reward their friend. over the past week republicans in washington and wisconsin have tried to cut programs for the poor, killed big labor and perhaps slammed the door on government itself. the same thing happened when republicans game roaring in after world war ii and of course in the middle of the clinton administration. first wisconsin. where thousands have gathered for days. the debate is not just about the current budget deficit. the unions have agreed to make concessions on benefits and pensions. it s also about governor scott walker s attempt to bust the public employees union out there the union that posed his election last move to. unions are making a stand to widely paraphrase frank sinatra if republicans can break unions in wisconsin they can break them anywhere. in washington republicans passed deep cuts in primarily programs for the poor. what they are doing is inviting another government shutdown in the hopes that this time the public might be behind them. who wi
gold barack obama and robert gibbs have done? what a surprise. the reason that president obama s party lost 63 seats in november is not a message problem. he overreached his mandate. he enacted policies that the overwhelmingly majority of americans disagreed with. i do not see that as a communications issue. do you agree with that? no, not entirely. i think that the process of making legislation is compared to sausage making for a very good reasons. president clinton had some of the same problems. if you want to accomplish anything in washington, one of the ways to do it is legislatively. president obama came in and said, i want to do a couple of big things. i want to reform the financial system bred those are big things and they are legislative things. the republicans have adopted a strategy of the just say no. could be president have done a better job of intervening? of course. i think he had a lot of political capital and he took it out and he spent it. he went
lake. unbelievable story there. it s wednesday, october 13, 2010. we ll start down in chile. we begin with those amazing rescues. crews have been pulling the men out one by one giving them their first taste of freedom in 69 days. 22 to go. kerry sanders has been watching it out. kerry, i m sorry, you have to have no heart or not be a human being not to have tears well up in your eyes at each one of these greetings. it s unbelievable. such an emotional thing to watch. reporter: it is incredible. ten hours 40 minutes into this and it s working like a charm and everyone that comes up is treated like the first one emerging from that entombed environment that they lived in for 70 days. the first one was brought up here shortly after midnight local time. as you said they are now in the process of going down to ged edison pena. it s taking a little bit more than an hour. the minister of the mines here tweet ad short time ago that it looks like they can pick the pace up to every 50
the volcker rule prohibits commercial entities from trading securities or derivative instruments for their own account and from investing in private equity and hedge funds. high-risk activities. a related provision also prohibits commercial banks and thrifts from making markets and certain types in certain types of derivatives for their own accounts. for several decades now, and this is why i want to go back it is so important. following the great depression, it was understood that commercial banks would be limited in their risk-taking because of their critical role played in the economy and the special privileges they hold because of that special role. economic activity cannot occur without a system for making payments. virtually all payments ultimately go through commercial banks and are settled there. banks play a special role as the most trusted intermediary for holding our deposits and are savings. his critical role is the reason the united states provides these ba
it. the problem with the law is that it s subjective. what s reasonable suspicion to you might be unreasonable suspicion to me. the law has to have standards in it. otherwise, police could stop people for whatever reason they wanted and there would be a different standard for each police officer. that s the importance of that question to the governor. can you toell an illegal alien from a legal alien from looking at them? of course i can t. neither can the police. the sheriff will be talking about this justice and he s happy about it. jim warren and deedee myers will be on at the same time. we couldn t make sense of them. we ll check that out in two hours and 10 minutes. in the meanwhile, straight ahead, governor rendell of pennsylvania says the tea party is successful only because the media gives them too much attention. really? remember, the tea party will return fire coming up. ronald mcdonald not smiling about this story. toys in happy meals being banned.