It. Today president obama is going to take his message to the people and give a speech here. During that speech the president will outline the key components and explain what it means for middle class americans. Now the speech isnt for several more hours. At 6 00 the white house is expected to release more information about the specifics of what the president will touch on during that speech that, again, will happen at 6 00 this morning. We will bring you those details coming up at 6 02. Reporting live, megan mcgrath, news 4. Eun, back to you. Meantime lawmakers this morning getting ready for a plan to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. Last week the republicancontrolled house passed the budget that virtually defunded the new Health Care Law. With that bill expected to fail, the house now drawing up a new plan that would instead raise the debt limit. That, though, could only delay some problems. Lawmakers have another deadline october 17 where the country could default on i
The only thing i would add for questioning is that we also have to look at the ideology that exists within the groups. They share ideology. I add that to the definition of core. Its not the Senior Leadership in al qaeda. Its in pakistan. Its also this shared ideology that many of these extremist groups have. Its something we we have to consider. Would you consider the branch sharing that ideology . I would. One final topic i wanted to address, which is iran and some discussion recently by relaxes the sanction against north korea we allow the funds to fly to north korea in turn allowed them to develop Nuclear Weapons. Is there any reason we should expect different results in iran than the same policy achieved in north korea . Well, i want to critique u. S. Policy and i will just say that i dont know how come out in iran we monitor the compliance. I would note you said you didnt want to critique u. S. Policy. Is there any reason to be believed that the outcome in iran would be any differ
When al gore lost in 2000, lost the Electoral College vote he is the one who started saying that he lost because of his support and bill clintons support for gun control measures including the assault weapons ban. Other democrats began to say the same thing. Well, that gave the nr afar more power than deserved. I didnt believe it was true then and i dont believe. West virginia, kentucky, tennessee thats where he was finding his problems, right . Where republicans win anyway. The people who vote for republicans. In those states are not going to vote for a democrat. It doesnt matter what he does. Im not going to argue except on these points of Electoral College votes. It used to be we got arkansas the democratic side. West virginia was consistently anyway, the guys on the far right here. Fear factor. Kentucky senator rand paul wants to run for president is concerned the president has a king complex. And paul is out there vowing to nullify any executive orders that impede on congressional
Well explore that question on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. Boom or bust . Why is the economy so unstable . Factories sit idle or stagger along because nobody has any money to spend. Workers sit home without any money to spend hoping the economy gets better so they can work again. Its a pattern that repeats itself over and over again. Few people worried about trying to explain economic fluctuations during the 19th century. Americans were too busy building railroads expanding commerce overseas, or creating new industry. The years after the civil war saw a continuing expansion of the American Economy. Although this prosperity was interrupted by periodic slumps few people seemed to worry. Didnt the economy always bounce back . On the eve of world war i, economists had no theory to explain recurring downturns. Why not . We asked some economic historians. The bubbles, the panics, the convulsions, revulsions, crises, gluts, they were noticed back in the 1810s, but the
Badge ripped off you. Agree to any rule on gun safety and youre marked as a traitor for life. Today some of the top people in the Republican Party, the people to watch, marco rubio, rand paul, ted cruz are right out there front in opposing president obama on gun safety. So what happened . Why is the gop, the party of guns over people . Our guests are congresswoman Carolyn Mccarthy, a democrat of new york, and cynthia tucker, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist. Thank you both for joining us. You have been in this fight for so long, congresswoman mccarthy. I have to ask you, is there something out there in the water thats changed or are we confronting the old power of the nra . Well, certainly we are confronting them. Well always be able to confront them, but this time is different, and i think that the American People are realizing on how radical they actually are. You know, when you see the polls in most people in america support on what were trying to do, even nra members, so that thi