i'm really feeling for them. >> raw and emotional. two radio hosts talk about the family of the nurse who took her own life after getting duped by their prank call. good morning, to you. welcome to "early start." welcome back, mr. berman. >> it is great to be here. i was on vacation for a week. now i'm back. i'm john berman. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. i am feeling that. but this, they are talking for the first time in over three weeks. president obama and house speaker john boehner looked each other in the eye and actually had a conversation. now that's a really big deal when it comes to the fiscal cliff crisis. because in just 22 days americans face severe tax hikes and spending cuts unless these two leaders can find a way to compromise. now neither side would discuss specifics about their conversation. but after yesterday's white house meeting, a spokesman for the president said "the lines of communication remain open." now that may be music to the ears of former white house chief of staff erskine bowles, one half of the bowles-simpson reduction duo. >> they started a tango now. you know, any time you got two guys in there tangoing, you have a chance to get it done. >> brianna keilar is live now from washington. we don't have a lot of details about what went on in that meeting. maybe if they're both not talking, that may be a good thing. >> that's right. in fact, we have almost absolutely no details. the things that really interesting, though, to observers here is the statement that came out from the white house and from the speaker's office. they're the same statement verbatim. they're not leaking details. and that's something that you may see as possibly a good thing. it's certainly not a bad thing. it means they're coordinating and trying to negotiate or speak with good faith here. so this is, as you mentioned, the first time that the two have met in the last 23 days. this is the first time that john boehner and president obama have met one-on-one since election day just to give you a sense. again, to stress no word on progress that they're really get being anywhe -- getting anywhere here. house republicans don't want to cave on the white house's demand, the tax income race, the income tax rates for the wealthiest americans increase. there does appear to be some movement among some republicans on talking about just maybe caving on that demand. but not increasing the rates as much as the white house wants. listen to republican senator bob corker. >> there is a growing group of folks that are looking at this and realizing we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end. a lot of people are putting forth a theory and i actually think it has merit where you go in and give the president the 2% increase that he's talking about, the rate increase on the top 2% and all of a sudden the shift goes back to entitlements. >> so senator corker, john, is part of a growing number of republicans who are saying that. let's cave on income tax rates. maybe not go all the way up to where the white house and senate democrats want. but let's give some on this so we can talk about entitlement reform, reforming medicare, reforming social security. this came on the heels of some developments on friday. remember house speaker john boehner came out and said i have no progress. this isn't a progress report. i have no progress to report. but then you also saw maybe the white house signalling that they're negotiable on just how much the rates go up because senator joe biden indicated that as well. >> and maybe with that meeting between the speaker and president, maybe with that statement from senator corker, maybe some movement this weekend which would be a good sign with just over three weeks left to go. brianna keilar in wash, what, thanks very much. it is four minutes past the hour. authorities in mexico found the wreckage of a small plane they believe was warying jenny rivera and six others. rivera's brother says the brother was told there were no survivors. the plane took off early sunday morning with rivera and six others onboard. they were heading to an airport near mexico city. the wreckage was spotted in the mountainous northern state. we have more on the life of the singer jenni rivera. what can you tell us? >> good morning. she sold 50 million records, won two billboard music awards and was a star of her reality show and served as a judge on a popular talent show in mexico. hard-working until the end. she performed the last concert saturday night in monterey, mexico, hours before dying in a plane crash on her way to yet another commitment. [ speaking spanish ] they call her diva. and for anyone who ever saw her on stage, it was easy to see why. she sang heartwrenching song that's spoke to the common woman, especially mexican-americans. >> translator: every song, every lyric i'm thinking of them and how i can relate to them. >> reporter: jenni rivera was born in long beach, california to mexican parents, their story of humble origins. with an interview in cnn, she spoke about how she sold records at a los angeles flea market and how the family expected cans for the meager income they could bring in selling the metal. >> translator: it is very flattering when they tell me i'm a great artist, a great entertainer. but when i'm on stage, i can entertain the audience. i can get in the recording studio and come up with a great production. before all that, i was a businesswoman. i'm business minded. >> reporter: in recent years, jenni rivera started several of her own companies including jenni rivera enterprises which produced and marketed her music, a fragrance brand, a jeans factory and a tv production company. she was famous for her electrifying performances on stage but her image was also battered by scandal. a mother of five, she married three times but their relationships were rocky and caused her much anguish and embarrassment. >> translator: staying defeated, crying and suffering was not an option. i had to get back on my feet, dust myself off and press on. that's what i want to teach my daughters. >> reporter: during her last interview saturday night, jenni rivera told mexican media she needed time to get emotionally well. asked about her christmas plans, she said i want to be with my family but only god knows what's going to happen. a big loss, indeed. >> do we know anything about why that plane went down? was it a helicopter she was on? >> it was a learjet. we don't know exactly why. but what i can tell you is at the time of the crash, it was cloudy in the area. it was in the mountains, remote area in the area of mexico. we don't know that there was some sort of malfunction with the aircraft or if it was humaner jurhuman error. >> thank you for bringing us that story. >> sad, sad story. the radio show that pulled a prank on the hospital where catherine the duchess of cambridge was a patient has been shut down after a nurse committed suicide. the deejays are also talking saying they came up with the idea as a team and expected to be hung up on. they're also saying that they are stunned by the nurse's death. >> unfortunately, i remember that moment very well because i haven't stopped thinking about it since it happened. >> when you found out she was of two children -- >> ver sorry and saddened for the family. i can't imagine what they're going through. >> and what about you, michael? >> gutted. you know, shattered. heart broken. >> the nurse who transferred their call to the ward tuesday was found dead on friday. duke and duchess of cambridge are deeply saddened about her death. some right to work opponents are expected to converge on michigan's capitol today. the protest is expected to swell to thousands tomorrow when the state house and senate will try to hammer out a final version which will make michigan the 24th right to work state. supporters say the legislation will spark economic growth and encourage fairness. opponents say it will lower wages and benefits and hurt the middle class and that strong unions built michigan's middle class. >> so fedex is bracing for the busiest day ever. ever. the company is expecting to handle 19 million packages today. that's 200 packs per second. the internet sales are booming and that is increasing volume by 10% over last year. >> i just ordered a ton last night. >> you're single-handedly responsible -- >> i'll be part of that. get it on time. that's all i say. the daring rescue of an american held in afghanistan comes at a very steep price. we're going to go live to the pentagon for more on the top secret mission. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ together for your future. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. wanted to provide better employee benefits while balancing the company's bottom line, their very first word was... 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>> yes, he was. taken to a u.s. military hospital where he's recovering. i think we can expect him to be on his way home to see his family very shortly. you know, i just wand to add, the u.s. military has specially trained hostage rescue teams that are special forces. it's some of the most dangerous business that the u.s. military can do. but by all accounts the navy seal was killed by small arms fire which suggests, and we don't know the details yet, that certainly suggest that's there was quite a fire fight during this mission, john. >> barbara star from the pentagon, thank you. let's get you up to date. here is christine romans with this morning's top stories. >> president obama and house speaker john boehner finally meeting face-to-face over the fiscal cliff. they sat down at the white house yesterday. neither side is discussing details. both agree the lines of communication remain open. massive tax hikes and spending cuts take hold in 22 days if the two leaders can't work out a deal. >> a busy day sunday at seattle city hall. 133 same-sex couples tied the knot. sarah and emily cover were among the first couples to get married. the same-sex couples married sunday in seattle were among the first to pick up their marriage licenses last thursday. the state required a three-day waiting period before ceremonies. european union leaders are in oslo to receive the nobel peace prize. hundreds of protesters have been braving oslo's snow. the prize was meant to honor contributions to disarmament and eu member states account for a third of global arms exports. >> thanks, christine. it is now 15 minutes after the hour. time for "early read," your local newsmaking national headlines. a big medical story in the "philadelphia enquirer." it's in a lot of papers this morning. very promising progress in the fight against leukemia. this is happening in the university of pennsylvania where doctors are using gene therapy to irrad indicate certain cancer cells. the first cases, seven of them are now free of the disease. the findings are already being presented by penn's research team. they use disabled hiv virus to help deliver these cells into the system. it's amazing technology showing incredible promise. >> that will be quite a breakthrough. 16 minutes past the hour. the state of florida is considering a way to change plans the way college students are charged tuition. governor rick scott wants to charge each student according to their major. christine romans is going to love this. engineers, scientists and technology experts are in demand, students with those majors would pay less than students majoring in disciplines like history, philosophy, or even english. i don't know how i feel about that. the idea is to steer kids towards fields where there is the most need. they'll take up the idea during the next legislation. >> it's innovative, but for humanities majors like me, is it fair to pay more to study that stuff? 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you're just trying to weather, you know, demand that's down. you're trying to implement health care reform. you're trying to do all these other things and waiting for congress to fix the fiscal cliff and it hasn't quite happened yet. i mean what do you -- what do do you? i don't even know what some of these folks can do. >> can we switch gears? >> yeah, let me tell you about the fcc? >> sure. >> do you want to talk on your phone on the plane? >> yes, i do. >> i'm not sure i want everybody else to talk on the plane. >> put on the head phones. >> the top person at the fcc, the fcc chairman said on friday that the faa's policy on in-flight electronics bans is in question. 20 years of research doesn't show any kind of messing up with the planes and navigation of the systems. why is it in place? i think we're moving down this road. >> so no more cheating? no more people sitting with their blackberries. >> turn everything off. i think it's a great idea. charter planes allowed only. it doesn't interfere. >> must be nice to fly on charter. >> i know this because i know someone who flies charter. i have another question for you. i said you would like this. this is in florida. the discounted tuition for majors in engineering, science, health care and technology. how do you feel about that? >> i think it's a good thing. look, way back in the beginning of federal student loans, the federal student loans were for math and science, areas of economy the government after the world war ii was eager to get filled. and there are a lot of people who talk about using, you know, incentives like lower tuition or federally backed student loans for areas in the economy that we need to be focusing on. otherwise, you know, there are kids who are not all stem majors. so that's a problem, too. >> there's the problem. >> the argument for the humanities is often that learning how to learn, learning skills in the humanities sometimes sets you up for any number of things including, perhaps, working in the stem fields. z >> you're right. the highest paid humanities majors are in the stem fields. there's a huge pricetag difference if you stick around for another 25 minutes i'll tell you. >> okay, we appreciate. that. >> just one of the reasons to stick around for at least 25 minutes. >> says the liberal arts major. >> that's right. >> all right. 26 minutes past the hour. what happens in vegas did not stay there. coming up, mitt romney's face-to-face encounter with manny paqiao. and if you're leaving the house right now, you can watch us any time on your desktop or mobile phone. monaco, home of the legendary grand prix circuit. the perfect place to bring the all-new cadillac ats to test the 2.0-liter turbo engine. 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how are these talks? >> we don't know. that's the thing. we know they spoke. in fact, it's somewhat remarkable that both the white house and speaker boehner's office put out statements simply saying that the two men had spoken. the lines of communication are open. and they were the same verbatim. that is something you can look at as some progress, perhaps. certainly it is promising may be the better way to put it. there is coordination there. they seem to be talking in good faith, trying to keep, i guess, their cards very close to the vest. and that is something that maybe is seen as promising. again, there is no word on actual progress on the fact that they're closer to a deal. and officially at this point, house republicans are still unwilling to bend to the president's demand that those income tax rates for wealthier americans increase. that said, there is a growing number of republicans who are saying, you know what? let's cave on the president's demand. let's not go all the way up to the rate he wants. but let's do something. listen to senator bob corker. >> there is a growing group of folks that are looking at this and realizing we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end. a lot of people are putting forth a theory. i actually think it has merit where you go in and give the president the 2% increase that he's talking about, the rate increase on the top 2%. and all of a sudden the shift goes back to entitlements. >> so he's saying increase tax rates, maybe a little, not the full amount that the white house wants so that republicans can get in the game, talking about entitlement reform, reforming medicare and social security. this came after the white house signaled on friday through joe biden that while they will not cave on their demand for the rates to go up, perhaps just by how much that may be negotiable. >> but there is still infighting amongst republicans on that same issue. >> sure. there is a lot of in fighting. you listen to senator corker there. yes, he's a republican. yes, there are a number of republicans in the senate who seem to be of one mind with him on this. but the issue is you don't have high profile republicans in the house who are saying the same thing. en that is who the president is bargaining with, obviously, at this point since he is talking to speaker boehner. he has to win over some votes there. that's why you look at this going it's great that they're talking, but we don't know that there's really officially any movement. >> yeah. at the end of the day, who's going to jump onboard? brianna keilar live in washington, thank you. 33 minutes after the hour right now. dallas cowboys nose tackle josh brent is out of jail now. investigators believe he was driving drunk when his mercedes flipped and caught fire early saturday morning. brent was released sunday on $500,000 bond. he's now facing charges of intoxicated manslaughter in a dallas suburb of irving, texas. the 25-year-old linebacker jerry brown jr. died in this crash. and just as brent was getting out of jail, his teammates were pulling off an emotional last second victory over the cincinnati bengals. and here's the cowboys coach jason garrett said. >> we lost a 25-year-old young man who had his whole life in front of him. a teammate, a friend. and it's a real tragedy. i think everyone in our organization who knew him is completely numb and has been numb for the last couple days. the united states and some of the allies in europe are using defense contractors to train syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles according to a senior u.s. official and several senior diplomats. the training is taking place in turkey and jordan. we're told some of the contractors are on the ground in syria monitoring suspected chemical weapons sites. >> the north koreans are holding off launching a long range rocket, so far. earlier this not north korean government announced a 13-day window for possible launch. that window opens today. they're claiming it's a peaceful bid to advance the space program. the u.s. sees it as something more sinister and is threatening sanctions if this launch takes place. >> hugo chavez is heading back to cube yach to cuba. the venezuelan president naming his vice president as his choice to take over that country if surgery doesn't go so well. the 58-year-old chavez is scheduled to be sworn in for a new six-year term next month. internet anti-virus pioneer john mcafee says he wants to go back to the united states, not back to belize. authorities in belize say they want to question him about the murder of his neighbor. speaking from an immigration detention senter in guatemala city, mcafee took to the web to explain why he is fighting extradition to belize. >> it is believed that belize is not a corrupt government. that does it not lie, that it would not execute people without the judicial process, that is, extra judicial murders or executions could not occur. that belize is not a corrupt government. this is untrue. >> mcafee's bid for asylum in gouatemala was rejected last week. >> silencing his critics with one vicious right hook knocking his opponent out in las vegas saturday. this was the fourth time the fighter's met in the ring. the first time arquez won even though he claimed victory in the previous three fights. that puts a super fight between pacaio and mayweather. >> the strangest twist in this fight, went 12 rounds with the president. but look who was spotted ringside at the fight. yes, that is mit and ann romney. he visited him before the fight in his dressing room. this is what he reportedly said. he said hello, manny. i ran for president. i lost. how is that for a pep talk? 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>> because the government tells me so. you have to come to work. >> trust the government. late night last night, snl taking a leap off the fiscal cliff. take a look. >> in order to get the support of the speaker, i agree there will be no tax increases. i repeat, zero tax increases. now why would i do that? i mean i won the election. i had the leverage. why give in? well, simply put, i felt sorry for this man. earlier this week i found my way into the congressional cafeteria and what do i see? john boehner sitting by himself. all alone. not a single member of his party willing to share a seat. dent even have any milk to drink because, well, tell them why, john. >> they took my milk and threw it in the garbage. >> "early start" continues right now. i'm so devastated for them. i'm really feeling for them. >> breaking radio silence. two deejays talk about the family of the nurse who took her own life after getting duped by their prank call. top secret rescue mission. an american saved in afghanistan but at a heavy price. >> look who's talking. president obama and john boehner finally get together a little more than three weeks before we hit the fiscal cliff. