Went on the floor that day, the first thing i did was go over to bird. I said bob byrd i will never know the rules of the senate like you do. Ill make you a deal. I will never surprise you, if you will not surprise me. He said let me think about it. He came back later that afternoon and said ok. And we never did. I think that tradition has carried on. I think dole adopted that point of view. The system, and the rules of the senate are such, that theres plenty of room for disagreement and controversy. To do so within the framework of organization without sneaking up on your adversary. Some of the interview with former Senate Majority leader howard baker airing at 8 00 eastern 5 00 pacific. News from the pentagon planning more cuts for benefits for troops and the 2016 budget to be submitted to the white house in february. Military pay and benefits cost 185 billion in 2011. That decreased by 8 billion. That was mostly due to the reduction in active duty and reserve troops. You can read mo
Entitlement portion and the republicans have held their tongues. The whole discussion is about revenue. They are marshalling their ceos to make demands on entitlements. So many of the Business Leaders dont want to go over the fiscal cliff. They really want tax reform to happen. Whatever happens, they want this to be a stage setter. Thank you for being on newsmakers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] tomorrow on cspan, we look back at august 2011, as the news conferences around the budget control act. This created sequestration. That is split 5050 between defense and nondefense spending. In january, our first week that we were sworn into office, the present as for the increase in the debt ceiling and i made it clear that there would not be an increase in the debt ceiling without changes to the way that we spend the American Peoples money. Shortly after that i was in new york. We agreed that there should be no
Overnight. At least eight People Killed and more than 40 people are hurt. All of this after a tour bus rolled on a mountain. Checking in with new details about what caused the super bowl power outage. Reporter the ravens shut it down against my beloved 49ers. Destinys child, the advertisers and the fierce beyonce. Good morning to you. Welcome to early start. I it was a long, long night. I didnt watch the whole thing. Every last bit. I just wanted to get the halftime show. That was something. That was great too. This is what happened when a Football Game meets the twilight zone. First, the football. Ravens nearly blowing a 22point lead. They were this close to blowing it. Somehow they held off the San Francisco 49ers who had four shots to win it at the end of the game. The final score was 3431. That was the football side of it. You could say the whole thing was overshadowed. The lights went out. A 34minute power outage put the whole super bowl on hold. Carlos diaz was at the game. He is
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Several other top campaign officials, and with russians who had ties to the kremlin. On sunday, this tweet describing in the clearest terms yet what this meeting was about. This was a meeting, the president tweeted, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. Adding lastly, i did not know about it. Now remember, when the New York Times was first breaking news of this meeting, the president Helped Don Junior Draft a statement that claimed it was about adoption policy. After that was proven to be a lie, the president s story began evolving, to use a polite term. This is a year ago in paris. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. Ive had many people ive only been in politics for two years, but ive had many people call up, we have information on this factor or th
One completely shattered and looted. You see in there, the sprinkler systems are going off now, water completely filling up this location and all the groceries that are on the ground as people smashed into this place and the overnight hours as protests devolved into rioting and looting as we are now seeing with the sun coming up. Now, all of this stems back to the death of george floyd and how that death actually unfolded. When you look out into this parking lot, as well, you see graffiti on that target over there that was also broken into and looted. The Police Precinct is over by those trees, completely board up at this point and then in the distance you see firefighters continuing to work on buildings on fire that, again, are still burning this morning. But going back to the Central Point of all this, it is george floyd, not just how he died, but how this is being handled in the aftermath of his death. The Police Department acted swiftly. Firing the four officers involved here, but