Obstructions holding back our economy we have been able to break the log jam a bit over the last few weeks. Its a hopeful sign to end the cycle of short sighted Decision Making and Work Together to get things done. Victims of pan am flight 103 are being remembered. It was 25 years ago that the plane was blown out of the skies and crashed in lockerbie. It was suspected that libya was behind the bombing. Eric holder and other officials are expected to speak at a Memorial Service at Arlington National cemetery. President obama took to the podium today to give the White House Press corps a postmore tell on the year. But what start ed as a look back quickly became a discussion of his biggest failures. Consider this identity is twir 14 look 2014 looking any better . Utah has allowed same sex marriage to gay and lesbian couples. Well talk to the clerk who started it all. And remember the comuns of the 60s and 70s . A surprising number of them are still around today. Hello im antonio mora. We
He was finishing a press conference down the hall. With every passing day, the republicans are calling on john banner to guarantee tax cuts to the middle class. Today, sen. Cornyn will be the second ranking republican next congress. Theyll call upon john bennett to the reasonable thing. They will have this below sooner or later. Those rates go up by operational law on dec. 31. Luol and he said this all, this is true. Within threequarters of the American People including 61 of republicans agree with john corn john cornyn that they cannot be held hostage were giveaways to billionaires. He cannot ignore the American People forever. At some point reality should set in. The only question is how much the trusts sole class families and how much they will have to endure during this process. Many other pieces of business critical to middleclass families that we will be working on if we resolve the fiscal cliffs. The three leaders here with me will talk about that today. They are waiting and wai
There are, of course, speculations and from the arm from their own point of view there are pluses and minuses what they would do, partly in their relations with china. And so somebody in north korea or some group is thinking about the strategic and tactical implications of whatever they do, and they obviously have some kind of a roadmap which they are going to follow through. But the problem is that, short of complete turnaround by china, even though china is gradually inching towards putting more pressure on north korea, i think our reaction at the u. N. Or other collective reaction, or individual reaction, would not be much more than the usual drill that we have to. Im sorry. Let me just make one comment about the test. We placed enormous importance to the fact of testing. We think as if it is by testing north korea comes to have this big Nuclear Weapon that they did not have before or something. But that tends to mislead ourselves to think that by preventing them from the fourth tes
When we look at this, what are the kind of things that general allen can do in effect to start to get the tribes to look at this differently, to say, look, our interests are more aligned with this coalition thats being put together than with this group isis. Well, at the National Level i think he will, along with our diplomats, encourage the new Iraqi Government to answer some grievances that both the sunnis and kurds have had for years, actually, since 2004. I think theres some indication that theres reason to believe that could occur. The sunni tribes in anabr. The maliki government was actually, as you might expect them to be, very much against the idea of a National Guard in a al anbar. I think this government may be more open to it. I think that will be one of the lines of effort. Is this something this is for either of you that we can get done in iraq if we dont get buyin from the sunnis . As i said in an earlier question, senator, every campaign makes assumptions. If those supgs
Ask Emergency Declaration for georgia today. Bears down on the south for the second time in a matter of weeks, rain and snow is now falling in georgia and other states. Dozens of counties are preparing for what could be a repeat of last month, when atlanta experienced massive grid lock. Triothers were stuck in their cars for hours and children ended up sleeping at their schools. Thats about ten miles from downtown atlanta. And robert, its pretty dry where you are right now . Good afternoon, we had flurries earlier today. You can see this is a heavily traveled commercial area. A suburb, a lot of restaurants here. The streets are all good, not etch ice. Temperatures are pretty high, but half the street is closed. Half the street is open. As atlanta seems to have learned their lesson from about two weeks ago. Not taking any chances. The governor put in a new extreme weather task force, 32 members let all over it, and here is what he has had to say a little bit earlier today. The second wa