Russias decision to target rebel forces fighting syrian d as well as isil. Professor Rashid Khalidi will join us to talk about syria as well as palestines historic day at the United Nations. Than republicans fell to shut down the government over planned parenthood. As planned parenthood president Cecile Richards testifies before congress. Whats it is a shame to think there are people in this country who are so committed to ending womens access to both the control and safe and legal abortions that they will resort to any means to try to entrap people, twist the truth in order to reach their end. But again, we believe and why i am here voluntarily today is that the facts are on our side. Amy we will speak with michigan commerce woman Brenda Lawrence. Then to oklahoma. Through several phone calls and conversations with the Attorney Generals Office and the governors office, we have asked for the governor to grant a stay of execution for Richard Eugene glossip until next month. Amy death ro
Signature legislation. To ask you about the government shutdown. Did that help or hurt conservatives . That topic is constantly debated among conservatives. At the time, and continuously, i argued that it was a bad idea. As long as harry reid is in charge of the senate and president obama is in the white house, you are not going to repeal or defund obamacare. Any strategy contingent upon hising obama to defund signature legislative achievements that he spent the first year of his presidency , staked his whole reelection on, and the idea that this is his one accomplishment and it is a big legislative thatplishment the idea he was going to on do that and you and you based your entire strategy on that was a poor strategy. The publicans ended up caving without getting much in return because they had to. Then, we saw with the deal that was just struck with the budget, it loosens the sequestration cap that conservatives fought for. It loosens them for 2 years. Conservatives originally said,
Federal judge rules this week that the National Security Agency Program that collect the records of millions of americans of phone calls is lawful. Says it does not violate americas privacy rights. It is december 28, the morning and welcome to washington journal. Our topic to kick things off is the end of that extended Unemployment Benefits. Will Congress Renew them when lawmakers return in january . We want to hear from you. For republicans, the number is 2025853881. 5853880. Rats, 202 you can also find us online a on twitter find us online on twitter, cspanwj. And email, were at journal c span. Org. The morning look at headlines. First from the front page of this mornings new york times. The headline the story also making a big in this mornings Washington Post a big slash in this morning post. Igntongton longterm unemployment is the highest since world war ii. There are 4 Million People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer. Joining us to talk about that is the hill is a r
Mr. Speaker, if i may reclaim my time. Let me say, first of all i move we take the speaker down. From 35 yearsghts of house coverage on our facebook page. Sees been created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service. The lead palestinian , calledor, saeb erekat on Benjamin Netanyahu to call on a solution to the palestinian conflict. He is introduced by jane harman. And the security in this building. Backus to welcome someone who is a wonderful friend of the Wilson Center. I am jane harman the president and ceo, a recovering politician and someone who cares very deeply about the work that saeb erekat is doing. Tracking the ever shifting tectonic plates of the middle east. Signaturef of our Ground Troops featured experts in hotspots around the globe. Commented on breaking news and , serious, egypt, iran ia, and the middle east process. There have been 63 events in the last year alone. That program is keenly interested in the latest leg of the pe
We need to make sure they can come out of the shadows. We need to make sure they dont have to constantly live with the angst of worrying their family members will be sent back to where they came from. That is what the republicans feel. The president has announced the review of the deportation policy and directed the department of Homeland Security to take a look at how we can make sure our policy is more humane. I support that. Thank you, congressman. A number of us were at a breakfast earlier today. He said it is going to be a tsunami is democrats. For democrats running in states is the Affordable Care act an assett . I hope my counterpart remains bullish and believes the democrats are in the dumps. They were predicting up to hours before the polls closed that we would be inaugurating mitt romney. Their prediction accuracy is not on the marks as of late. When it comes to the competitive races across the country, we are focused on making sure we get our voters turned out. Focused on th