jon: obviously or thankfully nobody here was infected but it hit very close to home. so answer the question, are we better prepared? it is a mixed answer, jon. we re better prepared than we were in october of 2001. at that time some public health departments didn t even have fax machines. jon: wow. so since then the cdc, the department of homeland security, the pentagon, the nih have all gotten engaged. there is a way for government to buy medicine to stockpile. we have a national stockpile. but i think we ve kind of backed off a little bit in the last few years. one problem is that thousands of public health workers have lost their jobs because, state budgets are, to say, tight is to understate the problem. we have a obviously a really big concern about federal budget deficit. unless you have the people in the states, in the localities able to put the pills into the mouths of the folks who may need them
why congress may have breathing room when it comes to raising the debt ceiling on this american morning. and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, july 27th. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get to it. it does feel like dueling bangoes, doesn t it? when you hear both sides of the debate they re dug in but insist they re right. and a growing number of americans want them not to be. they all say god bless america. how we get there is the question. two maker developments in the debt crisis, following minute by minute here. six days until the deadline and house speaker john boehner s plan is coming under fire from members of his own party. he s going back to the drawing board because the numbers don t add up. today s vote has been postponed and in just a few hours, house republicans will meet again as john boehner says that they are looking for more cuts and deeper cuts. this is the plan. i ve got it here. 57 pages. what happens when you co
sitting at this big table there were a couple of big large fax machines, like circa 1988 or something. so the white house staff had them moved out because they thought the photo of president obama talking about the internet with mark zuckerburg and others with some old dated fax machines probably would have been lamb popped by jon stewart and others. another thing, angela merkel was going on and on about how apparently she loved the social network, the movie. and she asked president sarkozy. he seemed to agree and she apparently didn t realize that not the entire movie was something that mark zuckerburg really enjoyed. not the entire story about some of his old roommates, et cetera, his classmates at harvard. she asked zuckerburg whether he enjoyed it. he said i didn t really enjoy it actually. then she said something like maybe you ll enjoy the next one. i didn t know there was a sequel involved. i m just curious because you
on potential plotters who use more than one phone or phone number or device with a single court order. also expiring is the power to seize all considered relevant to a national security investigation. finally, the lone wolf provision allowing non-u.s. citizens who may be up to no good about who aren t connected with a foreign power or group. the you. a senate vote is hung up over civil liberties concerns. but democrats are s, harry reid complaining about the road blocks raised by tea party champion rand paul. listen to this. unless the senator foreign policy kentucky stops standing in the way, our law enforcement will no longer be able to use some of the most critical tools they need to counter terrorists and combat terrorism. if they cannot use these tools, tools that identify and track terror suspect, it could have dire consequences on our national security. i am somehow to be told that, because i believe a judge should sign a warrant that i m in favor of terrorists
they keep it on during the day for business but shut it down night to keep order. really it s creating more chaos. it s so interesting. we re seeing this government 2.0 to have this power to completely shut down the web but at the same time we re seeing a revolution 2.0. cyber activists will find a way to work around. we ve seen it here. we ve seen tech experts finding wakes around the shutdown of telephones, of the internet and getting ways to speak. especially if there s social media. especially through social media and facebook. now you can use a land line to tweet out a message which is unprecedented. we learned from egypt, ham radio, fax machines dial up, even the primitive ways will give you access. they will find way the organization freedom. what i find interesting all you have to do is go on the my