25 years ago the berlin wall came down. Even as they celebrate in germany, russian tanks are again barrelling into ukraine. We look ahead on sunday morning futures. Well, a shakeup in the Party Leadership on capitol hill. Republicans now control both the house and the senate. The gop taking the victory, campaigning on that promise that theyre going to end the gridlock in washington. Congressional leaders already having their first sitdown with the president. My first guest is one of those republicans who secured a reelection on tuesday. Senator Lindsay Graham is a member of the Senate Armed Services committee. Good to see you, senator. Thanks for being with us today. Thank you. Good morning. So what do you see as the policy priorities in terms of getting things done come january . Well, we got a lot of bills that came from the house to the senate with bipartisan support from the house. It died in the senate. The keystone pipeline, i want to take the defense cuts under sequestration, wh
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A bipartisan letter with democrats defecting from the boehner plan. In the meantime, a nice game for the day for the dow, but a stunning selloff for apple. Do you know what . Fiscal cliff or not, the s p 500 is up 12 year to date. That is a handsome gain for investors, an optimistic year, believe it or not. And we already bailed out detroits auto industry. But now, at least one motown politician is telling president obama he should bail out detroit bankrupt city government, too. This sure isnt the free market, and i asked why should a texas taxpayer bail out detroit . Breaking news from syria, and it is a blockbuster. The assad regime is walking and loading its chemical weapons, ready to use them on its own people. Nbcs chief pentagon correspondent joins us now. Jim, is this the red line president obama was warning about . Well, not quite yet. U. S. Officials tell us that the Syrian Military is poised to use chemical weapons against their own people, and all it would take really is the
All right. Look, its still new years eve here, but people are ringing in 2013 on the other side of the world, my sons included. The party startening new zealand and australia, auckland, sydney, the first cities in the world to celebrate the new year, i guess new zealand is over the cliff. Sydney and japan and australia, and either on the edge of the cliff or just tipped over. All right. Thats new years eveover seas, lets check in on the celebration at home. Lauren simonetti from times square, i have only one observation, unless youre drinking heavily, drunk as a skunk youre going to be cold tonight, isnt that right . Or this morning, ive got my hand warmers over here, my space heater over year, stuart. Really . In 1917. Im so glad i wasnt alive then. Stuart a question for you. Go ahead. Stuart in america we say you have goose bumps when youre very cold. In england we say youre henfleshed. Are you either this morning . I am both, put together. Times a hundred. Stuart excellent. I look l
As more and more countries use coal in just five years, china will be the number one consumer of the socalled dirty energy, well talk about that with an environmentalist, also, we also have our eyes on washington, of course, lawmakers are on vacation, but there still is no deal on taxes. Nearly every american is going to have to pay more in just eight days if congress cant reach some kind of an agreement. Checking the big board right now, the Dow Jones Industrial average is down about 41 points. Again, weve got a half day of trading and we close today at 1 p. M. , so that traders can go out on christmas break. Light volume, but there are significant movers that well talk about in just a second. In particular, apple and jb penpejb j. C. Penney. We have Shibani Joshi and adam shapiro as well and first to nicole, j. C. Penney, a lot of people worried about retail sales, think its going to hit Companies Like j. C. Penney hard . Guess what . The stock is up 4 , why . Thats a huge move on a