durbin: i thank the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, finally let me say the man from nevada is not alone. there are 1.5 million people like him in this country. sadly that number will grow every week congress fails to act. and my republican colleagues denigrate or ignore these americans to their own political peril. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, let me just say in response to the colloquy we just heard, it used to be the assistant majority leader's view that, as he put it, if you don't want to fight fires, don't become a firefighter. and if you don't want to cast tough votes, don't come to the senate. obviously those days have changed, and what really happened over the last week is the refusal to have an open amendment process,

durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the assistant majority leader. mr. durbin: mr. president, on the side supporting the pending motion, there's 15 minutes under the unanimous consent agreement. a similar amount of time on the other sievmentd if all time is used, notified members, our roll call vote will be at about 11:00. i ask unanimous consent that on our side supporting the motion that i be allotted five minutes, senator reed of rhode island, five minutes and senator klobuchar of minnesota five minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i listened carefully to the republican leader here. here's what he said. here's what he said. if we are going to give 1.3 million americans unemployment insurance that is now expired, if we're going to give it to them, we have to pay for it. and then he suggested how he would pay for it. he would pay for it by attacking obamacare. that's no surprise. but the provision that he would attack is the individual mandate, the mandate that people buy health insurance. well, wha

durbin: mr. pree senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask that the quorum call be suspendedment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i never would have imagined that today the senate would be meeting without one of our tree here roarks the recipient of the congressional medal of honor, senator danny inouye of hawaii. he and senator ted stevens of alaska guided the subcommittee on defense of the senate appropriations committee for decades with a steady hand and commitment to working 0en a bipartisan basis. i've been fortunate in working 0en this appropriations bill to have as my rank member senator thad cochran of mississippi. he's carried on that legacy of bipartisanship. he is my friend. we trust one another, and that has made this job so much more complete and satisfying. we've conferenced a massive defense appropriations bill on an expedited schedule and we encourage our colleagues to vote for it in final passage. virtually 60% of all of the domestic discretionary spending of the united states of america is included in this one appropriations bill. now for ne

durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 295, s. 1901. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 295, s. 1901, a bill to authorize the froze extend the term of the nuclear energy agreement with the republic of korea until march 19, 2016. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. durbin: i further ask the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of h. con. res. 75, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 75, providing for a joint session of congress to receive a message from the president. the presiding

durbin: mr. president, how much time is remaining? the presiding officer: about 20 minutes. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask that i be given 10 minutes and i believe senator schumer is coming to the floor. i ask he be given the remaining 10 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: thank you. mr. president, pending before the congress now is debate on unemployment benefits. 1.3 million americans got a notice january 1st that they were not going to receive anymore unemployment benefit checks. these are people out of work through no fault of their own, who are required under law to be actively pursuing additional employment and regularly reporting to the government. and for that they receive unemployment benefits of -- average of about $300 a week. $300 a week is not a generous amount in this day and age. it's very difficult for any family to get by. they're going to have to dip into their savings to make rent payments, utility payments, put gas in the car to go look for a job,

durbin: senate republicans insisted on a pay-for. the senate democrats provided it. the senate republicans still refused to stop their filibuster. then the senate republicans insisted on amendments. we offered up to ten amendments on each side. can the senate majority leader say after offering that unanimous consent, did the republicans agree to it and stop their filibuster of unemployment benefits? mr. reid: i already said they did not. mr. durbin: i would ask the majority leader at this point in time, what are we waiting for? what are the senate republicans now demanding to stop their filibuster providing unemployment benefits to 1.4 million people across america? mr. reid: i have no idea. mr. durbin: i would say to the senate majority leader, it strikes me as unfair, if not cruel, that we are holding 1.4 million unemployed americans hostage to this continued political negotiation where each day the republicans come up with a new demand before they'll stop their senate republican filibuster. i would ask the senator from nevada, our majority leader, does he believe

senator graham. >> thank you, senator durbin. i won't take long. i just want to thank you for holding this hearing. i think it's an issue that merits our attention. i think we have been in the hearing on this before, ms. richard. we have been a day late and dollar short consistently with our response to the syrian crisis. and as a result we have always been behind the curve. as a result i think there's been unnecessary human suffering. like senator klobuchar i traveled to the area with a bipartisan delegation. i would like to put into the record a letter that senator mccain and i, senator gillibrand, senator blumenthal and others wrote to the president urging a fulsome and robust response to the crisis that has developed in syria, and i hope we learn a lesson from this because, frankly, we were warned all along the way. despite the warning from members of congress, from allies in the neighborhood we remained always a day late and a dollar short. i think it has been a very unfortunate episode. .hank you >> without, the letter will be admitted into t

