act, congressman mike kaufman of colorado accused dod for not following letter of the law for political purposes accusing the pentagon and white house not paying death benefits to the families of 26 u.s. servicemembers. there has been a lot of fingerpointing in washington how the death benefits issue could have fallen through the gaps. dod has no authority to pay benefits. we ve been through our own general counsel, it is in another section of law, separate from paying allowances. we just don t have the legal authority and i don t think you want to us start going around the law. so, that $100,000 in death gratuity payments is usually made shortly after an active duty death. as of yesterday 29 military members had died reporter: the pentagon warned congress the, public, and presumably the white house three days he have about the government shutdown that there was going to be a problem. we would also be required to
wout of landfills each year? plastic waste to cover mt. rainier by using one less trash bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until they re full. so you can take them out less often. it s time for the quts news nation post script in washington. it s been a full week of fingerpointing and accusations from both sides of the aisle as a monday midnight deadline to the government shutdown came and went. it s time for the senate to listen to the american people just like the house has listened to the american people and pass a one year delay of obama care. we will not go to conference with a gun to our head. pass a budget, end the government shutdown. pay your bills. speaker boehner and his band of tea party radicals have done the unthinkable.
information associated with the name. martha: right. i think you go back, there are broader questions here. you say to yourself, how frequently did the russians call the fbi and the cia? we don t agree on very much these days. so if it is an infrequent phone call you wonder why we don t more even without the cooperation of the russian authorities. so you have many, many questions to be answered and frankly instead of fingerpointing in this town someone should do a deep dive quickly to make sure this doesn t happen again. martha: after 9/11 we had the department of homeland security created. the dni, the director of national intelligence. the whole reason for appointing a dni so we would make sure all the agencies are talking to each other. i understand there are ongoing investigations, sometimes they don t want to share things. right. martha: they say listen, if anyone crosses tamerlan tsarnaev we can t tell you why but you need to let us know immediately? doesn t that seem like th
one of the reason he is got elected, he s a stable, measured presence. it s important that he do that, but also be present. michael before we let you go, there s demand for answers, a lot of pressure on naming a suspect. but in the end, i mean this could take a considerable amount of time. you think about the anthrax attack, post 9/11. the answers around that remain sort of hazy to this day. as an expert had has dealt with these issues before, i m sure you would caution us that the solutions may not be forthcoming in any sort of short timeframe. i would be and i think that messaging has been coming out loud and clear from the white house and the task force and the mayor and governor of massachusetts, i think that s very good. the other thing i m very happy hasn t happened yet and i hope it doesn t, is that we don t engage in political fingerpointing about why this happened. we ve got to grieve for the victims, take care, make sure we have things secure. figure out who did this. and
meetings that were going to happen. mcconnell s spokesman said, no, there is no active negotiation from the white house. that would get in the way of the president s campaigning. there is fingerpointing, a ton of it. the only republicans in the entire country rejecting a balanced compromise are republicans in this building. hope springs eternal. the president can sit down with harry reid tonight and work with senate democrats who have the majority in the senate to move a bill. at some point, we ve got to do some governing. there are are two potential sort of last-minute solutions to the sequester that neither sides want to unite around. the final white house offer to boehner on the grand bargain included nearly $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years. could it be as a good-will gesture the white house offers one year of those cuts, which come out to $90 billion as a replacement to the sequester this year? then there s the plan senate republicans could offer this week, they