Plus wicked weather causes havoc around the u. S. And a creature from the depths of the polar vortex. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im dara brown. The battle lines have been drawn between democrats and republicans over who should fill the Supreme Court justice position after antonin scu nrksantonins skalias call. The republicans should not allow it to happen. On the other side of the aisle, democratics are holding true that its president obamas responsibility. For the president this boils down to something simple, doing his job and we expect the senate the white house ads that the president will not announce a nominee until Congress Returns from break next week and does not plan to make a recess appointment, at least for the time being. Tracie potts joins us from washington. Reporter we have to find out who the president is considering. But the top democrat says that he does have a list and names to talk about with president obama. But whoever the nominee is, republicans
And a creature from the depths of the polar vortex. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im dara brown. The battle lines have been drawn between democrats and republicans over who should fill the Supreme Court justice position after antonin scu nrksantonins skalias call. The republicans should not allow it to happen. On the other side of the aisle, democratics are holding true that its president obamas responsibility. For the president this boils down to something simple, doing his job and we expect the senate to do the same. The white house ads that the nominee until Congress Returns from break next week and does not plan to make a recess appointment, at least for the time being. Tracie potts joins us from washington. Reporter we have to find out who the president is considering. But the top democrat says that he does have a list and names to talk about with president obama. But whoever the nominee is, republicans have firmly stated that they dont even want to give the nominee
It was a true tex tksas slug fest. Both former president bush and barbara bush were in attendance. The donald wasnt one to sit back and take it, take a look at the top tweeted moment of the it night on the subject of replacing obama care. So, thats the only part of the plan, just the interstate competition . Youll have many different plans. Yowlull have competition. Youll have so many different plans. So, now hes repeating himself. I watched him repeat himself five teams four weeks ago. And i watched you repeat yourself five times five seksds ago seconds ago. Dumb, hes going to make America Great again. Were going win, win, win and the lines around the state. Every night. The second most tweetable exchange. Donald, relax. Go ahead. Im relaxed. Go ahead. Dont get nervous. And cruz brings us full circle slamming trump on past health care positions. Have you said youre a liberal on health care . Let me talk. Explain your plan, please. My plan is simple. Were going to have private health c
Push back against critics. In the latest poll, the donald has a 12 point lead over sepnator ted cruz and jeb in a disappointing fourth place trailing marco rubio. President obama weighed in on the race and a direct shot at the frontrunner, donald trump. Being president is a serious job. Its not hosting a talk show. Or a reality show. Its not promotion, its not marketing. Its hard. And this is what mr. Trump reacted to when he was told of the president s remarks. Reality show is not promotion, is not marketing, its hard. Thats from president obama. [ crowd boos] job and for him to say that is a great compliment. Your arer lucky i didnt run last time when romney ran because you would have been a oneterm president. But he soon turned his attention to fellow republican, ted cruz. Ted cruz who i think is totally unfit be to president , but these are minor details. Meanwhile in columbia, south carolina, cruz had his own take on the job. You know, people will be forgiven this election season
Discussing recession yet again today if oil hadnt reversed course and roared back which caused the dow to rebound from down 265 to up 53 points. S p advanced. 44 . Nasdaq gained. 87 . When you look at the link to the price of oil, the idea we could be headed into a recession has become a powerful fiend. A whispered under current in this environment that services when oil take as dive. When oil goes up we stop worrying. When oil goes lower, the story is back on the table. Then i get a second whisper. It goes like this. If we are talking about going into recession, why the heck does the fed feel the need to and how can it be a march rate how can that be on the table . Why are people so worried . So many like to grab a mike and tell us how great things are now. These conversations should be combined to sound like this. You mean to tell me we are going to have a recession and the fed will raise rates or just an out and out declaration. Well have a recession because of the fed. Like this mo