Elements in terms of being involved with foreign fighters. I do not. Who in the state does any of that . Obviously fsa is part of counterisis if thats our strategy, would obviously have to be involved in the foreign fighter and they would be on the front line of why are these people being recruited. Where does that connection happen. If youre the foreign fighter gi my task, my responsibility is the things i have been asked to do are to pursue a diplomatic strategy with our foreign partners, our Foreign Countries on foreign fighters. I do not engage directly with the syrian opposition. Ambassador rubenstein is our envoy for that. Certainly others in the state department are dealing with this issue, others in the pentagon in terms of the military, intelligence agencies. Why is it that isis is attracting foreign fighters versus foreign fighters coming to fsa, you know, al nusra front. Is it the jihadism . What is it . That you have seen. I think its partly the discussion i was having earl
That Speaker John Boehner met with the president to discuss the officials of the fiscal cliff. Were just days before the congress and the white house has to hammer out a deal or everyones going to suffer the consequences. Emily, what have you learned about todays meeting . Allison we know that todays meeting was not on the schedule today. So that means we have to rely on the word from the White House Deputy press secretary and a congressional staffer which happens to be the exact same words. They released two separate statements, both identical and this is the statement. It says this afternoon the president and Speaker Boehner met at the white house to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff. Were not reading out details of the constitution, but the lines of communication remain. On wednesday, youll remember a source familiar with the conversation said they did speak by phone, at that point it was the first time in a week they had done so. No reported breakthrough then. And then on
Leaving his country on edge. Our officers on scene felt as if capitol was a contributing factor. A dallas cowboy dead, his teammate under arrest after late night drinking and driving leads to a fatal car crash. Is the Mormon Church easing their stance on gays . See their online outreach thats turning some heads. Good sunday morning to you, im susan heindricks. Thank you for starting your morning with us. We start with supports, a devastating story here. More details of a second nfl tragedy. Jerry brown has been killed in a car accident. He was riding in a car driven by josh brent. Police think alcohol was involved, and he says after hitting a curb at a high speed, their car travelled nearly 900 feet. Take a listen. Our officers on scene felt as if alcohol was a contributing factor in the accident, so he was asked to perform some field sobriety tests. Based on performance in those tests, along with our officers observations, and the conversations they had with him, he was placed under a
Divers search a solano water way for any signs of an elderly man who failed to return home from work. Searchers are trying to decide what to do next after scouring the waterfront of mare island today. Trying to find a man who disappeared while working on a historic boat. Reporter ken, his friend left Philip Mattingly to work on a tugboat across the water. Mattingly hasnt been seen in almost 30 hours. The mare island straits rapidly moving current forced divers out of the water by the end of todays search. The water was too rough. They couldnt stay on the bottom. Just kept sweeping them back up to the surface. Reporter this man, 77year old Phillip Steven mattingly. Hes just been overworking. I could see it, he looked pretty tired. Reporter he struggled with his diabetes medication. In the last year, he put all of his time and energy into restoring this world war ii tugboat, the eugene h. The elderly mattingly stayed late last night to work on it. Last night, for some reason, he didnt wa
President the 2 increase. Will i accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems . Yes. You know what the republicans do have is they have debt ceiling coming up. Joots a slap in the face of all the young people who are out there thinking about being republicans. No way around. Rotten eggs. This is impossible. I think maybe the republicans have an upper hand. If anybody out there who is, quote, rich doesnt think their taxings go up, the drinks are on me. Beer, and i hope it tastes as good as you all look. Its a brand new week, and with the fiscal cliff just 22 days away, the president is on the move heading to michigan to rally autoworkers support for higher taxes on the wealthy and greater investment in u. S. Manufacturing. The president traveled to a suburb of detroit touring an engine plant thats announcing a 100 million expansion in production and jobs. And even as the president touted that economic bright spot, he renewed his case to extend tax cuts for 98