It captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. A few hours ago eric cantor was one of the most powerful men in washington am but late today he announced he is stepping down as House Majority leader after a stunning defeat in a republican primary in virginia last night. He was up set by a candidate backed by the tea party, david brat. And it wasnt even close. Cantor, elected to the house in 2000 and majority leader since 2011 appeared to be on track to become speaker of the house. His defeat was the first of a majority leader since that post was created more than a century ago. No one saw it coming and it sent shockwaves across the country. Our Political Team looks at why it happened and what happens next. First nancy cordes on capitol hill, nancy . Reporter scott, because this is washington, lawmakers began jockeying for cantors leadership post within a few hours of his surprise defeat. All day long they have been Holding Secret meet
10year budget window where people say the problem is about a 4 trillion or 5 trillion problem. That maybe stabilizes the debt over the next 10 years, what happens in the 11, 12, and beyond . I got white hair. 30 years to you seems like a long time, its not. The time to address these challenges is now, but you have to do it with real information. Its a fiscal problem. You have to look at numbers. I realize peoples eyes glaze over real quick when you talk about numbers rbling but thats what we need to grapple with. Whats the numerical problem, and whats the numerical parts of the solution. Host heres james from caramel, yip, democrats line. Caller good morning, senator. I have a question about the Health Care System. That you want to repeal. We need a Health Care System. I remember in the 1960s when my wife had Insurance Plan and i had an Insurance Plan, its like we both owned Insurance Plans separately, but they covered each other of us. So its just like you buy two products and you get
He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late night up at capitol hill. It was a tweet a short while ago ed okeefe. The way you join that conversation is the cspan tage page. The senate takes its first procedural vote on the stopgap bill. Wednesday will vote and likely overwhelmingly to limit the spending bill. We will get to the u. N. Speeches just a it later on. Back to the senate, ted cruz cruzs speech. One thing we learned from henry that it willts is be short. Comments. Nator reeds we will hear from the republican leader after that. The se
Federal response. This is new information about the second nurse who contracted ebola and traveled by plane after permission to do so by the cdc. He will join National Institutes of Health Director anthony ferrechio and others before a House Sub Committee hearing today and response. You can see that hearing live at noon on cspan. Listen to it on cspan radio and also monitor it on cspan. Org. For our first 45 minutes this morning we like to hear from you about the white house response, the federal response to the handling of the ebola cases in the United States. And if you think its enough. You can post your thoughts on twitter at cspan wj. Make your thoughts known on facebook. And you can email us, too, at journal. Org. The president holding that cabinet hearing a lot of topics discussed when it comes to handling of ebola. The wall street journal this morning, the headline, president promises review of problems, saying mr. Obama speaking after the meeting with the senior advisors invol
It is the largest municipal bankruptcy in u. S. History. We would like to get your opinion of this story. Are the numbers to call can also find us on line here is the front page of usa today the Detroit Free Press we see this quote paper courtesy of the newseum, the detroit news the papers are digging into what this story means for the people of detroit as well as the city itself. The New York Timessaid looking at thee break down how this will affect people there. The wall street journal syas says lets get your thoughts on this story. Here is a call from washington on our independent line. Caller i wanted to say i believe this will become a growing trend among the states in the United States. Host what do you think about that . Does it concern you . Is it necessary . Caller it concerns me and i think it is probably necessary. Host what do you make of what is going on in detroit . What would you be thinking or feeling if you lived there . Caller i would be thinking that more jobs in man