to pay for this legislation and even writing this legislation. in the end the vote was 49-51 which was short of the 60 votes needed for this legislation to pass. but look, discussions on this proposal are not dead yet. you know, they say that they only need one more week for this legislation to be finalized and they said in a statement this group of 22 democratic and republican senators, they said that they are, quote, close to a final agreement and they say that they are, quote, on the mess tick about where they stand right now on this legislation in trying to finalize it by next week. and chuck schumer seems like he is now leaning toward next week for a vote. and president biden last night in his town hall expressed optimism that these negotiators will be able to finalize a deal by then. take a listen to what he said. fwesh gnegotiators need more
can you add some of the things? you re not going to agree. if you help. no, i ll help. if you can addo mess tick violence paragraphs, pages into this bill, i m all for it. i think it s electric if you can do it. it could be done. that could be done, too. take the firearms first and then go to court take the guns first, go through due process second. throughout that amazing meeting, the president endorsed among other things universal background checks, raising the age limit up to 21 for buying guns and stopping guns from getting to the mentally ill. while all positions are not popular with the national rifle association. the president tweeted this morning many ideas some good and not so good emerged yesterday at the white house. after many years a bill should emerge, respect second amendment. congressional republicans confused by the president began lowering expectations. watch. i have seen this movie
from cnn world headquarters we continue our coverage of breaking news. we welcome our viewers watching from the united states and around the world. the battle has gone on for half a year. now rebels have closed in on libya s capital, apparently ending gadhafi s 42 years in power. and forces say they are now in control of most parts in tripoli. rebel forces now say three of colonel gadhafi s sons have been arrested. no one could guess that this city would have fallen so quickly. from the west of tripoli, rebels entering from the town and being greeted by celebration. celebrating the fact that the rebels have come in. also according to the governments earlier in the day, the rebels controlling some eastern suburbs as well. the big question has been what s happened to the resistance that was meant to be taking place that was promised by government officials, by gadhafi himself. there were tens of thousands of well trained soldiers committed to defending this city. in som
to israeli officials on-and-off the record in jerusalem all week and the view here i can tell you from israel is pass mess tick. i was told this would go one of three ways: a military dictator ship; something similar to turkey where you have islamist government but not overtly jihadist. third and worse objection, and the one the saudi king is worried about is the muslim brotherhood seizing power in egypt and turning it into islamic state. why would the saudis who are radicals worried because a muslim brotherhood led egypt could move into that orbit of iran. syria. hamas. and hezbollah. the bottom line, whoever takes power in egypt, israel will be worse off and the united states will be worse off. what do you stay about the stand off going on right now between the protesters and military and the military has
bargain if you will, i want very grand, on this year s budge e. 63 republicans are members of the tea party caucus alone. right now, according to some folks on the hill that i ve talked to, there are about 50 hard nos on the debt limit. think people like michele bachmann. we can t keep spending money that we don t have. that s why i fought against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. there are potentially another 25 soft nos, which would get them up to about 75 nos. and that brings the number of democrats needed closer to 50. now, boehner, for his own politics in his conference, he would like to keep his losses under 75 inside his own party. now, one of the more possess mess tick parts of yesterday s meeting was the fact that eric cantor, the number two to boehner, was more skeptical about this idea that the big deal, the grand bargain, which would include major tax reform