Being held tonight to address concerns. Liz con Agra Congress lets the zadroka act expire, what happens to the First Responders to need it so badly. Good morning. I am liz dahlem in for juliet huddy. Ben i am ben simmoneau, it is october 1st, we arrived and it is a busy october weatherwise. Some scattered rain out there but joaquin is what we are talking about. Radar. So far the sky Guardian Live radar picking up on a few showers over central sections of new jersey drifting to the north, there will be showers primarily to the southeast of the city but dont be surprised if you get caught in a passing shower, does not look significantly wet today but as we go into the next couple days it will get nasty. 56, a a little cool especially for a lot of folkss taste because we have not seen temperatures like this in a while, 55 new work, 57 in bridgeport, the actual average low is 55 degrees and is even cooler and we have right now, we are used to the warm stuff, winds coming from the northeast
Guest that allows the federal government to search the content not just the metadata, but the content of your emails and phone calls. This amendment was offered last summer by zoe lofgren and myself, passed the house. A virtual vetoproof majority and was stripped out. So we came back and said lets offer this amendment again on the freedom act since we know its probably going to pass and itll become law lets try and get some real reforms in there. Unfortunately last night the rules committee decided to allow no amendments to the freedom act. Host whats a back door . Guest a back door is a loophole. So there are two types of loopholes in our security, our National Security surveillance. The first type is where ostensibly theyre going after foreign foreigners, okay . So they say since theyre not covered by the constitution, we can collect the content of their emails and their phone calls. Well, guess what . When they collect all that, their accidentally scooping up your data too because y
That yesterday. In burlington yesterday, independent senator Bernie Sanders officially launched his 2016 president ial bid. Promising a revolution. We will begin there with your thoughts on the center for the campaign. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. And independents, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. The Burlington Free press this morning, courtesy of the museum, has this on their front page. Bernie sanders launches his quest for the presidency quoting him, we began a Political Revolution turko cspan covered we begin a Political Revolution. Cspan covered that yesterday. Here is a little of what he had to say. Senator sanders host we will get to that in a second. We apologize for that. As we said, cspan cover the campaign the official launch of this event where the senator was in the hometown of burma. Here is a little bit of that speech. Senator sanders this Campaign Starting today, is going to send a
Thats where you find us right here on capitol hill. We will tell you whats happening in our nations capitol and give you a chance to get involved in the conversation at 86655press. How about a big news today . South carolinas jim demint announced he is going to resign from the senate to head the Heritage Foundation. That is good news not senate. At a time gets rid of one of the most whacko extremist members of the senate. Bad news for the Heritage Foundation because they are going to be known as just a bunch of rightwing extremists. We will find out about that. First lets check in with Lisa Ferguson with this mornings current news update. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. The president has a pretty light day on his schedule today, just a morning meeting with his advisors and this afternoon, he will sign into law the Child Protection act of 2012. Now, that law protects children against child pornography, sexual abuse and sex trafficking by giving Law Enforcement more power to protec
Our starting point, what on earth just happened . Financial markets up, but it took one fractured vote to make it happen. Lets recap. Late last night, the house of representatives passed the senates fiscal cliff bill. The final tally, 257167, and while 151 republicans voted no, it is worth noting its speaker, john boehner, voted yes, so did paul ryan, by the way. Here is the deal that took over 500 days to seal. No tax hikes for couples earning less than 450,000 a year. Itemized deductions, and Unemployment Benefits extended and alternative minimum tax adjusted for inflation. Here is the deal. What the deal doesnt address is federal spending. Drastic domestic and defense cuts have been put off for more than two months. Looking ahead that could get messy if this is an indication, think about that. And also the debt ceiling this is the end of february this is now at 16 16. 4 trillion and by e way, we just blew past that this week. The president drawing a line in the sand for that upcomin