democrats, many facing re-election and loss of the senate. this is not only not regaining the house, this is losing the senate. mary landrieu put out a news release she as sponsor of legislation moving on the senate, she now looks forward to working with the white house on this and is glad that the president took this step today. what we heard from house members, democrats yesterday and from senators, they want to take a vote. they had yes. andrea, this will do know to assuage those concerns. in fact, part of me wonders if they did this with such a light touch on this regulation almost to go ahead and give congressional democrats an opportunity to add teeth. there is no teeth to what was announced today by the white house. zero, none, zilch. you could argue that there should be, if you believe this law because this law will have a hard time working under
will see in the coming months. the re-election campaign will be focusing on the auto bailout. it s a new phase in this campaign and joe biden in the state of ohio to do it. the speeches came at the exact same time, we asked the white house about that. they batted the notion away saying people have busy schedules and they happen to fall at the same time. there s no doubt that president obama s re-election bid is taking a new step today. the two major speech s, but there s a documentary coming out that s going online; is that right? reporter: that s right. this is a 17-minute documentary that was put together. this is the person who directed an inconvenient truth, waiting for superman. definitely high profile. tom hanks narrates this video. i watched a clip. it runs through the president s
divers are resuming their search for the missing. the removal of some half a million gallons of fuel from the ship could begin as early as tomorrow, and coming up in the next hour, we re going to have a live report from giglio island. jon: patti ann brown, thank you. jenna: now this, the european union, the e.u., taking a bold step today, formally adopting a tough new iranian oil embargo and freezing assets of iran s central bank. new sanctions meant to pressure the islamic republic to resume talks on its nuclear program. that takes a while for this to take effect, six months, so we re going to be watching that time period closely. in the meantime a senior iranian official says their military will, quote, definitely close the strait of hormuz in retaliation for such a move if it comes to fruition. as the strategic gateway, that strait of hormuz is responsible for getting 20 percent of the world s oil supply out and then into the global market. joining me is the former principal white h
states and latin america, including chile. even as we deepen cooperation between our two countries, i want to take this opportunity to commend chile for the leadership role it s increasingly playing across the americas. chile is a vital contributor to the united nations mission in haiti where we agree that yesterday s election is an opportunity to accelerate recovery and reconstruction efforts, and the chilean passed legislation to combat the scourge of human trafficking. under president pinera s leadership, chile is taking a new step today. mr. president, i want to thank you for offering to share camile le s security expertise to central america expertise as they fight drug gangs. i m pleased we ll be working together to promote development in the americas. at the same time, chile is assuming more of a leadership role beyond the americas. as part of last year s nuclear security summit, chile took the
even as we deep even our cooperation between our two countries i want to commend chile for the leadership role it s increasingly playing across the americas. it s a vital contributor to the united nations in haiti, where it is an opportunity to accelerate recovery and reconstruction efforts and the legislature recently passed strong legislation to combat the skurpblg of human trafficking. under the president s leadership chile is taking a new tep today. i want to thank you for offering to share security expertise with central american nations as they fight back against criminal gangs and narco traffickers. i m pleased that our two governments will be working together to promote development in the americas. at the same time chile is assuming more of a leadership role beyond the americas. as part of last year s nuclear security summit it took the bold step of giving up a stockpile of