In the context of specific recommendations that you submitted, hiring from a diverse pool of applicants, and then revising and raising the educational requirements. I know that in working with departments around the country those two thing sometime sometime compete with each other. So we are eliminating the kinds of folks we want to you can higher by making an associate degree requirement. I think one of those is winding a way to actually start cultivating an high school and start recruiting and high schools. While i am not aware of programs that provide associate degrees i can share that if you go to nursing, where you have a strong need to be culturally competent and bilingual. California has an Excellent Program where they start in high school, start providing this kind of training, so while in high school, they are also taking their aa degrees that will help fill fill their requirements to nursing. That is how we can look at that doubt youre describing. It already works very well i
Malveaux begins now. Happy new year. Stories were watching now. Hours by hour, inch by inch, the nation sliding closer to the fiscal cliff. Well have more on this mornings negotiations and what well lose if those talks fail. And workers in some states may see a pay raise but may not notice much of a difference. Guns are flying off the shelves after fears of a ban on assault rifles following the sandy hook massacre. Were live at the white house with the latest details. Plus this. Reporter im alina cho in times square, where just hours from now new york will host what is arguably the biggest new Years Eve Party in the world. Number one tip. If you plan to come to times square, dress warmly. It is frigidly cold. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Good morning. Im Suzanne Malveaux sitting in for carol costello. This morning the clock ticking louder. The nation inching closer to this fiscal cliff. We could be just hours away from seeing all of our paychecks shrink. Were following all the last m
Midterm elections, can the gop grow that enthusiasm and crush the democratic blue wave previously predicted for november or will the rage for women trigger by this confirmation fight that leads the catalyst that turns the blue wave into a political flood. Joining me now is carrie shefield and White House Correspondent for the daily mail, francesca, the victory by the president yet are clearly one of the things that donald trump campaigned on that he would people on the Supreme Court. Clearly this was something that the Mcconnell Senate majority wanted. They blocked for ten months and even a meeting would president obamas nominee and was successfully now able to put two people on the court. Does this now lead us to a partisan court . Well, now we have President Trump saying he can put three or four justices on the court and the amount of time that he could be president. And so this is going to be a very important issue in the Midterm Elections but also moving forward in to the 2020 pres
Donald trump Michael Schmidt has the details right ahead. Plus leaders gather in new york city with President Trump taking part in several events throughout the day we will bring you the first live right here on morning joe. Mean while, the president s personal lawyer, not secretary of state, Rudy Giuliani says irans government will be overthrown nikki haley reminds everyone that is not u. S. Policy. And with six weeks left, joe, its a 12 point spread, democrats lead republicans by double digits with nearly 60 calling for a significant course correction away from donald trump. We will have all the latest numbers, but the polls are fascinating this morning, joe. They are. Also we have we have the new yorker coauthor of that story on kavanaugh, jane mayer will be here later i want to go to kasie hunt just for one second we have so much in front of us, obviously so much at stake for republicans and democrats this week of course, we want them to do the right thing. We want them to search f
Ever. The final push. Less than a month out from the election day, can democrats harness their frustration and get voters out or will republican enthusiasm get the better of them add the gop take a victory lap. Mitch, how are you feeling . That was awesome. The laughs are there but we begin with the president and the Republican Party in celebration mode. Having placed Justice Brett kavanaugh on the highest court with about three weeks to go before the mid teterm lekelecti. The if the was targeting democrats. Each of you will have a chance in just four weeks to rern render your verdict on the democrats conduct at the ballot box. You dont hand matches to an arsonist and you dont give power to an angry left wing mob. Thats what they have become. Lets turn to jeff bennett who covers the white house for nbc news. Is that the message that were going to hear time and time again with this 30 days before the midterms as he ramps up his campaigning . Reporter it appears that way. The big questio