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> it's so night to you have back, john. it's 6:00 a.m. in the east. let's get started. the two men who stand between all of us and the fiscal cliff are finally speaking face-to-face. president obama and house speaker john boehner actually looked into each other's eyes yesterday and they talked. that's a very big deal. in 22other's eyes and talked. unless these two leaders can reach a compromise, we face skyrocketing taxes. after yesterday's us who meeting arc i spokesperson says "the lines of communication remain open." that is promising according to white house chief of staff. >> they started a tango now and any time you got two guys in there tangoing, have you a chance to get it done. >> white house correspondent brianna keilar live from washington. congress scheduled to break for the holidays later this week. any idea when the speaker and president might meet again. the million dollar question. >> yes, and we don't have the answer. a little time, since obviously now we'll see where they move from here. yes, this he are talking. specifically what are they talking about? we don't know. both sides are mum. both the speaker's office and the white house put out statements saying after the fact that the president and speaker had met and that as you mentioned, the lines of communication were open. these are verbatim, the same statement, the coordination, where they are putting out very little information, trying to stay on the same page publicly. that can be seen as progress. that said, republicans are not bending to the demand of president obama that they let income tax rates for wealthy americans go up. there are a number of republicans, small but growing, saying, you know what? let's the rates go up, not as much as the president wants them to. here is senator bob corker. >> yes ther, there is a growingp of folks who says we don't have a lot of cards on the table. a lot of people are putting forth a theory, you go in, give the president the 2% increase that he's talking about. the rate increase on the top 2%, and all of a sudden, the shift goes back to entitlements. >> corker is saying, let's deal with these income tax rates, and then let's talk about entitlement reform. reforming medicare, social security. but, zoraida, the truth is, this is a senate republican and a number of senate republicans are one mind with bob kocorker, but house republicans are the ones to need to find a feel. >> thank you. another story. authorities in mexico found the wreckage of a plane that they believe was carrying jenni rivera and six others. it took off from monterey, mexico. and heading to an airport near mexico, city, it was spotted in nuevo leon. rafael romo is live with the more on the life of singer jenni rivera. >> just as popular in mexico as she was with mexican americans on this side of the border, especially in california where she was born. after selling more than 15 million records and winning two billboard music awards, she was working hard on her tv career, and died on the way to a talent show, where she was serving as a judge. ♪ >> they called her diva, and for anyone whoever saw her on stage it was easy to see why. she spoke to the common woman, especially mexican americans. >> translator: every song, every lyric, i'm thinking of them and how i can relate to them with my music. >> jenni rivera was born in long beach, california to mexican parents. their story, that of many mexican immigrants of humble beginnings. she spoke about how she sold music records at a los angeles flea market, and how the family collected cans for the meager income they could bring in selling the metal. >> translator: it is very flattering when they tell me a great artist, a great entertainer that i can get in the recording studio and come up with a great production, but before all of that, i was a businesswoman. i'm primarily business minded. >> reporter: in recent years, jenni started several of her own companies, including one that produced and marketed her music, a fragrance brand, jeans company and tv production company. she was famous for her electrifying productions on stage. a mother of five she can married three times, but the relationships were rocky and caused her much anguish and embarrassment. >> translator: staying defeated, crying and suffering was not an option. i had to get back on my feet, dust myself off and press on. that's what i want to teach my daughters. >> more recently, jenni made headlines when she announced in october that her marriage to a player for the new york yankees and los angeles dodgers was coming to an end. she just wanted to be with her family for the holidays and needed some time off to get emotionally well. john. >> any more details about what may have caused the plane to go down? >> it is difficult to tell at this time. what we know, at the time of the crash, john, it was very cloudy in that area where it happened, nuevo leon is a mountainous area. we don't have any indication if it was a problem with the plane itself or human error. >> rafael romo, thank you very much. five minutes past the hour. the radio show that pulled a prank on the hospital where katherine was admitted has been taken off the air. they are stunned by the nurse's death. >> unfortunately, i remember the moment very well, i haven't stopped thinking about it since it happened. >> when you found out she was of two children, how did -- >> very sorry and saddened for the family and i can't imagine what they are going through. >> what about you, michael? >> gutted. gutted. you know, shattered. heartbroken. >> jacintha saldanha was found dead on friday. she was duped to believing that the queen was on the phone to speak with the duchess. and expected to converge on michigan's capitol, a protest will swell to thousands tomorrow, a final version to make michigan the 24th right to work state. the legislation will encourage fairness. o others say it will hurt the middle class. it could be a record-shattered day for fedex. the company expected to handle 19 million packages today. 200 packages per second and it would be an all-time high. the reason? 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>> well, all that military officials are saying so far is he died of small arms fire. we don't know, but it does suggest there was a fire fight, and very close, very nasty fire fight possibly. the military teams are specially trained in hostage rescue, and they go into some of the most dangerous situations. of course, it's also a good moment to remember all of those who have served and fallen. 305 americans so far this year in afghanistan, zoraida. >> what do we know about the condition of the doctor who was rescued? >> it was said that he was transferred to an american military hospital in afghanistan and most likely will be on his way home at some point to reunite with his family. >> barbara starr, thank you. 13 minutes past the hour. up to speed on the top stories. christine romans is here. a potential break in the fiscal cliff deal. john boehner and president obama meeting face to face at the white house yesterday. first time they've had direct talks in more than three weeks. with 22 days until we go over the cliff and congress set to go on holiday break on friday. neither side is discussing details of the talks. both agree the line of communication remain open. no sign of a north korean rocket launch, yet. they announced a 13-day window for a possible long-range rocket launch. the window opens today. they claim it's a peaceful bid to advance their space program, but the u.s. sees it as more ominous and is threatening sanctions if the launch takes place. a very festive and busy sunday at seattle city hall. 133 same-sex couples tied the knot in seattle on the day gay marriage became legal in washington state. sara and emily koefert the first couple to get married at 12:04 a.m. the same-sex couples marrying in seattle were the first to pick up marriage licenses on thursday in the state. the state requires a three-day waiting period before the ceremonies. a fireball streaking through the sky in houston has people talking. most likely a meteor. but not associated with the g jeminid meteor showers. >> as they say on "the x files," the truth is out there. 15 minutes after the hour. time for early read. local news making national headlines, this from "l.a. times." an article on the death of jenni rivera. her small plane went down in mexico. rivera was called the diana ross of mexican music. fans will remember her marathon concerts. sometimes performed for more than four hours at a time and also was quite a businesswoman. sold more than 20 million albums and starred in a reality tv show and recently launched her own clothing and cosmetic s line. >> leiaves behind five children as well. hugo chavez, venezuelan president's cancer has returned. his vice president is the choice to take over if cancer surgery doesn't go well. chavez should be worn in for a new six-year term in january. >> romo says this will move markets all over south america too. >> when you heard the announcement, a lot of people said it sounded like his good-bye. >> certainly did. >> 16 minutes past the hour. extended look for our top stories, head to cnn.com/earlystart and twitter and facebook. search for early start cnn. coming up this sunday on the next list, a successful arts studio, but he made his mark on the corporate world as cofounder of square. >> it allows small businesses to accept credit cards. his company worth billions. but he's still an artist at heart. >> art is what can't be proven mathematically, right? where science ends, the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why. the way the object feels in your hand and looks, and if it's perfectly created, you can almost explain it to somebody else afterward. but in the creation part, you can't. you can see how glass is hon stantly moving. my job is to shape it. balance it at the same time. you can do that, you get these wonderful shapes. glass really rewards risk. a lot of times with glass, are you waiting for the material to cool down and split seconds where have you literally a fraction of a second, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong. there's a performance to it, sort of like dancing. you can't think about it and do it well. you have to do it enough that it becomes mechanical and free your mind to design. >> watch "the next list" on sunday, december 16th 2:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. with the talk of the fiscal cliff, another plunge you might have missed. the welcome trend at the gas pumps. coming up, i love sharing good news. like a lot of things, trying to find a better job can be frustrating. so at university of phoenix we're working with a growing list of almost two thousand corporate partners - companies li microsoft, american red cross and adobe - to create options for you. not only that, we're using what we learn from these partners to shape our curriculum, so that when you find the job you want you'll be a perfect fit. let's get to work. ♪ you can stay in and like something... ♪ [ car alarm deactivates ] ♪ ...or you can get out there with your family and actually like something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursuit of perfection. i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? 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"the wall street journal" front page, the wobbling consumer. friday, more data about the consumer. consumer spending, consume err sentiment. jobs growing, not so robustly. you have the consumer angle, and another reason why confidence is weakening, the deadline. the fiscal cliff for companies, small businesses really december 14th. december 14th? what are you talking about? >> think about when you get paid. when does your paycheck come? they have to start changing payroll processes now for january 1st of next year. software, they've got they don't even know what your tax withholding rates are going to be. the american payroll association says to congress, a delay in legislation beyond december 14th doesn't give all businesses enough time to update and test their systems for early january paychecks. the two worst-case scenarios according to this group, a deal after january 1st, where you are applying retroactive rules, or delaying the decision a few months. they don't have the ability to go back, to go back and reconfigure everything for five months behind us. so it's a real mess. >> bad news. i want good news. and you were talking about a plunge. gas prices are down. a lot. >> a gas crash. gas prices down 46 cents over the past two months. a couple of things. slow growing economy. using less of it. and a lot of the bottlenecks, refinery problems, clearing up. the national arriverage, $3.30. and people in the industry continue to expect to watch prices to fall. and on it is west coast, biggest drops. still higher this year than last, but trend, they have been cut here. >> one thing we need to know about our money? >> the one thing about money, the choice of a college degree affects how much money you make. engineering majors earn 3.5 million over a 40-year career. median earnings for all majors, 2.4 million. and education, 1.8 million. this goes into our discussion, should be lower tuition for students in the in-demand fields. they should make more money. >> not all about money. let's be clear. science, technology, math, fantastic things, but we need to be careful about undervaluing things like english, languages, arts. >> one of the reasons why we are so innovative. all of the stem majors, but they say how do we make a university system like the american university system and that comes from liberal arts. >> the humanity part is the part they are looking for. thank you. 25 minutes past the hour. emotional roller coster in the nfl. how the dallas cowboy has to overcome a life and death crisis off the field. and focus on victory. and leaving the house, watch us any time on desk top or mobile phone, at cnn.com/tv. list of almost two thousand corporate partners - companies like microsoft, american red cross and adobe - to create options for you. not only that, we're using what we learn from these partners to shape our curriculum, so that when you find the job you want you'll be a perfect fit. let's get to work. progressive direct and other car insurance companies? 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that may be negotiable. john. >> any sense of what's next? more meetings planned? >> we don't know what's next. these are the developments we'll follow this week. congress set to go on vacation at the end of the week. the expectation is if this doesn't get wrapped up, congress isn't going anywhere, and there will be a lot of folks pulling up in washington. >> might be a good idea to delay the vacation a little bit if they don't get the job done. brianna keilar in washington, nice to see you this morning. top cnn trends on cnn.com. the music world is mourning jenni rivera. she died when her leer jet went down. authorities spotted the wreckage in nuevo leon. there were no survivors. josh brent out of jail on $500,000 bond. investigators believe he was driving drunk when his mercedes flipped and caught fire. the practice squad linebacker jerry brown died in that crash. his miami states pulling off a last-minute victory over the cincinnati bengals. everybody asking no mas? after manny pacquiao was knocked out cold at the mgm grand in las vegas. the first time that marquez won, even though he claimed victory in the first three fights. >> paco knocked marquez down and marquez knocked paco out for two minutes. you don't see that often. >> you are in the know. you think there are is one more? 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>> senator, i think. that's just me chiming in. >> 39 minutes after the hour. in minnesota, waking up with work to do. as much as 17 inches of snow waiting to be shovelled outside. it looks nice from here. alexandra steele is in for rob marciano. >> they like it there. the banner in "the star tribune" says welcome back, winter. the biggest snow there in two years. last season, 22 inches the entire season. this is a lot of their economy too, of course. all of the snow in the winter and now finally we've seen it. maplewood, 14 inches. north of the metro area, picked up between 14 and 17 inches of snow and in minneapolis right now, 14 degrees, feeling like 3. so the arctic air in place, but when you look at the radar, the radar has moved this way, but the arctic air not in the northeast. you can see the line. everything from the record snow in minneapolis to record heat potential until new york, washington, pensacola, and then severe weather. right now in albany, new york, upstate new york where the moisture moved in, it's 40 degrees. northern maine, 8 to 10 inches, pretty much it. the air not that cold. where the heaviest rain is. nashville, places seeing gusts to 15 miles per hour. 2 to 4 inches of rain potentially, locally. 1 to 3. heavy rain potentially severe weather. record heat today. new york city, jfk, could see 57. one degree shy of the record. and rain, incredibly foggy. could hit 60 degrees. washington. pensacola, enjoy the 60s and 70s, front moves through the east today. drops 15 to 20 degrees. everyone gets into the cold there. guys. >> alexandra steele, a whole lot of weather this morning. >> yeah. we like it! >> 41 minutes past the hour. a shocking new report in "the boston globe." the u.s. government is quietly releasing thousands of dangerous undocumented immigrants, including rapists and murderers, back on streets because their home countries won't take them. maria is a reporter who broke this story for the globe. and i would like to start with how your report opens up. a tragic tale of a legal immigrant to this country from china, she was brutally attacked by an illegal immigrant from china, and after chen served his prison term, china refused to take him back. what happened? >> immigration officials in texas let him out more than once, and no point did they ever warn ms. wu this is a wider issue in the immigrant question. that's secrecy. they don't tell the public very much unlike the criminal system who they arrest, who they detain, and what happens to them in the case of ms. wu, she thought the man who brutally attacked her was in china and one day, three years later, he walks through her door and shortly after that kills her. >> why is this happening? why do we have no dodknowledge it? >> the immigration system says they are a civil immigration agency, they detain people they treat like criminals whether they have a record or not and they said that they believe that this is a private matter, that they need to protect the immigrants's privacy. so when we request the name of criminals, they said that the public interest in this was minimal, and that the person's privacy interests prevailed. >> i have a question for you. have you a lawsuit against the department of homeland security is it for that purpose, to get a list of those criminals? >> yes, it is. we are trying to get a list of names. we know 201 people convict of murder released, but we don't know their names. because the system is protecting their privacy. >> why can't they be spent one way back to their country of origin? >> every person who gets on an airplane or gets sent to another country needs a travel document, such as a passport. you can't put them on a plane and expect a country to accept them and this entire system is private, the public is largely unaware of this. a lot of countries don't take them back. we have links in our first day story about how bangladesh would routinely avoid phone calls in an attempt to deport someone. and that person ended up getting out and murdering a woman in new york. >> how do you solve the problem? >> well, our series is really about the issue of secrecy and how this whole system, immigration has become the largest law enforcement system in the country and very much unlike the police or fbi, they operate largely in secret. so their arrests are secret, detentions are secret. today, for example, we have a story about immigrants with no criminal records detained and don't get a right to a swift and public hearing. put in jails and no one in the public has a right to know this. our criminal system is very different, because perhaps people don't want the public to know that they have been under arrest, but those public protections are there to protect the people who are -- whose liberty is taken away by the government. >> i really encourage everybody to read this. i was shocked by some of your findings. so you have another piece in tomorrow's "boston globe." a quick preview on that? >> yes, well, it starts with a 29-year-old woman from france who was trying to go back to france and she was stopped at the u.s./canadian border and jailed and she was kept in jail for 12 days, and an immigration agent made the decision to detain her briefly and privately and died 12 days later. >> terrible story. maria, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. 45 minutes past the hour. top stories. movement in the fight over the fiscal cliff. maybe, just maybe. house speaker john bainer and the president sitting down for an unscheduled meeting at the white house yesterday. we have no details, but both sides say the lines of communication remain open. with 22 days left until severe tax hike and spending cuts will kick in. >> nelson mandela is comfortable abo after spending a second night in the hospital. there is no cause for alarm. mandela rushed from his home to the hospital on saturday. details of his condition are being kept under wraps. sunday night football. green bay quarterback aaron rodgers running for a 27-yard touchdown this is the longest touchdown run of his entire career and illustrious career. 27-20 victory over detroit and the packers have a 22-game winning streak at home against the lions, and the packers can clinch their second straight nfc title with a win against the bears in chicago. will it happen? >> no, it won't. not against my bears. 46 past the hour. the trusted advisers of some of the most powerful men in the world. the dogs. how canines helped win world war ii and how dogs like bo obama have a special place in america. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still stubbed up. 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"dogs of war," a new book, reveals some prizing stories famous white house pets and military leader's pets and joins to us talk about what they found. welcome. such an interesting and fun topic this morning. >> thank you, john. great to be on. >> we're talking about three dogs here. they are the main stars of your book. fdr's scottish terrier, falla, and the bull terrier, willy, and eisenhower also had a bull terrier. tell us about the dogs. >> falla is the most famous first dog in american history. if you see in the fdr memorial down in washington, d.c., you will see a statue erected of falla right next to president roosevelt. and falla was just a very engaging, wonderful dog. you know, scotties are, and he was always traveling with roosevelt. the only time he couldn't travel with roosevelt was right before the third inauguration. he jumped into the limousine, and roosevelt said you can't ride now, falla, and falla was taken out of the car, so eleanor could get in, and he ran off. he ran away from the white house, because he was so upset. but luckily they did find him at a nearby theater. they identified him because he was wearing his collar, which said falla, the white house. >> unmistakable, no doubt. anyone who has seen the movie "patton" is familiar with the bull terrier, willy, who played an important role. he was a real-life dog. >> actually, willy was the dog that inspired me to write the book. when i was helping a friend move one day, i took a book out of his moving van and it was patton: a genius for war," and i saw the photooff willy lying next to the general's foot lockers and briefcase right after the general passed away and one of the most moving, most beautiful photos i have ever seen and it inspired me to write the book. >> and then the last dog, the one i knew the least about, might be considered scandalous by some measures today and that's general eisenhower's dog. tell us about that. >> telik, an interesting name, it's a combination of telegraph cottage where general eisenhower stayed when he was serving in london and k, which stands for kay summersbe, eisenhower's driver. it's open to debate whether they had a roman trick relationship or not. a combination of dogs and world war ii history and a war-time romance. >> and you say in your book, these three dogs, instrumental in helping defeat hitler. really? >> yes. absolutely. they played a very important role. can you imagine the intense pressure and stress that these three leaders went through? to go home and to have a wonderful dog waiting for you with all of the unconditional love? and i think carlos deste said it best, he wrote the foreward of the book. the world owes these dogs of war a considerable debt, and i think he's absolutely right. >> and telik was with eisenhower when the nazis came to sign their surrender and telek actually growled when the germans walked in. >> i think dogs are very psychic, and certainly he knew that the nazis were trouble, so -- >> all right. >> we owe everything to these wonderful dogs. >> thank you. great to see you. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you, john. when we come back, best advice from an actor who overcame a crippling illness. and the deejays who sparked anger around the world. they speak out for the first time. so we have ongoing webinars and interactive learning, plus, in-branch seminars at over 500 locations, where our dedicated support teams help you know more so your money can do more. 