Hour notice however that if they do not come to an agreement sunday at midnight there will be a strike. Hot hohot hot upon and the bart spokesperson reprise issued this statement pat at we are grateful to the bay area will not be impacted by our unions for the next few days and that the trains will be running while we continue to negotiate. Bart was prepared to offer a new proposal today but the unions told us they were not ready for it. We will continue negotiations tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. continuing our coverage hit up there was plenty of gridlock when they took to picket lines. But kron4s Charles Clifford explains why this time around things could be a lot worse. Charles when bart workers went on strike back into light it was summertime. The kids were out of school and also everyone was on vacation. That meant fewer cars on the roadways and fewer people writing bart trains. But now school was back in session. Everyone is back to work and also the bay areas economy is surging which me
This is the ed show. Lets get to work. Lets allow higher rates to go up for the top 2 . That includes all of you. The president holds the line on taxes and draws the line on the debt ceiling. I will not play that game. Tonight, democratic whip steny hoyer gives me the latest fiscal cliff developments and the democratic line on medicare. Tom perriello from the center of American Progress action fund on how democrats can deal with republicans who cant deal with reality. Rubio and ryan reload with a new message for the middle class. Both parties tend to divide americans into our voters and their voters. But there is no escaping their own policies. Were going to a majority of takers versus makers in america. Dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz responds tonight. Plus, senator Barbara Boxer on her new plan for National Polling place standards. And a new poll shows half of all republicans think the defunct group a. C. O. R. N. Stole the election from president obama. Thats an eye opener. I won
Make Something Like ten times his current salary. Yay for jim demint, good money. Kind of. Its good for him, but its really good for his colleague, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell. You see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. Hes like the Grover Norquist of the senate. Hes the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. And that is because moreso than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the Tea Party Strategy of purifying the Republican Party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. Demint created this pact called the senate conservativist fund, a pact he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. Since 2009 demint has raised more than 17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. The image of jim demint, even. And he has often done it by goi
The house wont be back in session until tuesday of next week. But its not like they dont do work over the weekend. Super long or otherwise. Many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, theyre going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. But in the white house and the House Republican congress, over how to, lets be sure were getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to longterm so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the shortterm. Yes, thats right. Now, this may well present a problem for John Boehners caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. Okay, maybe thats hyperbole. But just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediat
Hollen on John Boehners latest concession on the fiscal cliff. Michael eric dyson and donna genteelodonnell on the political fallout. Howard dean on Chris Christies big decision on the obama care exchange. And apples ceo breaks big news to nbcs Brian Williams. Next year, we will do one of our existing mac lines in the United States. Tonight, a story of economic patriotism in an era of bain capital with e. J. Dionne. Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. The reality start to set in on members of the Republican Party. Republican senator jim demint of South Carolina is leaving kplil capitol hill to become president of the Heritage Foundation. Dont cry for demint. The outgoing president of the Heritage Foundation made 1. 1 million according to 2010 tax filings. Demint will do just fine. Its not just about the money. The senator realizes he could be more effective for the conservative movement if hes not attached to the dysfunctional party known as the Republican Par