congressman keith allison has been a vocal advocate for justice and equality. last year he ran for reelection and won a platform on fighting income inequality. now he s got a new book out called my country tis of thee. congressman keith ellison, thank you for joining us. good to be here. eye wi m wondering what your opinion is on the statements of the president on the nsa. he admitted that we were overclassified. i like the idea of a public
stage of voting last month after voting for the lower house, egyptians will elect an upper house. unconfirmed reports from syrian activists say at least 36 civilians and 7 members of the security forces were killed in fighting on tuesday. the u.s. state department is calling on russia and other countries on the u.n. security council to speak out against the lethal crackdown in syria. a blistering attack by one iraqi politician against another. in an interview with cnn, deputy prime minister called prime minister nuri al maliki a dictator. it came as u.s. president barack obama noted the end of america s military operations in iraq. almost all u.s. troops will be out of the country by the end of this month. those are the top stories here on cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. hello and a very warm welcome to world business today. i m nien sa dos santos at cnn london. i m andrew stevens in hong kong. the top stories this wednesday, december
hundreds of flights. tens of thousands of passengers left stranded now in the country of chile. look at that cloud, airlines scrambling to clear the backlog and the ash cloud is moving across the pacific which they say can make things worse. not quite sure but they say it might. volcano started erupting ten days ago. jamie: messing up travel plans and they called them witch hunts in march, and, nevertheless, congressman peter king is launching a second round of islamic radicalization hearings on capitol hill tomorrow, and emotions were running pretty high the first time around. congressman keith allison was against the hearings and is the first muslim-american in congress, and, here he is, breaking down, while testifying about a muslim 9/11 first responder. some people spread false rumors and speculated that he was in league with the attackers because he was a muslim. but, when his remains were