class and young people. i miss the moment seems governing congress party is facing the criticism that the surge in prices. turkey's current c has hit a record low meet the country's continuing political ounce cup of tea county government protesters clashed with while police in istanbul on friday the protesters demanded the resignation of prime minister a red jacket i failed the law in all the high level corruption scam we're on our gang decline in during foreign exchange and trading on friday. this came after the resignation of three cabinet minister due to the rest of family members on allegations of corruption. in response to the political turmoil elbow on reshuffle the cabinet for placing almost time for the minutes passed. in the sky is also buying back of the law following the us rivalries of the system last week to stop tapering off its easy money policy. while iraq has weakened by more than five percent against the us the long haul for the past two weeks. turkey's main stock index the best one hundred continues to fall while palms of the soul not the fastest pace in two yes chi

all members of congress to give a conclusion. it sounds there is some momentum to at least get a small deal. hopefully that will come to pass. >> we spoke a couple of days ago about where we are. the senate would need to act very quickly. you have expressed some doubts that you could get the bill through the senate and get a conference. you said you're running out of time. how long does the house have to launchinge it starts its stripped-down defense authorization measure? do you have to begin that very early in this coming week? how long can you actually wait? we have been in discussions with arsenic counterparts for quite some time. they are wait until done. this is a leadership call on how long we wait. what we are trying to do is make a little lift. we are as close as possible to working out the issues and differences we have so if we have to go into the nonconference mode, simply passing a bill and sending it to the senate, that we are ready to do it. leadership has to decide when it is pulled. >> you have sexual assault issues. you have guantanamo bay. these are very import

bipartisan murry ryan budget deal today so now that congress as found a way to fund the government at austerity levels for the next two years is about time we found a way to extend unemployment insurance past december. by that and more in tonight's law in the rubble and president obama says that we don't have time to listen to the flat earth society when it comes to global warming or the republicans in congress willing to do anything to sabotage the i'm looking forward on climate change legislation is easier said than done so what should the president do next to fight back against the greatest threat to our species has ever faced as bill backer jacketed director of the presidential climate action project and i had special wednesday conversations with. you know this today the senate passed the bipartisan budget deal. which now goes to president obama to be signed and he's already expressed his support for the deal and while the deal does address some of this nation's economic woes what's notably missing from it is an extension of unemployment benefits for one point three million americ

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at least 2011 when secretary clinton raised the issue. on the recentn budget deal in congress and its potential impact on future bipartisan efforts. later, segments from today's for him at the federal reserve system. at the federalg reserve system. the university of minnesota the budgetng about deal. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. we have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms implicationscal for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. we have a terrific panel. i would like to introduce the panel. , he served gutknecht in 12 -- for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the united states house of representatives. , who servedin sabo for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973- 1978. he went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. it passed a budget act that played a major role in the red

meaning interest with hedge fund billionaires. member of congress who wanted leadership with the republicans. right?ure capital firms, >> google? >> i'm just saying you have to think about this. it's not so simple. know, economics is complicated. when you work in business, you how people erstand make decisions. 15%her they should have the carry or not. examine it s let's instead of just doing it. onald reagan wanted to cut marginal rates. maybe he was from the rich, i don't know. it from 70 when he was president. >> we're talking about 17%. gains in red capital 1997 and we got to a balanced budget because we provided incentives. all of this money sitting on the sidelines, you know what they're doing? twitter ipo.e i'm not telling you that -- you know what i think we ought to have a flatter tax with fewer provisions for these to, you know, loopholes or provisions. get the taxes flatter and get taxes down.e that will help us, that will help businesses to be more competitive. frankly a lower flatter tax for americans is good. believe in appen to an earned income tax credit. that cou

higher minimum wage. as the year winds down so does congress but big bills we main on the table. >>> and looking for a stolen truck carrying extremely dangerous radioactive material. >> the clock is ticking on the first session of the 113th congress. house is back in session bu sest the senate is still on break. libby casey joins us now from capitol hill with more. good afternoon, liby 2347 that's right, congress has a lot on its plate including the farm bill. if they don't get a farm bill passed it could cause a for the food stamp program and it could cause a problem for milk. the defense authorization act has to get passed, and unemployment benefits. long term unemployment benefits expired and they need to be renewed. president obama weighed in on that one. >> by the way, christmastime is not the time for congress to tell 1 million that they no lo longer have employment benefits. >> the senate comes in next week so there is still time to negotiate these big-ticket items but there is still the little stuff. and it really runs the gamut. >> one of the big things is the budget. t

