Posts Tagged ‘John Fugelsang’
LiveBlog for Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday, December 4th, 2009
• John Fugelsang joins Steph in studio at 6:05am Pacific for 3 full hours of Fridays With Fugelsang!
• Christian Weller, economist with the Center for American Progress, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to update us on jobs, the economy, and holiday retail sales.
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to defend The Bronx, and to talk about health care reform and Afghanistan.
• Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, Afghanistan, and the cops that were killed in his district.
• Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Dems closed ranks yesterday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care reform legislation, thwarting a GOP attempt to doom President Obama’s sweeping overhaul. The Senate also backed a guarantee for all insured women age 40 and older to receive mammograms with no out-of-pocket costs.
• President Obama promised at a White House jobs forum yesterday to take “every responsible step to accelerate job creation,” including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to make more U.S. homes energy efficient as an example.
• The White House as authorized an expansion of the CIA’s drone program in Pakistan’s tribal areas, paralleling President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Tags: Adam Smith, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, Christian Weller, Economy, Eliot Engel, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Medicare, Pakistan
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LiveBlog for Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
• John Fugelsang joins Steph in the New York Bureau for all three hours of the show today!
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the news over the Thanksgiving weekend.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• The Senate is set to begin debate today on health care reform. Some Dem senators say they’ll jump ship from the bill without tighter restrictions on abortion coverage. Others say they’ll go unless a government plan to compete with private insurance companies gets tossed overboard. Such concessions would enrage Liberals, the heart and soul of the party.
• Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich), the leading Senate Dem on military matters, said yesterday that President Obama’s anticipated plan for expanding troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces.
• White House officials fended off new questions about how a fame-seeking couple finessed their way into the president’s State Dinner last week while the aspiring reality-TV stars themselves began trying to sell their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Carl Levin, Eric Boehlert, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Lee Papa, Media Matters for America, Rude Pundit, White House Crashers
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LiveBlog for Friday, November 20, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009
• Christian Weller, Economist with The Center for American Progress, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about whether we are really seeing a recovery in the economy.
• Lorie Van Auken, 9/11 Widow and one of the “Jersey Girls,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about the ongoing debate about closing Gitmo and moving the trials to New York.
• John Fugelsang joins us from the NYC Bureau at 8:05am Eastern for another edition of “Fridays With Fugelsang.”
• Digging in for a long struggle, GOP senators and governors assailed the Dems’ newly minted health care legislation yesterday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts, and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states. Sen. Reid has scheduled an initial test vote for Saturday evening and full debate is expected to begin after Thanksgiving.
• Defense Secretary Robert Gates is putting former U.S. Army Secretary Togo West and former Navy chief Vernon Clark in charge of a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings. The 45 day review will look into gaps in how the military identifies service members who might be a threat to others.
• “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast today.
Tags: Center for American Progress, Christian Weller, Fort Hood, Gitmo, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Lorie Van Auken, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Gates, Togo West, Vernon Clark
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LiveBlog for Friday, November 6, 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the economy.
• Christian Weller, economist with The Center for American Progress, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to give us an update on the economy.
• John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for “Fridays With Fugelsang.”
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and texting while driving.
• Military officials are starting today to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 at Ft. Hood, Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times by military police.
• Chanting “Kill the bill,” thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol yesterday against health care reform. “This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have ever seen,” House GOP leader John Boehner told the crowd.
• A drop in unemployment claims gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and sent the Dow jumping by over 200 points to close above 10,000 yesterday.
Tags: Center for American Progress, Christian Weller, Economy, Eliot Engel, Ft. Hood, Health Care Reform, John Boehner, John Fugelsang, John Sarbanes, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
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LiveBlog for Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
• Rep. Diana Degette (D-CO) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about The Affordable Health Care for America Act.
• Dr. Maya Angelou calls in at 6:50am Pacific to talk about her new book, “Letter to My Daughter.”
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about The Affordable Health Care for America Act.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8am Pacific for “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• Cheered by President Obama, House Dems rolled out landmark legislation yesterday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry, and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.
• President Obama will host the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House today as he reassesses his administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan. The meeting will give each branch of the armed services a direct opportunity to tell Obama the effect on the military if a large number of additional forces are sent to Afghanistan.
• Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui hit solo homers off Pedro Martinez to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies and tie the World Series at 1-1 last night.
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Diana Degette, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Maya Angelou, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Robert Andrews, World Series
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LiveBlog for Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• The Senate has long been seen as opposing the public health care option in health care reform, but now senior Senate Dems and White House officials are strongly considering including such a measure, but would permit individual states to drop out of the system.
• The White House yesterday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other GOP-ers that President Obama’s Afghanistan decision is taking too long. “What Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
• Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved yesterday and sent to President Obama. The measure is named for Matthew Shepard. Many GOP-ers voted against the bill, calling it “controversial.”
• Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died at a hospice in the Bronx. He was 83.
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Matthew Shepard, Robert Gibbs, Soupy Sales
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LiveBlog for Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 16th, 2009
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins the Mooks in studio in L.A. for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• After scouring northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a now-infamous Mylar balloon for dozens of miles and interviewing his big brother over and over, local and federal authorities ended their search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene where it began – at his house. He was in a box. In the attic. The whole time.
• House speaker Nancy Pelosi warned her Senate counterparts yesterday that she intends to fight hard for a public plan option as part of any comprehensive health care overhaul bill. Dem Senate leaders have not yet indicated whether they will include the option when they combine their two measures.
• President Obama signed legislation yesterday providing an additional $7.5 billion in assistance to the Pakistani government to help them combat a wave of attacks orchestrated by the Taliban.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Wednesday night for what appeared to be an adverse reaction to medication, but she was released Thursday.
Tags: Balloon Boy, Barack Obama, Falcon Heene, James Clyburn, John Fugelsang, Nancy Pelosi, Pakistan, Robert Andrews, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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LiveBlog for Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday, October 9th, 2009
• Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and Obama’s Nobel Prize.
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and Obama’s Nobel Prize.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
• Buoyed by a new congressional report boosting President Obama’s prospects for overhauling the U.S. health care system, Senate leaders yesterday scheduled a key vote on the Senate Finance Committee’s legislation for Tuesday.
• The House voted yesterday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
• The moon is due for a double whammy from two NASA probes today. One slammed the moon’s south pole this morning at 4:31am Pacific in a search for water ice buried in craters.
Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Van Hollen, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Martin Luther King Jr., NASA, Nobel Peace Prize, Rosa LeLauro
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LiveBlog for Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Theresa Barrett from WCPT-AM in Chicago calls in at 7:05am Pacific to tell us about the atmosphere at the Olympics announcement at Daley Plaza in Chicago.
• Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us via ISDN from our New York City bureau to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• In a hometown pitch for the world’s biggest sporting event, President Obama yesterday lobbied Olympic leaders to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying the U.S. “is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust.”
• Dems worked to smooth the impact of sweeping health care legislation on working-class families yesterday as they pushed President Obama’s top domestic priority toward a crucial Senate advance. GOP-ers are worried of a potential backlash against the penalty for people who decline to buy insurance.
• A CBS News employee is under arrest for trying to extort $2 Million from David Letterman, forcing the late night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers last night that he had sexual relationships with female employees. The person who was arrested works on the CBS show “48 Hours” and has been suspended.
Tags: Barack Obama, CBS News, Chicago, David Letterman, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Lois Capps, Olympics, Sarbanes
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LiveBlog for Friday, September 25, 2009
Friday, September 25th, 2009
• Max Blumenthal calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered The Party.”
• Terry O’Sullivan, President of the Laborers International Union of North America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk abou all things politics and pop culture.
• The U.S., Britain, and France today will accuse Iran of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel and demand that Tehran grant access to international weapons inspectors, The New York Times reported.
• The Senate Finance Committee defeated a Dem amendment that would have gradually closed the coverage gap in the Medicare drug benefit at the expense of drugmakers. Nonetheless, another proposal to shield seniors in Medicare private insurance plans from benefit cuts remained alive.
• Advocates for a public insurance plan, the idea that has generated the most passion in the health care debate, are pressing for a crucial test vote in the Senate Finance Committee.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized yesterday after becoming ill in her office at the court. She had received a treatment for an iron deficiency and developed “lightheadedness and fatigue” about an hour later. She is expected to be released today.
Tags: Health Care Reform, Iran, John Fugelsang, Max Blumenthal, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Terry O'Sullivan
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