Second president elected to serve a full term in Office Without Party Control in either the senate or the house. That made progress, any progress, domestically, very difficult. Candidly speaking, my grandfather did not want to raise taxes in 1990, but our constitutional system of governance says Congress Also gets a say. Besides that, he felt he owed the American People action and results. Compromise is a dirty word in washington today because we live in an age of the perpetual campaign. Once we get back to realizing the importance of actual governance, i suspect this too will pass. My grandfather wishes to join you in recognizing mayor bridges and congratulating him for his much deserved recognition this year. We can all hope his example of standing on principle will inspire more elected officials on both sides of the aisle. Not lost on anyone i suspect is the symbolism of the grandson of a much admired president of the United States conferring a prestigious award that is being accept
A line from the war was, we had to destroy this village in order to save it. It has become a cliche. A person named turse has written a brilliant book that i recommend. It is called kill anything that moves. He went into the u. S. Archives and dug up the true story that oneoff. S not a we were using civilians as target practice, pushing them out of helicopters, executing them in the fields for no good reason. This is what our nation did. I am going to skip ahead. You think that is in the past. , we a like anden idiot from texas. I have a Bumper Sticker that says, somewhere in texas, a village is missing an idiot. He invaded iraq. I am tired of hearing it being called a mistake, a blunder, Something Like that. This was a deliberate war of aggression. An illegal one, as many have said. Another criminal enterprise of the United States. We went to war in an unconscionable manner against a country that did not attack us. Living through the vietnam experience, how could this happen again . M
President obama says he is open to the idea of naming a person to handle the u. S. Response. It may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person, not because of three of these folks of not been doing an outstanding job. They are working hard on this issue but they also are responsible for whole bunch of other stuff. In the meantime on capitol hill, republican lawmakers and plenty of criticism for the centers for Disease Control and erector tom friedan. He told them ebola was not a Significant Health threat to the net it states. Vladimir putin is meeting in milan with european leaders over the ukrainian crisis. David cameron says he does not want a divided ukraine. Europe wants to make sure a ceasefire is in place and does notso that russia have ma skews to disrupt natural gas supplies. Shares of google are trading lower in the premarket as they posted record earnings and revenue that missed estimates. The company has ramped up spending to try to jumpstart slowing advertising s
States as still moving forward on planning to loosen restrictions despite a lack of tests or a clear proven treatment. One of the treatments touted by the president and by friendly media including fox news, the antimalarial drug hydrochloroquine, now a new study by the v. A. Shows it has no benefit and is in fact linked to higher death rates. Joining us now, cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Elizabeth, lets talk about the new study in a moment, but first, what more do we know about the new cases in california and how sigitant is it that they came earlier than we realized . Yes, its definitely very interesting that they were doing autopsies in california that show that people had coronavirus after they died and that was before the First Official deaths in the United States. What that suggests to us is that people were dying of this virus before the u. S. Realized it, and also super important to point out that according to the new york times, the coroner says these people
Washington doesnt work. That was president obamas message at a high dollar fundraiser in manhattan this week where he said, quote, we have a party on the other side that has been captured by ideology that says no to everything. But if the president wants to get to the true root of gridlock in washington, he may also want to look at the democratic controlled senate where harry reid has essentially shut down debate, refusing to allow a vote on all but nine, thats right, nine republican amendments since last july. Stopping several bipartisan bills cold. For more, im joined by wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, assistant editorial editor and washington columni columnist. Kim, describe what harry reid is doing. Here has been the long standing deal in the senate. Minority party would agree to move on to a bill to give the vote for closure to actually start debating a bill. The Majority Party in return would allow them to debate the bill and propose amendments. And everyone got