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standing committee of the national people's congress is holding its fine dump recession the amendments exempted more items from central government approval. the bill deals with the administration on pharmaceuticals customs procedure for stories marine environment protection the zoology and the tobacco monopoly. the motion follows is sweeping decision by the state council. these titles in the bill include cancellation of the minimum registered capital requirements and the adoption of a system of business registration which theoretically any amount of money the aim is to re form the industrial and commercial registration system and ensure that government administration shifts from approval to close registration management the idea was to stimulate by it honestly and creativity in the market. joanna mary implemented changes to its one child policy as early as next year. the bill proposes allowing couples to have two children to find the parent is an only child of my monthly session of china's top legislature the standing committee of the national people's congress reviewed the bill submit

congress bid febrile to nelson mandela. -- bid farewell to nelson mandela. there is one more horrible to go -- one more hurdle to go. members of the party have voted and agreed with the vision democrats. votes, they enough will be sworn in next week. a no vote will beg the question of who will be in power. but these mail trucks contain the answer as to whether germany's biggest party will contain the government, or go back to square one. -- 300,000 postal ballots have been delivered to headquarters. if the coalition is approved, set to becomes the energy minister. general would take the helm of the labor ministry thehendrix could become cabinet minister. >> we won't comment on that or except congratulations either, thank you. conservative side, he looks set to keep his job. minister mayabor get the unpopular health video -- health vote. party leaders are confident that voters will agree to a, -- to a coalition. >> we have traveled all over germany. people told me things like, six weeks ago i was against this coalition, but now i want to vote for it. we all got the same feedback. >> much

papa went to pointedly with it. portuguese section of the national people's congress and the banking code or more of it not been given approval the one book on strike china's my speed right away the kids running of a new schedule. drastically increased capital crime the eye the kids around that's one of new york federal judge for free and it's not a massive bag of program. but being with them everywhere. wear warm welcome to the stoplight on cctv new sign in when mom baking the south sudanese government has all been on the bronze two rebels saying is is ready for an immediate ceasefire. the government also promised to release ice opposition figure is partially meeting rebels the bonds offering eleven people arrested for an alleged coup plot. betty of this month. meanwhile the country's information minister of my clothes my acquaintance has plans to suspend a planned offensive to recapture the rebel controlled city all didn't you. but the rebels' leader andrea much on says that there must be profit oaks before they can agree to a truce. my child also says he has a negotiating team rea

think the republicans were always hoping they could stop it in congress. they lost that. they were hoping the supreme court would strike it down and they lost that. they were hoping if a catastrophe and clearly that's not happening. every day people are signing up. i have insurance, i gather you have insurance, imagine you're working at a crap job and you can get insurance for yourself and your family, that's a huge thing. republicans can tell them anything they want and they see now that they have insurance. >> that is really important. they highlighted the fact that the repeal strategy is rubbing away. every day that goes by, as people are getting health care and health insurance through this law, it gets harder and harder to take that thing away. >> right, and 95% of people's insurance would never be effective. before the law went into effect, all of the other pieces of the law, the young people being able to stay on their parent's insurance, the ends of pre-existing conditions and medical spending caps, they were popular with the majority of republican voters, right? this law w

