A truce or cease fire. Latest sign is a statement made by egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, according to state tv. He said that, quote, israeli gra aggression would end on tuesday. That, of course, is today. Thats consistent with similar statements weve heard from other officials late last night. We spoke with a senior egyptian official and he told us hes optimistic that in the next 24 hours there would be a cease fire. Hamas officials are being even more specific. Senior hamas official telling cnn that israel has agreed to the general terms but rejected the timing. Hamas conditions, according to an official, are this. Stop the air operation, air assaults and want the ground crossings, blockades to be opened up immediately. According to this hamas official israel is saying, okay, well stop the air operation but the ground crossings and blockade, we would like to do that gradually. That seems to be the Sticking Point right now. If you listen to egyptian and hamas officials, some optimis
Because darwin was wrong. Okay emmett till would have been 72 years old. Today is the birthday of sonic youths Thurston Moore and a big birthday of new york city mayoral candidate christine quinn. However, Anthony Weiner kind of sort of gave her biggest birthday present two days ago. This is viewpoint. John good evening im john fuglesang. This is viewpoint. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Okay. Everythings bigger in texas right . And that includes their hutzpah. Earlier this month texas passed strict voter i. D. Laws immediately after the u. S. Supreme court struck down section five of the Voting Rights act. That requires preclearance or federal approval for any new changes to voting laws. But help may be on the way from eric holder. And today i am announcing that the Justice Department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by section five of the Voting Rights act. We believe that the state of texa
Symbol, if you will, for Union Leaders trying to make a political point with income equality and campaign for a living wage. They say no less than 15 an hour. The irony is many Union Workers under Union Contracts negotiated by the union make about the same amounting. Now, the scrutiny, however, is on walmart and the media attention. Some of the people you see in green here are actually walmart workers taking the day off. Others are members of the union who have been bussed in from here around the country and long beach as well as atlanta, chicago, washington, d. C. , demonstrations there as well. The argument is that the founders of walmart are rich and they have a duty to give their workers more. They pay for Health Care Benefits to increased hours and pay at least 15 an hour. How could anybody survive on 12 to live and eat . I was starving. Ive lost 60 pounds in less than a year and id beg for more hours and theyd say follow your schedule, we cant do anything about it, with a snicker
Movement. To protest the brown decision, beginning to wonder if this is about something more than Michael Brown. Good to have you back. What do you make of all this . Well, im terribly frustrated. I said the other night, neil, what happens when the circus, and i define the circus as the paid protests, the anarchists, the activists, the cardcarrying zealots that are out there, the occupy wall street crowd that has come into ferguson. What happens when they leave town after all the burning, after all the, god forbid there should be any deaths, is what will be left is an economic wasteland, and the very frustration, legitimate frustration that the people of ferguson have, the young people of ferguson have, jobs, Economic Opportunity, education choices, and Economic Education and economic uplift, their situation is going to be worse off, not better off because of this. You know, though, obviously, you and i were talking the night of the protests, that there are a lot of outside groups. In
Trafficking teenage girls as young as 14 years old. The politically connected investment banker with ties to donald trump, bill clinton, Prince Andrew and more had pled not guilty to the charges. Epsteins death comes one day after nearly 2,000 disturbing Court Documents were unsealed detailing how he lured young girls in florida and new york. Joining us now is jonathan dienst. Jonathan, a lot to has been happening. First off a statement from the defense attorney. Is that right . The defense attorney speaking as an individual only saying he was upset by this. Felt the jail had a responsibility to protect him and voicing anger at the prosecutors and media claiming this case got carried away and saying that theres blood on everybodys hands as a result of this and calling for an investigation. A very tough, angry statement from one of the attorneys representing mr. Epstein. Calling for an investigation, putting questions behind how this happened, he was not on suicide watch. Thats part of