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families shattered. >> everything is significantly damaged or destroyed. a 15-foot wave came across entir villages. >> reporter: the mid-section has been hammered. this storm went above and beyond expectations. >> we just need your help. >> reporter: bloated corpses line the sidewalks. this damage was inflicted. boats tossed a shore, buildings out to see. some are looting, many at risk for decease. >> disease. >> we don't have enough water. we drink it even though we may get sick. >> reporter: in the bay area donations are slowly coming in. an 89-year-old tells kpix5 this is the worst he has seen. >> please donate. help our country. >> reporter: help is on the way from the u.s. military to the philippines. the aircraft carrier is on the way with food, water, generators and will be a national humanitarian effort. it is over 1700 now officially, but some officials are saying we can see 10,000 dead before it is over. joe vasquez, kpix. we were in the town of laitai. >> reporter: just as we finished this report haiyan unleashed its full fury ripping roofs off. waves crashed into the hotel. everyone rushed to the second floor. >> reporter: the rain didn't stop for hours. we had to change rooms again. for three hours we didn't know if we would survive. nothing prepared us for what the storm moved on. the devastation was complete. >> these images are from space. lay that image over the west coast and you have a storm from seattle to san diego. we will have a phone bank this thursday. go to our website kpix.com. >> reporter: we could also have a dry season. the city so far in downtown has seen low rainfall. the average is 17. we are 13 inches below normal for the calendar year. that is nothing compared to the north bay. we have a 19-inch deficit. look at that rainfall up to the north and the west. most of it will stay there. the rain is not headed here. watch out for slippery roads. it is likely where the showers will stay. who gets the rain and who does not coming up in a few minutes. we often show you buildings on fire from the outside. we have a rare look of a burning home from the inside. >> reporter: a gas leak ignited and a helmet camera captured everything. flames shooting out of 3 windows when firefighters arrive. they point a house inside cooling the fire. as the flames die down, inside it a different story. firefighters go into an opaque nightmare. this is where things get more dangerous. the smoke is so thick they can hardly see. they unlease more hose and knock out windows. the home looks to be a loss. two of his dogs died in the fire. . >> serious questions about air quality, soot and particles can linger for days. at 6:00 p.m. yesterday the reading was unhealthy to everyone. >> it was a strong scent, smelling like burning plastic. >> chemicals leaching into the bay has been a problem in the past. sacrifices for men and women who have served. >> reporter: the crosses on the hill side outnumber the people here. they wanted to express for gratitude and appreciation. it is a far reminder of the cost of a decade of war. crosses overlap until they are a solid wall of white. >> there is one premise, to do your job. ♪ amazing grace a closer took, sometimes faces from iraq. >> when i go to the wall i feel solemn and sad, and it hurts. >> reporter: at a bart station the crosses are a reminder of the fallen veterans of war. they don't always come back in flag-draped coffins. >> they need help. they have to do a better job of helping. >> reporter: with music, hymns and poems since 2006, it could be felt. >> it never goes away. >> reporter: the plan is to eventually replace these crosses with a permanent memorial like the one in washington d.c. president obama went to the tomb of the unknowns. 107-year-old richard overton of texas is the oldest living veteran of world war ii. >> he was there at pearl harbor when the battleships were still smoldering. he was there at iwogima. veteran are warning this parade could be the last this year because of rising cost. they tried to raise a million dollars to keep it going for the next 5 years. >> i have to pay for the fire department which is 18,000 and the floats. >> police and fire are not paid for anymore. on the streets, gun shot mapping microphones could be in the classroom. your smart phone may not be as secure as you think. a little girl's birthday wish comes true. ,,,,,,,,,,,, protect students from a gunn on campus. kiet do on the imed at stopping . >> it is an unfortunate sign of the times, protecting students from gun men. stopping school shootings as quickly as possible. >> reporter: it looks like a sci-fi movie. shots stopper gives more accurate information than terrified callers talking to 9- 1-1 operators. >> they will say shots fire. they will say where? they will say i don't know i am not sticking my head up. >> reporter: this site takes a fraction of the time. they try triaing late the triangulate the information they are in talks with schools. shot spotter is for gun fire and nothing else. >> the abuses from agencies is a huge concern. >> reporter: with 17 mass shootings, this technology is a sign of the times. you want it but hope you don't have to use it. >> it will cost an elementary school $15,000 and 10,000 a year for round the clock monitoring. that is a million dollars to equip all the schools in the bay. today's emergency drill allowed crews to test life saving systems and procedures. >> if there is a fire in the middle tunnel, this is a big improvement safety wise. >> the opening is this saturday if it doesn't reason. rain will delay lane striping. smart phones can steel steal your pin. it can detect what part of the screen you are touching. boosting bottom lines, smart glasses could addprofits to companies. smart glasses could make employees more efficient where people need both hands for surgery or operating a car. a lie detector tattoo, a sticky substance on your neck. the google tattoo could measure sound waves in your throat. is it going to rain? . >> or should we zap you? >> reporter: i don't like the shock collar. there is a tremendous amount of rain on the radar. we will go from live to a 3- hour time lapse. it is moving up the coastline not toward us. if you are watching around santa rosa you are likely going to see on and off showers. south of there i am not optimistic. san rafael you have a chance in the morning. high of 70 and sunny skies wednesday. high of 72. let's talk about this big storm with a lot of moisture and opportunity to give us rainfall. why is it moving north? it is the same ridge of high pressure keeping us rain free. it still has a sphere of influence. the energy storms like to follow is lifting to the north. vallejo may not see a drop of rain. oregon, washington, british columbia will. it will come back wednesday. it will go north. we can say bye to rain chances for another week. we will continue to be dry. we will update every hour. we had rain down to san rafael. it is saying measureable rainfall is north of santa rosa. chances will be early in the morning. it will return wednesday. we will have plenty of sunshine the rest of the week. tomorrow 73. dry in the south bay. redwood 69. antioch 72, pleasanton 71. a slight chance of a morning shower. highs around 70. sunny wednesday, sunny thursday, sunny friday. low 70s inland. this continues to be a pattern. we will just not see much rain until something flips. >> all right. >> maybe something overnight. still to come. all she wanted for her birthday was her mom. how a letter to the president made that possible. ,,,,,,,,,, when our little girl was born, we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. 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>> good morning it's thursday, september 19th. on set katty kay. mike barn cal, nicole wallace and visiting professor from nyu, harold ford jr. and in washington columnist, associate editor for "the washington post" david ignatius. david, you have a piece in the post this morning talking about president obama's syria strategy off the assad interview. you're giving him more credit than most people have been in the last month mainly reaching for a good outcome however he got there. >> i've been puzzled frankly at the very harsh criticism of president obama for doing this deal with russia to control syria's chemical weapons. and the reason i've been surprised this is the kind of framework that tu has been looking for for two years. people have said this is a problem from hell. the best outcome people from both parties thought would be some kind of negotiated settlement that would first bring the chemical weapons under control and then move towards real political dialogue about transition and those are the things that's happening now and surprisingly president obama rather than getting credit for what the public in america wants is getting pretty sharp criticism. >> do you believe, david, this is the way he intended to get there. there may have been a good outcome. from the outset when he talked about red line and bashar al assad must step aside do you believe he intended for all this meandering this is the way he intended to get there? >> the meandering has been unfortunate and you could say that president obama pretty consistently has not been a good communicator of his foreign policy goals. even our closest friends end up being confused about what he wants. if you put aside the attacking back and forth, you end up, i think, at an outcome that people think is pretty good from the standpoint of u.s. interests. >> david, yesterday in texas, i guess, former secretary of defense bob gates appearing with leon panetta, joint appearance, a discussion, former secretary gates had this to say about the president's strategy, my bottom line is that i believe to blow a bunch stuff up over a couple of days to underscore a point or a principle is not a strategy. if we launch a military attack in the eyes of a lot of people we become the villain instead of assad. >> yeah. bob gates doesn't want to go to war in syria. he made that clear when he was still secretary of defense. his criticism of obama, you could say is from the left. obama in the end concluded that he didn't have to drop those bombs because he made a convincing show of strength that led the russians and the syrians to move towards declaring their chemical weapons and putting them under control. so you could argue to achieve gates' goal of not bombing, obama had to take a tough line. >> let's get caught up on the latest on the navy yard shooting. increasing scrutiny on the security clearance remember mental state of aaron alexis. there's new signs that there was a breakdown of communication within the military chain of commands. alexis told new port, rhode island police last month he was hearing voice. police told local navy authorities but the navy says that information was never sent up the chain of command. a spokesman for the police department said they couldn't arrest him just because he was hearing voice. alexis twice sought treatment from the v.a. hospital for insomnia. he claimed he only had trouble sleeping and said he was not depressed and was not thinking of harming others. prescribed medication and sent on his way. top military brass acknowledge shortcomings in the reporting. >> men and women should have the wouldn't to overcome their mental disorders or their mental challenges or their clinical health challenges and shouldn't be stigmatized. >> obviously a lot of red flags. where there are gaps we'll close them. where there are inadequacies we'll address them. where there are failure, we will correct them. we owe the victims, their families and all our people nothing less. >> some more details this morning. capitol police are investigating the reports one of their s.w.a.t. teams blocks away was told to stand down and sent to the capitol instead. there's new information about alexis arsenal. he scratched the phrases better off this way and my elf weapon. officials are not sure what elf refers to. he bought the shot brown on saturday. alexis tried to buy a handgun but handgun sales have special federal guidelines that prevent sales to people that live out of state. the gunman's mother spoke for the first time yesterday saying her son's motives will never be fully known. >> don't know why he did what he did and i'm unable to ask him why. aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone. for that i'm glad. to the victims and their families i'm so sorry this has happened. >> two shooting victims still in the hospital but good news they have been upgraded to good condition. one has been released. there were three. the navy yard re-opens today with the exception of building 197. >> this story about the capitol police is intrigue. this s.w.a.t. team, a story bbc colleague of mine broke yesterday at lunch time. there was a s.w.a.t. team who was right there outside the building. they went to the supervisor, this capitol hill police we're here, armed, ready to go. they were told by the supervisor to stand down. the capitol police are krnds abo -- concerned about this. i think that's a real concern that they have to find out why were people disputing which team should go in when clearly getting someone in there fast who was qualified and trained. this was a hit team. >> do we know yet whether there was another s.w.a.t. team in the building already prior to the capitol police s.w.a.t. team being outside? you don't want -- >> that i don't know. and the capitol hill police are now launching an investigation to find out what happened. >> there's this whole component of the mental health. we began to talk about it yesterday. since then we've learned a little bit more there were some flags that should have been sent up the chain of command. >> this speaks more to the holes of the net just outside of the military. they actually at least have programs for screening people for mental health. as a society as a government we have absolutely no system to take care of people with mental illnesses until and unless they intersect with law enforcement. so, you know, we're at ground zero in terms of providing services or offering help for family members or friends. this is heartbreaking to hear the shooter's mother. she's obviously devastated too. she's lost something too. and i think that until we take stock of where we are and where we have to arrive at, i don't know that you can take guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them. >> 5 million people have these security clearances. the prolie feration of outsourcing, allowing outside groups and outside organizations to vet people. it's clear that many people had their clearances invalidated. you can have your clearance invalidated here. there are two issues. the gun issue is very important. how he's loud back in a military installation is beyond me and that has to be investigated and fixed. >> one point you raise is interesting the growth of contractors in this country is enormous, especially within the pentagon from iraq to afghanistan to washington, d.c. that's an enormous issue. the other issue is we had best be prepared as a culture, as a society at the conclusion of all the investigations that will take place with regard to this incident to accept the fact that there was very little we could do. if we are going to start, you know, doing something about people who walk around talking to themselves, that's an enormous number of people. i see multiple numbers of people, we aldo, walking around new york city. >> but it doesn't mean you have to give them security clearance. >> no. obviously. harold i want to get your take and we have brian shactman up too on the fed action. on the front page of every newspaper, "wall street journal," analysts, investors have been looking towards september as the time fed would finally scale back its bond-buying program but the central bank blink eed keeping e stimulus program in place. sending the markets up. >> anyone who said they called this is lying to you. everyone across the board, and the fed themselves actually, they telegraphed it, said a couple of times in the last few months this is something they were strongly considering and everyone assumed they were going to do it. people are some upset at ben bernanke for deceiving the markets in this situation and people didn't just buy stocks they bought bonds. interest rates went down. they bought gold. they bought everything. in the macro economy the easy money will keep going. ben bernanke scolded people and said listen until the job market is better, until congress is better, until inflation is in line with expectations we won't do anything. we still have one more chance before the end of 2013 to see fit happens. so people bought, stocks went up. some people are upset at the fed because they think they were deceived. >> brian, how much of the decision yesterday has to do with the fed getting political and realizing congress is inept and creeping up to a cataclymic event. >> ben bernanke pointed to three things. the jobs report needs to get better. fiscal policy which is capitol hill needs to be more in line, more consistent and more understandable of which he's referring to the pending issues that we're talking about. then there's inflation which is a little bit below target. those are the three fact jobs 1/3 of his consideration is exactly that. >> david what we've learned since 2008 is that what happens in one country doesn't stay in one country and the fed's response yesterday was being watched pretty much every where in the world. how important is this for keeping the global recovery on track? >> well, first i think it's always a good thing when the fed catches investors going the wrong way. when investors get too certain when they know what the fed will do that's bad. in this case i can't help think part of what the fed was worrying about is the sign of softness in some global economies particularly in china. the "wall street journal" is running a fascinating series about the way in which the slow down in chinese growth looks from some locations in china, talking to europeans this week you still have a very soft european economy coming back from it's near death experience in the last couple of years. the fed understanding that it's the world's central banker in addition to being the american central bank is wanting to maintain conditions that are quite stimulative. when they reduce this buying of long term bonds is there as it was a couple of months ago. i think the softness they are talking about isn't just in the u.s. it's local. >> what does this move by ben bernanke tell you about the state long term of this economy. they downgraded gdp projections. not wanting to raise interest rates because they don't want to cool off the housing market. what did you learn about the economy yesterday? >> the uncertainty that grips everything which everybody has touched on from the lack of income growth in the country, the lack of hours worked by workers in the country, the number of people participating in the labor market combined with the uncertainty in washington. the fed decided they would inject a certain uncertainty by saying we'll continue this. there's uncertainty when we stop this program. i think it's likely you'll hear this week the president make his choice for the fed chair known late this week early next week. it's been indicated in the press reports. that's probably good for the markets. but i think david is right, the uncertainty around the globe when you look how intertwined global markets is among central bankers, ben bernanke stepped back, took a breather and say people i'll go one way. showed independent willing on his part. >> quickly, here's the problem. the world is addicted to low rates. personally i would like to see what the economy looks like standing on its own two feet. when they talk about pulling back india went into a swoon. there's an addiction to these low rates and that's a problem here we've not addressed. >> one question i have this policy has been in place for four or five years and we still have unemployment rates high. people are giving up on trying to find work. you have to start thinking this policy has not done what we need to raise incomes to get people back in the middle class. this is the right policy? >> i think that it could be far worse if you were ben bernanke. i happen to think -- the data will drive the path of rates in the country. he is looking at data. brian, everybody has a point. you got former governors, fed governors making the point brian is make. at the end of the day things would be worse if they weren't doing what they were doing. at some point is the spigot will be turned off. when you consider how government has behaved the last year here we are on the brink of another crisis, a crisis we created for ourselves around government funding and a debt ceiling increase and until adult physician you can use that word, adults in washington decide to act like adults. >> majority leader john boehner announced a house vote tomorrow on a plan that would tie government funding to stripping all funding for obama care. the chances of it making out of the senate is slim to none and that put republican lawmakers in both chambers at odds with each other. ted cruz put pressure on his colleagues in the house saying harry reid will try to strip the defund language and he likely has the votes to do so. at that point house republicans must stand firm. republicans in the house shot back at cruz forsetting them up to take the blame. congressman tim griffin says so far sen rs are good at getting facebook likes and town hauls not much else. do something. equal blame is being put on senate shoulders. >> nobody votes to shut the government down. they will pass something next week. it will take them a week to get whatever we pass this week. and send it back to us. and either accept it or send it back to them. nobody will vote to shut the government down. if we get to this last part of back and forth and we agree on everything, they send it back and say no we don't agree, they send it back to us who is shutting the government down. you can make as much an argument that it's the senate shutting it down as we are. that's not the right discussion. how can we compromise and find a middle ground between what the house will do tomorrow and the senate does next week. >> nicole, after you watch harold's brain trying process that logic. walk us through this a little bit. john boehner, obviously made a conscious decision to side with the conservatives in his party and go the route of perhaps forcing a government shutdown to defund obama care. what's the strategy here? >> let me go back to the conversation about adults, you have four children. i have a 2-year-old. sometimes when he's on his scooter he wants to cross the street even when the light is red on central park west, cars move very fast, it's your job as the parent to hold the child in the scooter from running into traffic. it's the job of the adults in the republican party to tell, there is grassroot support in this country among republicans, among conservative, among tea party members to do this the there are people that think the law is a violation of this code -- the health care law, obama's health care law is incredibly unpopular. ted cruz is responding to a genuine sentiment. however when republicans run into the street despite the fact there's a flashing red light they will get hit by the cars and killed. this is stupid politically. stupid at a policy level because as charl they are going to fail. despite what david ignatius says most of the country is disillusioned with president obama's leadership on the world stage. majority of americans don't like his signature domestic achievement which is the health care law. we're at a moment as republicans where even bernie sander has described our party on the offense. and now we are going to let our party run into moving traffic against a red light. it's idiotic. >> you worked for jeb bush who spoke at the national press club. he said quote, if you control one half of 1/3 of leverage in washington, d.c. your ability to influence things are also relative to the fact that you have one half of 1/3 of the government. it's a reality. this isn't a hypothetical. so as we get closer to these, there needs an understanding of that. >> president obama's response in the navy yard. at some point the country has tired, fatigued of hearing this back and forth nonsense between the two. and, again, if you are a hard-working business person or business woman, hard-working laborer at a great company, small or big and you watch that congressman speak, you have to wonder what on earth, where on earth is he living and what so talking about. the metaphor used by my friend, by nicole is spot on. the question comes why can't they just come together and work through a deal here? i don't think there's any doubt about the health care law, congress passioned it, court declared it constitutional, president was re-elected. they got to let it go. >> republicans are at a moment where they could get a lot of what they want. they could get a delay. the country want as delay. it's