, both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget that unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that have created headwinds for our economy. it clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need to strengthen our middle class, like education and scientific research. it means the american people will not be exposed to the threat of another reckless shutdown every few months. that is a good thing. it is probably too early to declare an outbreak of bipartisanship, but it is also fair to say we are not committed to endless gridlock. there are areas where we can work together. i believe work should begin with something republicans in congress should have done before leaving town this week, and that is restoring the temporary insurance that helps folks when they are looking for a job. because congress did not act, more than one million of their constituents will lose a vital economic lifeline at christmas time, leaving a lot of job seekers without any source of income at all. i think we are a better come -- a better country than that. we do not aba

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put it to congress and we all know what happened with secretary kerry making at what was called at the time a gaffe, saying that what's they could do to stop u.s. strike is to give up all of its chemical weapons in a week but we know it would never happen. the russians got that and we had a chemical weapons deal and no u.s. strike. >> obama did not have a good year. barack obama did not have a good year. the secretary of state did. >> he has had a surprising first year. he was considered the fallback. susan rice is not confirmed because of her comments about benghazi. they thought he was going to be a windy politician going around doing things the same old way. what he is done in part because president obama is in his second term and he is willing to take foreign policy risk, and because kerry has turned out to be a high risk-high reward guy. let's not forget who the predecessor is. hillary clinton wanted to make sure she was careful because she may explore a run for president in 2016. kerry got the iran and syria deal. >> including going back to where he served his country some 45

domestic criticism. we have the u.s. congress, very skeptical, the american public is skeptical. it has been 34 years of estrangement. a lot of ill will, mistrust. the american public does not trust any deal with iran. i am confident that this interim deal, besides will comply with it. on the iranian side, there is skepticism. this could open the door, if , the is a final agreement obstacles are huge. it can be achieved, it can open the door to cooperation in some other areas. but it will be hard. where there can be cooperation -- think of areas in the world where there can be cooperation. afghanistan, perhaps. in terms of the conditions for stopping the civil war in syria, there are differences. it is a very impressive initial step, but it is only an initial step. you have a situation, 50-50, according to the president. the clock is ticking. the congress has been clear that six months means six months. what would you do right now to start to beat the clock? >> i did not think the clock is running. the first thing i would do is get the clock running. i would start yesterday in beginning

have said to members of congress, democrats and republicans is, there is no need for new sanctions legislation. not yet. now if iran comes back and says we can't give you assurances that we're to the going to repize, if they're not rig willing to address some of their cap abilities that we know could end up resulting in them having breakout capacity, it's not going to be hard for to us turn the dials back. strengthen sanctions even further. i work with members of congress to put even more pressure on iran. but there's no reason to do it right now. and so i'm not surprised that there has been some talk from some members of congress about new sanctions. i think the politics of trying to look tough on iran are often good when you're running for office. or if you are's in office. but as president of the united states right now who has been responsible over the last four years with the help of congress and putting together a comprehensive sanctions regime that was specifically designed to put pressure on them and bring them to the table and negotiate, what i am saying to them, what i ha

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not allow you to do that the u.s. is saying, well, maybe we have to ask our congress for permission since u.s. to parliament. our congress is going to say no. so of a sudden because the illegality was so murky it made it much more difficult. >> and the story they you just described explains why all of this actually matters. had that been a true moment in definition this would be a very different conversation about syrian intervention during that. >> some people will tell you that all of this talk was just a pretext. it was too messy to go when. going to be the new country government going to turn into egypt and libya which has not turned up that well. so all of these other reasons as well but the discussion is about law which is what was interesting. >> to any of you have questions? i can keep going. >> i think it is just me. >> we have a microphone coming. >> a lot of it comes out. >> this seems to me that maybe it is over simplistic. takes decades in the hands when you need everybody on board but it is a moment if the u.s. needs it to happen now. tammy you know, if that was like n