richard durbin of illinois is the chairman of the subcommittee. they are going to hear testimony from state and homeland security officials. >> live where they can. clustered in tends or abandoned buildings. -- tents or abandoned buildings. in turkey 21 camps in 10 provinces, 200,000 syrian refugees, thousands more living outside the camps. northern iraq, these syrians find refuge in a park. egypt, where more and more syrians seek safety or a route to europe. more than two million refugees, syria is hemorrhaging women, children, and men. inside syria, over six million displaced. more than half the human flood leaving syria are children. one million children, 70% under the age of 12. children like this one, only two days old when her family fled to iraq. or this 4-year-old, her face scarred from a life saved. or this one, whose hope is to go to school. or this child who works to feed his family. the tide does not subdied. last august over 40,000 refugees cross add temporary pontoon bridge in northern iraq in just one week. recently outside lebanon,

durbin: would the senator yield for a question? mr. reed: i will be happy to. mr. durbin: i would like to direct a question to the senator from rhode island through the chair. there's been debate on the floor here, and we've heard it off the floor, about whether or not we should pay for unemployment benefits. historically, if i'm not mistaken, most of the decisions to extend unemployment insurance benefits have been considered emergency measures and not paid for. and now there's a suggestion from many republicans that we need to cut spending in areas to compensate for these extension of unemployment benefits, which if i am nea not mistaken are ine area of $26 billion a year. one of the suggestions yesterday from the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell would address, is not surprisingly, the affordable care act, so-called obamacare, and would eliminate the basis for one of the basic protections in that law. what senator mcconnell proposed yesterday was to eliminate the responsibility of every individual who had health insurance that was put in the law so we cou

i want to complement you on that senator durbin. >> thank you mr. chairman and i would say it's the grassley amendment that brought us into this world in terms of bringing members of congress and their staff into the affordable care act which we are now under and it was not complete when it came to anti-kickback and we certainly want to make sure that it is. [inaudible] >> i think every staff member in the congress are paying considerably more for the health care notes the grassley amendment. >> mr. chairman if i could address two questions related to the wheels of justice. each year when you appear mr. attorney general i ask you the same question he gave me the same answer about racial profiling guidelines and you say really soon we are going to work on this. this year i would like to ask you how quickly can we expect new racial profiling guidelines when it relates to issues of religion, national origin and whether it applies to national security and border security cases. >> i don't want to repeat the words really soon given what you said so i wil

. >> joining me now is senator dick durbin, democrat from illinois. senator, i wanted to get your reaction to the argument that house speaker john boehner seems to be making against a renewal which is this renewal won't solve joblessness. >> well, i can tell you it's a new attitude of the republicans. there was a time when they believed that a person who was down and out looking for a job needed a helping hand, and they were willing to do it. this used to be a bipartisan effort. over the years we've seen this ain't your daddy's republican party. they basically believe that the way to get the unemployed lazy off their back sides is let them live with an eviction notice or cutoff in the utilities. i don't think that's a humane way to approach this. >> what's confusing to me, i can't tell and couldn't tell today when watching the procedural vote on the floor of the senate whether republicans object to it in principle or whether they want it paid for. do you understand what your colleagues are demanding and why they're actually obstructing it? because it

marty durbin is c.e.o. of america's natural gas alliance, an industry trade group.he joins us now, thank you for being here. >> happy to be here. >> so i think a lot of americans think we have this glut, this enormous supply right now of natural gas but we're finding out it's more complicated than that. >> it actually is true. we do have an he nor house supply of natural gas. what we're seeing happen now is, this is obviously a severe weather event as we've been hearing about. and so the prices will move. when we have these events. you know, the last two winters were very mild. we saw prices down around $2.50. so while we are having some isolated issues of infrastructure, both policy and financing issues around pipelines and what have you, bottom line is the supply is there. >> woodruff: well, if the supply is there than what is happening. we mentioned three states in the midwest. what are the infrastructure in the pipeline issue problems. >> well, let me be clear first in the transcanada pipeline issue. the concern about anybody will have to be in the cold right no

