Holy site. New allegations are human rights abuses by isil. The unlikely source coming to the groups aid as it tries to take control of kobane. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. This morning, republicans are making plans for the next few years while the white house is pledging to compromise after a night that can only be called a rout, the gop picking up enough seats to seize control of the senate. Now theyll set the washington agenda for the final two years of the obama presidency. Those results mean harry reid is out as Senate Majority reared, Mitch Mcconnell now poised to replace him. Republicans expanding their hold on the house now enjoying their largest majority there since the great depression. We have Team Coverage with reporters around the country and arched the world. Lets begin in washington. Lisa, good morning. This was a huge night for the republicans. Absolutely. The democrats took a drubbing and woke up to a very different Poli
And jailing dissidents and bloggers and journalists will turn to its historic enemies and treat them with magnanimity. Its a silly contention. But that said, i think the way that the issue was used in the soviet context was that it was a tool to help bring about the end of the soviet union, not merely to contain the soviet union, but to end the soviet union and so, too, it can be used in the iranian context. When you look at the boldness of someone like senator jackson who confronted the soviet union and directly linked most favored nation status to improvements in human rights and free immigration, that was a tool which drove the soviets absolutely crazy, and if you read the memoirs of any of these guys, you see when carter and reagan would bring up the names of dissidents, they really, really hated it, and i think thats one sign that its the right approach. I think that human rights is actually a real achilles heel of the Iranian Regime because they are dependent upon external actors
Create a product and a process on this legislation thats bipartisan. And so far i think weve really been successful, and i think most people would agree with that. This is important for our country. Its important for our industry and our country. In the end i think well have members from both parties supporting our bill. I really want to personally thank senator wyden for his help on this effort. Its been a difficult one for him and for many of my colleagues on the democrat side and mr. Trumka you havent helped them here today very much with their criticisms. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I appreciate that. Well i expect nothing less than that from you ill tell you. I have known you a long time and i have a lot of respect for you. But senator wyden deserves a lot of credit here. I think its very important we move forward and let the committee function properly and im looking forward to even more lively discussion and debate tomorrow as we mark up this bill. Let me just say that i have treme
United states of america. And widows and orphans funds will invest in government bonds. Host alma, thank you for your call. We will consider your suggestion. The senate banking, housing and urban Affairs Committee is about to hold a hearing on the oversight of the fha program. Shaun donovan will be testifying. We will be going to that as soon as that hearing begins. I want to show you this article in the New York Times took. President obama plans to ask congress for about 50 billion for emergency funds to help rebuild the states the were ravaged by hurricane sandy. Regional leaders complained wednesday it was not enough. The white house will send the proposal to capitol hill this week. It should be between 45,000,000,000. 50 5 billion, according to officials 45 billion and 55 billion, according to officials. Both democratic and republican lawmakers from the region quickly expressed disappointment in the pending request and lobby the administration to increase it before sending it to co
Asylum to nsa leaker Edward Snowden. Next months summit in russia still go on . Can the white house let this happen without any response . All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. First up tonight, very strong start for stocks this month. The dow and s p closing at record highs. By the way, its the first time the s p has closed above 1,700 points. With yesterdays dovish fed statement, you got Solid Earnings this quarter and some positive Economic Data with todays jobless claims. Are we in the perfect climate for stocks . We never are but we have to ask our distinguished experts. First up, Dennis Gartman and we have ed bartowski. I want to go to my pal Dennis Gartman. You know better than i do, theres never a perfect scenario. When you think everything is perfect, its not perfect. I wanted to ask you as you see the world, wheres the fly in this ointment going to come from . Wel