using scare tactics on a sunday morning this pressure building in congress to hold a vote on actual nsa reform on actually raining in some industries most egregious programs included the full collection of virtually all americans phone by the data set with one month left in twenty thirteen congress has a lot on its agenda from finalizing a farm bill to avoid another government shutdown in the near future. but fueled by edward said and sleeps members of congress for to make sure that it's a reform is on that agenda too whether leadership likes it or not. in the house to us the freedom act is for now the legislation of chores with more than one hundred co sponsors including fifty one democrats and fifty one republicans. there's a similar bill working its way through the senate. should leadership refused to bring either of those bills to a vote. there's yet another opportunists they were forced to take a doozy must pass bills at the end of the year as vehicles for reform. then the fourth amendment. to defend the privacy of each and every american that was a tactic tried earlier this year w

how that turned out so congress passed a law making sure lenders can make sure borrowers can base pay the loans. they have rules to help ensure that. the rules are not mandatory but if a lender follows them, they made a so-called qualified mortgage and get legal protections should the loan go bad. >> the biggest change for the average borrower is going to be just increased documentation. >> reporter: but borrowers will also be limited by the new rules, which ban riskier products like interest-only loans. the lender must verify income and assets and not charge excessive fees and the borrower cannot spend more than 43% of their income on debt. that last one will knock a lot of borrowers out, especially those who might actually be quite wealthy outside of their income. that's where some lenders will choose to operate outside the new rule. >> looks like a nice niche from a lender's perspective because you're not going to have as much competition. certainly, you're going to have much more regulatory risk. >> reporter: that's why choosing to operate outside qm like wells fargo will only

down on the elimination of tights. u s congress's honor on the pressure from difference groups such as agricultural lobbies. got lost a pound to abolish all its trade barriers. this negotiate us negotiators managed to make compromises ben may not be approved by congress. joplin as negotiators also feel the pounds are tight agricultural his actions are refusing to drop types on several categories of farm products including rice and wheat the us also wanted to hear pharmaceutical products to be propped up tips on their intellectual property rights for longer periods while in modern countries opposed to tax. there are also divided twelve on the issue of free competition between private and instead own enterprises. moises chief negotiator says he is coming on other members to be open to compromise. will you be engaging in these negotiations. so their day to get pics of the fees would be given in auto pause to. due to concerns that the half next day's thompson and john dory. one member nations stood menace is made for another round of talks. are they all share the belief that state cpp c

parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget that unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that have created headwinds for our economy. it clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need to strengthen our middle class, like education and scientific research. it means the american people will not be exposed to the threat of another reckless shutdown every few months. that is a good thing. it is probably too early to declare an outbreak of bipartisanship, but it is also fair to say we are not committed to endless gridlock. there are areas where we can work together. i believe work should begin with something republicans in congress should have done before leaving town this week, and that is restoring the temporary insurance that helps folks when they are looking for a job. because congress did not act, more than one million of their constituents will lose a vital economic lifeline at christmas time, leaving a lot of job seekers without any source of income at all. i think we are a better come -- a better country than that. we do not abandon each

i have said to members of congress, democrats and republicans is, there is no need for new sanctions legislation. not yet. now, if they come back and say, we can't give you assurances that we are not going to let the nuys, if they are not willing to address some of their capabilities that we know could end up resulting and then having breakout capacity, it is not going to be hard for us to turn that doubt back, strengthen sanctions further, i work with members of congress to put even more pressure, but there is no reason to do it right now. and so i am not surprised that there has been some talk from some members of congress about new sanctions. i think the politics of trying to look tough is often good when you are running for office or if you're in office, but as president of the united states right now who has been irresponsible of the last four years with the help of congress in putting together a comprehensive sanctions regime that was specifically designed to put pressure on them and bring them to the table and negotiate, i am saying to them, and said to the chest a c

