Reputation is outrageous. I knee people dont come to spontaneous demonstrations with rockets and mortars for the president of the United States for two weeks afterwards to deny that was the case, is either a coverup or it is incompetence. Ahead this hour, one of the republicans calling for a wider probe, New Hampshire senator kelly ayotte. And whats going on with the generals . Leon panetta orders ethics review. The fbi agent, hes the guy who brought down the millennium bomber. Taking out the military leader of hamas and fire from the gaza strip. Israel will continue to take whatever action is necessary to defend our people. Well talk to michael oren, israels ambassador to the United States. And president obama at this hour in Staten Island to hear from storm victims. Plus, say cheese. New members of congress pose for their class photo. Perhaps the last time theyll look this happy. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell live in new york. As the nation learns about the key players and the controv
Weapon. Sue herera is off today. Simon is in at the New York Stock Exchange and we will go to him in a moment. But our top story is inz of rising above. Maybe, just maybe. John harwood at the white house as a meeting between the president and congressional leaders wrapped up within the last hour or so. John . Sum it up for us. Tyler, its a long way to the finish line but if you want to have a positive auspicious start to the negotiations, thats exactly what we got here at the white house. President obama brought the bipartisan leaders together. He spoke from a position of confidence having just won the election but he said we need to find Common Ground and when the bipartisan leadership walked out of the white house and addressed reporters in the driveway, positive notes were all they were singing. Heres a montage. The framework that ive outlined in our meeting today is consistent with the president s call for a fair and balanced approach. I feel very good about what we were able to ta
Will come here and speak for a couple hours. Day one of negotiations. Nobody is expecting huge news but as jim has already tweeted out this morning, the market is going to look for signs that this tone of compromise that weve heard so much about all week long is that for real or are talks going to break down in early stages . The market specifically is going to depend on that tone today and well bring that live when the meeting happens a little after 10 00 a. M. Weve seen reaction of futures to the possibility of a deal. Weve been down for six of the past seven days but the dow this morning implied open is up 33 points. Sapp looks s p looks to add fiv. Here we have italy down threequarter percent and mixed bag for the rest. Carl . Okay. Were going to go to the road map this morning. That is where carl is in washington d. C. Reports this morning that hard decisions surrounding deficit reduction could be kicked down the road until 2013 in favor of a smaller package of tax increases and s
Welcome to newsroom international. Were taking you around the world in 60 minutes. Were beginning with breaking news. An explosion on an oil platform in the gulf of mexico just set off a major fire. Two workers are now missing. Want to bring in chad myers with the latest on what we know about this. Any details . Literally things just coming in here. It was a production platform. It was not a drilling rig. It was in shallow water. It was not deep water. They were not drilling. There was not a blowout. This is not take two, okay . This is not like we saw in 2010. This is not an environmental disaster according to the coast guard thats out there right now. This is not what we saw when it took ray year to cap that oil from coming into the gulf of mexico, but six were injured. Two possibly killed from this explosion. It was considered to be a production problem. Production and drilling completely different. Production means its railroad working. They dont even believe there was any oil comi
Transparently just and fair that falsehood may be banished by the truth that sets us free. Supply the needs of those who are hurting because of this Government Shutdown, as you give our senators the conviction that, with you, all things are possible. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid following leader remarks the senate flb a period of morning business for debate only until 4 00 p. M. This afternoon. Senators will be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each during that period of time. Mr. President , senator schumer yesterday on the floor talked about what the house is doing, and he described it like alice in wonderland. I dont know if thats an apt description. Mamaybe it