so good to have you here. it s awfully fun to be here. welcome to town. amie, first off, the faa, did they really need to furlough the air traffic controllers, or was that sort of sequester grandstanding? well, grandstanding, i don t know. but one thing is for sure, though congress members of congress fly home every week, and fly back, and this was something that affected them. sure. and so, the best thing to move forward on this was to have someone affected by it. and people in congress were. so, the so the president wants to sorry, i m hearing myself in my ear. i am, too. we are both hearing an echo here. but the president and the white house say that this is a band-aid, and they don t want to move forward on a piecemeal approach. so i understand that, but why was it that congress chose? is it because of amie s suggestion? that s part of it. but also because of the
going to board air force one with the president, after the speech, fly back to washington, d.c., i m told by white house aides, and when they get here, they re going to go lobby senators to try to get more senators to get on board this legislation, try to pass the bill. so that will be a pretty forceful message coming from victims families. we ll watch for it. jessica yellin, chief white house correspondent, thank you. coming up, the president of rutgers is right now holding a town hall, days after the uproar over the video from the basketball coach abusing players. we know that coach is out, the assistant is out, we know the athletic director is out. let me tell you this, this president just got an earful. you ll see what happened. plus, a former boxer has a rap sheet you wouldn t believe. now there are concerns that this man could be linked to murders across america.
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