appealing to a lot of democrats. >> does the country want a delay? does the country understand the component parts of this health care plan? >> don't think. >> congress doesn't. >> david ignatius, let me ask you something, are you struck by the fact that rarely political people on either side of this debate when they talk about the back and forth, about we're going to exclude it, we're going kill obama care, we're going keep obama care, they rarely mention the phrase the country. what's good for the country. >> it's one of the bigamistryes -- big mysteries is affecting ordinary americans. we're in a period now where the numbers seem to suggest that health care care costs are finally slowing as a percentage of our total national output. that's great if health care takes less of a burden. does obama care that things built into it have to do with that. we have to do in my business a lot more good reporting so we can answer your question and say here's how it's affecting folks. >> nicole what you said is sensible. the trouble is we hit up time and again against these structural problems within the republican party where you have a few dozen members of congress who perfectly well understand the problem that caused their party in the long run, particularly presidential election, problems it might cause the economy in the long run but who are so scared of being putting somebody even further right to them is gumming up what's the democratic system and you have a system built for and on cooperation which is behaving like a parliamentary system. that can't work in america. the more we have gerrymandering and fewer districts that's cooperative you'll have this problem where sanity gets thrown out the window in the interest of getting re-elected. >> i don't disagree with you. we have a great speak. john borner is one of the most patient diplomatic politicians of our time. i really do. and he's dealing -- cruz -- senator cruz isn't even in his body and being led around by a few rogue senators. their power arrives from the fact that they have support among the republican grassroots. it's a power play. it involves all of the characters in our shakespearian drama. if is goal is for republicans to retake the white house and i think delaying obama care was a political goal we could have achieved. i'm disappointed as a party we're not putting points on the board. this is about people, people getting health care and about a majority of people that don't like this bill. so i'm not talking about playing politics with people's health care, i understand that's not in anyone's interest. as a party we're making maneuvers that are obviously political. it's obviously political to talk about shutting down the government to achieve something that will never happen. if you look at just their political motives and help us reclaim the white house is far more sensible. >> as many republican members of congress have pointed out the minute the government shuts down and military families stop getting checks, it's terrible for those families on its own but politically it's terrible. coming up on "morning joe," kormkorm -- former congressman ron paul. chris matthews. lawrence o'donnell and david axelrod. >> we're watching indiana carefully this morning, thunderstorms have rolled from the northern half of the state to the southern part. thousands of lightning strikes, power outages. the radar tells the story. there's a lightning strike counter. at one point we were at 4,000. so over the last hour those storms are finally heading south of indianapolis. soon safe for you to go on your merry way and out the door. later this afternoon large hail and wind damage foin midwest. spring like day. kansas city to cedar rapids, des moines, milwaukee late tonight towards chicago you'll get some of thunderstorms. very warm in the middle of the country. again feels like spring. we're in the 70s to start your morning. 90 in secretary of state. you're looking at a perfect day in the northeast. as far as air travel goes today, expected weather delays possible chicago this morning with thunderstorms and then later this afternoon minneapolis, detroit, kansas city and st. louis all the airports on the east coast should be just fine for your travels. you're watching "morning joe". ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ you said that's a harvest moon? >> look at that. >> that's beautiful. >> is that dock toward video? that's too beautiful. >> the sun is up. >> file video of the moon some years ago. hope you enjoyed it. let's look at the morning papers. let's start with some newspapers. "toronto star," six people dead, 30 injured after a double-decker bus and a train collided in ottawa, canada. the bus tore through a railing. crash is under investigation. second major rail accident in canada in just the last three months following a crash in quebec which killed 47 people in july. >> awful image. the "wall street journal" reports that blackberry is planning to lay off 40% of its workforce before the end of the year. these massive cuts comes as the company struggles to compete with android and apple smartphones. blackberry cut 5,000 jobs last year. the company may be considering a sale similar to the deal between nokia and microsoft that happened earlier this month. >> lottery officials say the winning powerball ticket from wednesday's drawing was sold in lexington, south carolina. the ticket holder can claim an annuity or take it in lump sum. >> brian says he thinks about what he would do with that ever every day. he says take the lump sum. >> i would advise you not think about it. >> the "chicago tribune," the creator of plush toys beanie babies is facing tax evasion charges. he failed to report earnings on an offshore account. he's listed as number 209 on "forbes" magazine as richest americans. he won't notice the fine too much. >> why wouldn't he pay his taxes if he had this much money. >> beanie babies makes you $2.6 million. >> sales for the widely anticipated video game grand theft auto theft 5 soared past $800 million on its first day launch. bigger than the opening weekend of the film "avatar." 13 million people bought the game when it launched on tuesday. experts estimate it cost $250 million to develop over a five year stretch. >> talk about people playing violent video games. you see the sales that has. >> it looks real. i thought it was an actual movie. >> no way desensitize you. >> absolutely it does. >> katy says it's never too early to start thinking about 2016. guess what? there are polls out of the state of new hampshire, just for fun here on the rb side kentucky senator rand paul is leading with 20% of the vote but that's within the margin of error tied with new jersey governor chris christie. the governor has gained five points since april. marco rubio saw the biggest slide. he's fallen 18 points in new hampshire since april. on the democrat side hillary clinton running away with it, 57% of the vote, joe biden has 12%. cory booker smashed 4%. elizabeth warren with 11%. >> what do you make of that rubio stat? >> in that rand paul and chris christie do represent two increasingly divergent philosophical posts in the republican party that haven't been as stark in a long time. rand paul is a much more talented politician. he's much more adept at cultivating media relationships, communicating his message. he's adept user of social media. he has built enough of a following around his sort of libertarian wing. chris christie is continuing to be someone that a lot of republicans are hopeful will continue to strike and will continue to stand up for, i think, what you consider some of the more traditional ideals of the republican party but somebody who has governed in a very bipartisan state. they do represent the two forces in the republican party at this moment. >> what happens to rand paul's ascene dency in the libertarian party when teddy cruz comes crashing in. >> rand paul is a threat to ted cruz. rand paul believes in some of the things that ted cruz believes. he captures the imaginations and passion of the tea party members. they also like rand paul. i think rand paul has an authenticity and depth to his position. ted cruz is very gifted in ejecting himself in the political debates but i'm not sure how deep and how long his policy story is. where rand paul is concern, you may disagree with him. but he's authentic. >> he has the advantage of having his father created this template so the longevity -- >> he's better than his father. >> his father started. they have the same name. that helped his longevity. >> rand paul will be out here in 30 minutes. >> rand paul and his wife are about to be in "vogue." big spread next month. if you're running for president in 2016 make sure you're in "vogue." >> he's skilled at being who he is but not ignoring the benefit of being in front of as many people as possible. that's crafty. >> quickly, nicole, as someone who is on front lines of republican presidential campaign, you look at that list. let's say you're running against hillary clinton. which one of those guys would you be most excited to work for, has the best chance to win? >> joe biden. >> i'm really excited about chris christie. i think he's an exciting politician who has done really great and important things in a state that's important not just because i live on the east coast but it's important to have republicans who have governed in states where a lot of their citizens and constituents are democrats. because when you are the president, half the country, these days didn't vote four. that's just a skill that i find more important than anything else. one warning i would have for chris christie fans and the team is that the most, i think the thing that terms your success or failure in the republican primary is the thickness of your skin. i would like to see christie toughen up a little bit. he's a little bit thin skinned when he's not celebrated. he's celebrated a lot. rand paul is really tough and do i think in the end that it will come down to rand paul and he's the one that's capturing the young republicans and somebody like chris christie. >> fun to watch. coming up six way race in the american league wild card, six teams still have a chance to get in the playoffs. two crucial games go to extras last night. highlights ahead in sports. helicopthierhis hibuzzing, andk engine humming. sfx: birds chirping sfx: birds chirping your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals, not their short-term agenda. 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"the washington post" abc poll should 79% supported this effort to control syrian chemical weapons as possible posed to launching missile strikes. i do think just looking at the republican party own the prospective republican candidates in 2016 you see senator mccain as eminent and respected as he is somewhat out of step with others in his party in calling for these very hawkish positions. i would love to see a situation in which senator mccain and president obama together could work towards some kind of satisfactory outcome in syria, bring their perspectives together. that's probably too much to dream in today's washington but be nice. >> david, you're suggesting senator mccain's positions don't always have the support of the american people. do you think his intervention in these policies is helpful for the country? >> helpful but we do have to remember that the country as a whole is so sick of entanglement in foreign wars that even senator mccain or i might think it's important for the u.s. to intervene or at least threaten to intervene the country isn't there. that's what president obama got caught up in. senator mccain is such an imminent figure and his voice is loud in the washington debate that you forget that you're in a country where 79% of the people oppose action to uphold these chemical weapons norms. so, i think there's a bit of a disjunction that's been obvious the last couple of weeks, and people have to understand where america is. i was looking at some international polling figures in europe. the numbers are almost identical. syria is a lot closer to europe than the u.s. same number 72, 75% of europeans in different countries do not want any military intervention. >> you can read david's full piece in the washingtonpost.com. obama is criticized for the right result in syria writes david ignatius. coming up next a million dollar controversy for one contestant on "wheel of fortune." the big mistake he made and how much he lost because of it. more on "morning joe" next. forty ti mes. forty ti mes. that's how often a group of house republicans have voted against obamacare, just to prove their allegiance to their party's right wing. okay - they've said their piece. but now they've gone even further... threatening to shut down the government if obamacare isn't dismantled. it could disrupt social security and veterans benefits, hurt job growth and undermine our economic recovery - tell these house republicans - enough already! maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. you need a permit... to be this awesome. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. 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looking good. >> it is. >> let's get that chair up. we lost you for a second. >> we'll let you regroup. come back to you in a few minutes. >> first things first, carl. no sweater vest today. what went into that decision? >> i'm negotiating with a company that's going to make the vest and i'll go on qvc and i'm going to sell them commercially. we'll call them reporter's vest. i want everybody to order them. it's my new career. i'll sell vests and next time i'm back here i'll be wearing the vests and see me on qvc. >> you'll be a wealthy man i predict. >> this is the hard news half hour? >> this is. >> let's see if todd comes back up. >> chris, big day for you in about what we got, 11 days until your book comes out. tip o'neill, ronald reagan, let's talk about the two of them and their relationship and how it applies to what we're seeing not just right now but this morning. it applies a lot and those guys know how to fight. they knew,000 fight with each other. they fought each other. one a liberal, one was a conservative. but they were big enough to work things out in the end. social security reform, tax reform, northern ireland, ending the cold war. they were supportive of each other on a lot of things, a lot of compromises. you can be a conviction politician but when it comes time to end the fight and get something done you got to be big enough to do it. you got to be able to leave your side. what was great about them both they exelm plm -- exemplified t partie so i think the key is not giving up on your convictions and not particularly loving the other guy but knowing how to be big enough to make things work out. >> was it as much as a personal relationship with reagan and tip o'neill because some people say there's this fantasy, romanticized way of the way politics used to be. >> we thought it was the most partisan thing but by today's standards it's romantic. they got along very well. had those saint patrick day parties together, birthday parties together, they talked. they had this wonderful relationship. when i first met ronald reagan when he came to give his state of the union, i said mr. president welcome to the room where we plot against you. he said oh, no not after 6:00. so they had that sort of thing, reagan would say is it after 6:00 and then they would deal. that's key. in '82 they needed to make up the tax cuts of '81 caused too big of a deficit. raised tacks in '83. got together on social security. the great thing about compromise you don't agree exactly. tip wanted to tax the rich on social security reagan wanted to get it passed. a 28% top rate on taxes. but tip got what he wanted which was equality, earned income on capital gains. you have to work those kinds of things. >> what changes. how do we reverse this idea that's hardened out in the country. people don't trust congress. >> i think the premise they had back then is government has to work. we can't hatch shutdowns and defaults. there's a great scene i came across where reagan needed democratic votes for debt ceiling increase. tip said okay i want a letter from reagan to all the democrats saying i need your vote for debt ceiling. he got the letter and they all voted for it. if you want to work things out you can work things out. today there's a lot of revolutionary politics and rejectism in the air. you know how these districts are worked out. 232 districts voted for mitt romney. most congressional districts voted for mitt romney for president and they are feeling those members of congress when they support opposition to the debt ceiling they feel they are representing their districts. a very difficult time. >> do you think if we had a situation today where you had a ronald reagan and a tip o'neill those characters in today's structures, could they make the system work better? >> yes, but it's deeper culturally. i'm born and raised in washington and never seen anything like the current situation. let's define what it really is. we have a group of people in and leading the congress of the united states, particularly on the right, and there is some disproportionate responsibility who put the national interest and common good last. go back to civil rights, back to dirkson in the senate joining, you know, joining to make the civil rights revolution happen. i went back and read about social security last night. to see how it was passed while comparing to it obama care. peopling worked together to make things work. we now have had 30 years of ideological warfare and cultural warfare in washington and throughout the country that's crippled our system. we're plofg towards plutocracy. we're in a terrible mess. our constitutional system is not working because of breakdown of one of the three branches of government such as we've never seen in our lifetime. >> chuck, nothing grates the white house more than hearing the president hasn't shown leadership. he doesn't reach out to republicans. they feel they are doing that and getting nothing in return. where do you put the blame between those two parties the white house and capitol hill for the fact that nothing gets done? >> well, you know, to go back bin the quote-unquote good old days and identify talked with chris about, i think the biggest difference between the parties that ronald reagan and tip o'neill were leading then the parents that john boehner and barack obama is leading now there was an ideological diversity in the two parties in the '70s and '80s. you had moderate conservatives and liberal conservatives. what did that mean. it meant tip had multiple constituencies in his own caucus. that he had to worry about. and so ditto with what the republicans did and what reagan was worried about. so it was easier to come sort of i think win-win compromises because both of them needed one part of their own party. there's maybe ten republicans that need to be seen in their own districts or politically to be middle of the road potential compromisers with the president. 90% of them is a penalty, political suicide for them to think about compromising. it is, you know, i'm with carl on this. some of this on the democratic side but most of this right now is on the republican side. and by the way what boehner is setting up it's stunning. he said to his own folks this is not a good strategy, this is not a winning strategy the idea of tying the budget resolution to repealing health care, and he's having to do it anyway. i mean that is, you know, we can beat up the president he's not comfortable going down, playing back room politic, back slapping all of those things. john boehner can't lead his conference. he knows this is a bad way to go. he knows what they are doing gives the president the best chance he has of actually rallying the country around health care. >> read karl rove in the "wall street journal" today saying this is a suicidal act by the right-wing republicans. >> we'll pick this conversation in just a minute. we got ann curry. she sat down for an exclusive interview with iran's new president, first time mr. hassan rouhani has spoken to a western journalist since his election. ann got the interview. good morning. >> reporter: identify lost audio. i think you tossed to me. good morning to you and say to you in our interview iran's president hassan rouhani was clearly reaching out to the west basically saying the time is now to make a deal. but he was also clearly having to walk a fine line between hard line conservatives and reformers in his country when asked about the very touchy subjects of human rights and israel. mr. president, these are israeli prime minister netanyahu's words not mine, he has said about you his strategy is to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. smile and build a bomb. can you say now categorically then that iran will not build a nuclear weapon under any circumstances whatsoever? >> translator: firstly, an occupier and usurper of government does an injustice to the people of region and brought. >> built to region with it's war mongering policies shouldn't give speeches about a freely elected government. we're not in pursuit of nuclear weapons and will not be. >> reporter: much of what americans think about iran is influenced by your predecessor and some statements that he has made so let me ask you, president mahmoud ahmadinejad said the holocaust is a myth. do you agree? >> translator: i'm not a historian. i'm a politician. what is important for us is the countries in the region and the people grow closer to each other and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice. >> reporter: president mahmoud ahmadinejad had people believing that he wanted to wipe israel off the map. do you agree with this? >> translator: what we wish for in this region is ruled by the will of the people. we believe in the ballot box. we do not seek war with any country. we seek peace and friendship among the nations of the region. >> reporter: mr. president upon your election and you've seen these images of young people cheering in the streets looking for change. you've said that the government should interfere less in the private lives of people. what exactly do you mean? will the government stop trying to censor the internet in iran? >> translator: in the near future the government will set up a commission for citizens rights. we want the people and their private lives to be completely free and in today's world having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right think freely is the right of all people including the people of iran. >> reporter: does that mean people in iran will have access now twitter and facebook? >> translator: the viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide. our opinions on this should be based on the protection of our national identity and on our morals. >> reporter: while that part about the holocaust, while president hassan rouhani did not deny throw coast as his predecessor president mahmoud ahmadinejad, his non-answer on that question will likely raise eyebrows. back to you. ann curry live in teheran for us this morning with the first western interview of iranian president hassan rouhani. chuck, i want to bring you in on what ann was reporting. do you think the white house having tried once in president obama's first term to reach out to iran really thinks there's an opportunity now with this new president of iran to actually get some kind of negotiation going on the nuclear program? >> what's been interesting to me is how skeptical they want to remain. in all the symbolic gestures hassan rouhani has done including wishing jewish people around the world a happy new year during rosh hana. they don't believe he calls the shots. you know, they are hopeful that maybe this will continue and see what happens but they don't seem to be -- they seem to be lot more skeptical about what's coming out of the iranian regime. frankly they seemed more optimistic about work the iranians three years ago, four years ago than they do right now. maybe that will change before they go on. i