Across the board budget cuts if no deal can be made. Are republicans letting cuts to fall on our kids schools and Mental Health care to protect corporate loopholes. Are they willing to slash military health care and Border Patrol because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies. Are they seriously prepared to inflict more pain on the middle class because they refuse to ask anything more of those at the very top . Republicans are putting the blame squarely on president obama. This weeks republican address. Republicans in congress right now will provide the flexibility to make the necessary spending reductions and address our deficit and debt instead of going through the sequester. In fact, House Republicans have already passed two bills to replace the president s sequester. So the question is, why wont he work with us . The answer quite simply is because he wants higher taxes. Joining me now, White House Correspondent for the hill, amie parnes and ed okeefe. Good mornin
0 as close a relationship or as significant an impact on the dprk than china. china has an enormous ability to make a difference here. meanwhile, president obama canceled some military exercises in the region at the white house yesterday, the president said the north needs to stop the rhetoric. now is the time for north korea to end the kind of belligerent approach that they ve been taking. to try to lower temperatures. nobody wants to see a conflict on the korean peninsula. also, a starting, colorado congressman revealed the defense intelligence agency thinks north korea knows how to put a nuclear warhead on its missile, though not reliably. the defense intelligence agency report indicated, quote, it would be inaccurate, inaccurate to suggest that the north korean regime has fully developed and tested the kinds of nuclear weapons referenced in the passage. north korea has not yet demonstrated the full range of capabilities necessary for a nuclear armed missile. nevertheless, thi
0 probably come to a place in our lives where we re faced with a moment where are you going to follow your conscience or not? and i knew it was not going to be popular. i knew what the polls said that day, that 70% of the american public was against the war. you had the new york times pushing the war, the editor endorsing the war. even al franken, my good friend, all supported the war. so i really was out on a limb, those that were there with me knew what it felt like. it was not good. and what i ve been thinking this week about this is the lesson from this, when the attempt to do this again, whether it is with iran or whatever, just anybody who is listening to this. just don t be afraid. if you think you re right, and you are following your conscience and you know you re right, stand up and say it. and yes you will be alone for a while. but eventually truth will come out. and you will be remembered for being on the right side. it is just that hard place at the beginning. and so if t