neil: joe manchin sells himself as a moderate, progressives are frustrated but they still want him to keep the senate democratic majority. you think he s a moderate and served west virginians well? his an anomaly in a conservative state such as yours. neil, i m not going to the debate about joe manchin. i know him well. i believe he s seriously contemplating whether or not he s going to run again. he may very well retire. may well look at something to do on a national scene, maybe run for. . i don t know exactly what joe will do. the problem i can see with joe is, you know, one minute joe is moving in one direction and another minute he s moving in another direction. so all of that being said, i m
arises, when we reach the debt limit. we have to have the willingness to go to the mat over that, to force cuts in spending to put us on a path to fiscal responsibility. neil: that last guest will be my next guest, bob good of virginia. we keep doing the same thing and have to raise the debt ceiling again. the push is on. this thursday we presumably run out of dough where we re up against the ceiling here. unless that is raised, we have to pair our expenses, prioritizing what bills have to be paid, what you do at home when you re up against the wall. the entire united states government is in that pickle. edward lawrence has more on how they re planning for something that they see coming. edward? the united states almost maxed out on its credit card. so what is happening thursday, the secretary of treasury will institute extraordinary measures that will extend the life of the
the president had claimed that he didn t know anything about this, which genuinely might have been the case. we don t know. now we know that this was out there and known by those at the white house before the mid-term elections. a lid was kept on this until very recently. is that alone something worth pursuing, the timeline of what you knew and you said you didn t know now? absolutely. a great point. the first thing really as a special counsel, if i was running this thing, the first thing i d want to know, neil, is what documents are we talking ant. really, they are there s multiple kinds of classifications from confidential document, which might be a letter of congratulations, worth virtually nothing. there may be important information that is top secret and even above which in the days having been there and having
think that i ve been a business guy and going to do something that is frivolous and banked on surpluses and not banked on where west virginia is going and against the numbers, you have to be crazy. we have vetted this every way you can possibly vet it. we re going to take out of surplus $700 million and put it in a rainy day fund to protect the pit. any shortfalls on that: we re bucketing another $500 million that we ve never touched that will go into economic development possibilities. there s so many different things that we ve got going on. plus the fact that are still going to carry across the finish line a $400 million surplus. no, neil, i m not going to be one to make the mistake on the numbers. that s the only thing that i can do. but i can buzz the numbers. i m not going to make a mistake
all the vagaries of this project like. nibbling at the plants and the family of apes living on the island who may will grow fond of the grapes but if it all works out the volcanic soil in this island will bring forth a very special drop of wine. to resemble the place where it comes from which means the wind from here will have a full body rich in concentrated because that is what the terroir and the climate. the first grapes are expected in the coming months then we ll know whether red wine from the congo was a good idea worth pursuing. in the sky. so that s it for now from the news africa you can catch all our stories on our website add the facebook page we ve used today with images of some traditional fishermen in africa for many of them their livelihoods are being threatened by change and where the peasants and industrial of the fishing it s bye bye for now.