which of course is a great motivator right now for schools as they face these terrible budget cuts. let s talk about your concerns, the concerns all over the country as teachers are being laid off. you ve talked about the need for more stimulus money. is that likely to happen? i don t see that on the budget horizon. i hope so. i think this is an emergency and it takes an emergency education and jobs bill. i m really worried about somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 teachers being laid off. we see districts going from five-day school weeks to four-day school weeks. none of this is good for children or education or the future of our nation s economy. this is going to take emergency action and i m strongly encouraging congress to step up and pass an emergency bill to stave off this catastrophe.
o conn o connor, says she needs you as an intern. get here as soon as zblos most definitely. but it doesn t pay. we will bring you some thank you, guys. we appreciate it. congratulations, tim, fantastic program. one of the greatest snoyts this country. tyler, best of luck to you and we will be rooting for you. thank you. thank you. thanks. man accused of blackmailing late night host david letterman s just pled guilty. we are going to have a live report on what this plea deal means to be robert halderman and war wash city council person is pushing for an emergency bill to lift the smoking ban so a tradition he s a part of can light up for the night. it is a part of their annual st. patrick s day event. is he crossing the line with this request? get me paid faster? how can i keep my best employees? how can i bring down my insurance costs? and while at american express open we may not have all the answers, we know who does.
unemployed. it s a powerful political issue, they believe, and this is after all a political year. they will in the end pass a more permanent bill. that is expected to come up late this week, but at the moment, it doesn t seem as though on this temporary bill, this emergency bill, democrats will file clo ter on it. they will let miss play out. they re getting political mileage out of it as well. unfortunate, we spoke to a woman who s suffering because of this and one of the many thousands. back to jim bunning, though, for a minute. he, as we understand it, has a history of being pretty abrasive. time magazine called him one of the nation s five worst senators in 2006. and the republican leadership didn t really want him to run for re-election. as we call him the retiring senator from kentucky, is he basically being forced out? well, as you say, the republican leadership made it quite clear that they didn t want him to run again and they supported somebody that certainly would hav
suggested that there is an emergency bill tomorrow, and that will go ahead. andrew mitchell applied for that. there will be a debate tomorrow. the government could use a vote. that of course is really quite embarrassing. the guardian reports a bit about democratic members of the us congress urging president biden to lobby the prime minister to think again. i to lobby the prime minister to think aiain. , , to lobby the prime minister to think aiain. , ~ , again. i suppose the prime minister miht think again. i suppose the prime minister might think he s again. i suppose the prime minister might think he s got again. i suppose the prime minister might think he s got the again. i suppose the prime minister might think he s got the support - again. i suppose the prime minister might think he s got the support of| might think he s got the support of a lot of voters who might say well, this is a pandemic, we can t afford to give billions to the rest of the world. charity begins at home
to extend that emergency bill it s proposing a stringent terrorism bill to replace it. and for more we re going to cross now to istanbul to our correspondent there dorian jones door in the state of emergency is lifted opposition parties though say that this new legislation that president ed one is putting in place effectively makes the state of emergency permanent debate have a point. well with the lifting of the state of emergency the tens of thousands of people currently jailed under those emergency powers on the more than one hundred thousand dismissed from their jobs will still remain dismissed from their posts and being jailed going forward it means that those powers that were used against these people will now come to an end and there is some hope that possibly this could herald an ending or at least an easing up on this president a crackdown since the twenty six team failed coup attempt but as we speak going