about a few weeks ago that would be more likely to garner bipartisan support and actually get done? the problem the president is facing republicans have said no to basically everything so far. i think they will agree to certain provisions, certain tax cuts in the president s plan but it s going to be like pulling teeth for the president. when i said republicans want a lousy economy on election day, i certainly didn t want to paint with too broad a brush. it s not every republican. but undoubtedly the just say no policies of the republican party do tend to lead one to believe that a lot of republicans wouldn t mind a bad economy on election day because that is almost a sure way to get rid of president obama. there is a danger, though, with that. if this economy, which is shaky right now, takes another turn, another clear turn down ward shall the next president of the united states, if it is not barack obama, is going to have a worse situation that they inhair ilt that they
way again today. the protests began last month and have now spread to several other u.s. cities. folks, sit down, please. folks, everyone, step down. there was the scene yesterday. today the brooklyn bridge is open after the group shut down one side of the bridge in protest of what they call corporate greed. 700 people were arrested. the u.s. state department has issued a worldwide travel alert for americans living or traveling abroad. it warns that followers of al qaeda figures killed on friday could stage revenge attacks. read the entire warning on the u.s. state department s website. and a former cia contractor who went to prison in pakistan was arrested in colorado yesterday. witnesses say raymond davis fought with another man over a shopping center parking spot when davis was eventually released from prison in pakistan early this year. he was charged with killing two men when we worked for the cia there. take a look at this live picture of the washington monume
jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. these engineers will have to inspect every stone. it will take at least a few days. park officials say they can work through heavy rain, but there f there s any threat of lightning they have to stop. 9 monument s been hit by lightning several times in its history. it is structurally sound. tribal fighters say they shot down a yemeni war jet north of the capital of sanaa today and captured the pilot. the fighters are aligned with a prominent gemny generyemeni gen defected. they raided the base for anti-a