stop or block mr. obama s nominee to run the c.i.a. john brennan. he s described as the architect or face of the drone campaign expansion. you think it s going to be tough on thursday? very tough. it s republicans and democrats on multiple fronts. thank you. arizona senator john mccain will not participate in a filibuster against john hagel but republican nomination against him appears for firm. south carolina s lindsay graham hopes the president reconsiders hagel s nomination. he says these are dangerous time and hagel seemed clueless about u.s. policy toward iran. president obama will go to israel in the spring. the white house says the president will visit the west bank in jordan as well. it s released no date for the trip but israel s channel 10 reports it s scheduled for the 20th of march. this will be mr. obama s first
more tax increases. how was that playing on capitol hill? here s ed henry. warning the nation s economic recovery hangs in the balance, president obama prodded congress to stop a series of massive spending cuts that could threaten national security urging them to come up with a short term combo of lesser spending cuts and tax increases beyond what he signed at the end of december. if they can t get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect, then i believe that they should at least pass a smaller package. president says the sequester puts hundreds of thousands of jobs in jeopardy from classrooms to the pentagon and defense lie lockheed martin which announced hundreds of layoffs. mr. obama said damage can be stopped if john boehner accepts the white house s final offer from december, meaning up to $600 billion in more tax hikes through cutting deductions, and cuts to medicare and other programs. my healthcare proposals achieve the sa
common, what unites us. we re next going to visit u.s. troops, and i think one of the thing that unites us is ensuring our armed forces, those who work to keep us safe around the world, have the resources and support they deserve. i misspoke, because, of course, on the foreign relations committee you have john kerry coming up next, not john hagel who has his confirmation hearing for the 31st in front of armed services. thank you very much and safe travels. thanks for joining us today from cairo. and the white house consultant congress has on task force, congressman, thanks very much for being with us. i know you re a gun owner, avid hunter. how do you think the president s proposals balance the interests of hunters, owners, and other advocates and how political viable might they be? i think it was a great first step by the president. he outlined the steps that he
personally but doesn t of the particular allegiance. this is where the 112 conagra s is different from, say, the congress that we said during the new gingrich revolution. when he came in with his 70 something freshman, they were utterly beholden to newt. .. without question, the most famous of the 87 freshmen. he was a tea party sensation before he was ever elected because in 2009 he gave this so-called bayonet speech, in which he exhorted his audience to pick up their bayonets and charge the enemy to victory. but i say equal to opportunity offender because although he is very much a tea party supporter, from the ft. lauderdale, florida area, he wasted little time upsetting leadership. i met with him on a set of meet the press. while we were doing meet the press, david gregory of nbc asked him what things should be cut. and what should be looked at, including defense cuts. no sooner had we gotten off to set than his cell phone rang and it was buck mckeon, the chairman of th
in the next year. wow, those are pretty high expectations, angie. and coming up this week, the u.s. senate could take a vote on the issue of extending unemployment benefits. and by now, almost 2.5 million americans have been cut off from the rolls since early june. so we can expect a very heated debate this week in the senate. and first let s get a checkup on the trading floor over there at the cme group. michael seery of olympusfutures.com is there. and boy, the markets just fell apart last friday. we had high hopes about earnings and it all just kind of unraveled. what s going on? well the problem is last week we have five or six straight up days and some big up days after the big decline in the week prior. i think we re just getting back to reality. you have to be a seller of stocks in my opinion. there s just not any growth in any country, including the united states. unemployment is going to be at 10%. it could be at 10% for several more years. the housing market has not