know they were surprised that hassan rouhani was allowed to win without a runoff and they have been surprised that southeast people he's appointed pleasantly so but not rushing to say hey we're actually going cut a deal with these guys. >> chuck, i think a lot of republicans are heartened to hear that. many see hassan rouhani as a spin miester. they have heavy water reactors that are consistent with weapons program. they still have scientists pursuing weaponization of nuclear technology. i wonder if they are aware of and protecting any part of that flank that understands that people see what happened in the outcome of obama drawing a red line on syria and then changing course regardless of where he ended up of putting us in a position where the russians had the upper hand, the syrians got off scott free with their best friend in the world russia now holding their feet to the fire which is laughable to most people. are they aware coming in -- unga is a place where leaders run around the same hotels, are they aware of the stakes of looking like they are being spun by or played by hassan rouhani? >> you know, the whole reason why they were looking aggressive for a time on syria, what they said behind-the-scenes this is important we got to look like we mean what we say because of the iran situation. at the same time one of the reasons why the president was intent on changing course and going to congress to seek the authority is he was concerned that if iran was going to cross a line then they were going to be forced to act then, you know, he was going to have to go back to congress so in many ways he saw the syria vote almost as a test run a little bit to get congress involved in this conversation. now the whole thing blew up politically blew up in his face. now we'll see. you know, it hasn't looked good leadership wise but if they actually get assad to give up 90% of his chemical weapons it's a pretty good outcome even if what it looked like was precarious leadership at best. it seems to me politics will be very subtle. that interview with ann curry that was looking at the touchy points. you don't do that in diplomacy. they are not going to agree to some we love israel for energy. the only deal we can do is avoid a war is that if they agree to steer away from weaponization at some point, some red line is to be honored. easier we make that information the better. we shouldn't make it harder. simply change their policy away from weaponizing. this guy how represents the more secular people in that country who are also for the prestige that comes with a nuclear weapon. we're fighting not just the mullahs and traditional people we're fighting people in iran who we normally would like, have a cup of coffee but for iranian pride that they could see come from that weapon. we don't want that weapon because we don't trust them and israel doesn't trust them. to get there will take some good diplomacy and we have to hold this guy's hand a little bit. i don't think we should act difficult, ask all the tough questions. i think that interview was looking for all foichbthe point difficulty we have with them. negotiators have to go you have a right to have a weapon, but we don't feel you need that weapon we don't want to you have it and we can't let you have it. we can't let you have it. my name is obama i'm a dove and i can't let you do it. >> there's a reason iran is the toughest froin world is that they are worried about the future of their very existence. they look to pakistan and they say, they see pakistan has a bomb and it's still there. and they realize that if they are a nuclear power they are on the map and they are there to stay. so that's why this is such a terrible problem because giving up that weaponry is giving up the guarantee of their future even though, of course, it's right for all of us that they give it up for the sake of the world. but this is the largest problem we face diplomatically and internationally in many years. >> they look to libya which gave up their nuclear program. >> chris before we let you go. in 11 days potential government shutdown. debt ceiling two weeks after that. john boehner put this deal together. has a vote tomorrow to hold it up at the expense of obama care. >> see trouble. i think -- i look at the debt default as a real problem economically. we can see a 2 though i point drop in the dow. 4001 k shrinking. after an hour or day or a week of debt default how do you find a place important the republican party to go. where do you find a place for boehner to go to get a majority rule in the house. but if the only way to get a debt ceiling through, increase through is to get a majority vote in the house. 218 votes. democrats will provide maybe a majority of those votes but boehner has to provide the other ones without anything to do with killing obama care. that's going to be hard problem. they are going to go war with each other. how do we the end war. i don't know if these leaders are big enough to do it. i'm not sure the boehner or president or right-wing of the republican party -- we made our point. now let's deal. that's the part i worry about. i want to say something. i found a piece of tape the other day from the "today" show, april 10, 1985, you'll thereof. bipartisan delegation went to moscow carrying a letter from president regan saying he wants to meet with new soviet leader gorbachev. very much without any comment they said the leader of the delegation was the speaker of the house tip o'neill. can you imagine today boehner representing president obama in dealing with putin? it's how things have changed, the civility, the normal sharing of government by two parties is not the way it works. >> obama did call senator mccain and lindsey graham down to the white house when he wanted help and borne was willing to suspend the rule. >> i hope that's where the grown ups get together. >> borne did what he did yesterday. >> the most popular picture, the one thing people like not the debates, it's your guy, chris christie walking on the beach with the president of the united states of different parties. you ask anybody who is reasonable they will say that's what they think american government should be when it comes to a crisis or a disaster we work together. >> we'll read more about this in your book october 1st. >> good timing. it is. see you tonight at 7:00 p.m. chuck see you on the daily run down. the markets are up to new highs. one person who is not happy about it. former congressman ron paul is here. you're watching "morning joe". i love having a free checked bag with my united mileageplus explorer card. i've saved $75 in checked bag fees. 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[ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired by perfection. welcome back to "morning joe." here with us now former republican congressman from the state of texas, former presidential campaign candidate ron paul. he's out with a new book "the school revolution, a nuance for our breen education system." congressman it's always good to see you. let's talk about life on the outside. you retired and got busier. >> people say have you really retired. that's not a good term. i've retired from congress. >> you're still working hard. we want to get to your book in a second. but obviously given your position on the fed over the years i want to ask you about the front page news. fed stays on easy money course, quantitative easing continues. what's your take? >> i'm not surprised but the markets were certainly surprised yesterday but i think it's a major admission by bernake that things haven't improved. he's saying we're in bad shapes but the markets didn't interpret it that way. it doesn't help those 99% or at least large middle class and the poor won't help them one bit. still going to have trouble getting jobs so there's a lot of disconnect here. but i think it was a very, very bad, you know, announcement yesterday that the economy is a lot worse off and i think in time it will prove to be the case. >> aren't we in the situation where if the fed cut this stimulus had money we would be worse off? >> it can't get worse. to continue to destroy our currency is always bad. always bad. it always destroys the middle class and the wealthy get wealthier. this is the prediction of economics for 100 years. this is exactly what we're witnessing those predictions that the wealthy get wealthier, the poor get poorer and the middle class gets wiped out. all inflation is bad and this idea that the fed can create money out of thin air to satisfy special interests and the politicians who like to spend money, it always leads to trouble except on the surface a lot of people feel good about it. during the bubble phase a lot of middle class people felt good about it. they were buying houses, and house prices were going up, so the inevitable bust game, the wealthy got bailed out and the average person lost a job and lost their house. so it's never good even if you feel good for a while. right now on italy rich are feeling good and the poor aren't doing well neighborhoodle class getting much poorer. >> what's the most important thing that can be done in the short term to help raise middle class income and what's the most important thing long term, government business combination can to be done? >> short term it's really very tough. you know, if you want to say on the short term and if you wanted to intervene and had to intervene you should have given the money to the poor people and let them pay off their mortgages. i wouldn't have advised. short term you could do that. long term you have to decide whether you want a few men, maybe women involved in secretly deciding what the interest rates should be. the interest rate -- if people don't understand how important the interest rate is they can't solve this problem. for the middle class or anybody. you have to have savings, interest rates that's the message to the business community but we don't have interest rates other than what's dictated by a few people. and they are always wrong. you know, they are always wrong and always will mislead and that's why even yesterday as more misleading us on what's really happening. >> are artificial manipulation of rates. i know your opinion about the federal reserve. if you could pull the levers right now because you can't go cold turkey. specifically how would you get to the point where you could adjust it to a more normal assessment. >> the cold turkey argument has merit to it because it would be tough. >> be a real shock to the short term system. >> the alternative is a calamity like the bankruptcy of a whole country like a city can go bankrupt like a detroit. so you're not really comparing, you know, an easing down and a smooth transition or having a really tough thing to cutback. so, there is no easy. there's no political answer. it's addiction. the people are addicted to spending. politicians are addicted. the markets are addicted. and there's no chance they will wean us. this is what bernanke was saying. what we've been taught for 100 years it's stupid to balance the budget because what you want to do is you want people to spend money and borrow money and print money. that's the thing we've been taught for a long time. >> no one believes in a populous we can go bankrupt it's a reality they don't assess when they look at the economy they don't believe kit happen. >> you're absolutely right. we're naive. they are still taking our money. if that were true none of us would ever have to work again we would just have fed print money and we would buy stuff from overseas. that confidence in the dollar, the confidence in our foreign policy now is starting to shake a bit and they go together. if they lose confidence in our foreign policy, lose confidence in our economy and dollars you will see interest rates rising and then that's the big issue because that will be the most significant expenditure and nobody will have control of it and because if you have interest rates doubling or something, you can't legislate that down. >> long term, how do we repair an education system that can educate and prepare the next generation of leaders and job creators and innovators in the country? >> slowly. that's the approach. the goal that it have there is to offer an olive branch to sort of what we're talking about because we've been taught for so long a school of economics and personal liberty and importance of the individual versus, you know, everybody coming together and managing. i want people to home school their children. not everybody. this is designed to pick out the leaders that want to and maybe 20% might be interested in doing this. but they would at least see, these would be leaders who then would be talking about running for congress and understand why the federal reserve is a problem. today we have been conditioned in all our schools that it's good have a very robust foreign policy, to be involved in all these countries. we've been taught the federal reserve is sacred except for the last five years people are questioning the federal reserve. we've been taught deficits are good spend is good. but we have to reverse that. >> what's the correlation between home schooling and getting better understanding for fed. >> my whole curriculum and everything i talked about is based on freedom philosophy which is what identify been talking about for 30 years. so the education would be quite different. i want would be something where young people would learn at their own pace, they would pick and they would do it over the internet. it wouldn't cost as much. but they are going be taught different commission. different perspective on history. for instance every one of us have been taught our greatest presidents was woodrow wilson. liberal or conservative if you look at woodrow wilson he violated, abused our civil liberties. he was the one who told us we had to march around the world. he changed our foreign policy. and i would like to show that some of our presidents, the only great president have between war mongers and people who argued for negotiations might be a better president. it will be a different approach. but it will be up front. freedom philosophy. based on individual freedom. and not a collectivist approach that the federal government runs everything down. now we're coming up with a core curriculum and just more mandates and more controls and how do you satisfy people who don't like the text books? you know there's no way you can solve that problem other than the fact offer people other choices. >> if you want to get 20% of children being home schooled that's going mean a vast drop in the number of women in the workforce because it is largely women who are doing the home schooling. a lot of women can't afford to give up their jobs. a lot of families can't afford that. do went to encouraging women not take part in the workforce because we know how valuable that diversity is. i'm concerned about advocating home schooling on this level when women are having such a hard time already staying in the workforce. >> of course those are the problems created by what i'm trying to correct because they have to be in the workforce and have to work and not take care of kids because of the system we have because it's survival for them. so you are absolutely right, there is a choice. matter of fact my wife and i are talking about this even if the conditions would have been bad in our public school system when we were raising kids we wouldn't have home schooled for various reasons. it's not going to be for everybo everybody. you're not closing down the schools. choices need to be made. some people will go out of their way for their children, but i agree with you. it is not going to be easy because we're facing the consequences. i saw an article yesterday of a woman working two jobs and she was living in a shelter. she couldn't pay her bills because her cost of living goes up much faster than wages. that's another characteristic of this monetary system. so that is a consequence why they have to work. but if people really want to get it done, they can, but i grant you, it will not be easy but to continue to do what we're doing now, harold remember when washington ever had trouble with their schools they always thought if we gave them more money it would soiflt. the schools that get the most money aren't the best schools at all. money does not solve this problem. and home schooling, the kids are really learning, they are excelling, getting in college when they are 15 and 16. costs are less. there's something you have to invest in and that is the parents have to decide whether they will do it or not. >> before i let you go, nicole wallace was out here touting your son as president. he's doing well. what conversations have you had with him about running for president? >> essentially none, actually. you know when they started talking about the campaign last fall i said isn't it a little early. i'm still trying to get all my votes counted. >> do you think it's something he aspires to. >> i would think so. he wouldn't be doing what he's doing. but i haven't had a conversation that went to a plan. he's been pretty independent. i don't nowhere he got this independence from. same way in running for the senate. it was something he decided on. i guess my first personal reaction was that's a big job. but he had sort of anticipated what the tea party movement was doing, was able to tap into that. some surprised me how well he did there. so, no, i think if you look at where he's traveling, which states he's going to, i would think it's on his mind but actually i haven't any personal conversations with him. >> but you think he'll run as a father's instinct? >> i would think that he's weighing it and it depends on the circumstance. sometimes in politics you can get beat up all of a sudden. but, i'm sure he's weighing it. i think he's doing a very good job. >> congressman ron paul. thank you very much. good to see you. coming up google's latest venture that could add years to your life. why the search giant wants to get into the life-saving business. floodwaters in colorado is rekreegd. recovery could take years. and the price for rebuilding. and a hurricane slamming mexico could be heading our way next. more "morning joe" next. let's get the ball rolling in communities like chicago we're coming together with the city and military veterans for the coca-cola foundations troops for fitness an innovative program that's inspiring hundreds of people with fun ways to move a little more stay active and to see how good a little balance can feel part of our goal is to inspire more than 3 million people to rediscover the joy of being active this summer. see the difference all of us can make... together! 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it tells you something, first of all, about the science of anti-ageing which has gone from sort of a quack field and, you know, freezing bodies and uploading brains to computers and what have you into something that where real research is being done, what makes ourselves and tissues degenerate and whether any of those things can be reversed. the fact google is willing to put money behind a venture to see if this can happens lend it credibility. google is known for its moonshots. i want has huge long term thinking. that's the m.o. of the company and the ceo. >> they are calling this the project calico. what does it entail? >> if i knew exactly what they were doing i would be out there patenting it. sources say they will start small now research technologies. there will not be on the pill next market that says google's immortality pill. they will look at causes for tissues to decline. the venture is being done in conjunction with the founder of genentech which is one of the pre-eminent biotech firms. >> these guys have this initiative and this cause. he goes in. it's not about writing a check. they focus laser like. they are serious about fining cures and changing the way we live. >> it's do. it's important for those of us who aren't in the trenches following technology who think of google it's the search engine the thing on my browser it helps me find cute cats on the internet. that's a core part of google's business. but they are doing these huge innovates, t initiatives. driverless cars. in 10, 15 years this may be how we're living. >> think of the 10, 15 years ago and if you talk about google then which no one was and just in a relatively short time of span 10, 12 years now this. >> the company is 15 years old. they have a stock cash pile of $ $54 billion. >> is immortality a good look a that we're having with an aging problem race that we can't finance because we have -- so the baby boom bubble is now coming round to cost us quite a lot of money. is this what, to have people living for decades longer? 