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he discovers it. >> excuse me, there is another branch of government called the congress. a lot of the remedies obama has recommended have gone nowhere in the lalast coue of years. we will start there. secondly, i do not think the speech aually had all whwhole bunch of remies.s. but if you do t face this problem, if we do not face this problem,e are no longer the most mobile society and the world. that we have lost the middle class we once prized. if wdo not start to think about ideaeas to change that, en though this week the unememployment rate went down. we had a real expansion in jobs for the first time in a long time. we can't get diverted by that. this is a problem m we have to ta about. >> the wall street journal sayss the president is moving left on ththe economy to cover up t failures of obamacare. income inequality was enough to get the yor of new york elected. >> income inequality is a reality. you can't argue about it. it is deningng. the realality is, first of all that the financial sector of the country has gotten bigger and more important anand has bier slice of thehe

calling upon president obama and congress to implement sweeping reforms to stop further surveillance. the coalition saying that there is an urgent need to change spying practices. because according to microsoft people who use technology that they don't trust. and there is some irony in this statement when we look at all of the cyberattacks on technology around the country. and a new report about just how extensive the national security agency spying really is. they reportedly spent years spying on online gamers, including those playing world of warcraft. on xbox live. the outrage. obamacare architect ezekiel emanuel said young people haven't signed up for coverage because the obama administration hasn't sufficiently promoted it. my next guest says that he could not rate a greater piece of fiction in the obamacare narrative. we are joined by best-selling conservative author brad the thor. his latest book is called hidden order and it's great to have you with us. >> what it is saying is that obamacare works if you are rich. you will have access to the health care system unless you're r

a final deal. and then you have the domestic criticism. we have the u.s. congress, very skeptical, the american public is skeptical. it has been 34 years of estrangement. a lot of ill will, mistrust. the american public does not trust any deal with iran. i am confident that this interim deal, besides will comply with it. on the iranian side, there is tremendous skepticism. this could open the door, if there is a final agreement, the obstacles are huge. if it can be achieved, it can open the door to cooperation in some other areas. but it will be hard. you look around the world and you think of areas in the world where there can be cooperation. afghanistan, perhaps. in terms of the conditions for stopping the civil war in syria, there are differences. it is a very impressive initial step, but it is only an initial step. >> you have a situation, 50-50, according to the president. the clock is ticking. the congress has been clear that six months means six months. what would you do right now to start to beat the clock? >> i did not think the clock is running. the first thing i would d

the markets and congress and even for you. how to be wealthier and wiser and healthier with a profit while you try to get rid of holiday pounds, businesses try to add to their bottom line. "on the money" starts now. >> here's a look at what's making news. santa claus definitely came to town. a holiday shortened trading week didn't stop the rally. record runs hitting fresh highs and by thursday posting the strongest six-day winning streak in three years. the dow is on pace for the biggest gain since 1996. holiday sales were 2% higher than last year's figure. they offered steep discounts late in december. online sales saw 10% growth but retailers offering extended deadlines contributed to the shipping and delivery crunch that kept people from getting gifts by christmas day. >>> more signs of strength in the all important housing market. new home sales rose more than 16% from the same period a year ago. that translates into an annual rate of 464,000 homes a month. the strongest two-month surge in over five years. and apple has finally cracked the biggest market in the world. the

push back on that he said i'm going to congress to ask. it was clear congress was listening to the people, the people did not want to go into this war, they dropped it. >> rand paul happened, his push back, his leading the fight against syrianntervention gave congress a spine for the first time arguably since korea. they have always gone along to get along, that ended. 12 years in iraq, and 12 in afghanistan, and everywhere else, good luck with this one, we're not supporting it. john: buwe do have clear interests in syria. >> we do. that is the easy part, keeping chemical weapons out of the hands of terrorists. the harder part is what you do about that? a tyrant on oneide, and a rebellion camp melfed by al qaeda on the other side. john we decided not to do anything, you say good, all of you? >> right. >> probably. john: a probably. gun control, after newtown school shooting a big push for gun conontrol. here in new york city, my friends, my own wife, said, how could you not say there should not be more rules against these weapons, yet no new legislation result. so wha happened? >>

