It is about health care and medicare and then it is about the broken tax system. Back in the summer of 2011, dealing with the debt ceiling, it was clear those would be the issues. I started pushing hard for braurp approaches on both, medicare and the deal with tax reform. I still think we should deal with those issues other were going to have these rolling fiscal cliffs go on and on. Are you seeing movement in that direction . I am. Ive been talking to senators on both sides on tax reform and medicare and there is a sense there is time to get on with it. Let me ask a question about the sequester and Energy Policy. Are you concerned there will be impact because of the impending and presentnow cuts from the sequester . Anything specific on an Energy Environmental policy that will be hurt because of these cuts . A number of specific areas concern me. First, we got to get our folks back to work. Im concerned that the sequester is going to hurt our ability to do these large landscape projec
Speech. Good to have you with us tonight. Thanks for watching, were a country that wants everything to work. Were a people that can correct things when we want to to make things work. This story tonight is a classic example of how our tax system must be adjusted. Can we use that word . We need to make adjustments. We start tonight with big Financial News that could cost you some money. Now, if youre in business and someone comes to you and says treasury will have to come up with 20 billion over the next ten years to meet all of its obligations, youre going to be thinking, whoa, we better raise the rent here. Somebody has to pay. Now, keep that in mind in the context of story that earlier today burger king announced its planning to buy canadian fast food chain had a few whoppers as you can tell and they are good too. The deal is going to be 11 billion. It is the largest fast food chain in candcanada. It would create the Third Largest fast food chain. This is going to be a big deal in th
Parents, and teachers in some of americas Largest School districts. Today we learned of the latest, and we got a look at the emails. Homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has more about that and about the man at the center of the investigation. Reporter the list of School Districts receiving the threatening emails include los angeles, new york, miami, houston, dallas, and now clark county in nevada. The district which includes las vegas schools received the emails yesterday, and officials determined they were a hoax. The dallas emails detailed plans of 46 jihad affiliates for a massacre of epic proportion with Mass Shootings and napalm, propane, and Pressure Cooker explosives for maximum casualty. These emails differ slightly from the one received in los angeles, which talked of 32 comrades and bombs set to detonate via cell phone. While investigators do not know who sent the messages, they say all of the emails were routed through a server in germany run by vincent canfield. The
Legend falls silent. A look back at the career of glenn frey, cofounder of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im rosemary church. Im errol barnett. Thanks for joining us as we roll through our second hour of cnn newsroom. a,y the first of five americans now back in his hometown of boston. He had gone to tehran as a student but was arrested and held for 40 days. His release was not part of the prisoner swap. One of that group chose to stay in iran. The other three are recovering at a u. S. Military hospital in germany. Jim sciutto as their stories. After a flight from tehran to geneva, these were the first moments of freedom and first family reunions. Jason rezaian freed after a year and a half. Amir hekmati. Syaeed abedini. Just before takeoff. Iranian authorities tried to block jasons mother and wife from joining him. I spoke with his brother. They threw up a roadblock at that point. What happened . The ira
Nervous making than usual. I think everybody is sensing that 2019 is going to be a wear your seat belt kind of year in american government. It helps that impression that we are starting the new year with the government already shut down. But one of the many things that we know 2019 is going to be is a huge year for the Democratic Party. 2017 saw the democrats in shock at their loss of the white house, and their across the board relegation from power. 2018 saw the democrats regroup and find their footing and organize their butts off to win back control of the house, to win more seats than they have won in any Midterm Election since the one that happened just a few weeks after nixon resigned in 1974. Now 2019 is going to be a huge year in the history of the Democratic Party for two reasons. One, because democrats are about to have an epic, national, all hands on beck competition to decide how they want to oust donald trump from power next year, and with whom as their candidate. Senator E