us. after that, an update on politics and news with karl cannon and robert schlesinger. later, what s ahead for federal climate change administration in the new year. wark journal begins now. suicide bombing leaves eight americans dead including intelligence personnel. and taking a stake at gmac at a former lending arm of general motors. obamas nominee withdrawn. first, welcome you to the washington journal. today is december 31, thursday. this is the last day of the year. the last day of this decade. to that end, we want to talk with you and get some of your thoughts for the first half hour of defining events of this decade. what do you think made this decade the decade that it was. send us emails and twitter comments. on the front page of a special section of the new york daily news. 2000-2010, a decade that changed the world forever. he said there was some thought that says we should have changed this deck audience to the ought that should have stuck. ought to have b
i have seen a great deal of agreement across the table, especially with congressman english. when i was talking to the center for the american progress, the energy future coalition had a series of listening says listening sessions. we have the transmission companies and the environmental groups, and we found broad changes in federal law to restore this to bring for renewable to bring renewable resources to market. and we are offshore in the east. . the system we have today for plonning, permitting transmission lines was not designed to handle this challenge of magnitude. our discussion was those who must deliver on this promise quickly focused on the obsticles of planning, siting confidential owe indication we heard repeatedly today. this turned out to be the lifrpbl pin we recommended enlarging the scale of the planning process to the two principal planning commissions. almost 300,000 mega wats are waiting to connect to the grid because there is inadequate transitio