a critical election in ukraine today, and voters head to the polls and pick a new president and hope to ease the standoff with russia wra. let s get the latest now from fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palcott who is live in donetsk, a stronghold of pro-russian separatists. ray. chris, it is a tense day in this region. pro-russian separatists are doing everything they can to derail the vote here. they re seizing ballot boxes and preventing voters from going to the polls. they re showing off their well armed muscle aaround town. for example, here in donetsk, a city of one million, there is basically nobody voting. across this region officials say only around 20% of the election districts are functioning. we stopped in on one. take a look at what we saw. something very rare in
put aside. and to also to cancel these votes of this ballot box. and since the results came to the commission, before it s received any challenges to starting to the votes, starting with the subcommittees, and after examining this, there were some mistakes. in addition, six committed. there were three committees in one province who did not had nobody voting there. committee number ten. and subcommittee three. 12 and 14th, subcommittee four. there was only one person who voted in this committee. if you re just joining us, we are hi a listening to a long, dail and sometimes plaintive announcement from the egyptian electoral commission whose chief is slowly describing the electoral process while the entire nation waits and while we wait to hear who egypt s next president will be. we re waiting for the announcement of the election results of egypt s presidential runoff while thousands gather in tahrir square. the entire country waiting to find out where a year and a half of
outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus since
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how much mon
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more at up? we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus since it beg