politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a high altitude picture of the mud air encounterer between a drone and russian fighter jets. the classified video shows moscow putting the drone in its cross hairs, ignite ing a cloudf jet fuel and buzzing the drone twice. plus our banking system remains strong. the treasury secretary tries to calm nerves. she s on capitol hill today assuring americans your money is safe. and today the senate barrels toward a vote on undoing the force against iraq. it happens two decades after the run up of shock and awe. tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within 48 hours. at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to dearm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. up first for us, 42 seconds of simply hold your breath video adding to tensions between the united states and russia. toda
unfolding in the banking sector has boosted the odds of a recession in the u.s. within the next year. but treasury secretary janet yellen is about to wrap up her senate testimony and she argued the fallout has been contained. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. this week s actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to ensure that our financial system remains strong and that depositors savings remain safe. now, the market seemed skeptical until they got word that chase and morgan stanley are considering rescuing the struggling first republic bank. regional bank stocks are mixed, which is actually a major improvement from earlier today. elsewhere in the economy some promising new data on jobs and mortgage rates. we have cnn s matt egan, who s here once again to help make heads or tails of all of this for us. okay, matt, let s start here wit
Are better at politics. Easier to be in the opposition party. Republicans united universally, no pun intended on this to object to obamacare, Affordable Care act, every single one voted against it then. Every single democrat has been a no vote on any of these initiatives now. But it is interesting to point out sometimes its a lot easier being opposition. But again im not making excuses for these lunatics. The fact of the matter is, they still botched it. I repeat something have been better than nothing. Neil let me write that down. Butted did i, thank you very,c very much. I hope to continue the momentum here. As stuart pointed out they will not get the something. So they are left with nothing. More to the point they are left with the Affordable Care act. As you have been hearing here. Likely this will stay in place for a couple years, assuming all republicans agree on a repeal effort. That is not a slamdunk. Georgia Republican Congressman doug collins. Congressman, we notice markets
Policy, can you keep it. There were a lot of people that wanted to buy policies that cost less and that didnt have lifetime caps lifted. There are a lot of people that wanted to buy that didnt cover their 26yearold. You didnt let us do that. And that is the problem. We are smart people. We can make our own decisions. We dont need the government telling us what we have to have. And that is the biggest complaint i get from idahoans, from americans saying why are you politicians and washington, d. C. Constantly telling us what we should do for ourselves . And thats the basic problem of all of this. Whenever you try to socialize in the industry, nationalize an industry like its been done here, its never worked. Its been in tried in all sorts of countries and it never works. Its not going to work here. Well, let me go over a couple other points. First of all, i want to ask mr. Knoll, im told that there are have been 150,000 small group plans that have been canceled in your state. Is that tr
The incredible moments caught on tape as these boaters steer right through five water funnels. What were they thinking . And good morning, america. So much to get to this monday morning. Starting with the major confrontation on capitol hill. Government runs out of money at midnight tonight. Right now, no solution in sight. You see the countdown clock ticking right there. Tick, tick, tick, tick. Hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line right now. Wideranging effects for millions of americans. And this is all happening at the same time as the new Health Care Laws go into effect at midnight. Thats right. The issues are joined at the hip. The consequences are enormous. We have full coverage of both. Lets start with jon karl at the white house with the latest on the shutdown. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. A deadline of midnight tonight. A congress hopelessly deadlocked, a shutdown seems all but certain. The federal government is already preparing to shut the lights on o