Head in gridlock. Earlier today the president called top leaders from both sides to the white house. Simply put, republicans want spending cuts while the president wants to increase revenue while closing loopholes to reduce the deficit. Derek the president got his tax hikes on january 1. The discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. Its about taking on the spending problem here in washington. Mark republicans in the white house did come together on one issue. They agreed to keep the government running through september 30 and avoid a shutdown at the end of this month. How concerned are people about the cuts . Deborah is live now where she went to sample the sequester mood tonight. Reporter we found more ambivalence than alarm. From a noted stanford economist, open optimism. Derek this isnt the worst day of the year. Reporter hes a democrat. Derek he was preparing for the state of the union address. Reporter hes there on the far right with other prominent economists meeting two yea
shouts tires screech when those connections are broken. Bad things can happen. Captioning sponsored by 20th century fox captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org its just hard and it will hurt the economy overall. Mark the president said he did something today he didnt want to do. Mark no compromise in washington, so the budget cuts have begun. They went into effect an hour ago. In is a live picture of washington, d. C. , the nations head in gridlock. Earlier today the president called top leaders from both sides to the white house. Simply put, republicans want spending cuts while the president wants to increase revenue while closing loopholes to reduce the deficit. Derek the president got his tax hikes on january 1. The discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. Its about taking on the spending problem here in washington. Mark republicans in the white house did come together on one issue. They agreed to keep the government running through september 30 and avoid a s
Santa cruz at 11 00 in the morning. A Scholarship Fund is set up in the fallen officers names. We are going to put a link to the citys website on cbssf. Com with information how you can donate. Click on news and look for coverage on the police shootings. The man accused of killing a man from oakland and two other people on the Las Vegas Strip is in jail. A team of Los Angeles Police officers and federal agents arrested 26yearold ammar harris yesterday at an apartment complex in north hollywood. The arrest came after a week long manhunt. There were tips that proved to be beneficial that we used. The shooting victim kenneth cherry was laid to rest yesterday in his native oakland. Harris and cherry had argued at the valet stand of the aria hotel resort. Investigators say the shooting that followed caused a Chain Reaction crash on the strip that killed a taxi driver and his passenger. A partial human skull found along the Alameda Creek trail was probably there for at least a year. And fore
Table and now asking for new revenue. Woodward says the white house is trying to shut him down. The white house says thats just not true. Now the exchange is becoming heated. Veteran Journalist Bob Woodward isnt backing down in his criticism of the obama white house. On fox news thursday night, woodward again described a testy phone call last month with the president s economic adviser, gene sperling. It was a half hour in which he was shouting at me. Reporter all week, woodward has complained that sperling crossed the line, in suggesting via email that woodward would regret reporting that president obama moved the goalpost in the sequester fight. He said that im going to regret, you know, thats thats that goes into the coded, you know, you better watch out. Reporter the white house denies there was any kind of threat thursday, pointing to a leaked email that sperling sent to woodward after they talked. Quote, i apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today, but as a friend,
Race, which is all of a sudden very important again in terms of understanding whats going on right now in todays news and politics. And yes, in 2012 the 2012 republican president ial primary ultimately produced nickname mittens mitt romney as that partys president ial nominee. But at the very beginning of the president ial cycle in 2012, when they first started polling Republican Voters in 2012 on who they wanted to be their nominee, you know who was at the top of the list . You know who was at the top of the heap for republican candidates or potential candidates when they first started polling at the very beginning of that cycle . You want to know who was polling in first place . Donald trump. And im not talking about this president ial cycle for 2016. Im talking about the last one. This is the representative headline. This was about a national cnn poll of Republican Voters taken in april 2011. Donald trump tied for first place. And donald trump ended up at the top of a lot of polls a