This is where they belong. [ music ] bill good morning, friends and neighbors. A happy wednesday morning to you. Its wednesday february 27th. This is the full court press coming to you live from our studio in capitol hill and booming out to you live to current tv. Thanks for joining us this morning. I am sure you want to know all of the big stories of the day. Thats what we will bring you. I am sure you want to talk about them. Thats the opportunity we give you by giving us a call a lot 86655press. And yes, just three days now away from the sequester kicking in. The federal government has startedsponding by releasing Illegal Immigrants from prison. Isnt it time maybe for john boehner to get off of his ass and do something to prevent the sequester from kicking in . On other news chuck hagel has been confirmed as the next secretary of state. Pat roberts warns there could be demons from the clothes you buy from Thrift Stores. Watch out. All right. All of thats come up and a whole lot more
A few hours from touching down in phoenix where hell highlight positive gains made in the states Housing Market. The southwest stopover is part of the president s recent campaign to shift focus back to the nations economy but sunny weather and signs of a recovery are not all that awaits him in the canyon of of the unknown. President obama will once again be greeted on the tarmac by Arizona Governor and selfproclaimed scorpion eater jan brewer, the same jan brewer who last year greeted the president with a nowinfamous finger wag. In addition to her predilection of insects in the early hour, shes a prime example of the state level obstacles the president faces as he tries to implement his second term agenda. Just last week brewer sent out a fundraising email asking the Obama Administration what they are hiding about illegal immigration, an email featuring jan brewers finger. As president obama and attorney general eric holder battle a slew of Voter Suppression efforts across the country,
The mid terms have been hard for us in National Media. Its difficult to wrap our heads around the mid terms unless youre a Steve Kornacki because the fact is all politics are always local. In years like this, all elections are also local. No one could expect any one person to keep up with all the personalities and issues and commercials in 435 house races and 36 senate races and 36 governors races, not to mention the campaigns for more than 6,000 state legislative seats and nearly 150,000 initiatives. In other words, midterm politics are complex and their diverse and just a whole lot of them. Some of the stories of the mid terms are juicier than others. Some are uniquely consequential on our national stage. North Carolina Senate race is among those stories. Its where i live and where im casting my vote. First, some North Carolina context. The shifts in North Carolina politics over the past few years have been epic. Want evidence . Look at the moral mondays movement. At the height of th
A big win for mitch mcchonl. Reporter a big win. They havent heard, wolf. So the viewers are getting the news before the supporters here at the headquarters in the marriott in eastern louisville. When they do find out, this place is going to go crazy. And there is already optimism. This is a bit of a foregone conclusion, this is what folks are expecting but they want to hear it officially. Im told Mitch Mcconnell is upstairs and watching presumably watched this announcement with his wife and top advisors. It has been a very good night for Mitch Mcconnell as he retains his seat in the u. S. Senate, wolf. Mitch mcconnell, we have projected, will win. He will be the senate from kentucky the senator from kentucky and he hopes to be the majority leader in the United States senate. We have some other key race alerts to go with right now. We cannot make a projection in georgia between Michelle Nunn, the democrat and david purdue, the republican, we dont have enough information yet. And simila
A Tropical Storm and for the most part down in florida we are waiting for a damage assessment. Lets listen to peter who is live in jacksonville where the wind is still howling. You would think this is the kind of place where somebody might go to lunch of boat but this is street, we are still two blocks in. You can see how deep it is, about 500 feet where the banks should be right now. What we are told is high tide. You look over to the right here, theres a Hyatt Regency that is completely closed, there is nobody staying there. You can see why from this angle a little bit better than where we were before. There are a couple of feet of water blocking any way that you would get into that hotel basically. We just saw the Utility Company go into this building, theyve been checking things out all up and down this block. High tide is here, this is about as high as its going to go. With the wind still coming in, jacksonville, nobody really talks about as being one of the places the storm was g