Were only 10 trillion in the red. I mean it was a fraction of this. The National Debt has risen by 70 since president obama took office. If youre a u. S. Taxpayer, your individual share now tops 153,000. That is your share. Here to discuss, our very own charlie gasparino, James Freeman from the wall street journal and chris very says. Charlie gasparino, 150,000 is your share. Really . Melissa do you have a check . Pay up and send it to the government. We should point out it is not all the president s fault. Stop, let me finish. Let me finish. Burying the lead. Im afraid youre going to make comment about a cat. I promise not. Dont be imus here. But, you know, he inherit ad bad situation. He had a plan to grow the economy that failed. And you know, one of the problems with the debt is the fact that it is not just that were spending. Is that the economy isnt growing. If the economy was growing, this wouldnt be so much of an issue. Obamanomics essentially has failed, right, whose fault is
Center of ukraines capitol kiev since november when growing protests met the governments decision to pitch the country toward its historic ally moscow rather that is brussels and the beckoning European Union. For a time it looked like it may be deescalating. There were talks and changes in the government opposition. There had been sporadic violence all along, but it came to a point where it looked like president Viktor Yanukovych was unwilling to restore order to the city. Then came this week. And the escalation from both sides that led to more than two dozen deaths. Its hard to know where things go from here in a divided capitol where fires burn figuratively and literally. Ring of fire is burning against in independent square in kiev tonight. Protesters using the blazing barricade to protect themselves from the Government Forces trying to evict them from the square. The stand off began three months ago and reached a deadly peak tuesday. 240 people were injured. Even i am ready to go o
Gas through us. The civilian activists say the buck stops at the ukrainian minutes the convoy image before thanksgiving sending troops east towards the border fifteen saves just fourteen pm the were. Appeal of the sea on rt internationally to go straight into our top story this i love the people of crimea have cost the events on the future status of the region at a crucial referendum we expecting to get the result at any time now and save the fifty percent of the ballots have now been content. Now the exit polls that show an overwhelmingly chunky of ninety percent in favor of crimea three fixation with much of up to seven percent want the region to remain part of the train thats not a good time to aunties the css he has in action to follow for fries and that he doesnt live now lets see if he can hit me this i do. The race to the test results of. The we just received the first day of prelim the results with that little more than how awful the ballots have and be counted already and it s
To get it resolved as quickly as possible as well. The easing of Northern Irelands coronavirus rules over christmas the news dominated today by covid and the knock on effects of the virus. Do send us your comments on how this is affecting you on twitter im at Annita Mcveigh or you can get in touch at bbcyourquestions. The easing of Northern Irelands coronavirus rules over christmas will be reduced from five days to Just Christmas day when three households will be allowed to mix. As eu regulators are set to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine, we look inside a Mass Vaccination Centre in germany. Brexit talks continue but are still said to be tangled on the topic of fishing rights scotlands first minister calls for the transition to be extended. And coming up this hour. Lewis hamilton is crowned bbc Sports Personality of the year for the second time. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across th
Coup. I want to make something clear. The u. S. Does not arm members of the National Guard, make that decision lightly. That is in response to the severity of the threat in the coming days and on the inauguration. So what about the president . He made his first Public Comments on this yesterday. Did he take any responsibility . No. He denied any role in the violent attack. He claimed that his comments to that crowd were completely appropriate. Well, many in his own party strongly disagree. Several members of Congress Planning to break ranks joined democrats in their vote to impeach, including the number three republican there, representative liz cheney, the number three republican in the house. The number one republican in the senate, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell perhaps the most powerful republican on the hill, he is signaling that he may turn on President Trump, too. Indicating that impeaching trump will make it easier to get rid of trumps influence within the gop. He has n