Send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj. Span, andcom c journal cspan. Org to send us an email. We will get your your phone calls and thoughts in a minute. The takeaway washington correspondent for Public Radio International joins us. We said the headline, no deal was reached after this closed door session. Why not . Exactly what knows happened except those 100 senators and the small handful of staffers in the room. Were leaving the room, trickling out last night, you heard a couple of different takes on what went on. The standard bromides, the washington code speak, frank and open discussions, these words that do not tell you much, but you got a couple of real pieces of information. Senators on both sides said they felt like the sides understood each other better. A couple of democrats said that they thought republicans had a better understanding, that they feel president obama has been disrespected by the senate in his nominees, that he has not received the level of respect and defer
Specific thing, how unusual was this scene . Across america from mainstreet to the smoky mountains, the Government Shutdown misery index is growing, but some iconic sites may be open for business soon. And the most and least affordable places in america to buy a house. Hello, everyone. Its high noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. A rare saturday session for the house and senate as lawmakers try to reopen the government and raise the debt cerealing to avoid default. Heres part of the back and forth in the house from a short time ago. We need to fund all of the federal government. Its long past time for this shutdown to end, so lets release all the federal employees that have been taken hostage, lets reopen the peoples government. For the past 11 days, the house has been attempting to reopen parts of the government without further delay and without trying to extract any further concessions from the senate or the president. Mr. Speaker, you cant
United states continues to be and is continuing to be a vigilant whether its somalia, yemen or, yes, even in syria, the administration will put in place a counterterrorism strategy to deny them a safehaven, mitigate the threat they pose and where necessary, use military force to degrade their ability to strike the west or strike the u. S. Homeland. While that iraqi intel of an imminent attack has turned out to be unfounded, security in and around new york city is at its highest level right now since right after 9 11. We have entered a new front in the war on terror where a potential terrorist could already be among us. Lets take that scary ideas to nbc news terrorism analyst evan coleman. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. Lets start with the reality of that threat. Is the greater fear here someone coming from syria, someone who is actually directly affiliated with isis, or is it more someone here whos selfradicalized, inspired by isis ideology . It could be either one. If you look a
A lie. Lets start with Jonathan Gruber an mit economist that shaped obamacare resolution and known for confirming the worst fears. Heres how Top Democrats describe Jonathan Gruber back in the day. They were the first to recognize these benefits. Jonathan gruber is one of the most respected economists in the world. I dont know if you have seen mits analysis but it is significa significant to the stat cuss quo. Professor gruber are both credible and viable sources not bought and sold by the community and the brightest minds from academia and policy circles. People ranging from Robert Gordon to austin grade schools bee and Jonathan Gruber. An average joe with no political agenda turned up video of the much lauded mr. Gruber talking to peers in 2012 and 2013 and probably beyond bragging that the healthcare overhaul was written in the past by deceit and counting on, and we quote, stupid persamerican voters. Basically that was really, really critical to get it passed. America is stupid to un
Any class of aliens, the president directed temporary suspension and countries previously identified link to increase risk of terrorist activity. And in Central Command yesterday the president was met with cheers. We need strong programs so that people that love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country allowed in. Not people that want to destroy us and destroy our country. [cheers and applause] as you mentioned, he also took a shot at one of his favorite targets, the dishonest media. Youve seen what happened in paris and nice, all over europe its happening. Its gotten to a point where its not even being reported and in many cases the very, very Dishonest Press doesnt want to. Aboard air force one sean spicer was forced to defend those comments. He thought members of the media dont always cover some of those events to the extent that other events get covered. Protests get blown out of proportion. The federal government and the states fight it out. The court has