we're going to hear reaction from the home state confidante senator dick durbin. >>> and vice president biden offers a morning television trifecta with notable nuggets, but not about the speech. we'll share them. >>> a new york congressman is trying to explain his "grim" proposal to a reporter last nye. >>> plus a severe southern storm forces hundreds of kids to spend the night in school. good morning from washington, january 29, 2014. this is the "the daily rundown." the post-state of the union wednesday. it's a busy day. so let's get to my "first reads." for some, president obama's speech was a symbol of scaled-down ambitions. for others, it was a pragmatic acknowledgement that his legislative agenda is likely to remain stalled in congress. today, the president kicks off a two-day, four-state trip pegged to expanding the themes of the state of the union, particularly the one big idea in the speech. >> opportunity -- opportunity -- opportunity -- opportunity -- opportunities -- opportunity -- opportunity -- opportunity -- the opportunity -- >> instead of the traditional laundry lit of

kathy mcmorris rogers and the senate's number-two democrat, dick durbin. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with breaking news. these are live pictures from atlanta where misery is turning to fury right now. this hour, one of the largest cities in the country virtually shut down for the next 24 hours. a half dozen states across the southeast are now under snow and ice with two people dead in georgia and five in alabama. more than a thousand accidents reported after just a few inches of snow turned major roadways into icy parking lots and stores into shelters. look at this. these are live pictures at traffic cameras around atlanta where everies are under way to clear thousands of abandoned cars and trucks. drivers, some after waiting ten hours or more in traffic, decided to risk their own lives and walk miles in bitter cold to try to get home. thousands of children forced to spend the night in schools or on school buses. they are finally home tonight. cnn has team coverage of all of the breaking story. our victor blackwell and bringian todd are both s

mike lee has been working with dick durbin and rand paul and cory booker broached the subject just lasthe year they take on the failed war on drugs. all right. rand paul has introduced a bill with liberal patrick leahy to drastically reform mandatory minimums. paul didn't just make the argument that these harsh drug laws are expensive and effective, he also said they discriminate against the poor and minorities. >> you heard a republican senator quoting an aclu report on how the war on drug visits disproportionate suffering on black men. an aclu report. you just heard a republican senator say, quote, there is no justice here. >> and as lawrence was getting at, paul wasn't only right to join this reform effort, he was politically independent. the war on drugs may be a policy failure, but it's been a political winner for many, many candidates in both parties. from nixon's law and order crackdown in 196 to george h.w. bush's campaign crime obsession in 1988, running on mass incarceration was often a winning message. >> i pledge to you the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the fu

and i've been talking with senator durbin, others in the senate on the democrat side. i think we could agree to that tomorrow, but we have to narrow the focus and not say, oh, we're going to do overall tax reform because we don't agree on overall tax reform. >> the future of the republican party and, frankly, your place in it is a big story. just this morning, the front page "the new york times" has this headline, "rand paul's mixed inheritance," senator looking to move libertarianism from the fringe to the mainstream. how big of a hurdle is this for you if you're going to run for president? >> you know, i think there always are perceptions of what is extreme versus what is mainstream. i've always said you know, spending what comes in, balancing your budget is actually the very reasonable sort of proposal and spending a trillion dollars you don't have is an extreme proposal. so really it's a matter of getting our message out. but i think we've been talking a lot about poverty. it's about debating not who wants to cure poverty, republicans want to help people who are un

i hope they don't repeat it again when it comes to the debt ceiling. >> senator durbin, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, david. >>> coming up here if you haven't noticed, there's a lot of talk about hillary clinton this morning. our roundtable weighs in on what "the new york times" is calling planet hillary. >>> plus, edward snowden, the u.s. says it may be willing to make a deal. is he ready to talk? we go live to moscow to speak to within of his top advisors. >>> and tennis legend billie jean king is a trailblazer once again as she heads to the winter olympics in sochi. harry smith with a revealing profile. >> it's horrible to be outed in the first place. i was so publicly outed, i lost all my endorsements in 24 hours. it's not a good feeling. yeah, he's clean, boss. now listen to me, duck. i have an associate that met with, uh, an unfortunate accident. while he's been incapacitated, somebody's been paying him cash. now, is this your doing? aflac? now, if i met with some such accident, would aflac pay me? ♪ nice. this is your stop. [ male announcer ] find out what afl

durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the assistant majority leader. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i have eight unanimous consent requests, they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders and i ask these requests be agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. durbin: mr. president, i rise today to pay tribute to hida foanl, lost to, pendleton, lost one year ago today. she was 15 years old. she was gunned down while she was standing with friends in a park on chicago's south side. a talented, caring girl with a bright future, she was a sophomore at king college prep, she was an honors student, majorette in the school band. this is her photograph. those who knew her talk about her warm heart, her big smile, what a great friend she was to all those around her. a week before her death hidia was here in washington performing with her school ban

