as soon as you change the rules, groups will find ways to create other groups. llcs. yeah, or whatever it might be. what you really need is comprehensive campaign finance reform. yeah, but chris the last time we did comprehensive campaign finance reform is how we got in this mess. it sort of set this in motion. so we had campaign finance reform back a couple years ago. what it wound up doing is putting limits on the candidates and that s why all the money flooded to these outside groups so candidate voice is being lost in elections because there s all these rules on what candidates can do. but outside groups because freedom of speech is protected are allowed to set the agenda. if you want to see fewer negative ads, pushing more money further away from the candidates isn t the way to solve the problem. chris, would these new rules help the candidates get better control of their message? we re looking at tax-exempt spending $300 million in 2012. to some extent. it s kind of a c
hello, i m wolf blitzer reporting today from new york. we begin with a new snapshot of the u.s. economy. it s a lackluster picture. the september employment report shows 148,000 jobs were created in the month, well below the 193,000 created in august. this report was delayed 2 1/2 weeks because of the partial government shutdown. the next report we get will include those who were furloughed by the shutdown. there are also some bright spots in these new numbers. the construction industry, for example, is coming back to life. 20,000 new jobs were added there in september. we also saw the unemployment rate drop to 7.2%. that s the lowest level it s been since president obama was elected back in 2008. today s news isn t likely to change the pessimism americans already feel toward the economy. a new cc poll finds 71% of
side. independent senator angus king of maine is our get. and congress s approval rating plummets to its near death. the news isn t that it s so lowers it s that 5% of the public still thinks congress is doing aok. to quote seinfeld who are these people? this is shutdown showdown. welcome to this special half hour of cnn shutdown showdown. i m jake tapper. we are an hour away from this partial government shut down going into double digits. at midnight it will be ten days. also at midnight marks one week until we hit the debt ceiling after which the u.s. government will no longer have all the money it needs to pay all its bills. i just want to point out at universal studios orlando this evening a bunch of people got stuck on a roller coaster. they all got off safely after an excruciating 2 1/2 hours. is there a better metaphor for
friend tonight is start with the easiest part of the negotiation. don t start with the hardest. obama care is the hardest. you re going to get to it last. the president doesn t want to give up anything and the republicans want everything. out of 2700 pages there ought to be something. put it to one side and say okay what could we agree on? so that strikes me as somewhat near good. what you do not need to have the government shut down while you speak, while you talk. open the government. reopen it. reopen the government and have a conversation. it is not a threat to have a conversation. the president has said the president said on tv yesterday. first paragraph of his speech which i heard him and then i read it. i am happy to talk about anything that my republican colleagues want to talk about. i just let s open the government and talk. that is the principle. he s had five years to talk
have been killed across the country today. it is a first for philadelphia as well as the united states. a judge has sentenced monsignor william lynn to years in prison, the first roman catholic official to be convicted 6 covering up claims that priests were molesting children. and graham spanier says his massive this is a quote massive and abuse as a child make it illogical to believe he would ignore allegations against sandusky. he s nobody the chargedy connection with the case, but an investigation by ex-fbi chief louis freeh concludes that he helped university officials conceal allegations of sexual abuse against the former assistant football coach. we re learning more about the sophisticated booby trap inside the apant of james holmes. now the suspect in the colorado movie massacre. the bomb squad was able to defuse the trap. law enforcement officials say the aparnell was rigged to explode, it looked like something you would find in iraq or afghanistan. it inclu