Page 39 - Is Reporting News Today

That right now is the fight going on. back to you. heather: william la jeunesse is reporting for us, thank you. bill: 23 minutes past. a leading medical researcher pleading not guilty to poisoning his wife. what were learning about the prosecutions case and something that was on the doctors credit card record. heather: a look closely. is a man flying side by side with a boeing b-17. jet man joins us live straight ahead. bill: cool guy too. ♪

>> the president has tended not to give him space. but politico is reporting today that house leaders are willing to let this go all year to wait until december to have a vote on this. if thats what it takes to convince members that they should go along with it. now speaker boehner set a high bar for himself. hes said that he wont pass this just relying on democratic votes. which i think he could do. i still wonder, if when we come down to christmas eve thats whats going to happen. but if hes sa...

The west wing. >> i dont think there was a great belief they were going to be friendly about these issues. but you are absolutely right, this is bigger than the white house wants it to be at this point. >> jeff, before i let you go, i want to ask you also about general cartwright whos the number two former vice chair of the joint chiefs. very close to president obama but president obama pointedly did not promote him so they were already issues there with the pentagon. he was known as being dovis...

Get abuse politically. clearly there got to be limits and that -- i started asking questions in the intelligence committee yesterday of nsa people and i think youre going to see some changes made. >> senator, thank you so much for being with us. senator angus king, greatly appreciate it. maggie, politico is reporting, among most lawmakers, collective shrug. >> and a collective sworn to secre secrecy. the senator is talking we should have debate and talk about limits and im not sure where the deb...

Area has supposedly increased according to the reporting of fox there and others. most likely because gas is he escaping it is almost always the case that the gas lines dont shut off and they have to get in there and shut the gas lines off, which causes fires. but hopefully people are away. and the latest we have is that cbs is reporting -- well, cbs is reporting that some people have lost their lives in this. and, of course, it would be hard to imagine that they did not. but we can hope that th...

Tomorrow and the fact that he has a new granddaughter. do you think hell continue on this track that hes been on? >> no question about it. i think he likes being off the radar screen. he likes not being in the political mix and allowing the current president and future presidents not to have to deal with outside pass presidents infringing on their turf and territory. he knows how hard a job it is by itself without having others intervening. i think hes very happy and content painting and mount b...

The now -- that breaking news you reported from, elise labott is reporting, about the saudi national being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it is also kind of points out that there was a lot of reporting last night about this house, this apartment being searched in revere, massachusetts, which was connected to that saudi national. that clearly means that that house search then of the saudi national was just a bystander just in the wrong place at the wrong time, that house search then did no...

A tide was hard to swim against. he would give that speech, then go on tv. >> you had some amazing moments on tv those days. >> a lot of fights. i said wait, the post, the times is reporting, i would talk, did my reporting, i talked to nuclear scientists about the aluminum tubes and they would say that wasnt proven. you would be laughed at. >> it was a wise mans view. a serious mans view. >> media consensus, tell you one story. wont embarrass the person, it is someone we both know. he told me hi...

Should take what bush says with more weight. the thrust of the story should have been president bush said something, contradicted by his own government and that should have been the lead, the fact he was saying something that wasnt proven. again and again and again. colin powell, that speech he gave february 5th, 2003, everyone remembers that, you know -- >> swayed a lot of people. >> swayed a lot of people. the coverage was over the top. it was like writing about a rock star. then if you turned...

Are not required to conduct background checks or sale records as gun shops do. the loophole, not requiring a background check is what congress has its sights on. a bill to require universal background checks. its headed to a full vote in the senate. that bill, importantly, didnt get one vote from republicans on the committee. it passed with only democratic support. theres news tonight there may be a political breakthrough coming. nbc news is reporting tonight the nra, which long stood in the way...