sentences. he attempts to put the burden on the state legislature. let s get on a bus and go to springfield. let s go to springfield. reverend jesse jackson is calling on the federal government for a national dialogue. we ve got bullet makers protected by lobbyists and laws. so is the gun distributor. those unprotected are the people. we need a white house conference on gun violence in the country. the call for more police on the street can t be met because the city is broke. unable to pay its pension obligations, unable to lift the city s bond rating out of junk status, unable to pay for more police overtime. about the only thing mayor rahm emanual has been able to do is propose a record-breaking property tax increase. chris? mike tobin reporting from chicago, thank you. what happens when hardened criminals rumble with ivy-league undergrads? you ll be surprised, next on the grapevine. what if one piece of kale
those agency folks have cut greece s credit rating even father their into junk status and say there s a 50% chance the country will exit the eurozone. we have team fox coverage. gerri willis is with us. first, greg palkot is live in athens. reporter: shep, i think you can hear and see to some degree a big rally behind us. it is in front of the greek parliament building. it s been called by the government we, our cameraman and have seen a lot of nasty stuff on the streets of greece from this vantage point and others. so far however this is peaceful. the rally called not against the european union not against the euro but against the demands may be the european union bon greece to resolve its debt, but the european union is standing firm.
these administration officials who gave detail on these sanction sanctions they listed ways that they feel the sanctions have hurt russia. they said that russia s credit rating has dropped to just above junk status. they said that russia has done precisely nothing to deescalate the situation in the ukraine and continues to contribute to the unrest there. president obama faced many questions on the sanctions. why not do more, that sort of thing. he said that the point was not to target russian president vladimir putin personally and he acknowledged that these sanctions might not do anything
but british prime minister david cameron says the crimean people voted for annexation, quote, at the barrel of a gun. on theft side is how things before were the annexation. now it s part of russia. ukraine signed its own deal with the european union, and the same agreement that the former president rejected last year triggering the protests that forced him out of the country. the eu announced new punishments against the prime minister and others in putin sstill,les. american penalties are making a difference. the moscow stock market fell three percent in the first minute of trading. fitch is joining standard & poors warning it may downgrade the credit rating. it s two notches before what is considered junk status. visa andmast of mastercards are
what is the story? just a pattern at the department of energy. not the first company as you mentioned. solyndra, beacon power. abound solar. a 123 battery and fisker. there is a great piece in the wall street journal they will tell you all the time they base the decisions on the merits of the so-called project and the company. but yet when you go through the cap first kerr for example. triple c credit rating. junk status. greta: no private person would lend money. and what that does, too, is crowd out worthy companies from getting private investment. because they will follow well if the government is backing this maybe that is where we should private investment at the opportunity cost of helping some other worthy project throughout. triple c credit rating. the loan value was twice that of the collateral. who does something lea like th? only the government and department of energy with your tax dollars and we have an