Be ruled out. The airbus a321 broke apart at 31,000 feet, raining wreckage on egypts sinai peninsula. It took off from the seaside resort from Sharm Elsheikh bound for st. Petersburg, russia. All 224 on board were killed, and allen pizzey has the latest. Reporter the British Government said it was temporarily suspending flights to and from Sharm Elsheikh over fears the russian jet may have had a bomb on board. It is also sending British Aviation experts to the egyptian airport to assess the security situation further. Foreign secretary phillip hammond. We have concluded that there is a significant possibility that that crash was caused by an explosive device on board the aircraft. Reporter it comes on the same day an isis affiliate in sinai released an audiotape daring investigators to move that we did not take the plane down. Egyptian president Abdul Fattah Alsisi has dismissed the isis claim as propaganda. The russians have also been sceptical of any terror plot, but isis has recentl
But some of those folks told us after their ordeal this morning, they are going to leave the airport and the flying for another day. Reporter not quite the holiday memory ashley was hoping for. It was clear something was wrong almost as soon as they left the ground. The plane was thumping and thumping and then it was going very slow because they were trying to get the landing gear up and it wouldnt go up. Flight 2547 went around in circles burning fuel. A good u long time for the passengers to contemplate what could happen next. When the pilot kept coming out of the cockpit, thats what was really alarming. I heard oxygen mask. I heard were going to have to fly low. With fuel tanks empty, the plane returned to oakland and first made a pass by the patrol tower so air Traffic Controllers could get a good look at the planes landing gear. We didnt know if the landing gear was going to work. That was the point of flying low making sure that the gear was out and visible to everybody. The seco
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you have been watching cspans special president ial program on Campaign Announcements. You will find lots more coverage of past president ial campaigns at our website, cspan. Org. Just type road to the white house in the search bar. Weve been asking you who your favorite president is and why. Gerald ford had to deal with watergate scandal of president nixon and the end of the vietnam war. Edward says bill clinton brought the deficit down, has surplus, gas was cheap. You can post yours at face. Com cspan. Congress is off but members are busy tweeting as they are on their break. A freshman democrat tweeting happy president s day and thanks to mount burden for joining me to join washingtons birthday festivities. Marsha blackburn tweets pleased to speak with a class at churchill college. Joni ernst says rate to talk to veterans today during my 99 county
Allows them to allocate a certain amount of money to the candidates running for office and the candidates can take those vouchers would say a 50dollar voucher here if they agree to limit the contribution that they take to the vouchers in a small competition, lets say 100 frankly. 50 dollars would be about 7 billion in 2014 the total amount spent by Congress Shall candidates was 1. 5 billion. Which means that this is real money to point his the voucher system would mean that money comes from many people and not just the. 04 were not just a. 024 . So it filters perhaps because it is not everybody that is going to participate, but it isnt biased in the way that the Current System is biased by allocating the funding to the tiny tiny fraction of the 1 . Democrats have been pushing this idea of matching funds John Sarbanes from maryland, the governor by the the peoples act that basically takes the small contributions and multiplies them up to 91 to make them much more valuable. As a 100 beco
It is hypocritical to talk about this issue, so they will avoided avoid it as much as they can. The challenge in 2016 is how to get them to talk about this issue as they go around and engage in the rain dance to convince people to support them about what ever issue they want to get people to support them for. The challenge is how do we get to turn the table and force them to consider what theyd rather not consider . How do we get them to address a topic which they would rather not have to address . Thats the objective of the New Hampshire rebellion. By rebellion, that does not mean rebelling against the government, it is to rebel against this agenda the politicians will bring in the and the president ial candidates will bring. Forcing them to say how are you going to end this system of corruption in washington by getting people to ask this question again and again and New Hampshire. New hampshire is a prime target for this. It is a critical president ial primary and it is also a state