gaza. this is a rare day of these two huge news stories breaking, essentially simultaneously. we re going to have a lot of information, a lot of interviews over the course of the next hour about these two major stories and throughout the night here on msnbc. but one of these two huge stories that broke today actually ends up being part of the relevant historical context for understanding the other one of these stories. because in 1973, it was this civilian airliner mistakenly shot down by the military. there had been a sandstorm that day. libyans airline 14 veered off and ended up over the sinai desert. an area controlled by israel. february of 1973 between the six-day war and yom kippur war and the forces were on hair trigger alert in that region. when that passenger plane strayed into that airspace that the israelis were watching so closely, the israeli military, they sent two phantom fighter jets up to intercept, and those fighter jets shot that plane down. and 113 people
that means right in this chair for now, constitutionally, until the vice president gets here. constitutionally, haig was wrong.ss we just tolerated haig. haig, now deceased would soon make a worse blunder, when larry speakes in the white house pressroom was asked this question. who s running the government now? speakes did not answer that question. but haig rushed up to the press podium to respond. who s making the decisions for the government right now? constitutionally you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state in that order. wrong again. then haig said the words which haunted him the rest of his
almost every case that any will. from the beginning of the process until the expiration of ten session days, any member can request on his or her own behalf or on behalf of my identified member that the nomination be thier that the nomination be identified member that the nomination be referred to committee. we think that incorporating thed safeguard is in line with our eh elimination of secret holds in the earlier this year. the presumption for these posito positions are as i ve said unanimous consentan and not be held up as part of other battleb or leverage or whatever else.thr the resolution would come before this resolution would comewould before the rules committee where senator alexander and i lead ann we ought to take action on a very soon. we are confident this package te will eliminate many of the delays in the current confirmation process that detrimental to the efficient operations of government and the efforts to recruit the mosthese qualified people to these fede
he walked and then collapse. it brought him into a resuscitation area. most traumas were notified by communication area. there was little time, but they were there. they got there and put him on a gurney, they took off his clothes off, started examining him and did all of the right things. so reagan watson, jury is in the limousine, jury trust to help them out, reagan says no, the jury thinks, he wants to be a cowboy. reagan hitches up his pants leg he always does, the other aides do not think he looks so good. ronald reagan viewed his role as president has brought light. he was an actor. he was not going to get care to the doors. he walks in, it s in 15 feet, collapses like a rock. her bobnandez is there. he sees reagan fall to the ground. he says, it is cold city. city means that he is one to die. they re having a nightmare thoughts about the president is going to die. they did not think he was one to make it. what did you think, gerry, when he collapsed? well, i reall
eyes. birthright israel. [applause] for an individual to not go on the birthright is to him or her a major disappointment. for those of us who care about xewish continuity, it is a tragedy. . shalom, dear friends, distinguished guests, i stand here today as international chair of the 2009 jewish federations of north america as someone born and raised in moscow, russia. living here and speaking or attempting to speak in english. [applause] what could be a greater statement of jewish people connecting these dots? what could lead to more confusion about one s identity? one simple question where are you from? there s a time not so long ago when i could not have imagined standing here only blocks from the decision-making capital of the world. and because this is a special occasion for me i would like to make my remarks a little more personal than i usually do. for my personal story of believe i can address the present global reasons we are all here today. i did not know about