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Climate could change dramatically. and by this time next year, president obama will have to compete for attention with the likely 2016 presidential contenders as the race for the white house takes off. clearly, this will be a significant moment for president obama. cnn anchor jake tapper is up on capitol hill right now. what are we learning about the presidents speech. >> wolf, good evening. were told the president and his team have been making late tweaks within the last couple hours. we should...

Or is that even their role? >> they will continue to be meeting with white house and administration officials to make sure that things are fixed by the time people are able to exercise benefits with new policies. they are also going to be pressing to see if they can work separately from the website, separate from healthcare.gov, maybe with the irs or social security administration to verify that they are indeed citizens or have social security numbers and if they are eligible for benefits. they ...

Cleaner, this is specific to merkel. why? im going to presume that theres some information that led them to do this. well, maybe we need to know what that information is, as difficult as it might be to reveal. but we need to know what the hell has been going on here. >> i think its just republicans coming out suddenly and defending these programs. at the very beginning of the snowden revelations, there was a hard, hard push from the white house that has completely vanished. and people like mike ...

Had the chamber of commerce saying he likes this idea that at least both sides are cobbling together something that will move a lot of these folks to citizenship, and the chamber endorses that. >> well, you know, i believe that the people of arizona strongly believe that they need to get in the back of the line and do it the way that everybody else has done it. bottom line, neil, we know we need a work force, there could be work series saturday but not citizenship. i think the majority of the pe...

Get our first pictures here this afternoon. weve had reports from point pleasant beach where the beach was essentially taken and spread through the town and then weve heard from atlantic city and seen where the boardwalk was ripped up and so forth. in the middle is long beach island and i havent seen any reports from long beach island. what happened there is they were on the side of the storm where the water was pushed from the ocean in across the shoreline. farther south, down into maryland and...

Were trying to shift the health care system to preventative care. and now the final regulation is about to be adopted. and theres been a hard push by religious institutions to say that catholic hospitals, catholic universities, other institutions should be able to refuse to cover birth control for their employees, for students at catholic universities and so on. and we think thats a terrible mistake because we think that the people who have the conscience clause who can make their decisions abou...

Birth control. and that makes sense because thats preventative care. were trying to shift the health care system to preventative care. and now the final regulation is about to be adopted. and theres been a hard push by religious institutions to say that catholic hospitals, catholic universities, other institutions should be able to refuse to cover birth control for their employees, for students at catholic universities and so on. and we think thats a terrible mistake because we think that the pe...

Birth control. and that makes sense because thats preventative care. were trying to shift the health care system to preventative care. and now the final regulation is about to be adopted. and theres been a hard push by religious institutions to say that catholic hospitals, catholic universities, other institutions should be able to refuse to cover birth control for their employees, for students at catholic universities and so on. and we think thats a terrible mistake because we think that the pe...

Razzle dazzle im on the offensive. bill, he has been doing this for a month. his numbers have not moved. his numbers today daily gallup tracking poll shows him at a 40% approval. 52% disapproval. he has been doing the hard push, the hard sell republic obstructionist, its not working. the problem is his policies dont work. its not about the politics. its about his policies. but he doesnt want to run on his record and he is trying this other thing. i dont think its working. >> bill: okay. so the r...

House has dispersed but were learning more about what led up to the operation and killing of osama bin laden. lets bring in our white house correspondent, dan lothian. walk us through the timeline. >> reporter: drew, first of all, i should tell you that going after osama bin laden had remained a key push for this administration. but much of what had been happening was going on behind the scenes. a senior administration official said that the hard push began back in june of 2009 when the presiden...