Avenue. It is the position he will take until the republicans do the right thing, right . Why not just open the government at funding levels that they were very content with and that demands ofesents the the president. That is our position. What about the decision of the Security Council will that anyway affect the push by the administration to raise americas profile in asia . The cancellation is another consequence of the house force aansdecisions to shutdown of the government, and it is completely avoidable of a completely avoidable shutdown. To advance u. S. Leadership and interests in the largest in theg region world, the president is committed to the pivot of u. S. Policy toward a jeff asia, towards this important region of the world come and he looks forward to work with allies and partners in asiapacific region and returning to the region at a later date. Secretary kerry will lead delegations to indonesia and brunei in place of the president. Your opening comments today, that th
That it will be done and its not done, thats not doing your job. Put it up, vote yes or new york move on. This is like the people we have down the hall with the Senate Democrats who dont want to have up or down votes on Supreme Court justices, prosecutors, all these other people because what they know is they dont have any substantive reason to oppose those people. The same way most of these folks didnt have any substantive way to oppose this. Thats the problem. Nauble [inaudible] absolutely support the leader ship. I dont believe thats what the report said. I mean, i think youve guilded that report up pretty well in the leadup to your question. I dont think thats what the report said. I think these guys made the best decisions they could in the circumstances. Once you see the yard is flooded, you can say, they would have move they shouldve moved the trains. If they had known it was going to flood, they wouldve moved the trains. He made the best decisions he could at the time. Sometime
So we kick off tonight with housinand a new opinion on the impact of rapidly risg Interest Rates. Bank analyst dick bove says it makes no sense to think it was any effect on the Housing Market so why is lowering his rating on one of the major mortgage lenders just today . Joining me now is dick bove. Always such a pleasure to have you on the show, thank you for coming on. Thank you, melissa. Melissa why are you making this about Mortgage Rates . Why will it knocked the legs out from t housing recovery . Think about it. During the housing boom, the average Mortgage Rate was 6. 5 . If you take the average Mortgage Rate, it was 6. 75 . The average rate since freddie mac publish the figures in 1971, 8. 6 . The current Mortgage Rate up a lofrom the bottom is somewhere around 4. 35, 4. 50. Way bew what the average has been for any period in the last 30, 40 years. It is pretty hard to believe an increase in Mortgage Rates causing a slowdown in housing. There are other factors, however. Number
May be an area of focus for that questioning. December 13th. Plan to call in sick. That does it for us. Time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. December 13th. Im writing it down. The breaking news report that you had joyce vance on analyzing about the New York Times saying that the president was calling in the summer when he was behaving very erratically publicly and angrily public recalling important Republican Senators trying to get them to stop the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigation fascinating interpretation about how this could contribute to a possible obstruction of justice investigation. Right. If there are other whether or not those the actions described in my humble opiniult these actions could be used to serve as evidence to the president s state of mind as to whether or not he was trying to stop the russia investigations. If there are other actionable things he did, this behavior toward Republican Senators, which Republican Senators are putting