durbin: mr. president, i grew up in east st. louis, illinois, on the banks of the mississippi river. and as a child, it was a dominant feature in my life, crossing that river, watching that river. and it didn't take long as i grew up to realize that that river has a mind of its own. last year, because of drought conditions in the midwest, the mississippi river was so low in january or february of 2013 that the army corps of engineers had to come out on an emergency basis and scour literally the bottom of the river of rock formations so navigation could continue. we were worried that we would have to shut down this major economic artery in the midwest because the river was so low. the army did a great job. navigation continued with only flight sleight delays and no major interruptions. within 60 or 90 days that same river was at flood stage. that is the kind of thing that those of us who grew up in the midwest come to expect and understand. the unpredictability of that river. and as you grew up and started to look around you, you

senator schumer, mccain, durbin become such a player.ether for a press conversation, -- conference. i probably shotl--z a hundred. i was moving around different sides of the room. i was able to go outside the backdoor and look at different angles. you try to pick up nuances where they are talking to each other. those two obviously have adaqw unique relationship too. senator mccain and senator schumer. gabrielle giffords. what was that? >> she testified up on the hill when gun legislation was brought belijjj?bkÑ the senate. really powerful hearing to hear her testify obviously being a victim, tragically shot the way she has and the way she come back. her husband has been such a huge supporter. really emotional hearing there. >> another photograph coming up here shows wayne lapierre at the table with others. what do you see here when you take a photo like this? >> you see the difference what's being brought to the senate. you have peopleq=÷hñ who are eir very conservative or liberal when it comes to gun rights. you're looking for little mo

. >> thank you very much chairman durbin.ou ranking member cruz and other members of the subcommittee. we really appreciate your having this hearing today to shine a light on this crisis and most importantly put a human face on it. we have heard the staggering statistics and the numbers are really hard to comprehend. thank you senator klobuchar for the stories that you told. those in need in this crisis or equal to the entire state of new jersey and the displaced are as if the entire state of massachusetts were out of their homes. most importantly the 5 million children who are affected is equal to the children in the entire 25 largest school districts in this country so that is all of new york all of los angeles, etc. etc. for 25 school districts. this is a generation of syrian children who have been traumatized by bombs with many of them losing their homes, their families and friends. unfortunately similar to massachusetts and new jersey the region faces one of the worst winters in the last 100 years adding to the hardship

grant baker from durbin, south africa, takes the title again. he took it in 2006. second was shane, a hawaiian, and third was ryan of santa cruz. there were tens of thousands of spectators for the competition. a lot of people watching this also around the world online. it was a great day of competition. a lot of other top finishers from california were in the top six, including tyler fox, greg long of san clemente and anthony of santa cruz. kpix5. >> the winner was grant twiggy baker of south africa. baker had incredible rides like this one, and the waves are huge. up to 40 feet tall and this is what it is like to surf mavericks. >> the waves are pretty big. a couple 20-foot -- but it has a chopper and every time you're about to get your feet, it looks like there's no way you're going to make it and you know, i saw guys going on waves. it was just outrageous. >> he takes home $12,000 for coming in first. >> new video of justin bieber drag racing with police close behind. not only that, wait until you hear who he is comparing himself to. >> free crack pipes in san f

mike lee and dirk durbin have been talking for a few months about it, putting together legislation.lation that mirrors texas' reforms and rand paul and senator leahy, hard to find two senators with less in common, are also working on prison reform. what i'm hearing is we should expect one prison reform bill to come out of the judiciary committee. >> most recently, presidents are opening up, at least about legalizing marijuana. the new yorker piece, and i'm sure you have read it, but i want to get your thoughts on it. this is how aboma put it when he was asked about legalizing marijuana. i view it as a bad habit and a vice. i don't think it's more dangerous, though, than alcohol. we shouldn't lock up kids for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks writing the laws have probably done the same thing. i mean, it used to be a war on drugs. and now you have presidents on both sides of the aisle evolving on this issue. i feel like this not only changed the stigma here but also helps people sort of evolve on this issue as well. >> it's enough to walk the cuckals of our wonky lit

