ayotte. welcome to the program. thanks for being me. ithanks sean. the bill tabled. in other words, thisth is the second time that the house of representatives as it relates to the debt ceiling has passed the bill and the bill has been tabled at least temporarily on this one. they are not even taking the bill up, correct? that is exactly right. more evidence, clear and really unavoidable evidence that the senate democrats are unwilling to even so much as have a debate about a measure that would put us on a path to a balanced budget. they are so passionately opposed, seriously that opposed to a balanced budget that they won t even allow us to have a debate, have the opportunity to amend it. those are the things that would have resulted if we would have been able to defeat the motion to table, it would have gone to the floor and we might have been able to make this into a really good measure. but no such opportunity with harry reid and democrats. i think this is part of
bob woodward, author of a new book, said that scenario is on the table on cnn last night. take a look. in of the talk in town. a lot of people think the president is a little weak and in 2012 he will have to run with hillary clinton as his running mate. in all the political conversation and that the sides you have do things like that come up? it s on the table. and some of hillary clinton s advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012. president obama needs some of the women, latinos, retirees that she did so well with during the 2008 primaries. so, they switched jobs. host: that was bob woodward last night on john king s show on cnn talking about the possibility of an obama s clinton ticket in 2012. we want to get your reaction. if you go to the draft report, you see on the front page that they have a link to this the udge report. if you click on that it brings you to cnn s political tigert where it has the story about whether or not this is a possibility. this morn
stay with us, everyone. news 4 today continues now at 5:00. final stages of the gay marriage debate reaches the d.c. council as it tries to decide whether to allow gay marriages to take place in the district. metro extension. plans to expand services further into prince george s county are on the table but first your input is needed. and they desperately need a win but can the redskins pull it off? the preparations leading up to tonight s game against the philadelphia eagles. good morning. welcome, everyone, to news 4 today. i m barbara harrison. good morning to you. i m joe krebs on this monday, the 26th of october, 2009. take a live look outside this morning. we have chilly temperatures. let s see how clear the skies are and whether they ll stay whatever way they are. we can t tell right now but it sure was a nice day yesterday, tom. beautiful weather. we ve got near peak autumn color now coming on strong especially in the suburbs west and north of washing