nonpartisan organization by democrats and republicans, and the republicans named the last executive effort. so it s a republican who s pointed back in 2015 and tom price, the new hhs secretary was a major backer of him. so when our viewers are hearing us talk about this nonpartisan organization, it is a republican leading it that has offered this report. that s all true but that s the thing. just because someone s a republican doesn t mean they re not ill informed. and i think in this case they were. let s not forget the cbo this is the same budget office that seven or eight years ago told us the obamacare would cover 85 million more people and save money for the government. there s a caveat with that. as you know the reason those numbers were on the high side was because the law as drafted
barack obama said, we live up to this moment. i think this signals a real shift in how countries handle this. it s yet to be seen exactly what policies they ll put into place to achieve this. let s talk about what happens next as far as countries like the united states. we ll have to bring this back and have it either debated in the house and senate and passed or i know that you ve mentioned there are some who question whether this could be an executive effort. to put this into being. how difficult will it be to make sure those larger countries, the bigger polluters are involved and that they get this deal passed. yes. so i think if you look at what s required to meet these goals, this treaty sets out the goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees celsius or well below that. has the number 1.5 degrees in the text which was hugely surprising to me and others.
congress then, does he worry that going it alone right now could damage his prospects for moving comprehensive immigration reform in the next congress? well, brianna, it s important for context, for your viewers to understand. that reason the president decided to move forward with the unilateral executive effort, to try to address problems that are created by our broken immigration system is simply because house republican leaders have refused for a year now to allow a piece of legislation that passed with bipartisan support in the senate to come to the floor and come up for a vote in the house of representatives. we are confident and most analyst are confident that if that legislation was put it vote, it would pass and the president would sign it. so the president is not pleased about the fact he has it resort to administrative action to try to address problems that were created by our broken immigration system. he is doing this because house republicans have left him with no other
sanctions may be slowing iran s progress toward a nuclear weapon, but not stopping the regime and in the process, the iranian people are feeling the impact of those sanctions? shep: as that goes on, there is great disagreement between the white house and the congress on this, right? that s right. two senators, republican and democrat, are sponsoring an amendment that goes further in penalizing iran than president obama s recent executive effort. in an effort to choke off the money for the nuclear program, the kirk-menendez amendment bars any u.s. financial group from doing business with other financial groups who do business with iran central banks. it expands the financial web to block iran. the amendment is not embraced by the administration. we think tacticcally that it may both increase the price of oil, which will give iran a windfall that is not the objective i know of the legislation, but may have that effect. and at every turn, the obama administration stood by its mult
good retail sales numbers last month, taking on more workers may be a sign of the holiday shopping season could be strong. hope so. hand-held gadgets top a big toy list as the holiday season approaches. they re on mine. consumer reports showing off the top products of 2010. jamie: perfect timing to show you the amazon kindle and the ipad. these are highlighted in the issue. greg doherty is the executive effort of consumer report. he is the coolest guy at consumer report. he gets to travel around with gadget and gizmos. best of the best. we hope so. five of 400 in the issue. jamie: kindle has been around for a while. what makes it special now? we think it s best of the e-readers. this one is readable, you can tell. it looks different. this is dracula. a little smaller and comes in a graphite color.