. >> quickly coming to hillary's defense, illinois democratic senator dick durbin. >> the issues thatsed by my colleague, senator paul, have been litigated in the public square for over a decade. for goodness's sakes, let's judge hillary clinton based on her talents and her vision for america should she choose to run for president. >>> a record number of people say they deserve representation 46%. only 17% say most members of congress deserve to be re-elected. >>> senator john mccain censured. they're calling his voting record insufficiently conservative. the resolution saying mccain has campaigned as a conservative but has lent his support to issues associated with things like immigration reform. >>> looking ahead to president obama's state of the union address tomorrow, the white house says three words will sum it up. opportunity, action, and optimism. but for the first time before a state of the union address, more americans disapprove of the president than approve. 50 to 46 according to a new abc/washington post poll. it's even worse in congress. 27% say they have confidence in de

we're going to look at some of the comments he made on fox news sunday, followed by dick durbin of illinois who is on meet the press also talking about the debt ceiling issue. >> some of the most significant legislation passed in the last 50 years has been in conjunction with the debt ceiling and the congressional review act. the clinton republican congress package in the late 90s that led to three years in a row of balanced budgets. control act from 2011. for the president to ask -- for the president to ask for a clean debt ceiling when we have the debt the size of our economy is irresponsible. we ought to discuss adding something to his request to raise the debt ceiling that does something about the debt or produces something positive. >> i hope what we saw with the budget agreement at the very end of last year and beginning of this year is an indication of a new bipartisan spirit. we certainly need it on capitol hill. paul ryan and patty murray sat down and hammered out a budget mikulski andara senator rogers put together the spending bill. this was an amazing breakthrough. we haven't do

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and thank you for mentioning entencing, what senator durbin and lee and paul and ryan and others, whong together to try to get something that not only makes sense but can pass. the old one-size-fits-all, we realize, one, it doesn't make us safer, two, it doesn't deter crime. but, three, it means we're spending a huge amount of money on things that don't make us better and takes money away from good law enforcement that we need. last week the privacy and civil liberties oversight board issued a report that concluded the n.s.a.'s phone records program should end and i agree with that. for the recommendations, you and the director of national intelligence will develop in the coming months, but executive action is not enough. i think congress has to act to ensure that this legal theory, that's what i consider legal theory, is not used by any administration to spy on its zones. -- citizens. now, d.o.j.'s current interpretation of relevance in section 215 could allow the government to acquire virtually any database that might someday down the road for some reason, somehow, find useful. firs

durbin, mr. mcconnell, mr. cornyn, mr. blunt. >> the members of the escort committee will exit through the chamber doors through the lobby. >> acting dean of the diplomatic orps. >> mr. speaker, the chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court.

marty durbin we all know well. we hated to see him leave the api. paul connors, the trade commissioner of the canadian embassy. last and certainly not least, area russell who has up the independent petroleum association of america. let us give all of these vip's a round of applause. [applause] thank you all for being here. as we reflect on this time of year, with the holidays behind us, we reflect on the past but we also look clearly to the future. this time when the year is just beginning reminds us that our future is ultimately of our own design. the same holds true for our nation. our generation will decide if america continues its march towards global energy leadership and perhaps once in a generation opportunity or if it were main content to play only a supporting role on the global energy market place. we can arrange what for decades has been one of america's greatest economic vulnerabilities -- our dependence on energy sources from other continents, particularly from less stable and less friendly nations. and fundamentally alter the geopoliti

two of the most powerful democrats, dick durbin and others bunk together with two representatives in townhouse. it had problems with rodents. their families don't like to stay when they visit. not exactly the lap of luxe. >> coming up "spiderman the musical" closed after losing millions, why are "rocky" and a "aladdin" following in the movie to musical footprint? techknow - ideas, invention, life. on al jazeera america exclusive report... >> from coast to coast... >> people selling fresh water for fracking... >> stories that have impact... >> we lost lives... >> that make a difference... >> senator, we were hoping we could ask you some questions about your legal problems... >> that open your world... >> it can be very dangerous... >> i hear gunshots... >> the bullet came right there through the widdow... >> it absolutely is a crisis... >> real reporting... >> this...is what we do... >> america tonight, only on al jazeera america. check check >> >> the india diplomat at the center of an international incident has left the u.s. and is headed home following her criminal indictment. maki

