you re going to balance the budget by cutting just 12 percent of the budget town to balance, it is literally, figuratively impossible. jenna: the gop making it clear the u.s. cannot keep wracking up debt and some saying something, if anything, needs to be stkpwhraoupb unfortunately we know republicans control one of one levers of law making, the democrats have the senate, the democrats have the white house, nobody wants to shut down the government, but one thing is nonnegotiable, as our speaker said, we will not that will not pass bills that to not create savings for the american people. skpwr epb jen carl kan iron is live on this story. it seems this different on time it s different. do lawmakers sound more skeptical than before the last time of this temporary fix? this time you ve gotand republicans alike expressing scep ti similar, this time around they are very, very apart. there have been five extensions that lawmakers have given themselves up to come up with a spend
looking at a possible recount, within a few thousand votes of each other. in washington state, incumbent patty murray is facing her toughest re-election bid and holds a razor-thin lead over deany ro dino royce rossi, and, in alaska, we don t know how many write-in votes went to lisa murkowski. here s the senate balance now, you have democrats, still in control there with 49 seats, and, republicans now have 46 seats. over on the house side, g.o.p. sweep with republicans taking over there. right now, they have 239 seats, to the democrats 185. that means john boehner becomes the house speaker-designate and the current whip, eric cantor will likely be majority leader there and boehner and other g.o.p. members, leadership now set to speak at the bottom of the hour and wield look for that and bringing you those comments, live, molly henneberg is live on capitol hill today, and, what kind of mandate, really, if any, here, do republicans think they have, after last night? repo
from german officials. while they say they have seen their country as a target for terrorism in the last couple of years they do not see any immediate threat right now. apparently the united states thinks completely differently, the state department issuing this alert to americans in europe, but they think it s more immediate. they think there s a potential for terror attacks here, and they think that americans in europe need to take safety measures to protect themselves while they re traveling. now, as we ve been reporting, this is all about the idea that al-qaeda is getting ready to stage commando-style attacks on spots frequented by foreigners, by americans in europe, landmarks, hotels, train stations, airports in paris, london, berlin. the u.k. government in the last 24 hours has followed the american lead. there s already a severe terror threat here, they are warning britains against travel in france and germany. and again, how are the americans taking it? well, as you d
will be the big thing. jenna: mike emanuel is live at the white house. mike, what started a buzz about the possible shakeup of the economic team. reporter: it was president obama in his own words. he talked about the effect team, some of the tough decisions they ve had to make and about the family impact of working in these high stress, very challenging jobs. here is more from the president. look, i have not made any determinations about personnel. larry summers and tim geithner have done on you outstanding job as has my whole economic team. this is tough the work that they do. they have been at it for two years. they are going to have a whole range of decisions about family that will factor into this as well. reporter: the president s staff says he was not signaling a change is in the works. he s merely showing support for the tough decisions they ve made and the tough jobs they ve had over the years, jenna. jenna: the white house says no major shakeup but the timing o
the president planned to be speaking to the american people on the subject of the mining tragedy in west virginia, but now we expect of course we will hear from him in some form or fashion, or perhaps a favor statement, or what have you, on this subject as well. we do have the regs nation resignation letter that just stevens submitted to the president, it begins my dear mr. president, having concluded it would be in the best interest of the court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of the court s next term, i shall retire from active service as an associate justice, effective the next day after the court rises for the summer recess this year, most respectfully yours, john paul stevens. of course this is not a tremendous surprise, jon. justice stevens had been hinting he was considering retirement, he had hired one law clerk where traditionally a justice who plans to stay on for the next term would hire four, former justices are e