Health marketplaces have been identified, are they too complex that is a shorter period of time than republicans wanted because they wanted to preserve the lower sequester spending levels as long as they could. The debt extension level would be through the middle of february, february 7th to be exact, shorter than democrats wanted, there would be a budget a negotiation at that time. There does not appear to be a rollback or appeal of the device tax that some republicans asked for. There will be income strength and subsidies under obama care and as a trade for that democrats are going to get something labor unions have asked for, which is the delay in insurance tax, which labor unions complain hit their taxes too hard. Hi, john it sounds like some of the main issues that were on the table in the beginning have been pushed off. This is all about pushing all the problems down the line. Is this what it has come down to . There is no credible plan about getting longterm spending under contr
After they returned to the table to discuss that. Mike has the details. Reporter here are the tentative agreements signed by all the parties involved dated today as this got done very early this morning. We got word around 3 00 this morning from the unions that this deal had been reached. You might remember this all stems from the disputed family medical leave act that bart management said was included in error during the last contract. It would have allowed bart employees to get up to six weeks of paid family medical leave, the bart board did not ratify that contract and thus the two sides went back to the negotiating table to resolve this, that is not in, more leave and how employees can use time off including sick leave and those and it expands bereavement leave policy to low paid time off for the grandchild or stepparent of a child or spouse or domestic partner and they will see employee break rooms at three stations, something unions have called for. In a statement the bart genera
Years later . Guest because i have been thinking about for 28 years. Someone asked me how long did it take to write the book . I said about 28 years because i was there. It was the most important weekend of my life. It was in many ways the most thrilling week into my life and i had been telling people about it for a long time and then the movie started to be produced and i was executive producer of the movie with Wrigley Scott the producer and Michael Douglas playing reagan and that started eight years ago. So i was involved in that way and then the movie stalled in this happened in that happened and you know on and on and then i was thinking its a good story. Why dont i just write it up. The counter argument i had written five books before and i decided that was enough for moses and it was going to be enough for me. His sales were higher than my sails sales. Someone said the most valuable copy of one of my previous books was which there are think virtually none and an unsigned copy wi
Between what right and wrong. You have a great leader in a test of things. Everything that i thought was wrong and later pulled out the law books was wrong. To me the lesson is when it feels wrong it probably is wrong. Doublecheck. We also have an interesting situation. Host if you are in your 30s only and you are the white house knocked the door down and reach her hand. Maybe even go out. It would take an extraordinary amount of courage for somebody to actually do that. Guest i blew up one breakin which was the brookings bern the brookings never thanked me for saving that building. Host i doubt if they are going to. Guest i think you are right but anyway thats one lesson. Host is this writer is this wrong . Guest exactly and for lawyers as a result of watergate that came out a set of rules that had never existed before largely because my testimony. Thats why its interesting to do these continuing Education Programs because they develop realworld ethics rules. If you are in my situatio
Keynote speech last night for the Democratic National convention. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 18th, along with joe, willie welcome back and me, we have white house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Politics and journalism professor and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. And senior opinion writer at the boston globe, Kimberly Atkins is with us. Good to have you all. Its good to have willie back. It is. Youre not going to be talking ability ttal talking about the red sox. Willie has been on assignment, we cant talk about where that was but hes been on assignment. The Convention Last night, judging from the reviews across the political spectrum was quite a success. You had a couple of fox news anchors talking about dana prino talking about how Michelle Obama stuck the landing and Chris Wallace talking about what a great contribution she gave to the Biden Campaign. That she splayed donald trump. Its great to be back. Id rather be