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because you don't want multiple -- >> that, i don't know. and that's what the capitol hill police are launching an investigation to find out what happened. >> there is this whole component, too, of the mental health. we began to talk about it yesterday, but since then, we've learned a little bit more about there were some flags that probably should have been september up tsent up the chain of command. >> it speaks more just to the holes in the net outside the military. they have programs where they're screening people for mental health. but as a society, as a government, we have absolutely no system to take care of people with mental illnesses until and unless they intersect with law enforcement. so we are at ground zero in terms of doing -- providing services or offering help for family members or friends. it was heartbreaking to hear the shooter's mother. she was obviously devastated, too. she's lost something, too. and i think that until we take stock of where we are and where we have to arrive at, i don't know that you can take guns out of the hands that shouldn't have them. >> 5 million people have the security clearances. the proliferation of outsourcing, department of the defense and other agency, allowing outside groups and organizations to vet people, they have to take a harder look at that. it's clear many people would have had clearances invalidated. you can have it invalidated here at nbc if you have some issue. the fat that steps were not taken sooner to prevent him from going into the building. the gun issue is important, but how he was allowed back on a military installation is beyond me and i think that has to be investigated and has to be fixed. >> one point that's really interesting, the growth of contractors in this government is enormous especially within the pentagon. that's an enormous issue. the other issue is we had best be prepared as a culture, as a society, at the conclusion of all the investigations that will take place with regard to this incident to accept the fact that there was very little we could do. if we are going to start doing something about people who walk around talking to themselves, that's an enormous number of people. we all see them becausie i walk new york city. >> doesn't mean you have too give them security clearance. >> oh, no. >> i want to get your take on the fedex. analysts investors looking toward september as the time the fed would scale back the bond buying program but yesterday the central bank decided to keep the program in place. sent markets soaring. brian, was this really a big surprise move? >> anyone who says they called this is lying to you you. to be frank. everyone across the board. and the fed themselves actually, they telegraphed it, they said a couple times in the last few months that this is something they were strongly considering and everyone assumed that they were going to do it. people are actually some upset at ben bernanke for deceiving the markets. and people didn't just buy stocks. they bought bonds, they bought gold, they bought everything. because in the macroeconomy, the easy money will keep going and the big takeaway is that ben bernanke scolded people and said up the jobs market is better, until congress is better, until inflation is in line with expectations, we won't do anything. we still have one more chance before the end of 2013 i believe to see if it happens. so people bought, stocks went up, but some people are upset at the fed because they think they were deceived. >> so how much of the decision yesterday has to do with the fed getting political and realizing that congress is totally inept and we're creeping up to a cataclysmic event so we'll take some of it out of their hands some. >> it is a factor because there were three things ben bernanke pointed to. i said the job market, fiscal policy, needs as to be moto be more understandable, and then there is inflation which is below target. so those are the three factors. one third of his consideration is exactly that. >> what we've learned since 2008 is that what happens in one country doesn't stay in one country and certainly the fed's response yesterday was being watched pretty much everywhere in the world. how important is this for keeping the global recovery on track? >> first, i think it's always a good thing when the fed catches investors going the wrong way. when investors get too certain that they don't, that's about a. but n. this case i can't help but think part of what the fed was worrying about is the sign of softness in some global economies particularly china. "wall street journal" hats a series about the way the slowdown looks from some locations. talking to europeans this week, you still have a soft european economy coming back from its near death experience over the last couple years. so i think the fed understands that it is the world central bank in addition to being the american central bank, and is wanting to maintain conditions that are quite stimulative. the question of when they will turn off the spigot, when they will reduce this buying of long term bonds is theirs as it was a couple months ago about that you but i think the softness that they're talking about isn't just in the u.s., it's global. >> what does this tell you about the state of the economy long term, not wanting to raise interest rates because they don't want to cool off the housing market, what did you learn about the economy yesterday? >> the uncertainty that grips everything, which everybody has touched on from the lack of income growth in the country, the lack of hours worked in the country, the number of people participating in the labor market combined with all the uncertainty in washington, the fed in a lot of ways decided they were going to inject a certain uncertainty. not saying we'll continue this, still uncertainty about when we stop the program. i think it's likely then that you'll hear this week the president make his choice for the fed chair probably known late this week, early next week. it's been indicated in all the press reports. that's probably good for the markets right away. but i think david is right, the uncertainty around the globe. when you look at how intertwined global markets are and decision making is amongst central bankers, i think ben bernanke stepped back, took a breather and said i know people think i'm going to go one way. it showed an i sandependent thinking on on his part and a willingness to do what is right for the global economy. >> the world is addicted to low rates. personally i'd like to see what the economy looks like standing on two feet. but india went into a swoon. there is an addiction worldwide to the low rates and that is a problem here that still we have not addressed. >> the one question i have is this policy has been in place for now four or five years and we still have unemployment rates high, people are still giving up trying to find work. you have to start at some point thinking this policy has not done what we needed to raisin comes, to get people back into the middle class. is this the right policy to carry on here? >> i think that it could be far worse if you were ben bernanke. i happen to think -- the data will drive the path in the country and i give him credit for making the decision based on the data. you have former governor, fed governors, who matt point bde t brian is make. but at the end of the day, i think it would be worse if they're not doing what they're doing and at some point the spigot will turn off and the question becomes are we better educated, can we produce better high paying jobs in the country. i think the answer is no. when you consider how government has behaved the last year, here we are on the brink of another crisis that we created for ourselves around government funding and around the debt ceiling increase. and until the adults decide to behave like adults, you have to have one adult like bernanke behaving like an adult. >> there is a plan that would tie government fund to go stripping all funding for obamaca obamacare. chances of making its way out of the senate slim to none, and that put republican lawmakers at odds with each other. ted cruz put pressure on his colleagues in the house saying in part harry reid will no doubt try to strip the defund language from the continuing resolution and right now he likely has the votes to do so. at the that point house republicans must stand firm. but republicans in the house shot back at cruz for setting them up to take the blame. congressman tim griffin tweeting so far senators are good at getting facebook likes and town halls. not much also. do something. senate republicans he was talking about. last night there was equal blame on the senate shoulders for how this is all playing out. >> nobody votes to shut the government down. that's not how it works. they will pass something next week. it will take for some reason a week to get to whatever we pass and they will send it back to us and we'll either accept it or send it back. so the question is we get to the last part of the back and forth and we send them something and say we agree on everything except obamacare. and they say we don't agree on obama care. they send it back to us. who is shutting the government down? you could makes a much as strong an argument it's the senate as much as we are. the right discussion to be having is how can we find a middle ground between what the house will do tomorrow and the senate will do next week that allows the government to stay open. >> after watching trying to process the logic on there. walk us through will this a little bit. john boehner obviously made a conscious decision to side with the conservatives and go the route of perhaps forcing the government shutdown to defund obamacare. what's the strategy here? >> i go back to the conversation about adults. you have young children, you're about to, i have a 2-year-old. and sometimes when he's on his scooter, he wants to cross the street even when the light is red. cars move very fast. it is your job as the parent to hold the child in the scooter from running into traffic because he would get squished. it is the job of the adults in the republican party to tell there is grass root support in this country among republicans, among conservatives, tea party members, to do this will. there are people the law is a sligs -- health care law is incredibly unpopular. to ted cruz is responding to what is a genuine sentiment out there. however, when republicans run into the street, despite the fact that there is a flashing red light, they will get hit by the cars and killed. so this is stupid politically. this is stupid at a policy level because as the great charles krautheimer, it has no chance to succeed. so they will fail. so we're at a moment where most of the country is pretty disillusioned with president obama's leadership on the world stage. but a majority of americans do not like his signature domestic achievement which is the health care law. we're actually at a moment as republicans where even bernie sanders has described our party has on the offense and now we'll let our party run into moving traffic against a red light. it's idiotic. coming up, america's students are falling behind the rest of the world in subjects like math and science. could high school sports be to blame? the author of the new piece in the atlantic. and up next, our political round table. about f30 mipnutesing go, i showed you a thunderstorm and now we found out they're causing two hour delays at the o'hare. so definitely causing a ripple effect in the midwest and east. so chicago o'hare, two hour delays. it's the worst right now. the thunderstorms are moving out and away over the top of lake michigan. so it will get a little better here shortly. you can already see there looking down towards the miracle mile and lake shore of chicago, it is clearing ever so slowly. so that's good. but other areas still have problems. thunderstorms are widespread this morning all through the great lakes. and as far as what we'll deal with out there in the midwest, late this afternoon, additional storms. if you're in yellow, you have a chance of large hail or damaging winds today. that includes kansas city, wichita, quad city, milwaukee, green bay, and a little portion of minneapolis. as far as the east coast and west coast, today is about as beautiful as it gets out there for late summer. enjoy a fantastic afternoon from new york city to atlanta and all through areas of the west. california looks gorgeous and the pacific northwest. tomorrow doesn't look as night. so take your lunch outdoors while you can. we leave with you a shot, we call this a 10 out of 10 in washington, d.c.. enjoy. 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[ male announcer ] so indulgent, you'll never believe they're light. 100-calorie progresso light soups. welcome back to "morning joe". we have lawrence o'donnell with us and in chicago, former senior adviser to president obama, and msnbc contributor david axelrod. has an awful lot of titles. >> that's what happens when you get old. >> institute to advanced studies -- >> of sports. >> of the boston red sox. >> how do i get that? i want to be the director of an institution. how do you do that? >> i'm sure you you could. just create one. >> is it senior adviser or former senior adviser? >> this week i'd say former senior adviser. >> why, david? let's talk about that. i mean, the criticism of the white house decision making, a lack of decision making, policy, the seemingly back and forth. why are you sort of -- oosh you never as smart as you are or dumb as you look when things go badly. buts's bean a tough period. i think we'll end up in a bad place in syria as a result of the path taken, but it's not clean. it's obviously a source of great debate and discussion. so -- and when you get into these kind of periods where the narrative is difficult, everything is seen through that prism. so i know nicole has experienced this, as well. sitting in that building is a pressureful time. but if you're will for a long time, you realize that there are periods like this and you have to work your way through them. and i believe they will work their way through this. obviously the other discussion you're having today is tough, too, which is what congress is doing and not doing. and that's going to make this next month or six weeks very volatile. >> david, who in the white house can walk into the oval office and tell the president he just screwed something up or his plan for the day should be changed because it's not such a good plan, it isn't look good to go give this speech for example? governor rendell yesterday said that they're missing your influence in that west wing. but tell me who it is in the west wing that can walk in there this morning and say what you have planned for the day is a crummy idea, mr. president, based on the way events are unfolding. >> that's one of the advantages of not being there is people say i wish he were there. if i were there, they would say what an idiot. but i think there are people who can do that. i know dennis mcdonough very well. he's a very tough character. cares a lot about the president, respects the president. but i don't think he'd hesitate to go in and say i think this is a mistake. dan feifer has been with him seven years. i think he can tell him things that he needs to hear. obviously valerie jarrett has known him for 20 years. she has that ability. there are people around who can do that. it's not easy to go into the president of the united states, the ora of the office and everything, and say, you know what, that was a bone head play or a mistake or we shouldn't do what you want to do. but it has to be done and i think there are people, nicole, who are there who can do that. >> lawrence, you've gone into several offices on both the senate and house side of the capitol -- >> i was a yemen. i always said, yes, that's great. that's brilliant. >> david referenced the continuing issue of the house of representatives with regard to our country and national policy. john boehner. do you think that in his wildest nightmares he would have imagined that he would be leading a suicide mission at this point? >> yeah, i think he -- listen, when he became speaker, the night of that election when they took over the house, i said in our coverage how is he going to raise the debt ceiling? people didn't quite know what i was talking about at that point. but i'm sure it crossed boehner's night that nigmind th because he knows it's coming. so this is just a continuation what have he's been through from the start with the tea party. and i am not a john boehner critic. i have never seen a situation in which i can say to you here is how john boehner could have done a better job leading, this crazy word speed use now about house republicans. leading the house republicans. no one can lead the house republicans. will is not tip o'neill's house of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way.twill is not te of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way.hiwill is not house of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way.swill is not t house of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way.ill is not tip house of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way.ll is not tip house of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way. is not tip o'e of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way. is not tip o' of representatives. i mean, i've read chris matthews book, by the way. it is a great story about exactly this situation. because he's talking about tip o'neill running one-half of one-third of the government which is the position boehner is in. and doing a brilliant job of about with reagan who he kind of didn't like and then kind of liked. you know, there was a lot of human tension in it. but it's the real story of how you do this. and i just think boehner has an impossible job and it looks impossible all the time. >> what makes it impossible is the lack of concern for the national interests. and the common good-bye people who think that ideology and partisanship is more important than what the hell happens to the world and the united states. and what impresses me with all of the talk about the inside baseball narrative that david is referring to, and with all of the fact that perhaps president obama is too reactive as the narrative would have it and i might agree, nonetheless, what has happened in syria is a good thing because the president of the united states put the national interests first. we're not going to war in syria. whatever the appearance of it, we're not going to have the deficit of the arab street as it were erupting because of a military action that brings no help to us militarily. so once again the president has said i'm responsible for the national interests. the thenarrative of obamacare a this supposedly hellish thing, we now have a health care system for the future in america to build on if these people in washington allow themselves to build on it the way republicans help build on social security in the 1930s. >> we're seeing now with david e ignatius' piece the second stage i think of media analysis of what's happened in syria. david ignatius in his piece he checks off beautifully all the accomplishments that the obama carried policy has produced in syria, more than you possibly could have expected at the outset. and this comes after a week of everybody complaining about the zigzag. and david axelrod, when the presidency is dealing with something as seriously as syria policy, and that outcome, and all you're getting in the media is theater review of what the president said instead of what the president accomplished today, how does the white house react to that in trying to turn the discussion back for look at what we did? >> you know, it's a great question, lawrence. and i think one of the strengths of the president is he is a long term player. he's concerned about how it turns out at the end. and he has encull indicated the staff with that same attitude which is this isn't a game, you know, that you win in the fifth inning. we're playing all the way to the ninth. and don't worry about the crowd right now. let's keep focused on what doing. i'd make one other point as i hear karl talking about obama. let's remember why this man was elected. he was elected because people had tired of a policy that was black and white, it saw everything in those terms. in a world that had a lot of gray and a lot of nuance. and they wanted a president who was thoughtful, who was not reactive, would act on facts and not on impulse. and that's what they've got. and i think as karl mentioned, we'll end up in a better place in in instance because of that. but we have a pend uhe lar nature in our politics. people say i wish he saw more in black and white, i wish he was more impulsive. that's not who he is. >> i thought one of the most impressive things the president did was to call down john mccain and lindsay gram whham when the policy appeared to be one of garnering support for enforcing his red line and i wonder if you have any insight into what their personal relationship is like. john mccain still has a lot of credibility on the world stage on foreign policy and he was someone the white house called in when they were looking for that bipartisan support for what they wanted to do. so what do you hear from your white house colleagues about how that relationship has obviously improved? >> my sense is that they're working together on a number of things. obviously immigration reform is another issue. so they have had -- and i think they have had discussions on other issues, as well, including budgetary issues. i wouldn't suggest that they're best buddies. i think that there is some history there and we all know what it is. but senator mccain it seems to me has tried to work with the white house where he can of late and he's been a very constructive force in that regard. he's more than happy to filet the president at times as we've seen and that's to be expected. they're different parties and so on. but i think this is a much improved relationship. i think part of it is senator mccain is watching what's going on in your party and he looks over his right shoulder at people like ted cruz and he says do i want to hang with these people or do i want to solve problems? and i think that's to the benefit of their relationship and the country. >> okay. david axelrod, thanks for joining us. lawrence will stay with us. and coming up, why are american students falling behind? 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>> we'll talk about that. but actually girls play high school sports and competitive sports, they do better in college, they earn higher wages. since title ix, you've seen improvement this girls education because of playing high school sports. >> i played soccer my whole life. i love it. i'm not saying that we shouldn't play sports. i'm saying it shouldn't be part of school. this is the only country in the world where sports are such a centr central mission of high schools. they make hires because who can coach, not who can teach. and we're spending two to four times per high school football player versus the high school math student. so having the conversation is important. for athletes themselves, sports can be very valuable, but that's a minority of high school students. the question is what about everybody else. >> let's talk about everybody else. let's talk about if you have a child and the child is 12 or 16 or whatever, in eighth grade or senior in high school or junior, would you rather have your child playing an organized sport where they meet other people and form some sorts of bonds with their teammates doing that in high school or constantly looking a at these things? >> look, it's not either/or. let me give an example. >> it is. >> finland, top of the world this education outcomes. kids do less homework than we do. kids watch the same amount of tv and facebook and whatever cell phones. but sports are something that kids play on their own after school, maybe in the neighborhood, rec center. it's not part of school. when i went to -- for the book i was working on, i followed a student from oak what to fin land and i couldn't find the trophies. i finally did find them, i was very excited, oh, there's a trophy case and i looked and they were ten years old, they were covered with dust. no one had really thought about them because in finland as you get older, the opposite of here, the idea is you pull back from sports and focus on academics because as much as we like to -- we love to cheer and we love the idea of sports. 2% of our college students get college scholarships. >> there is no doubt it's an issue, but i don't think it's the issue. it's specialization that is the bigger problem when kids are maybe playing for their school soccer team, or all the travel teams. i went to public school my whole life up the final two years. for the two years at boarding school, when i was an athlete, it disciplined my day. i think kids are not playing enough different sports to make the positive concept work. they're just focused on the one thing, to hit that home run, no run intended. and i think that is a bigger issue. >> that's interesting. actually spellman college is a great example of the opposite. they were spending a million dollars a year on 4% of their students who were actually athletes when half of their incoming students had diseases and health conditions that could be improved through exercise. so the president of spellman realized this is nuts. let's flip it. so now she spends a million dollars on wellness and health and 5 ks and doing like sports for everybody to try to get everybody involved, everybody more active. which we can all agree leads to more learning and all kinds of great things. >> we're talking about intensity levels here, aren't we? i played three sports in high school. but no one in the high school thought that that was more important than you were doing with grades. in fact if the grades went below a certain level, you couldn't play the sport. and you have a great line, imagine for a moment if americans transferred our obsessive intensity about high school sports to high school academics. >> right. and that's exactly what korea does. korea is a crazy model to the other extreme. no one in korea would tell you to follow. but that is the exact same intensity. parents feel like they're at home coaching, coachincoaching,g their kid on math. and if they fail, what they do is they he will them to practice more and get more help. exact same thing as in sports. >> you played three sports, you didn't play net ball? amanda ripley, thank you. cover story in the new issue of the atlantic, how sports are ruining high school. her book is out now. up next, investors were giddy yesterday after the fed surprised wall street. you work. and you want to get an mba. but going back to school is hard... because you work. now, capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it's called flexpath and it's the most direct path, leveraging what you've learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know so you can get a degree at your pace. and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university learn more at capella.edu it's been that way since the day you met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than 4 hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or if you have any allergic reactions such as rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30-tablet free trial. no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ time for business before the bell. brian sullivan, fed shocked the world. jobless claims today. is the rally continuing? >> nice tie, brian. it's throw back thursday. ties weren't invented until like 15 years ago. this is the brian shactman look. the fed shocked the world not tapering which is the reduction in the bond buying plan. the market soared, futures indicating another higher day today. basically the fed keeping its foot on the gas pedal of economic stimulus by trying to keep interest rates down. that was a big day. the stock market continuing to soar to new and you new and new highs. check out your 401(k) plan. unless you're invested it n. something obscure, you're probably up fairly nicely this year. i upgraded to ios 7 last night. i'm a pandora subscriber p. watch apple, watch pandora. the new itunes radio was very good. could be tough for pandora if this catches on. >> i saw a lot of positive feedback on twitter. if you're going know tie, at least have color in the shirt. coming up next, finale of america's got talent. if there was a red carpet, lewisburg door of was there mucking it up. aren't getting s. ♪ the trucks are going farther. the 2013 ram 1500 with best-in-class fuel economy. engineered to move heaven and earth. guts. glory. ram. the new ram 1500. motor trend's 2013 truck of the year. that's not much, you think. except it's 2% every year. go to e-trade and find out how much our advice and guidance costs. spoiler alert: it's low. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. e-trade. less for us. more for you. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. nascar is ab.out excitement but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media can be a challenge. that's why we partnered with hp to build the new nascar fan and media engagement center. hp's technology helps us turn millions of tweets, posts and stories into real-time business insights that help nascar win with our fans. i apologize for this. louis is in the control room. why. >> thanks very much, mike. i spent the evening at the finale. performances by earth wind and fire rounded out the night. in the end, the mime and dancer walked away the millionaire. i caught up with the junes and performers after the show. >> joe and mika? 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hell is just beginning. >> in july all three women released this youtube video to thank their supporters. >> first and foremost i want everybody to know how happy i am to be home with my family, my friends. >> i was sick. thank you. >> the boarded home where cast strowe had beaten tortured and raped his victims for so many years torn down through the plea deal. castro's own brothers called him a monster during the trial. we've yet to hear from his brothers or victims. joining us now, welcome. a research fellow at the university in oxford. specializes in the mental health of prisoners. thank you so much for your time. are you surprised he wasn't on suicide watch? >> well, that's difficult to comment on, really, sometimes being on suicide watch is counterproductive. prisoners find it frustrating to be looked at all the time and observed very long. it's not practical to keep inmates on suicide watch. it doesn't spriers me wasn't on -- surprise me wasn't on suicide watch. >> dr. frizel, this man months later killed himself. what's going on in the psyche of someone who does that? >> i mean, who knows. again, it's very difficult to know. it's likely that all these different things are going on in his mind, all these thrntion are coming -- things are coming together. going to prison itself is a very stressful experience. all memories of his childhood and other things are coming together plus there's the expense of being in prison. he wanted to be believed a little bit, we don't know, there may be all sorts of problems of just being in a place that's unfamiliar to him. and some prisoners you know suffer quite severe distress coming off illegal drugs and alcohol which they're previously addicted to. in his case, in ariel castro's case, he does talk about an addiction to sex. just not having access to pornography or whatever else he used was very citrusful to him. >> in your capacity as a mental health professional, i'd be remiss not to talk about the victims, how do you think the suicide affects them? >> well, i think in different ways. i mean i think some victims are likely to feel relieved, you know, in some ways. if it's closure for them, and in other ways, if people haven't been very open about what's happened and haven't expressed a lot of remorse, that also might be difficult for victims because they feel that their perpetrators must come to terms with what's happened to them and you know express regret and sorrow for what's happened so i think kit work both ways. >> thank you so much for your insight, we appreciate it, dr. brazel, senior floe at the university of oxford, england. thank you. the president wants to take military action in syria and make his pitch at the g-20 summit that pushes off on thursday. he did say he would not rule out support of military action but only after formal u.n. approval. here at home the president has gained support from a powerful political point house spieker john boehner. after speaking with other congressional leaders, boehner endorsed the plan. >> the united states has the capability to stop assad and to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated. this is something that the united states as a country needs to do. i'm going to support the president's call for action. i believe that my colleagues should support this call for action. >> also, at the meeting house minority leader nancy pelosi reiterated her support. take a brief departure from national security and the economy and showed a softer side of american diplomacy. joining us now is mike viquera who is joining the president. even though this is a little bit of an escape from the issue of syria, his main mission would be taking this to world leaders i would imagine. >> certainly here smiles and statesmanship, a serenity is what we're going oget in stockholm. that is a marked departure for the president when he left an dreus air force base. the reason he was here is because he's not in moscow. you recall after the g-8 summit earlier this year in northern ireland, the white house came out and announced the president was going to have a bilal meeting with vladimir putin. that's a snub no doubt about it. after russia granted temporary asylum to edward snowden, an nsa fugitive. this is now going to be doubtlessly overshadowed by the situation in syria. the president will have at least two bilal sessions at the g-8. he will meet with floonld francois hollande, he's not expected to meet formally with vladimir putin. l although there will be some sort of formaliz informal meeti. fps relations seem to be at an all time low. there have been blowups over adoption policy between american parents, putin essentially banning american parents from adopting russian children,s, there's been a blow up over gay rights. the president has rejected this out of hand. we'll see how this goes. >> absolutely. one question about sweden, who will the president be meeting with in sweden? >> well as i said largely ceremonial here. many countries invite the president to come and have it. often along time and key ally in this part of the world. the president will meet with the king and the prime minister, there will be a meeting with other nordic leaders, he'll also visit the grand synagogue, an historic site in stockholm, a tribute to raul wollenberg. who saved 100,000 jews. >> thank you, all right, let's take a look at some pictures from britain parliament, it's the first time prime ministers david cameron was there since the house of commons voted against the motion to allow a strike against syrian. the senate foreign relations committee is holding a vote, what does that vote do for the mission in syria? they reached an agreement for the draft resolution, that paves the way for a vote by the committee later today. among the provisions the draft sets a 60 day limit on military action with the possibility of a 30-day extension. the compromise deal also bans any use of troops on the ground. if the draft is approved by the committee it will be sent to the full senate for a vote after members return september 9th after their recess. secretary of state john kerry and secretary of defense chuck hagel will appear before the house. joining me more on this is ran randall pinkston. good morning. >> good morning rachel. >> the draft resolution as you indicate could be voted on as early as today. it also includes a provision that requires the presidential report back to congress ten days after the initiation of military action and then every 20 why days thereafter. and of course it does give the president the option after a 60-day exploration to come back and ask for 30 more days. this afternoon it would be a replay for secretary kerry and also for secretary hagel before the house foreign affairs committee. they will be questioned just as strenuously as they were yesterday. a full fledged debate on whether the u.s. should engage in military action in syria. >> so when does the full house take up a vote? >> well, the full house will take up the vote after the house foreign affairs committee approves a resolution. presumably they will approve the resolution. they also have the option of changing it and sending it back to the house foreign relations committee for them to get on the same page with what both bodies want. but once the house foreign affairs committee approves the resolution then it will go to the full house when they come back from recess which of course as you indicate will be the same as for the senate, next week, september 9th. >> okay, we're talking relatively speaking for congress a fairly short time line as congress goes. >> very short time line as congress goes. and also surprisingly a bipartisan move at least from the leadership. but the membership is a whole other issue. it's not clear whether members of congress will follow the lead of the leaders, in supporting president obama's decision to take military action against assad. we'll see how the vote -- one indicator will occur of course when the senate comes back and what kind of vote we get there. it's expected, it's likely that there will be less support in the house of representatives because there you have much more vocal opposition to the president's policies all around, especially foreign policy. >> okay randall pinkston in washington, d.c. thank you so much. defense secretary for bill clinton he stressed president obama should have talked to congress, talked to top leaders before a resolution was ever drafted. he says if the u.s. takes action against syria it would be disastrous. >> i think he's been calculating well, look you've been criticizing me, now let me put you on the spot and see what you're going to do. even if congress should reject and not give him authority to go forward he might go forward anyway and i think that would be the worst of all worlds. once you turn to the congress and say, i need you to authorize this action and if they say no, you take action it seems to me you are flouting the law. >> president obama heads to the g-20 summit in st. petersburg, the president's plan for limited action against syria, joining us for behind the scenes look, a republican strategist, brad blakeman, and democratic strategist former staff secretary to bill clinton from 1988 to 1999. boat of them are live from washington, d.c. first for both of you and mr. blakeman you can go first, first a glimpse of what's going on behind the scenes this week. >> behind the scenes boat in the house and the senate committees, the relevant committees, are going to try to draft a resolution. one thing the president's initial authorization was rejected soundly by the partisan house and senate. which means the senate and the house have to cobble together a joint resolution which i don't think is possible and this will be worked out if it passes both the house and the senate committees, in a reconciliation. and then voted again by the house and the senate if they can't agree on an nutritional bill it will go to the president and then the president will have to decide whether he will accept what the congress gives him. of course, if it's rejected by either house, then we have the problem as secretary cohn said, is what do we do? if they don't do so i agree it's at his peril. >> david, dig a little deeper, this is a crass term but i can't think of anything else, what kind of wheeling and dealing to get people on board with whatever their side is? >> well, there is a full fledged whip effort or lobbying effort in both houses of congress and the president has to assemble in the president, it's pretty clear he has to assemble a 60-vote majority. that's because senator rand paul and others perhaps have asserted they will filibuster. you have to get to 60 votes to overcome the filibuster. this is the puzzle he has to solve. he's already been told by trusted democrats, his allies, that the resolution is too broad. he's got to narrow it. he's also been told by republicans on the right that it doesn't go far enough. he has to cobble the 60 votes probably losin losing a couple f democrats and possibly gaining some republicans to get a majority in the center. i would point out it's ironic that in this highly partisan time what's going to carry the day if anything does is the kind of bipartisan center. something we haven't seen much of yet. secretary boehner, eric canton, john mccain, very prominent senators, have said we want to support the president's actions. that is going to unfold as a tug of war within their caucuses. senator tom udall said i don't feel comfortable, we haven't exhausted all economic options, why aren't we dealing with russia, why aren't we dealing with china? they have to put together a coalition of republicans and democrats losing people at either end and heaping to form a majority from the center. >> brad, can you see anything happening perhaps on the international stage that could sway this one way or another? >> i don't. after we've lost the brits, which are our most trusted ally in their parliament, and hearing what the prime minister said, he's not going to go around parliament and order a strike with america, i think it's quite clear that the international community has no appetite for this. they may come along in time but what did putin say? putin said i'm waiting to hear what the u.n. is coming back with. we know the u.n. is not coming back with a report for at least three or four weeks. then we had the secretary general of the u.n. say if the president acts before the u.n. comes back with a report then we violated international law. i think the president's going to have hard time getting international support prior to the u.n. report. number one. and number 2, the president has a hard time getting the american people's report. they don't want any intervention in syria. we heard a lot of rhetoric yesterday but not evidence. and the evidence that is going to be procured in this will come hopefully today in the classified hearing but a lot of that has to be declassified in order for the america people to understand why it's needed and that america is going oengage and what is the likelihood of success on this mission. >> i need your anxious can be short, you know you can do that for me. mr. blakeman said he did not hear evidence. did you hear evidence? >> yes, the intelligence community released a public version of their findings, very compelling. but there have been questions that have been raised about it. but i do think there's a giant elephant in the room, what happened when colin powell released justification for the attack on iraq, we're aware of that and we're trying to present evidence as thoroughly and in as much detail as we can. what i think is a bigger question is, even if you accept that assad did this, what would be the gact? what would be -- impact? what would be the effect of an attack? that question i feel hasn't been answered adequately. >> and will continue to be debated days to come. brad blakeman and david goodfriend forp former deputy secretary to bill clinton. i will have you both back, i assure you gentlemen. we will have live coverage of the house foreign affairs committee in washington. our coverage begins noon eastern. meteorologist dave warren. >> cool morning temperatures, dropping into the 40s in some areas. there is still some stormy weather out west. radar is tracking showers and storms yesterday and a lot of rain around idaho, montana, oregon and washington. the problem is this rain comes with lightning. still fairly dry. red flag warning meaning we will have lightning strikes and a little bit of rain. flash flooding possible in northern nevada so the rainfall is heavy, still fairly heavy there under the area, under red flag warning because it comes with lightning, through montana, idaho and wyoming. the radar across the entire country, cool and comfortable weather is dominating much of the country east of the mississippi. minneapolis is at 64, new york at 66. but it will be getting even cooler. here's the 40s, low temperatures, pib pittsburgh at. climbing up to around 80. comfortable weather in new york, similar situations for much of the eastern united states. tropics are getting active especially in the caribbean. areas of low pressure expected to develop in the next 48 hours. nothing specific. flooding as another tropical storm moves up the country sea of japan, going oaf the areas that have seen tropical storms in the past week and more rain is forecast. rachelle. >> okay. ariel castro has committed suicide, prison psychiatrist explains what might make someone do such a thing. thousands of walmart workers across the country, about to walk off the job, what they're demanding from the nation's largest private employer. >> a u.s. government report obtained by al jazeera investigative unit, exposes lack in security around the world. >> the security lapses leading up to the deadly attack at benghazi and what's been overlooked in the aftermath. >> marking the one year anniversary of the attack on benghazi, systemic security failures in benghazi and other diplomatic potions around the world including this, a database has not been truly functional for a number of years. also many of the installations do not have state-of-the-art secure telephone communication links. several of the outposts in africa and the middle east had immediate need of an intelligence analyst. al jazeera's investigative correspondent josh bernstein has more. >> dozens of men's breached security and overwhelmed the u.s. diplomatic post in benghazi. seven hours later, seven americans are dead including chris stevens. an exclusive report obtained by al jazeera investigative unit exposes breaches in security all around the world. department of state turning its back on security issues and putting lives in jeopardy for 30 years. circumvented their own security standards, failed to address the risks. these are the findings of a five member panel of former high ranking officials, including five high threat posts in kenya south sudan, update, leb -- egypt and lebanon. the report paints a picture of dysfunction and questionable decision making, waivers for not meeting security standards have become commonplace, exposure of threats, and intelligence database used to disseminate critical information has not been truly functional for many years. many areas don't have communication links, forcing it to beg hat in hand for the use of others' facilities. in the ability to civility through raw intelligence, an mead need for an intelligence analyst and this is not the first time that many of these concerns have been raised. 15 years ago, simultaneous truck bombs exploded at the u.s. embassies in kenya and tans nee. an independent consulting firm booz allen hamilton, report sited an mead -- cited a need to create a new position an undersecretary who would oversee diplomatic security. then secretary of state madeline albright approved the position but it has never been implemented. current undersecretary patrick kennedy who approved the temporary post in benghazi despite series concerns. >> because of benghazi and the development of the new libya we had to have a forward operating location there and we had to have visits by ambassador stevens. >> the latest report described ambassador kennedy's office as too large, by describing benghazi as a temporary facility, exposed personnel to an unacceptable level of risk. this new and internal report concludes benghazi has demonstrated again the vulnerability of u.s. facilities around the world. josh bernstein al jazeera washington. >> if you want to read the documents yourself we've posted them at aljazeera.com. the radiation levels continue to rise at fukushima nuclear plant. what officials say is the risk of tamed water. nidal hasan has been forced to get rid of the beard he has been growing since the arrest. one of of the smallest guys to ever play in the nfl, but he has big game. we sit down with the tail back later in sports. >> welcome back i'm richelle carey. these are our top stories this hour. president obama's motorcade just arrived in stockholm. obama will attend a ceremony honoring world war ii hero, raul wallenberg. looking for international support there as key lawmakers have agreed to an action, armed forces in syria without the use of ground troops. ariel castro, the man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade has committed suicide at a state prison facility. the 53-year-old castro was found hanging in his cell tuesday night. u.s. diplomatic posts including benghazi failed to correct them. according to a latest poll, the pew research center surveyed 1,000 people and asked them if they supported the president' ps action, 48% said they were against it 23% said they don't know. the survey also asked if americans feared a long u.s. commitment should u.s. mount aresponse. 