Style protest that was going to shut down the washington beltway. Remember that movie, convoy, from 1978 . I loved that movie. The Fox News Channel has been hyping the trucker protest all week. The organizer said that i expected thousands of truckers to take part today. One radio host who was helping to hype the trucker protest in the conservative media said he thought if 3,000 truckers turned out, that would inspire a nationwide general strike of 100 million americans to quote get out on the street, get out on the roads and demand our legislature follow the constitution. That did not happen. Just a few guys showed up an they have not yet inspired a general strike of 100 million americans. Virginia state Police Spokesperson said today, quote, it was pretty much a nonevent. A maryland state Highway Administration said the same thing. Their spokesperson told the washington post, nothing materialized. So, basically, a rainy day commute. Maryland says there were a few accidents around coll
Good morning, everyone, its wednesday, october 16th. At least there is some good news for boston. For boston. With us on set, not washington. National Affairs Analyst john heilman is with us. Hello, george. Hi. Add to that, we have donny deutsche, incorporated. Donny deutsche. And in washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie pace and kelly odonnell. So now we raise the bar. Willie, in either circumstance, we would be talking about the historic effectiveness of the Detroit Tigers pitching because their pitching has been extraordinary, verlander, again we seen this three games strikeout after strikeout, that man the best pitcher in baseball without a doubt, unbelievable. Of course. One strike after another strikeout after another strikeout. Yet the tigers couldnt hit and the red sox carrying about a. 132 game average. I thought the red sox had one run on napolis home run. Thats all they needed. You can see it on verlanders face what do i have to do, exactly .
Always be our top priority. Thats not how you im now a single issue voter. Christie is off of my list. The shut down was so magnificent. In the end he did more harm. He was like a general. Ann colter. Were going to bring in Chris Christie. Romney will be the nominee. The argument that senator wendy davis made in her filibuster in the Texas State Senate against a restrictive abortion bill carried the day in court when provisions of that law were found unconstitutional. One third of clinics were set to close their doors when the law would have gone into effect. One provision required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges of a hospital within 30 miles of that abortion facility. Federal district judge wrote the admitting privileges provision of house bill 2 does not bear a rational relationship to the legitimate right of the state in preserving and promoting fetal life or a Womans Health and in any event places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an ab
As well. Absolutely no doubt that that is a baseball town. Seahawks rams tickets going for 10 bucks just before kickoff. World highlights on that game as well. We want to start this morning with the nsa. This morning its not just americas allies who are upset over the agencys wiretapping. One of the staunchest backers, Diane Feinstein now calling for a full review of the mass Data Collection at home and abroad. The california democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee Says shes totally opposed to spying on u. S. Allies according to her congress has not been adequately kept in the loop. Feinstein also said the administration assured her surveillance would not continue, a point that some officials later challenged. While the president may be poised to order a ban on eavesdropping on friendly leaders its not year what the white house knew and when. The agency said it did not inform the president of reported monitoring of german chancellor Angela Merkel but the l. A. Times said
Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President obama pulled the plug on that moscow summit with Vladimir Putin next month. The latest move of international chess. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristin Welker joins us from the white house. Kristin, this is only the latest irritant between the two over syria and other issues. This snowden affair certainly was what set them over the edge. Reporter it was. This was sort of the straw that broke the camels back. Ive been talking to Senior Administration officials and theyre really stressing that idea this afternoon, that russias decision to grant snowden temporary asylum is a part of a number of tensions that have existed between the United States and russia leading up to today. That is something that they emphasized in the statement that they put out, andrea. Ill read you part of the statement by jay carney. He says, quote, given our lack of progress on issues such as Missile Defense and arms control and trade and commercial relation