Wednesday morning, december 19th. Good to see you today. Welcome to the fullcourt press here on current tv coming to you live from our nations capitol with all of the big stories of the day all of the big news of the day on the fiscal cliff front and on the gun control front as well as whats happening in syria and other news around the current tree and around the globe. We will take your calls at 86655press. The president has made a big compromise, raising the tax cuts to the first 400,000 dropping the payroll tax holiday and, get this cutting Social Security benefits. Wait a minute. I thought Social Security was not going to be on the table. He promised us that. Has the president sold us down the river already . 0, man. Lots to talk about. But first, we get the latest. Todays current news update from Lisa Ferguson standing buy in los angeles early this morning. Good morning lease a. Good morning, bill. Good morning, everyone. A couple of more details on those fiscal cliff negotiations
Denis has tert the was indicted today on federal criminal charges. According to Court Documents republican from illinois is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money to pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Dennis hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007 but its what he has done since that caught the attention of the fb,. Arding to the federal indictment, back in 2010 John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment the indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was, but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals
Because fewer folks were participating in the work force. Okay, guys. Go at it. Jared, you first. Whats your take on these new numbers and the fact that if youre looking at it, the share of working adults havent budged in the labor force really much at all. Well, first of all, i really like the way you say jobs report friday. I mean, you just make it sound fun. You got to sell it, jared. You know . I hear you. Its a report that ive described as kind of symptomatic of an economy thats stuck in maybe second gear, Something Like that. Were far away from going backwards, so were reliably not looking at recession, but were not growing fast enough to quickly absorb the slack thats still left over from the great depression. And in that sense, if you think about how fast the economys growing in gdp terms, its between 1 and 2 . This is the kind of report youd expect. 162,000 jobs, if you average out over the past few months, were kind of in a 175, 200,000 range per month. Thats fast enough to s
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Times square awaits the new year. 2017 arriving in 12 hours. Unprecedented security tonight. Hello, im Stephanie Gosk, just blocks from times square at msnbc headquarters in new york. A number of countries already bidding ado to 2016. Vietnam on the early list of early celebrators with this beautiful display. And not long before that, spectators in hong kong crowded waterfront to watch a dramatic fireworks display over victoria harbor. Earlier, New Zealanders celebrated with a brightly colored fireworks display from the sky tower. And perhaps most dazzling of all, 1. 5 Million People in sydney celebrated as tons of fireworks blasted over the famed harbor. It lasted for nearly 15 minutes. Lets go to new york citys times square with yet another dazzling sight later on tonight. Adam reese is there. Adam, whats it like where you are . Is excitement building . Reporter hi, stephanie. Good afternoon. Theyre already gathering here as expected by the thousands. Theyre right in the front row. T