Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berm. Im christine romans. It is friday, november 7th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. The first facetoface meeting with the president and the man soon to be the majority leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell along with the rest of the house leadership and judging from the tone of remarks from the president and congressional republicans, there is a possibility of facetoface confrontation. Cnn White House Correspondent Michelle Kosinski has more. Reporter john and christine, we could all use a bourbon summit after hearing the back and forth over the last few days. The warning shots. This is presented in the new spirit of cooperation. Listen to speaker of the house john boehner as the president could take executive action on immigration. If the president continues to act on his own, he will poison the well. When you play with matches, you run the risk of burning yourself. The American People made it clear election day. They want to get things d
Of the Al Qaedalinked khorisan group. Most strikes in syria have been against isis militants. And now, washington is looking for help in that battle by trying to open channels with iran. Heres cnns jim schudo. Reporter the u. S. And iran are now operating in the same spaces against a common enemy, isis. As a result, quote, accommodations must be made indirectly, officials said. This includes air Space Management so that u. S. And iranian aircraft do not conflict, while carrying out military operations in the same air space. The u. S. Is also reaching out to iran via the white house. President obama addressing a letter to the Supreme Leader last month. Saying that the u. S. And iran have shared interest in fighting isis. The prospects for cooperation hinged on resolving the nuclear issue. Obviously we understand that they have concerns about the threat of isil which they have expressed as well, but i would not look at it as a path to a different type of coordination. On working with ira
Snow and minnesota is unpredictage. Its awfully cold. However i thought it would be a little bit worse. I did think it was going to be much worse. Its going to be my first snow. So i hope i survive it. Alex wallace from the Weather Channel has more for us. Good saturday to you, alex. Cool conditions setting up across parts of the midwest. Not too terrible. 5 maybe 10 degrees below average. Tomorrow more of the same for us. 39 in traverse city. Thats nearly 10 degrees below your average. Down towards pittsburgh, tolerable at 48. I want to talk about whats coming, though, because big, big polar plunge settling in. Right now all the cold air is bottled up into canada. Next week it spills down into the country and the eastern half of the nation. Really going to be dealing with bonechilling numbers. Ties will be 10 to 20 degrees below average as we head through next week. Here we are a couple of cities to show you what its going to be like. Chicago for your sunday a high of 50. By thursday,
Lets bring in chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans to go through this. The headline number is strong. Yes. But it could be better. I wouldnt get too caught up in that. Nine months of 200,000 jobs plus a couple months revised higher. The average every month is 228,000 jobs created and a si sa lot of strong evidence. The 1. 1 million fewer people this year are considered longterm unemployed. Thats very good. 7 Million People are still working parttime but want to be working full time but that number is coming down and poppy when you look in the sector gains im seeing sector gains broadening out to jobs with better pay. Professional business services, those are attorneys, the lawyers, those are people who work in offices, retail, thats a big push for the Holiday Hiring but also shows you the consumers are feeling better about things and retailers think youre going to be out shopping, health care, a consistent steady performer. Some are highly paid jobs in health care, doctors, hi
Never heard of him. Commenting on what was going on when we were writing the bill who has withdrawn some of it, the statements that he made. So lets put him aside. Okay. The beginning of that sound bite she said she mentioned jonathan gruber. Fair enough. She didnt know him. How do you explain this . She quoted him on the website. Maybe a different mit professor of jonathan gruber, perhaps. Or maybe an aide posted that to her web. And also, how do you explain this, ma dom former speaker . I dont know if you have seen Jonathan Grubers mits analysis of the what the comparison is to the status quo versus what will happen in our bill. But those who seek insurance within the exchange and our bill takes down those costs. So, gruber thinks that americans are stupid. Nancy pelosi thinks were really, really stupid. Bob, i have to start with you because for gods sake the madame former speaker said i dont know who he is and he was on the website and spoke about him in 2009. Nancy forgets some thi