joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan
Check out this facebook status. the executive director of freedom to marry and senior fellow for policy studies at the family research council. gentlemen, thanks for joining me this morning. mr. wolfson, your reaction to what john boehner is saying. well, what john baner is doing, what speaker baner is doing, is inserting the house into a case in court that the president and the attorney general have said should not be defended. what s being done in this case is a challenge to the so-called defense of marriage act, which says that the federal government s practice of honoring marriages that are celebrated in the states will
That laws enacted by both parties in correct me if i m wrong and signed into law by president bill clinton, i might add, should be defended in court. all right. gentlem gentlemen, i want to thank you for coming on today. peter sprigg, evan wolfson, appreciate your time. drenching rain has triggered massive flooding across the northeast, and forecasters say the washouts are only going to be getting worse. new jersey governor chris christie declared a statewide emergency wednesday night mobilizing the national guard and state police to help evacuate residents. still hundreds of homes lie in the danger zone. ron allen has the latest for us from new jersey. reporter: thomas, this is the problem here in wayne, new jersey. that s the passaic river. it s several feet higher than it normally is, and the water is rushing into this neighborhood. i m walking through the front yard of this home here. the current is also pretty strong, which you can t see. pardon the tree. in this direction,
What are the political stakes of a government shutdown like in 95? gentlemen, you know the score here. and here we go again, howard. last time we had one where the government shut down because they couldn t agree on the spending level. the president wouldn t sign what they sent them. veto, veto, veto. nothing gets done. it looks to me like they re both ready for this fight. the president and john boehner. is that right? yeah, i think so. i think the president on tuesday through the office of management and budget basically said if you send me a bill that s anything like they re talking about on the floor of the house, i m going to veto it and i want you to know that now. and i think that was the president in essence saying, if we shut down, don t blame me because i warned these people this is what i would do. and then john boehner came out and said, hey, we re not going to pass one of these two-week
I ve seen $3 billion if you look two or three years down the road. you re saying those deficits don t incur? no, no, no. we re saying in effect that the current state of affairs is now that we do not have to balance any budget whether we have a surplus or deficit on the backs of workers. because let s be honest, the workers are willing to give on the pension on their pension and are willing to give on their health benefits, but what they will not give up on is the fact that you do not take away a person s collective bargaining i think that s right. by the way, i think that s where this compromise is going, gentlem gentlemen. you, first of all, assemblyman, would you accept a compromise where the workers would retain their bargaining rights and would accept these compromises with regard to pension and health care? well, the bill we have is