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From House Democrats. Its such a body blow to our democracy. Just how far reaching was this effort by the Justice Department . Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is trying to mend fences and build bridges. As President Biden is welcomed back to the club at the g7 summit in europe, he is also preparing for a closelywatched summit with russian president Vladimir Putin as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. The president will take questions from reporter...

family flying. these loopholes still exist. >> absolutely. thank you. its the top of the hour and i want to update you on a story thats developing. a bus carrying israeli tourists exploded. the death toll has grown to six. theres a great deal of speculation as to who is to blame for this. elise is covering this story for us. israel is blaming iran for this. why is that? >> reporter: in recent months they say the israelis have th thwarted atakes. they say they have indications it coul...

wrong about chavez, and that tells you a lot. >> and he also recently awarded an apartment to a woman who became his 3 millionth twitter follower, and he is a big twitter follower. >> yes, he is wildly popular and the message is getting through to twitter again, and he did this, and he is rewarding somebody for being the 3 millionth follower. >> can you imagine if president obama or mitt romney were giving away homes on live television? >> no. >> thank you, miguel. -- captions by vitac...

go so far as to categorize his position on same-sex marriage as one that was in the process of evolving. >> whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married, ive spoken about this recently, as ive said. my feelings about this are constantly evolving. i struggle with this. >> youve said your position is evolving. you said youre struggling with it. what more do you need to know? >> well, you know, i probably wont make news right now, george, but i think theres no doubt that as i s...

>> well, you know, i probably wont make news right now, george, but i think theres no doubt that as i see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how i think about these issues. >> again, what i know is what his position was during the campaign and what it is now. you know, hes been very clear about it, he was very clear in the campaign, hes very clear about the fact that his position -- that its evolving. the president said that he ...

marriage have long pressed for the president to say just those words. but for the past two years, he and the white house would only go so far as to categorize his position on same-sex marriage as one that was in the process of evolving. >> whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married, ive spoken about this recently, as ive said. my feelings about this are constantly evolving. i struggle with this. >> youve said your position is evolving. you said youre struggling with it. wh...

congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. hes been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? >> i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically its a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. its right now as you said being tested and analyzed by the fbi. obviously a concern would be that being unmetallic as to whether or no...

everyone, its 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, theyre not saying where, oar when it happened. heres what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. its a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was...

briefed on the details and joins us on the phone. >> ive just discussed this. its a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on an american bound airline. it never made it to the airline, its right now, as you said, being tested and analyzed by the fbi. a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this would affect the security in our airports. this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about -- sometime last month. sometime in april. its ...

we are joined by congressman king on the phone. whats the latest you can tell us? >> we spoke with napolitano. a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on a american-bound airline. it never made it to the airline. its being tested and analyzed by this fbi. obviously a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this could evade security in our airports. thats a really concern. also, this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about some ti...