durbin. the senator from new york, mr. schumer. the senator from washington, ms. murray. the senator from colorado, mr. bennett. the senator from michigan, ms. stabenow. the senator from alaska, mr. begich. the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell. the senator from texas, mr. cornyn. the senator from south dakota, mr. thune. the senator from missouri, mr. blunt. and the senator from wyoming, mr. barrasso. >> the members of the escort committee are exit through the chamber doors through the lobby. [inaudible conversations] .. brt [ inaudible conversation] >> the acting dean of the court. applause ] >> mr. speaker, the chief justice and the >> mr. speaker, the chief justice and the justice of the supreme court. [ applause ] [ applause ] [inaudible conversations taking place]

dick durbin, the fifth state of the union for president obama. what did you think? >> i thought it was powerful. he started off on an issue people really care about. making sure that hard-working americans have a fighting chance in this economy. he talked about the basic issues. unemployed folks getting a chance to getting back to work. those who are working, making enough money to get by. making sure you have health insurance to give you peace of mind for your family. these are things real families are talking about. politicians are not, but the president brought them and he should have. up, >> three times he said he would act without the congress. jobs, infrastructure, and education. >> i think it is -- what he said was, i am willing to work with you, but i'm not going to wait on you. if congress gets caught up in its squabbles and shutdowns and all the other things, he is still going to do everything in his power to move this agenda. that is why he was elected. i hope all of us on both sides of the aisle take part in that. we can be part of the solution. >> he ta

as durbin put it it's whoo it is so fitting that we remember elliott ness. >> naming a building aftert. >> reporter: he says ness was a publicity seeking agent who failed to get enough evidence to prove that capone was a boot leger. they ended up relying on irs agents to nail him for tax evasion which ultimately sent him to prison but years later ness persuaded an author to make him the main figure in the saga. it spawned a tv series an then the movie. so what about that scene where ness and capone confront each other? >> there's no evidence they were in the same room together or that capone even knew ness. >> reporter: two agree with him and argue the honor is undeserved. >> if you're going to name a building after somebody thing you ought to do it because it was true not because it was in the movies. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," dean reynolds >>> high pressure overhead. beginning to weaken a little bit. it's warm outside in most parts of the bay area. that ridge is going to continue to slide eastward. temperatures will cool down a little bit. it's looking for a high of 72 de

dr durbin would have liked to have interviewed dr blair. it was the same circumstances confronting steven spil burg. holocaust survivors were dying interviewed. >> you have players, many who have died, most of whom or all of whom who have important stories. if no one saves them, they'll be gone forever. it makes it a tremendously important project. the first player to be interviewed was mudcat. the conversation was meant to last a few hours. they went on for four days. >> including one session seen here in front of a classroom full of students in a sport marketing class. >> you rarely talk to white at that time. >> mudcat keeps an office filled with district. >> i have a photo in here of me in sant ra pay. >> no, you don't. >> i do. it's where we met up with him. >> a lot of the history is disappearing. >> we have to maintain a certain type of scenario where these brothers have brought force all the time. that's why i have all of these pictures in here, because of a history of disappearing. >> what kind of history exactly? >> well, a source

two of the most powerful democrats, dick durbin and others bunk together with two representatives in townhouse. it had problems with rodents. their families don't like to stay when they visit. not exactly the lap of luxe. >> coming up "spiderman the musical" closed after losing millions, why are "rocky" and >> every sunday night al jazeera america presents >> $26,000 for one dinner. >> no, this could be explained. >> right. the porter house -- >> we had to buy champagne -- >> and tell them about the sides you ordered. >> sides? $26,000 worth of sides? what did they cure cancer? >> they didn't. "the wolf of wall street" is getting buzz, but a growing controversy is asking whether it exploits victims. bill wyman is with us. what responsibility to artists have to their audiences in being careful not to glamorize this when the subject is a criminal. >> that's a great question. and they are no obligation. they have an obligation to their art. but on balance this ends up seeming a little callus. it tends to leave a little bad taste in your mouth once you start thinking about the implicatio

elizabeth warren and dick durbin are pushing half of my proposal, student loan clawback provision. why i republicans win? i don't know. it does make sense as a good idea no matter who is behind it because right now the incentives have been entirely one-sided for universities to scarf up as much federally subsidized loan money as they can and let students out there suffering. there are a lot of students suffering. as all these changes i talked about happen, i predict what we will see is what we've seen when most comfy i'm a novelistic or guilt like industries change. it was better to see an airline captain before airline deregulation. it is better to be on charges say this, this hasn't personal residence to become it is better to be a tenured old professor under the system would have for the last several decades and it is likely to be over the next several decades. but especially for the last 20 years of so the comfy in his we've enjoyed in the academy has really been largely built on the backs of students and student loan debt. that's not fair not only is it not there, something th