important. i did that as a young man, a boy scout, a navy pilot, in congress, and after resigning from congress in 1969 i served in the office of economic opportunity and it was my first executive job and i made notes about that. when president ford came in he called me back to chair of transition. and then i served as his whitehouse chief of staff. i mentioned one of these rules. and he said what is that? he had been a legislative. never served an executive position. and i told him i keep those rules and i don't know what i said to him, maybe something like the staff shouldn't say the whitehouse is calling. buildings can't call. and so he said well let me see this and i had it typed up and i showed it to him and i said you should circulate that to the senior staff in the whitehouse. new york times wrote about it and people have been reading it now for a quarter of a time. i thought it would be interesting to people about meetings and i have a chapter on wrestling because i wrestled for ten years. that is where you learn the relationship between effort and results. it is important

davis, a single mother of two, makes $8.88 an hour. "there's a bill in congress that would raise it to $10.10. would that do it? no, 15 is what we need to survive." protestors, backed by the service employees international union for the past year, have targeted large corporations, though one of them, mcdonalds says 80% of its fast-food restaurants are franchised. "mcdonald's made $5 billion last year, they have the money. (but most of those aren't corporate run, they're franchised) we're saying the corporation is responsible." "we can't survive on $8.25." the national council of restaurants called the protests, "choreographed street theater directed by big labor." but it is not dismissed by others. "this is the early stages of what will be a significant movement." bob goldin of restaurant consulting firm, technomic says chains may be headed toward higher costs and smaller margins. "they're pretty nervous. // my opinion is they should get ahead of the the issue. // you're always better being ahead of wages, benefits, health care, yes." employers have said raising wages would cut hiri

congress. helen yee is an executive with. >> we have developed -- the chinese community is tight knit. i can have relatives here that live in new york but know somebody in china and through word of mouth, they know that projects at skyview park exist. >> for chinese investors looking to spend between 500,000 to $1 million, some say it offers great value. >> real estate in this country tends to be cheaper than abroad for the same. properties. right now, we seem to have more land and somewhat lower places. >> international buyers were involved in six % of u.s. deals in the year ending march 13th. >> that's about $68,000,000,000 worth. most spent less than $300,000 but not the chinese. >> they tend to buy towards the upper end of the market, a house up to several million or more. involves a chinese buyer. aside from new york, the most popular u.s. cities for chinese investors are los angeles, orlando[delete]. >> they buy them for vacation purposes. sometimes, they buy them for their children so they can go to school in a specific city and rent out rooms or something in the house. and in man

opportunity. >> coming up, how bad was congress this year, the congress labelled the do-nothing congress passed six times as many bills as this. >> and harmela aregawi is web. >> a new study find 20% of the world is living on over $1 a day. i'll tell you more coming up. join the conversation on twitter at aj "consider this" and on facebook and google+ pages. >> on capitol hill 2013 will go down in history as the least productive and the least popular congress ever. by the numbers the two legislative bodies in the 113t congress sent barack obama just 64 bills. in george w. bush's the lower number was 136, doubt the amount. the -- double the amount. and the 80th congress, the do-nothing congress, passed 390. we are joined by jason johnson, a professor of political science. how do you explain so few bills getting through? >> you have large numbers of members of congress who thing it's their job to stop the administration passing bills, rather than coming up with policy to pass. that's the root of it. for many observers, we operated under the assumption that the 2012 election would break the

month and bernanke told congress virtual currencies like it's going may have long-term promise. the republican-led house passed a bill renewing the ban on plastic guns just days before it expires. the senate still has to take up the measure. the debate has put 3-d printers at the center of the controversy. >> there has been a lot of talk about how it is easy to make a plastic reedy printer. there are questions, like how expensive is it. it is always good to see you. what do you make of this story? >> this is the most dangerous thing. it can do all kinds of things. the thing we need to understand, unfortunately the thing it is becoming associated with his libertarians who want to make guns that can avoid metal detectors, and as congress and the senate are now debating and trying to react to. >> libertarians? is it rand paul we are afraid of? >> there is a small antigovernment group. i don't want to lump all libertarians in. there is a small very radical group who believe this is a good thing, that you should have the freedom and ability to make a gun that is double. it is a small gro

