• Dean Obeidallah of The Daily Beast calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about life for President Obama after 2016
• Sexy Liberal Carlos Alazraqui joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for “Coffee With Carlos”
• President Barack Obama said his signature health care reform law is going nowhere as long as he’s in office, and he’ll spend the remainder of his presidency fighting to make it work if necessary. A self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline behind him, Obama said the website is now “working well for the vast majority of users.”
• The House has passed an extension of a ban on firearms that cannot be detected by metal detectors and X-ray machines. The ban, which has been in place for 25 years, is scheduled to expire on December 9th if Congress fails to act. The bill passed by voice vote.
• The engineer in the fatal New York train derailment tearfully told the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday that he was in “a daze situation” when he took a curve at almost three times the speed limit, his lawyer said.
• A federal judge’s ruling approving Detroit for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history Tuesday set the stage for an epic legal battle over who will be asked to help pick up the tab, including bond investors, retired city workers, city vendors, state taxpayers, or Wall Street bankers.
