Turn our attention to the battle it is ground races and joining us in the next hour, nathan of the roth enberg political report with an competitivethe most senate races. Tweetsone calls and during the conversation this evening. Turn our attention first to hawaii. A primary taking place this saturday amis two storms also hitting the island. Primary in the senate race. Appointedhatz who was by the governor and hanab u. S. A. E we will be gin with some of the thest ads on the air in democratic race. Aloha. This election is about many things. It is also about our long held values. Worry that 100 is becoming more and more like everywhere else and less like the place we loved. We never want to lose the things special prideii in our tradition and hopes for the future. Mahalo for your support. Hanabusa and i ask for your support. Schatz for brian senate. The next champion protecting seniors patriotsing his middle class stands. The hawaii realtors endorse schatz. Joining our police, firefighter
We are glad its over. I think i know why. There are so many voters in our primary. One, the people of tennessee to the governor how proud they are of his hard work, and i want to congratulate him. [applause] secondly, those who voted in the republican primary wanted to send a different redge, that were not happy, that were disappointed with the direction of our country, and were hopeful of having a new republican majority in the nited states senate. There was another message in this primary tonight. In a large primary, in one of the most conservative states in the country, tennessee voters nominated a get it done republican governor and a get it done republican senator. Let me tell you what i mean by that. What i mean is that both governor haslem and i are conservative republicans. Both of us know when we finish our speech, were not done. In fact, we ought to just be starting to Work Together with others and try to solve the problems that face our country. Thats how tennessee has led t
But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was that they usually did the right thing in the end. They just liked to exhaust all the alternatives first. Ive learned that stability is not a static phenomenon, and that regimes which do not offer their citizens a sense of political dignity and economic possibility ultimately become brittle and break. Ive learned that change in the middle east is rarely neat or linear, but often messy and cruel, and d
Folks there received up to a foot of snow, but you know that famous line about neither snow nor rain . This is what we do. This is our job. Reporter but letter carriers like tex roberts would appreciate a little help. It would be great if the homeowners would make a path for us on their porches and aly make sure its not icy and slippery. Reporter heading east to little rock, arkansas, not much snow or ice, but the city is ready even if they arent happy about it. Really hard type of event it. Does cost a lot. Reporter across North Carolina sleet and snow already causing problems. The fear there is ice could bring down branches and power lines. Of course, wusa9 will stay on top of all this weather tonight and into the weekend. To track the storm with us, get up to the minute information on closings, delays and weather news, just go to our news app or our website. We are expecting word at any moment now about what came of this new day of searching for bodies in the ruins of the waterfront
Philip millsteen family, roslyn p. Walter. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tish wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Senate majority leader harry reid and Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke again today in the latest efforts to avert a u. S. Government default, an event some warn could seriously damage the world which i. The deadline to increase the debt ceiling is now little more than 71 hours away. Today the head of the International Monetary fund issued a new warning about the dangers of a default. If theres that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the u. S. Signature, it would mean massive disruption the world over. We would be at risk of tipping yet again into recession. Negotiations between president obama and House Republicans faltered yesterday, so the two Senate