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in congress. congress has been somewhat dysfunctional, and even if you win in congress and the still have to veto. what he's doing is taking this deregulation process fists, using the epa to and he is getting ready to put out tenders for the existing lou: and wearing just about everybody else with the epa. you guys have cleaned up your act. clear cole, you are using it in much cleaner fashion. and yet the epa says, the hell with you. >> in the last 40 years 90 percent of the particular have been removed from : this country. $110 billion as been spent. the next ten years, another under billion will be spent. coal is a fork to of affordable, reliable, and increasingly plain. lou: in congress is getting a little interesting reynaud. the speaker attacking the two-party then certain conservativv groups, heritage action. these outfits from a freedom works. what is going on? your party is starting to show some great, some life, some spark. i kind of like it, to be honest. >> one good candid it away from the presidency of the united states to having the unity within our party. what is

billion. extending them into next year would add another $19 billion. the congress has yet to do that. president obama is vacationing in hawai'i right now. we're live in hawai'i on who this effects. i understand that this seems to be the top of mind for the president and it has not amounted for a working vacation, correct? >> well, it certainly is, and richelle the white house has stressed the president is very much on vacation. he's still doing the people's business and he's working behind the scenes. as you mentioned richelle this is not the holiday present that anyone was hoping for. some 1.3 million americans will see their federal unemployment benefits expire today. that's because extending those benefits was not part of the bipartisan budget deal that was reached earlier in the year which was ultimately signed by problem earlier this week while he's on vacation here in uaw. with congress in recess there is no hope for an immediate fix until they reconvene on januar january 6th. benefits kick in when someone has been unmr.ed for 26 weeks and that's when most state's jobless

program. in light of all that, what i've said to members of congress, democrats and republicans, there's no need for new sanctions. not yet. if iran comes back and says we cannot give assurances that we are not going to weapon eyes, if they do not address the capabilities we know that could address capacity for weapons, it is not going to be hard for us to turn the dials back, strengthened sanctions even further. i will work with members of congress to put even more pressure on iran. there's no reason to do it right now. and so, i am not surprised that there has been some talk from some members of congress about the sanctions that make the politics of trying to look tough on iran that are often good when you run for office, or if you're in office. as president of the united states right now, who has been responsible over the last four years, with the help of congress, with putting together a comprehensive sanctions regime that was designed to put pressure on them, what i'm saying to them what i said to the international community, and what i've said to the american people, let's

the government $20 billion. extending it for a year will cost another $19 billion. congress has not done that yet. >> more than a million unemployed will lose benefits because the unemployment program was allowed to expire before congress took its break. since 2008 the federal government has supplied benefits to unemployed workers when state benefits run out. usually after 26 weeks, as long as 73 weeks in some states. >> michigan's unemployed people will be hit. 45,000 people will lose access right away. 145,000 some time next year. >> i get $161 a week after taxes. >> 56-year-old frons is one of them. >> bring norbert franzak is one of them. >> i'm not going be able to play for utilities. after this check, i have to pay the mortgage. i'll have less than $200 in the bank. >> michigan's unemployment rate is 8.8%, the third highest in the country. the national is 7%. leading many republicans in congress to say there's no longer a need for emergency unemployment benefits. most believe the benefits should continue. before heading to hawaii for the holidays, president obama scolded congr

our economy, our children, our freedom i call on the president to work with our congress now. our nation decuves better. >> i now yield six minutes to the ranking member for her opening statement. >> i want to thank the chairman for holding this hearing and i'm delighted to welcome you secretary to our committee to testify today. i would like to discuss what i believe to be one of the biggest social economic and political challenges we face today both domestically and internationally and that is the problem of growing inquality. over the past 30 years income and equality in the united states has been steadily increasing. this was the case even during periods of growth. before the financial crisis levels of inequality in the united states reached peeks not seen since the late 1920's. while other committees have also experienced rising income inequality, the most shocking shortcomings are right here in the united states which has the highest level of inequality of any advanced industrial nation. in fact today 20% of the income in our country goes to the top 1% of americans. if you l