Good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. We begin this morning with a Senate Report suggesting a deadly aattack on the u. S. Consulate could have been prevented. The state department and american intelligence agencies did not do enough to boost security despite warnings that the threat level was increasing. Its the first report criticising ambassador chris sevens directly. It raises questions about his judgments and actions in the weeks before his death. Stevens and three other were killed on the attacks, taking place september 11th, 2002. Theres a new wave of violence in iraq. Six car bombs exploded in and around baghdad. 75 were killed, dozens injured. The blasts occurred in the mostly shia neighbourhoods. Senator mccain has been an outspokener critic and spoke with John Seigenthaler about his view on americas Foreign Policy throughout the region. Throughout the middle east america is declining in influence and on the wane. People are making their own accommoda
And cents. Today was the deadline to approve the budget bill, now it has been pushed back to saturday. Libby americans get a little worried when congress decides to push things back, why . And Congress Loves a deadline. Dell it does look like the spending bill will be able to go through both the house and senate. Leaders announced on monday, they finally hammered out a deal. They spent weeks on this. Over the holiday, we saw the appropriators and staffers hard at work finalizing this spending deal. And they just couldnt get it quite in by the deadline, so the house gave themselves three more days. And we expect to see the house pass the omnibus, the all inclusive spending bill. Were talking about discretionary spending. It doesnt include things like Social Security and medicare, but its pretty much everything else, about half going to defense programs the rest goes to a boost in head start funding and other federal programs, and like every bill there are winners and losers. Well see di
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