Ing. Its how they buy t voes. This place is a mess. Lets defund the law now and protect the American People from the economic calamity we know obamacare will create. I will not be party to the disinvestment in americas greatness. Since when do americans not fight for whats right because they are afraid they might lose . The president is looking to reach common fround and meet republicans and their priorities. Hes not willing to stick toyota the middle class. Right now the debate in congress is not meeting the test of helping middle class familieses. He wants 100 of obamacare as passed by democrats with no input from republicans or hell shut the government down. For gods sake what is there to fight over . It doesnt have to be this hard. Many Senate Republicans agree to leave no stone unturned fighting in this bill. The house have done their work. We call upon the senate to do theirs as well. House republicans saying they have done their jobs but now they say the Senate Republican uhs sh
Its high noon here in the east. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New today, president obamas first interview since his National Address on sooer yyria. It comes aa a day after the u. S. And russia agreed to a diehl on the chemical weapons. What we can do is make sure that the worst weapons, the indiscriminate weapons that dont distinguish between a soldier and an infant are not used. And if we get that accomplished, then we may also have a foundation to begin what has to be an International Process in which assad sponsors primarily iran and russia recognize this is terrible for the Syrian People and they are willing to come in a serious way to arrive at some sort of political settlement that would deal with the underlying terrible conflict and a bit earlier today, secretary kerry met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who warned that diplomacy alone cannot solve the crisis. The syrians must be stripped of all its kchemical weapons. That would make our entire region a lot
Newsroom starts now. Good morning, everyone. Im carol costello. Thank you very much for joining me this morning. Most of our government is shut down. Lights out, doors closed, tops down, at least for now. Im going to start far away from pennsylvania avenue and begin in main street. Instead of hearing words like brink, catastrophe, revolt being spewed by our government in washington, i want to start with the facts. Fact number one, congress will still get paid today. In fact, the average lawmaker will make 669 just today. Thats nearly 3 1 2 times what most of us, the average american, will make. Fact number two, youre fed up with congress. Theyve sunk to an alltime low. Only 10 of you say lawmakers are doing a good job. Just 10 . Thats down from a high of 84 in the days after 9 11. Fact number three, thousands of federal workers who often live paycheck to paycheck are left in the cold. 800,000 employees are on unpaid leave. They are among some 2 million americans who are civilian federa
Interview with treasury secretary jack lew. These are very important sanctions. They are sanctions that will get their attention. War of words. Secretary of state john kerry backtracks about using the a word apartheid to describe a future israeli state if the palestinians dont become a separate nation but admitting he chose the wrong word hasnt quieted his loudest critics. Before any further harm is do to our National Security interest and Critical Alliance with israel that john kerry should offer president obama his resignation. Judgment day, what will be the cost for clippers owner Donald Sterling after making racist comments . Well find out this afternoon. If Nothing Happened you can boycott in the offseason, not just the clippers b s but the w league has to. If hes not thrown out, you have to do something. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Were facing another day of storms. This is the latest look at the damage in mississippi. Entire southeast was hit by more than 100 tor
And say so long to santa. One school is giving st. Nick the boot because of one parent again. Fox friends starts right now. Good morning. We love the lights of christmas. We have a studio full of i love when you walk into the studio with all the lights on and energy. And the toys are filling our studio this morning. That just makes me happy. We walked in and wont name them, but some of the cameramen were playing with the toys. Thats how compelling they are. Thomas the tank engine and an oversized barbie house. Is that donatello or which ninja turtle is that . Who do you think that is, tucker . I dont know. First we have other news. We have to get to the fox news alert. A 1. 1 trillion spending bill is on the way to the president s desk. Overnight the senate voted 5640 to approve the bill and avoid a government shutdown. The measure provides money to keep the majority of the government running through september before voting on the spending bill. Texas senator ted cruz pushed lawmakers