About the nhs. This will be buying my first time voting. I am worried about the lack ofjob and opportunities. When you mean lack of democracy, what do you mean . The parties are ignoring our democratic. We are joined by three candidates. Were also joined by three of the candidates including the conservative whos been mp here for nearly ten years and says he loves his constituency but says he cant promise that he can dramatically improve peoples lives here. Meanwhile, the labour party is today promising to put bad landlords out of business if it wins the election and cap rent rises for private tenants. For too long, and certainly over the last decade, the government has allowed lower rogue landlords to flourish and so it is time to meet the market for renters and that requires the government to act. Also today, a Second National cinema chain, showcase, has joined vue in stopping all showings of the film, blue story, after seven Police Officers were hurt in a fight at a cinema in birming
Of this building just behind see that is Hamilton Hall protesters broke in and are now occupying that building. They have the same demands that they have had since the beginning. University and students tried to come to some agreement yesterday, but they were told students by the university that they must leave by 2 00 p. M. Or face consequences, which includes so things like suspension if they were still on campus after 2 00 p. M. Monday . Well, the Student Protesters decided to stay and so now the university has to side what they are going to do with a Huge Police Presence thats outside of Columbia University but not yet inside of Columbia University, you are seeing now two pronged protest. One inside of Hamilton Hall and the occupation there, one outside, where you have all of the tense still set up should many so there are some very visible signs of this protests, and i will let you see to my right there are photographer will show you what you are seeing there out of the window fro
Like you. Thank you. Once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, John Dickerson of slate magazine and cbs news john good evening, this week, president obama gave the first stateoftheunion address of his second term. It was packed with almost 30 different policy proposals, some, like immigration reform, were familiar. Others, like his call for expanding preschool and rating colleges, were new. It was a robust vision for a president engaged in handtohand combat Congressional Republicans over the basic exchanges of government. Still, the president said the country could afford all of it. Nothing im proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broadbased growth. John , so, karen, if bill clinton kind the famous phrase that the era of Big Government over, did president obama launch the era of smart government . Thats going to depend on what side o
To make it to the middle class no matter where you start out in life, it isnt bestowed to us by washington. Whats next . Gabby giffords deserves a vote. The families of newtown deserve a vote the families of aurora deserve a vote john covering the week, Karen Tumulty of the washington post, todd purdum of vanity fair, jeff zeleny with the new york times, and eamon javers of cnbc. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live, from our nations capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by. We went out and asked people a simple question, how old is the oldest person youve known . We gave people a sticker and had them show us. We learned a lot of us have known someone whos lived well into their 90s and thats a great thing but one thing that hasnt changed is the official retirement age. The question is, how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years . Additional Corporate Fund
Soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. Raise the federal minimum wage to 9 an hour. John republicans see it as a sign to balloon the government. To make it to the middle class no matter where you start out in life, it isnt bestowed to us by washington. Whats next . Gabby giffords deserves a vote. The families of newtown deserve a vote the families of aurora deserve a vote john covering the week, Karen Tumulty of the washington post, todd purdum of vanity fair, jeff zeleny with the new york times, and eamon javers of cnbc. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live, from our nations capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by. We went out and asked people a simple question, how old is the oldest person youve known . We gave people a sticker and had them show us. We learned a lot of us have known someone whos lived well into their 90s and thats a great thing but one thing that hasnt changed is