eastern on cspan2. Well have live coverage as senators take the oath and get sworn. In theyll also set out the rules governing the chamber over the next two years. One potential rule change that may be considered are changes to filibuster rules which allow members to block legislation. On your screen, some of the newly elected and current members of congr