Shutdown to the friday before christmas just two weeks away. It also buys time for talks on a number of thorny issues. John harwood is following the story for us tonight from washington. And john, its not over yet, but at least theres a step towards resolution. Reporter yes. Theyre not going to have a shutdown this week. There are still issues theyve got to resolve by december the 22nd. Most importantly on the republican side, they want a big increase in defense spending, which requires democratic votes to get passed the caps that existed from the obama administration. In return, democrats are demanding an increase in domestic spending to match that defense spending increase. Theyve got other demands as well. Since the republicans control the government, democrats think they have the leverage here. How much are nonbudgetary issues at play in this debate . Namely the dispute, the debate, the discussion over the dreamers under the daca rules . Reporter theyre part of it. Democrats are in
Now, becky quick we begin with gift cards. Its an easy gift to buy at major retailers and to give during the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic in an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are being targeted easy summon this weeks cover story. Reporter inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs yes. Yes, most definitely. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab that worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. Reporter and hes these women arent students. Theyre patients, struggling with crippling addiction ive definitely stolen. Reporter they sat down with us at a drug Trea
Reporter on this stormbattered, t 3. 4 million r are trying to put theiv Hurricane Maria devastated them. But as the hurricane hit, many on the island were also struggling from another storm. One that decimated their life savings. Theres hope. Theres no hope. In this situation, what a its sad. Very sad. Reporter along with two other relatives, he, his wife, and his brother say they lost almost 2 million, duped into putting their Retirement Savings into funds filled with puerto rico bonds, sold to them as a safe investment. Now theyre worth next to nothing. The family blames ubs, the global bank with a u. S. Wealth Management Division in weehawken, new jersey. Our investigation found that top executives at ubs americas had direct knowledge that brokers here in puerto rico were selling funds filled with risky puerto rican bonds even as the economy was crumbling. Thousands of residents put their life savings into these funds. And as bond prices started plummeting, they lost nearly everyth
[applause] it is hardly a secret the terms of political discourse are not exactly models of precision. Considering the way terms are used, it is next to impossible to try to give a meaningful answer to such questions as what is this socialism or capitalism or whats are back markets . That is even more true of the term anarchism as pointed out. It is a subject of varied use but also extreme of use sometimes by bitter enemies unfortunately by people hold the of manner high. So much so as the variation thats it resisted a simple characterization the only way i can see to redress some questioned what is anarchism is to identify the being ideas that animate and at least major currents of the rich and complex and often contradictory traditions of the anarchist thought and action. Of sensible approach can start with the remarks of to be the important manner of the intellectual i will quote rudolph rocker who sought anarchism not a fixed sullivan closed social system with a fixed the answer to
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