dysfunction. their leadership announces $30 billion cuts and they want to do 100 billion and what do they come back with? a 20% reduction to air traffic controllers. that seems pretty crazy to me. tell the troops fighting in afghanistan that we are not going to pay their bill. i m not sure the taliban will understand that. the republicans won in 2010 to govern the house of representatives. there is a fundamental inability to make the trains run on time and make things work. there s no reason to expect that they will pull it together. they are talking about shutting down government. we ve seen this before. so are you. you just said it yourself. the more people that talk about shutting down government, the more likely it becomes the kind of thing that someone is going to do. i think we all respect the passion that you bring to every argument on the floor and we respect that people go to washington and do this. but you guy are not headed for a compromise and american voters told you in
two more to be considered, there is reasonable ground for reasonable people but this is not a reasonable bunch governoring the house of representatives right now. even if you don t agree on a bill, as ali said, you re going home for their long president s day weekend, you know, is it possible for you all to reach some kind of resolution before that? yeah, but the problem returns of the republicans trying to get together amongst themselves. you remember what we ve been through? we went through a week of dysfunction. their leadership announces $30 billion cuts and they want to do 100 billion and what do they come back with? a 20% reduction to air traffic controllers. that seems pretty crazy to me. tell the troops fighting in afghanistan that we are not going to pay their bill. i m not sure the taliban will understand that. the republicans won in 2010 to govern the house of representatives. there is ap fundamental
connections, there has been strong reaction from hollywood to these tragic events and we re going to have that for you a bit later today on showbiz tonight. look forward to it. thanks, a.j. a.j. has everything on showbiz every nooipt night at 5:00 p.m. our troops fighting on the lines expected they ll being taken care of when they get home. but the pentagon is eyeing vets health care. some warriors are getting ready for a showdown.
nearly 100,000 troops fighting in afghanistan can eventually come back home. wolf? all right, barbara. thanks very much. we ll stand by to hear the final verdict from this administration in the coming days. meanwhile, it could be d-day for the first african-american head of the gop. hours from now, michael steele is expected to reveal whether or not he ll seek a second term and the potential announcement comes amidst growing calls in the party for his resignation. you ve been looking into it. we don t know what he s going to announce, but there s a lot of anticipation building. and a lot of speculation for months about what is he going to do? is he going to stay? at 7:30 he ll hold a conference call with members of the rnc. he may resign or stay and run for another term. we don t know. he certainly has been an unpredictable figure. thank you very much. reporter: looking for a change, the republican national
that is important, we know al qaeda has been trying to build a base of operations, to exploit towards the u.s. and we have also had scary news of late. we have seen the as late is a 2009, al qaeda in pakistan were freely moving around the the country and coordinating operations against the u.s. and are still in the game. there is word they are emboldened in yemen and there is barely any basic necessities there, and sort of tying it in, somehow and i ask you, jim, if you believe that, you know, just northeast of yemen you have our troops fighting in afghanistan. surely, new rules of engagement, but, is a tough fight and does it change anything? well, you know, the good news is, i mean, the u.s. government knows there is a base of operations in yemen, and, they have been working with the yemeni government and going after them, that is the good news, we have to remember we have seen two terrorist attacks in less than 12 months, the detroit bomber and times square