You can see the event live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2. Coming up live today on cspan, washington journal is next. At 10 45 a. M. Eastern, defense secretary chuck hagel and his polish counterpart hold a news briefing. British the former secretary and robert ford discuss humanitarian efforts in syria. Supreme Court Justices discuss the First Amendment with former cbs reporter marvin cowell. Up in 45 minutes on washington journal, New York Times healthcare reporter reed abelson discusses medicare and medicaid payments to doctors. Mandelbaum talks about his book the road to global prosperity. The dispute between nevada rancher kleven bundy everybody that works hard deserves a chance to get ahead. That is what congress should be working on. Obama speaking in the pittsburgh area as the white house is focusing on jobs, the economy, and training skilled workers. This is a week before the president travels to asia. Jobs, the economy, and global trade will likely dominate the conversation.
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
and homes destroyed, livelihood s lost and feeling the fallout from isaac. and in minutes, the the first estimates of the storm s financial toll. and also, he hasn t exactly been through the desert on a horse with no name, but he did just complete an epic journey in the saddle across the usa. we begin tonight with a state of the economy. and the pivotal role its already playing in the 2012 election the. 42 months, how long the national unemployment rate has been above 8% and the national debt on the verge of a symbolic and hovering milestone, look at that, 16 trillion dollars. . analysts estimating we could hit that huge number oddly enough on the same way the democratic national convention kicks off in charlotte. none of this of course good news as the nation struggles to add jobs and recover from the economic crisis of 2008. it s also political ammunition for republicans not letting up. blaming the current president and his policies for restraining the economic recovery.
state, across the nation and in my state, where people get access. so please, do not come down here and argue for an hour, half an hour that access is being delayed where on the one hand, you are cutting the money for access. that is what the republican budget does. it reduces the residencies and reducing access to clinics by cutting more than a third the money that is there to buildup the community clinics where people get care. in addition to that, i m going to take a deep breath here and don t want to get wound up too tight about this issue and ask my colleague to talk about the medicare portion of this. mr. tonko: absolutely. we didn t hear anything about what would be lost in the process of their cuts or their repeal of the affordable care act. and representative garmeppedy, you are absolutely right. there is much that has been gained by the american population. health consumers across this nation with the affordable care act to close the doughnut hole, make prescription
the note here is a real media enemy. number 18 number 17 is daniel schor, a real media enemy, it says here. i really felt as though i was going to collapse. > there were stories i did and commentaries i did and did not agree and did not sit well with the president. fellow newsman marvin cowell on one of nixon s hit lists. i found out i was on the enemy s list and i was shocked. absolutely shocked. i must say totely appalled totally appalled. paul newman the actor, an enemy? absurd. dan shore, marvin cowell. absurd. i understood that richard