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Thank you. Ifill the federal government moved another day closer today to 85 billion in automatic spending cuts. And as political charges and countercharges flew, Federal Reserve chief ben bernanke raised new fears about the potential economic fallout. The fed chairman told a Senate Committee that forcing acrosstheboard spending cuts could slice half a percentage point off economic growth. I think an appropriate balance would be to introduce these cuts more gradually and to compensate with larger and more sustained cuts in the longer run to address our longrun fiscal issues. Ifill bernanke said the sequester was supposed to be a doomsday weapon designed to spur compromise. It was done to be sort of like dr. Strangelove, you know, the bomb that goes off. So obviously if you can find a way to, you know, in a bipartisan way to make it more effective and better prioritized, that would be a good thing. Ifill instead the spending cuts could begin to take effect at weeks end. President obama,
Ifill the federal government moved another day closer today to 85 billion in automatic spending cuts. And as political charges and countercharges flew, Federal Reserve chief ben bernanke raised new fears about the potential economic fallout. The fed chairman told a Senate Committee that forcing acrosstheboard spending cuts could slice half a percentage point off economic growth. I think an appropriate balance would be to introduce these cuts more gradually and to compensate with larger and more sustained cuts in the longer run to address our longrun fiscal issues. Ifill bernanke said the sequester was supposed to be a doomsday weapon designed to spur compromise. It was done to be sort of like dr. Strangelove, you know, the bomb that goes off. So obviously if you can find a way to, you know, in a bipartisan way to make it more effective and better prioritized, that would be a good thing. Ifill instead the spending cuts could begin to take effect at weeks end. President obama, speaking a
Good evening. In a startling reversal from just 24 hours ago, the president of the United States got on the phone today and really spoke his mind about russia. He said what a terrible thing it was that russia likely with Vladimir Putins say so poisoned a putin opponent and others with a highly toxic poison. He said russia needs to be held accountable and promised action to do it. The only problem was he wasnt speaking to Vladimir Putin on the phone. He was talking to the president of france. Thats right. He really gave the president of france a piece of his mind today. Yesterday this is what he said about his call with putin. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. He congratulated him, which according to the washington post, as you probably know by know, his briefers in capital letters warned him not to do. He failed to mention the whole poisoning on the soil of a nato ally thing, which the same briefers urged him to do according
Putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. He congratulated him which according to the Washington Post as you know by now his briefers in capital letters washed him not to do. He failed to mention poisoning on the nato ally, which they urged him to do according to the Washington Post. There is no law the president says he has to take their advice. He is the president. He gets the final say. What he does not get, however, is a pass. Keeping him honest, he is a grown up making grown up decisions perhaps about the fate of all of us and those decisions deserve scrutiny. Especially when his discussions on russia have people raising serious questions. I think hes afraid of the president of russia. Why . One can speculate as to why, that the russians may have something on him personally, that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult. The russians i think have had long experience with mr. Trump and may have things that they could expose. Something per