Flights to divert. How much corruption lay at the heart of south africas 5 billion arms purchase. Former president meb ebbingy is to answer questions. Prosthetic limbs from a 3d printer are giving hope to saddams victims of war we see how. A temporary pause in the fighting in gaza came in effect for the next five horse. Israel agreed to stop pounding the territory and palestinian fighters are supposed to not fire rockets. This is the scene in gaza right now. It was brokered by the United Nations to allow badly needed supplies into gaza. A week of israeli bombardment killed 227 palestinians, many civilians, one israeli died. Among the dead are four palestinian children, dying on a beach on wednesday during on israeli air strike. Lets go to our correspondent stefanie dekker, live at the rafa hospital in gaza. Firstly, this u. N. Brokered humanitarian pause that israel and palestinian factions signed up to. What is going to happen . Well, thats taking effect right now. Actually for the ne
Way, we have some Common Ground here. And then here we are today. And what is really troublesome is that not only have we not become sosion hasnything and and so meanspirited, even at this moment even if the Republican Leadership cannot say it our way it would be nice everyone every once in a while to hear the Republican Leaders condemn these angry mobs children coming are scaredborder who out of their minds, many of them fleeing for their lives. It would be nice to hear some condemnation and to get this debate back onto a better footing. Carolinague from north says that we should minimize the rhetoric and deal with reality. That is what we are trying to do. We are talking mostly about kids. Kids who are fleeing some of the most violent countries in the are scared out of their minds, many of the. Honduras has the highest murder in the any country world, more than afghanistan. In salvador, more people die each day and violence in the word during the war. And there is a correlation betwe
Some of our very important Homeland Security initiatives until we have an appropriations bill. Its key that we get one. On the good news front the year ago there were a number of vacancies in the seniorlevel positions and we now have including myself over the last 12 months is to the hard work because 13 confirmed president ial appointments. We also have confirmed president president ial points and is the assistant secretary for legislative affairs in the new assistant secretary for public affairs. We have one nomination think an undersecretary for management to actually happens to be a former client of mine. The retired Vice President bird of Johnson Johnson russ dio who has impressed virtually every senator he has met. He will be a great addition to our team but im hoping he will be confirmed early in the new year. Its no accident that i selected somebody who was the Vice President for administration of Johnson Johnson which is a large decentralized Health Care Company with operating
Its not a coincidence that its the First Amendment to our constitution. And its not a coincidence that the terrorists chose an element of the press in france, the free press, as their target. Yet here in the United States and in europe theres there are signs, have been signs of a sort of unilateral intellectual disarmament in the face of these kinds of threats. We all saw the pusillanimous initial reaction of sony to the threats of the north koreans. We saw that the Associated Press pulled Charlie Hebdo cartoons from its gallery because they were afraid some of them might be hurtful to people. For a week the Washington Post here refused to publish the cartoons. Thanks to the brave men who run the editorial page they did publish the cartoon on the editorial page last week. But the paper itself refused to publish it. They did in the end finally. And the American Government took quite a while to figure out what to call these events. First they didnt call them a terrorist event. Then they
Again, we are live here on this friday morning at the center for strategic and international studies. Well hear from paul kuzuk. He is expected to talk blt coast guards mission and the effect the economy is having on that mission. No legislative business in the house for today. There will be be a brief pro forma session today. The session is in and lawmakers will be gathering in about half an hour to the debate about the keystone pipeline. The house passed its measure on the vote earlier this week. You can see that at 9 30 eastern. House republicans continuing their retreat in hershey pennsylvania. Senate democrats held a meeting in baltimore with president obama yesterday. Today the president is back here in washington. He is meeting with british Prime Minister dave cameron. That meeting is set for 11 05 eastern today, and afterwards the two will hold a press conference at 12 20. Following the joint press conference, well open the phone line for your reaction. Well also look aa your t