that got him. stephanie: all right. here she is jacki schechner. good morning, everybody. it is day two of the g-8 summit and president obama is attending a series of sessions throughout the morning. on the agenda is ways to avoid tax evasion and boost trade. and ways to extend humanitarian aid to syria. president obama and president putin met together yesterday. and while the two don t share an agreement on the conflict, they can aggress diplomacy is the best way to move forward if possible. obama: we share an interest in reducing the violence securing chemical weapons, and we want to try to resolve the issue. they were able to sign a new deal to continue to destroy nuclear material. russia had been hesitant to resign the agreement which it rightfully saw as aggressive and intrusive in some respects. and today is the day when the us will formally hand over security to the afghans. this marks one step closer to all troops being out of the country by the end of nex
morning. so does my mom. stephanie: wow. that makes me actually, i don t think she has a dvr. stephanie: that makes me rethink a lot of the conversations we ve had on this show. it is because my mom can t watch anymore in charlotte that i behave as i do. she s got good sensibilities but also a good sense of humor. stephanie: all right i ll step it up a notch. be on your bestest behavior. stephanie: mrs. schechner s little girl in the current news center. good morning, everybody. president obama is heading to boston a little later this morning. he s going to headline a campaign rally for representative ed markey who is running for senate. he s up against republican gabriel gomez political newcomer as the two vie to take over john kerry s former seat. president obama is also going to go to a smaller event a meet and greet for political donors on markey s of behalf. at suffolk university poll out on monday says the president s popularity in massachusetts is a
and if national security adviser susan rice fails to stop terror attack that kills 3,000 americans will the g.o.p. finally think she s qualified to be secretary of state? today it the birthday of bill moyers dr. jill biden and chuck klosterman and 4 years ago in teenteen man square, an unknown unarmed protester nor democracy stood before a row of tanks and briefly made them stop america responded by renewing china s most favored nation trading status, and today they re the best capitalists in the history commune this is viewpoint . cenk: attorney general eric holder is assuring top aides that he s doing fine and he continues to be under fire from the lawmakers and media. how difficult it is to shed light on exactly what s going on with the war on terror in a climate where the obama administration, let s be fair, has a rather aggressive posture against journalist who is have prying eyes, and no one knows this more better than jeremy skahill. he s the national security corr
the republican when goes in will will probably vote basically the exact same way michele bachmann did. gets to bigger issue in the american politics, that s why the republicans have such a grip on the house. there are so many districts like bachmann s where you can take bachmann out and vote like bachmann and you will win. that certain sly the case. it is a reflection of both ends. jim graves is a very impressive guy. but who wants to run for the house now given what you have to go through to run for the house? then you get there and what have you got? so it is getting more difficult to recruit really good people who are institutionalists on the democratic side and on the republican side it is one crazy after another. the one thing i would take issue with the statement is you could get somebody who is even more extreme than bachmann and in that district, i m a minnesotan and i know it and it could happen. we will start the marcus bachmann for congress. i want to thank sarah p
norm ornstein. sahil kapur. sarah posner. the nuclear option is back. a path to detonation has been established. that is the upshot of this week s biggest news out of washington. president obama is poised to make three simultaneous nominations for the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. second most powerful court in the country. this is an unmistakably aggressive move by the president. one designed to test the limits, republican obstructionism that stalled agenda, and one that could bring about the demise of the filibuster as we know it. that s the nuclear option. republicans in the past four plus years perfected the art of bending the senate s norms to filibuster to filibuster delay and otherwise derail obama s nominee. particularly when it comes to judges. new study from the congressional research service shows the wait time from nomination to con fir mission for the average federal circuit court pick has radically increased. process that to