a timetable on an attack on iran giving a series of interviews laying out how many days, weeks, months, who knows for sanctions to take hold. the pressure and the heat on that situation. attention pennsylvania. take a look at this. a little plane coming in and it is not a good story, folks. the landing gear, look, it s not down. wow. how did it end? you ll see this but you ll hear more about it in just a moment. wow. bobbi kristina speaking to oprah. that s right, whitney s only daughter. the first time she s opening up about her mom. whitney houston since her death, some are asking, is it too soon? just a month oprah nabs this big interview. is it too soon for this little girl well, 19-year-old young woman to be speaking. we ll talk about that and everything else. it s only one minute past 5 clo:00 up to date. it s all about the jobs story. we have the february numbers. just a few hours from now the official numbers coming out and expecting everything on your
let s get started. usually it s her. she s the one who says this over and over, jobs, jobs, jobs. you know what, jobs is the big story today. big report, remember the last one we told you that was real good, we have another one out for you. as good? anything negative? we ll get the low down on it all? is it going to boost or bite president obama. also we re talking iran and israel s stance on iran. the prime minister talking about a timetable on an attack on iran giving a series of interviews laying out how many days, weeks, months, who knows for sanctions to take hold. the pressure and the heat on that situation. attention pennsylvania. take a look at this. a little plane coming in and it is not a good story, folks. the landing gear, look, it s not down. wow. how did it end? you ll see this but you ll hear more about it in just a moment. wow. bobbi kristina speaking to oprah. that s right, whitney s only daughter. the first time she s opening up about her mom.
ground work for a political transition. and importantly they agreed to continue to ratchet up the economic pressure through tough sanctions on the assad family and supporters. the dialogue in tunis included a robust dialogue whether there is a feasible way to help those under assault by the assad regime in order to defend themselves. as the international community continues to search for an avenue, there are a number of questions which we must ask about the nature of the conflict in syria. what is the make up of the syrian opposition? how unified are they, would they be a force for democracy should they succeed? what are the objectives and who are the benefactors, is there a political entity capable uf uniting the small bands of fighters across syria and then coordinating the efforts of the opposition groups against the syrian military? violent extremist elements infiltrated the opposition movement? the military questions are equally important. what are the options available?
states and our allies. the time has come to ask a different question. who do we want to win in syria? our friends or our enemies? there are always plenty of reasons not to do something and we can list them clearly in the case of syria. we know the opposition is divided, we know the armed resistance in the country lacks cohesion or command and control. we know that some elements of the opposition may sympathize with violent extremists ideologies or harbor dark thoughts of sectarian revenge. we know neighbors remain cautious about taking overly provocative actions that could undermine assad and we know the american people are weary of conflict, justifiably so, we would rather focus on domestic problems. these are realities. but while we are compelled to acknowledge them, we are not condemned to accept them forever. with resolve, leadership and wise policy, we can shape better realities. that is what the syrian people have done. by no rationale calculation should this uprising a
congress agrees to pass the payroll tax cut extension for one year. let s fast-forward to december 31, 2012. do they do it again? a lot of pressure to do it again. if you allow a tax cut to expire, it is a tax hike. that is what they said during the bush tax cut debate. that is what president obama said to pressure the republicans to pass this bill. and you heard from the chairman that perhaps nothing happens before december 31 because of the election. lame duck session after the election. it could be busy. is it politically feasible and realistic to think there could be an overhaul of the tax code in a lame duck? no. but there certainly might be some pressure to extend this period once they have extended it twice now, three times, really. once the public gets used to having a 2% reduction in their payroll tax, there will be an appetite to keep that. unless the current limit rate really drops, a couple of points between now and november, a less the unemployment rate r