air strikes continue to hit targets around tikrit as they try to retake the city from isis. we h have the report from the vy front line. there s movement in the house he s seeing. reporter: this is tikrit s southern border. a number of positions along the shoreline. they are trying to add vansz. inside the city, hundreds of isis fighters fortified in buildings, underground tunnels, booby trapped roads. they were all isis positions. for weeks, iraqi ground units were unable to push into the city. the government requested air strikes from the u.s.-led coalition. by saturday, two days after the coalition started bombing, bullet casings littered the roof. jets flew overhead.
move as quickly as they did this week on the loan guarantee. but what we re going to hear from republicans in particular is what john boehner said, we re starting to see the bills pop up which is to expedite the national gas exports to ukraine and i imagine there will be movement in the house, an appetite for that to move quickly. again, in the democrat senate it may, you know, be a little slower because they still aren t sold on entire think entire caucus isn t sold on the natural gas and the fracking stuff. still very concerned about it. but aye actually never seen congress move as fast as they did this week. record speed with this. well i want to thing was feed s miriam and nina from the new school, thank you all for coming in. sorry this is so short this morning. it s one of those breaking news sats. more ahead, including an update
this statement about it. the report reads, any job creation is positive news, but the fact is unemployment in america is still way above the levels the obama white house projected when the $1 trillion stimulus bill was enacted. and the ongoing spending binge resulted in a debt that exceeds the size of our entire economy. so at this stage, a week into the sequester, how concerned are democrats that any positive signs we are now seeing in the economy might be erased as the sequester continues? well, i think democrats and republicans are both concerned about the effects that the see questio sequestration is having on the economy. you see movement in the house and on the senate side to essentially freeze the sequester in place but also soften the blow that it would have to the economy. the house republicans passed a bill that would do some fixes around defense spending, give the pentagon more flexibility, and essentially replace the sequestration cuts at the
doing about the president s tax cut deal he made with republicans? you mentioned grumbling on the right. what happens to the disst dissatisfaction on the left? some of my best friends are liberals. i have a little insight. al franken had this sort of very kind of frank and heartfelt post on the huffington post today which said this is the hardest vote i had to take. he voted for the tax he said it was right on the line of what i would go for and basically i went for it, but i m not happy about it. i think you re going to see a lot of that. the question is, how do they channel that? one, there s movement in the house to attach two more things to the compromise. one is if unemployment is going to be extended and tax cuts are going it be extended they should be extemded for the same amount of time. unemployment is getting 13 months in the bill and tax cuts two years. why is that the case? why can that not be the case they get extended for the same amount of time, fair is fair, parti
what happens to the dissatisfaction on the left? some of my best friends are liberals. i have a little insight. al franken had this sort of very kind of frank and heartfelt post on the huffington post today which said this is the hardest vote i had to take. he voted for the tax he said it was right on the line of what i would go for and basically i went for it, but i m not happy about it. i think you re going to see a lot of that. the question is, how do they channel that? one, there s movement in the house to attach two more things to the compromise. one is if unemployment is going to be extended and tax cuts are going it be extended they should be extended for the same amount of time. unemployment is getting 13 months in the bill and tax cuts two years. why is that the case? why can that not be the case they get extended for the same amount of time, fair is fair, particularly since it s going to be republican congress in 13 months and they re going to hold the unemployment chec