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welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. this president, barack obama, is going to be want president for 11 more months. almost a full quarter of his term. because the next president and the next congress have not yet been chosen, he s in the time honored sense of the term, lame duck. he s a president in the last year of a four year term, one that he won by 5 million votes. he reminded people in california that article two of thing constitution, which lays out the ground rules for filling a supreme court vacancy doesn t have asterisks or time limit counts. the presidential appoint, with consent of the senate. but in this case, the advice he s getting is, don t bother. in this case, the law, the constitution and the delineated politics, in this congress, blocking a democrat from replacing a conservative jurist will work. rolling the diagnosis, let s begin with washington s seniorer washington correspondent, mike viqueira. i don t believe that the president should app ....
everybody involved. the president who wants to shape the court, a senate determined to avoid just that, and it s filled with constitutional and political risk. rolling the dice, it s the inside story . welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. this president, barack obama, is going to be want president for 11 more months. almost a full quarter of his term. because the next president and the next congress have not yet been chosen, he s in the time honored sense of the term, lame duck. he s a president in the last year of a four year term, one that he won by 5 million votes. he reminded people in california that article two of thing constitution, which lays out the ground rules for filling a supreme court vacancy doesn t have asterisks or time limit counts. the presidential appoint, with consent of the senate. but in this case, the advice he s getting is, don t bother. in this case, the law, the constitution and the delineated politics, in this congress, blocking a demo ....
family of the late marvin gaye. for the first time today we heard hilliary clinton s side of the email controversy. she insisted no government rules were broken, and she used a personal system for government work because it was easier. david schuster is at the news conference, and he s back with the day s power politics report. david. reporter: tony, this was hilliary clinton s first news conference in more than two years. they felt that it was spinning out of control. so today with a presidential campaign coming soon, clinton engaged in damage control. speaking from the united nations, hilliary clinton said that as secretary of state she ride exclusively on personal email because it was more convenient. i thought using one device would be simpler and obviously it hasn t worked out that way. reporter: clinton has been under fire for a week after confirming that she engaged in email practices that contradicted the directives to state department employees, and whi ....
tens of thousands of hourly workers walked off their jobs today in the protest against low pay. holding rallies at fast food restaurants around the country. they demanded a 15-dollar minimum rage. diane esther brook is in downtown chi for us, where protests have been going on, and these rallies, let s face it here. they re about a lot more than fast food workers these days, aren t they? oh, that s right tony. we ve seen healthcare workers and security and clerical workers. they re also demanding the right to unionize. shouting battle cries and waving signs protesters outside of this mcdonald s restaurant blasted the chain for what they call unliveable wages. we re tired of working for multibillionaires who are making money off of our hard work and we can t survive. we demonstrated for a 1 dollar minimum wage. fast food workers started the fight for 15 movement two years ago, and it s a fight for other low wage workers as well. security workers making more than ....
the governor of georgia today says he is responsible for the grid lock that stranded thousands during the snow storm that cause add real mess. in the south, governor nathan deal also admits his state not adequately prepared and vows to prevent fit happening again. i am not going to look for state gov. i am the governor. the buck stops with me. i accept the responsible for it. and that s what the public can expect from our office. at this time, that would be a parking lot behind you. yeah, tony, good evening, and indeed, it s a nightmare on any day of the week, and of course the traffic behind me on i-75 north, outside of the major suburbs, would be wall-to-wall at the 6 p.m. hour. and that,, it has been get your car off the road and try to get your life back in order. and the politicians are still pointing a blame at each other. yet the governor made the deal coming out and saying he s going to take the blame for the whole situation past 48 hours. that s interes ....