Our first 45 minutes this morning, your thoughts on questions that should be asked by legislators of the ceo. Is more oversight from Congress Needed on this issue . If you want to send this email, journal at cspan. Org. Fletcher writing for today. The headline says as families grieve, gms chief executive faces a grilling. On the phone, ms. Yeager. Thanks for joining us. Tell us alone bit about the hearing today and the rest of the week. One of the topics that will be covered . Thehat happens today is committee on the house side. Tomorrow is the Senate Committee that holds its hearing. It will both have the same two witnesses. The ceo of General Motors and the acting head of the Highway Safety administration. One thing that will be interested that will be interesting, she situate up provide answers about what went wrong. She has an internal investigation. She is found to be transparent hurt the Company Knows they have screwed up and they are trying to figure out what went wrong. There a
The white house is urming russia to urgeing russia to stop trying to destagize ukraine. Prorussian gunmen seized more buildings in the east. We look at video of a dramatic takeover [ gunshots ] 20 armed men storming a police headquarters. There was a similar scene in another town as well. More than one dozen masked gunmen took a station. Protesters occupied a government building in donetsk for a week. Negotiations are happening in lieu. Ukraine is sending more soldiers to donetsk to fight the threat of further occupations. Kim vinnell has the latest on the take offers. This is the police station, usually a base for officers, now in the hands of prorussian activists, more than a dozen gunmen, many with professional grade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear who they are, where they come from or how many are waiting inside. Outside the building supporters gather. They say the interim government is illegitimate and want a referendum on awedon my from kiev. Our people want to
This from politico this morning on its website. And the president signaled hes open to a travel ban but doubts it would do more to protect americans. It may be appropriate for me to apoicht an additional person. The president told reporters in the oval office after a twohour meeting with top advisors, including health and Human Services secretary, National Security advisor, centers for Disease Control director. President obama will be delivering remarks this morning from the Consumer Protection bureau. That will happen at 11 50 eastern. We are planning live coverage. Coming up in a few moments, secretary of state john kerry will deliver an update to the diplomatic corps at the state department on the u. S. Response to ebola. Live coverage of that when it happens. In the meantime a segment from this mornings washington journal. Washington journal continues. , we Teresa Cardinal brown have been hearing about big airports getting screening procedures. What are they doing in those airports
Town. More kurds are fleeing for their life now as they face the crisis. Reporter the are reportss that the flash is flying in two locations of the town and we cannot con firm that but we can confirm the whole place is being pounded by the terrorist. Take a look at what we saw today. Sorry, i am not sure the video is working. We saw a lot of that fighting, we saw pounding of the city on the east and west side and the mountain overlooking the place and rows of tanks from the Turkish Military were where they were ready to fight off if given the word. The were 23,000 turkish fighters but they are not well armed and their ammunition is running low. They were reports a female Kurdish Female suicide bomb was launched against isis. They are confirmed another hit south of here hitting two isis areas but isis tanks and vehicles have been moving around in the days we have been watching. The turkish tanks are defensive. We have been seeing shells coming over but they are not offensive yet. They a
Senate on tuesday, Charles Krauthammer has some advise for them. Given the climate, if the gop cant win back the senate in a climate like this, maybe the party ought to look for another country. Let me start with kimberly, we have been talking a lot about the senate races because thats probably the most important thing thats happening. Theres a lot of governors races. Today theres an article in the Washington Post talking about how originally in the house, it looked like the republicans might pick up five to seven seats, right now thats possibly in double digits and theyre looking at possibly up to 14 or 15. John boehner, the speaker of the house has raised 100 million candidates and despite a very narrow field it might be possible to increase his majority. By the way, thats the sleeper of this whole discussion, which is everybodys got the eye on the senate, boehners got the eye on the house, hes got time to run up the score. I think its necessary, why not try and create a larger major