26% said yes, 26% said no and 13% said they didn't know. and finally, if a military strike would discourage use of chemical weapons. more than half 51% said it would not deter chemical warfare, 13% said they didn't know. russia is sending a missile cruiser to take over operations there. russian president vladimir putin now says his country would consider military action. putin said he needed to see proof assad gassed civilians before considering to support any strikes. >> i do not seclude taking action but i would like to draw your attention to one absolute key aspect. in line with international law only the u.n. council can sanction the use of support -- force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as congregation. as aggression. >> putin has a contract with syria. san francisco's parliament is due to debate its action in the next few hours. >> the risk is not only for barb bashar but other dictators in the world. unprecedented actions and violated an international treaty. when you massacre your people i think we cannot take any of his comments into consideration. >> syrian americans are keeping a very close eye of course on what's going on in congress. many worried about the excavate of family and friends back in their home land. al jazeera's john terry spoke with syrians. >> the heat is on in the kitchen just like it is in the congress. he loves syria and loves the u.s. but he's pleased that the congress is weighing in before attacking his home land. >> obama wants everybody to participate in the debate, debate is always good. we know his values. >> as he prepares taboullei, he keeps his eye on the tv. she is steeped in syrian culture and when bashar al-assad came to power syrians were optimistic for their future but his regime brought it on themselves. >> i don't like to see bombing, it's not a good solution to anything. but it's almost the only solution if the u.s. is going to be involved at all. because i think the assad government is totally uninterested in any kind of negotiation, in any kind of liberalization. >> back in the kitchen and basam's mulling the senate hearing over and over in hi mind. after much thought he comes out in favor of a limited strike on syria. >> hopefully nobody gets hurt. it would be just us eliminating the weapons that kill unfortunate innocent people. i think people should support that because it's for a good reason. >> and with that it's back to the chopping board and the box in the corner to try to work out exactly what the congress might decide to do about syria. john teret al jazeera new york. >> well, the domestic international opposition to president obama's plan to attack syria raises the prospect of a diplomatic option but is there any room for diplomacy given the tranctransgentcy. the president attempting to make his case for why military action is the proper course . does that mean that diplomacy is completely off the table? let me ask that a different way. do you think diplomacy was abandoned too quickly? >> i don't think it's abandoned, the u.s. is still committed to finding a diplomatic solution. diplomacy never stops. it's not a kind of full stop and then military action and then restarts. the u.n. security council will be considering this an the possible use of cw in damascus and elsewhere in a week or two. the g-20 will be discussing syria intensively. my hope is that these discussions will lead to intensive energy for the so-called geneva 2 conference, bringing the parties together to resolve the conflict. the syrian commission we point out wish to happen. >> publicly the u.s. is not giving credence to anything that's happening, at least public li it doesn't seem as such secretary of state john kerry said nothing the u.n. can add evidence wise can add to what we no evidence wise. how are they going together? >> it's clear, the u.s. has drawn its own conclusions. that's quite varied and quite widespread. the u.n. has a limited picture of what's happened. they've sent one group of inspectors to look at one site, far from where cw has been alleged to have used, also they looked at whether it has been used not who used it. which is an odd an limited mandate. >> it does seem odd. >> it is odd, there's been enormous controversy, and the russianed who support damascus have put enormous pressure on the u.n. they claim the rebels themselves have used cw. on the other hand the u.s., the u.c. and france have asked for wider inspections. in my view having worked on cw inspections in iraq there is one kind of inspection, you get full access to the witnesses, you're allowed to go wherever you want whenever you want and damascus hasn't permitted that. so we can't see the u.n. inspections as a complete authoritative account of what's happened. >> how much leverage does the u.s. have diplomatically? >> it's the most important power in the world. i'm sure u.s. diplomacy will be is pushing for intensified efforts as well as a military attack, as odd as that found. >> thank you so much. al jazeera has coverage of the ongoing conflict. stay aware at aljazeera.com. nald hasan has stopped shaving, not permitted for inmates at forth leavenworth where he was on trial. hasan kept his beard until now. walmart workers across the country will protest the company's labor practices tomorrow, they're demanding that walmart increase salaries and reinstate workers who were fired after a walkout in june. the latest inspections of fukushima nuclear reactor is showing 20% higher levels than previously known. florence allowsie i louie. >> discovered at several holt spots at the fukushima nuclear plant. this latest development comes just five days after the company reported previous readings of 1080, the initial spike was because 1 tepco had used more sophisticated devices that can read up to 1 10,000 milliceverts per hour. this new spike of radiation levels is not because of any leaks. so far they have not been able to find evidence of new leaks. but there is still an important implication in this development because what does this mean to the cleanup of operations, and how will this complicate cleanup operations because the levels of radiation that's detected are extremely high. they can be extremely dangerous. experts have said that exposure of this radiation is enough to kill a person within hours if they're not wearing the right protective clothing. the yosemite rim fire has been mostly contained, a mostly cool and humid labor day weekend have loud further containment. the fire is about 75% contained. full containment of the fire is not expected until september 20th. cooler days ahead for much of the nation. let's check in with meteorologist dave warren. hi dave. >> everybody is seeing that cooler weather from the plains east and northeast. west some areas are still under a fire concern. oregon and washington red flag warning and not because seeing actually dry weather, because rain is predicted but lightning storms with a little bit of rain. satellite picture sees some of those storms yesterday. heavy rain through nevada, idaho and montana flash flood in effect for that reason. heaviest rain in the northwest it does include the area in the fire weather watch, that's because of lightning, light rain predicted from idaho to montana. that's the only place we're seeing the rain. cooler temperatures from the great lakes to the northeast, that front is pushed all the way south, that line is the front, cooler air is now south, much of the southeast seeing cooler temperatures and dry weather. temperatures in the 50s now heading for the 60s this afternoon, 70s and 80s here in new york but cool comfortable temperatures we'll be talking about. 50 in new york philadelphia, 43 in portland, maine, a little chill in the air each morning. temperatures right about 80° in the afternoon. tropics, some activity in the caribbean and gulf watching for some development over the next 48 hours. nothing named yet but could see some development here not only the atlantic but the pacific as well. another tropical storm in japan right over where the last one went, that's led to some flooding, towards the sea of japan and more rain is predicted later in the month so flooding will be the problem for the next several week. richelle. >> jessica tapp, high jessica. >> we had no surprises at the u.s. open. serena williams easily disposed of her opponent, not the case andy murray. early on it looked like murray wouldn't be back to defend his title actually in queens. he dropped his ranking to 66th in the world but dropped back, this one would go four sets. murray, this is match point. winning this battle winning it 6-4, 6-4. queens to milwaukee, pittsburgh pirates franchise, they broke a streak 20 years in the making. andrew mccutcheon, 100th of his career, travis schneider ripping a game-winning home run. tiegz beat 3-2 assure themselves of the first winning season since 1992. the jaguarless don't have the long history as the pirates but a long time since they've had a winning season, 2005 to be exact. i sat down with maurice jones drew, to talk about his past and future in this edition of al jazeera's preview week. >> most players dread opening week, not maurice jones drew, his 2012 campaign was cut short after he suffered a final foot injury. >> more than anything i want to play a full season. be out there with my teammates, enjoy them because this only lasts so long. >> what has the road to recovery been for you? >> it was long. i think it was very long. you have to be patient. i think mentally every time you were off, i didn't play football for ten months, you have -- i don't want to call it doubt but you have a little concern can i get back to it. but you know after doing something for 20 years it's like riding a bike. you get back out there and your body starts naturally making these moves. you get sore and here and there but for me, sticking with it. >> coming off foot surgery, many said this would be the end of the line for maurice jones drew however, he's made a lie of that, going back he has worn 32, signifying,. >> you have to motivate yourselves every day. by looking at my number, you know, everybody passed me up. keep going. the thought in the back of my mind, we still have something to prove, we have to strive to be the best. >> the best prorunning back, to groom his offensive line. >> i have a love thing for big men who can block. it's something exciting when you see a young man who can come in and you plug him in. we were able to do this with luke. to start off where he is as a rookie the sky is the limit for him. >> jones drew also has a love for fantasy football. it's a huge topic on his serius radio show. >> aaron, if you're watching, i want you to run and throw, don't forget dawan harris. >> have you drafted yourself? >> every year number 1 it doesn't matter. >> as he should. along with the running back's natural love for the big man, jones drew combined both of those when he named one of his sons madden after john madden. hopefully he doesn't look like john madden. >> thanks jessica. >> you're welcome. >> california is at the forefront of the green energy movement. the college campus being an example of how to create enough energy to run on its own. ç] >> welcome back these are live pictures out of st. petersburg, russia. world leaders gathering there for the start of the g-20 summit. mexican president pena nieto has just arrived. 70% of venezuelaians are waiting without power. sabotage for the blackout. knocking out traffic lights and chaos in the streets. government officials have suggested opposition politician he sabotaged the electrical grid causing this blackout. university of california is taking part in an ambitious new project by creating an apartment community for students and faculty that can generate enough energy to run on its on. stephanie stanton takes us to the u.c. davis campus. >> this luxury apartment community situate it on the university of california campus in davis has taken the college living to a whole new level. with space for 2,000 residents, gives students and faculty a chance to be part of an experiment in sustainable living. it's the first of its kind, a zero net energy community. >> zero net energy means that basically we would produce the exact amount of energy we are using on a day-to-day basis. >> from low flow toilets and sinks to energy efficient appliances, ceiling fans and lighting uses 60% less energy. tan err amos was one of the first to live here. >> there are energy limits you have to meet. >> that means if you are consuming too much electricity management will come calling. >> we'll walk through their unit and say if you put a power strip here and you shut it off over the weekend, that will pull no ghost electricity or when you're not in the unit. >> solar panels capable of generating seven to 8 million kilowatts per year. >> that's how we generate the electricity for the units here. >> the numbers are still being analyzed. with california's strict green energy building codes officials say west village can serve as a blueprint for other developers looking to build sustainable housing. and while rent and utilities are slightly higher than other area rentals, residents say it's worth the price. >> you have the ability to say, i'm helping the environment every day of my life. >> and this community is helping california achieve its goal that every unit needs to be energy sustainable by 2020. stephanie stanton, al jazeera, california. >> good morning, i'm stephanie sy. here are some of the top stories we're following this morning. >> this is something that the united states as a country needs to do. >> significant support from across the aisle, the speaker of the house excess he'll back president obama. and president obama is in europe this morning, seeking to gain international support for a strike against syria as he joins world leaders this week at the group of 20 summit in russia. an al jazeera exclusive. new documents reveal the state department knew of security problems at
of the department of homeland security as congress battles over funding. this showdown happening at a critical time. the united states and britain are vowing to hunt down the cold-blooded isis killer known as jihadi john. the londoner who has brutally slaughtered western hostages on camera. but while the world now knows his true identity mohammad emwazi was known to british security services for years. he was detained more than once. so how did he escape that scrutiny and become a key figure in the isis reign of terror? how will the department of homeland security protect americans from a terror threat which is growing daily if congress cannot find a way to pay those workers whose job is supposed to keep all of us safe? looks like republicans are moments away from failing to break the deadlock over funding the department of homeland security. house democrats joined by 15 republicans voted to block an effort to keep the money flowing for another three weeks. let's go immediately to our chief congressional correspondent dana bash up on capitol hill. dana the clock clearly ticking but it looks like this stalemate continues. >> reporter: that's right. what's going on as we speak on the house floor is a lot of arm twisting and pretty much panic. the republican leaders are scrambling to try to find now just a few more votes, but critical votes to keep the department of homeland security running just for three weeks. what's been going on is democrats had already said all day long they were going to vote no in protest because they don't like the concept of only kicking the can down the road and not fully funding the department. they don't like the short term bill. but now we are in the position of democrats potentially getting blamed for shutting down the department because they don't have the votes to at least do this stopgap measure. that's why this vote is still open. on the house floor, just a few feet from where i am right now, a lot of scrambling not just by house republicans but by democrats trying to figure out if they want to change their votes, enough of them to make sure this passes so that they don't have the tables turned on them and get blamed for a shutdown of the department of homeland security. >> it looks like right now, no time left. our viewers can see it on the screen. it looks like 222 nays 218 is the majority. they could still change their votes, i take it but if no one changes their votes, this is going to fail. >> reporter: that's correct. it has been out of vote so to speak, out of time for quite some time. you just saw the house speaker walk behind me as we were talking. he went from his office to the house floor so it's going to be some high profile arm twisting going on right now. i think he's obviously going to the floor to see what he can do. but you are exactly right, this is -- should have been over awhile ago but they are keeping it open in order to find those few more votes they need to pass this. they are not calling it failed yet. they are hoping that they can find a way to still make this work. >> what happens if it stays like this and it fails? what's next? >> reporter: if it fails, there is a big question mark. honestly i don't think there is a plan b right now, because the republicans are hoping that this will just keep them over for three weeks and that they can have a discussion about the whole reason why we're here in the first place, which is republicans do not like the idea of what the senate passed earlier today, in a bipartisan way, which is a clean bill fully funding the department of homeland security through the end of the year. republicans are still trying one last time to find a way to include in that a rider that blocks the president's immigration plan. they haven't been able to do that in the senate. there just aren't the votes in the senate for that. but they have been trying to at least make a statement by telling conservatives they are going to try one more time in a couple of weeks. but so far, that tactic isn't working. they are trying to figure out a plan b. there really wasn't one. >> so far, it looks like this has failed unless some people change their minds in relatively big numbers. stand by. i want to go to our white house correspondent, michelle kosinski. let's talk about what the president is trying to do to make sure the department of homeland security after midnight tonight still has money to protect the borders, protect national security protect airports people who are flying leaving the united states staying in the united states. what's the president doing? >> reporter: exactly. we haven't heard from the president directly at this 11th hour even though there have been plenty of questions day to day, what is the president doing, how is he going to engage is he going to sit down with any of these leaders directly or try to persuade some behind the scenes. but the answer from the white house has been pretty consistent that the president has been working on this throughout that basically the president did his job and congress did not. the language from the white house is getting more and more tough day to day, too. just today, saying that congress this is an abject failure of the leadership. yesterday saying it's as if congress is falling down on the job. in fact today the white house referred to an op-ed piece that john boehner had done right after the midterms saying now let's see congress go to work let's see it actually working. so the white house almost ridiculing that today in the briefing. we did see a tweet from the white house this afternoon saying we can't govern from crisis to crisis add your name if you support a long term plan to fund dhs. so what the white house has been hammering home is that they -- it did -- has done its work. they want a long term plan to fund dhs and they say what's interesting is that the hard work has already been done setting the level of funding. they're saying this isn't even a partisan dispute anymore. it's a party dispute, wolf. >> so stand by for a moment michelle. i want to go back to dana bash up on capitol hill. dana it's a little complicated what's going right now but we know the stakes are enormous as far as homeland security here in the united states is concerned right now. the stakes are really really critical. let's talk a little bit what has happened. there has been this debate that's been going back and forth. everybody says they want to fund the department of homeland security but the republicans didn't want to fund the president's executive action that would go ahead and take unilateral steps easing illegal immigrants' opportunities to remain in the united states. in the end, the senate, mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader, in the end he decided to put forward language that passed decisively overwhelmingly today, to keep the department of homeland security funded through the end of the fiscal year meaning until the end of september. that passed decisively. the democrats were on board, the republicans were on board. there was no mention of any immigration cutoff of spending anything along those lines, separate legislation was stalled on that. that legislation i take it now has gone over to the house of representatives, but the house has decided they wanted to pass simply a three-week extension which the democrats didn't want. they just thought that was kicking the can down the road. a lot of republicans didn't want it because it didn't have anything to do with cutting off spending for immigration reform. as a result we see what's up on the screen right now. 222 nays. you need 218, that's the majority that blocked there three-week call this continuing resolution during which the speaker of the house, john boehner, wanted in effect the negotiations to continue to have the house/senate conference committee go ahead, see if they could come up with some sort of plan to keep the department of homeland security working, functioning with full funding. that is now very much up in the air and it sets the prospects for a cutoff of funding at midnight tonight. >> reporter: that's right. both sides are playing hardball. you just described the mechanics of what they are doing. why they are doing it is this. republicans in the house feel that they still have one last gasp to try to push for some compromise that will at least mitigate what the president is able to do on his immigration plan and use their power of the purse which this is in order to force that to happen. democrats are playing hardball by saying no we are not, you look at the screen right now, 172 democrats voted against funding the department of homeland security. they didn't do it because they don't want to fund the department. they did it because they don't want to just do it temporarily for three weeks. they are saying if you want to fund it let's fund it for real. we are not going to play -- you have heard democrats all day on the house floor saying stop playing games, this is amateur hour all kinds of ways that they are pushing their fellow democrats not to go along with this. i said both sides are playing hardball. the question is which side is going to give in and it looks like -- the numbers haven't moved now in at least ten minutes. so what we initially thought going into this vote frankly, is that once we got to this point where it was just a few votes needed from the democrats for this to pass that they would give up their protests and vote yes in order to just allow this to go through. that is not happening right now. the democrats are really holding firm. so now it's up to republicans and i can tell you, i'm just a few feet off the house floor. deirdre walsh, our house reporter is around the corner. she has got a closer vantage point to members of congress. she is talking to republicans and democrats and it's pretty clear, they don't have a plan b. they are trying to figure out what to do next. >> dana a lot of viewers are looking at that image coming from the floor of the house of representatives. they see 204 yea, 222 nay. they see seven members of the house not voting. but they also see time remaining, 000. that's been about 10 or 15 minutes. zero time remaining. here's a couple questions. how long can they keep this vote open keep the clock at 000 and potentially give members a chance to change their minds, change their votes? >> reporter: indefinitely. there have been times late at night votes during back when tom delay was the house majority whip they held it open for hours to try to work over members to change votes. the house republicans or whomever is in charge at this point house republicans, are in charge of the house and they control the answer to that question. they will probably keep it open until they think it is absolutely pointless that they will not win this. so it could take quite a long time for them to come to that conclusion. we just don't know. >> let me go back to michelle at the white house. let's say the speaker of the house, john boehner, he convinces a bunch of republicans to change their votes. they get 218 that they need to pass this three-week extension allowing the funding to go forward for an additional three weeks, during which there will be more negotiations between the house and the senate presumably the president himself. has the white house indicated whether the president would sign a three-week so-called continuing resolution to allow the department of homeland security to continue paying workers hundreds of thousands of workers, has the white house said whether the president would sign that into law? >> reporter: they did address that today, saying yes, basically as a last resort as painful as this is for them to do yet another battle which is what this is setting up for. but very short term bill the white house said that if that's the only choice in order to keep the government shutting down then yeah, the president would sign that. but they have been hesitating to even answer that question for days. first waiting to see whether they would even be able to do a clean bill. the president saying for sure he would veto a bill that would attach itself to the immigration executive action. but at this point it looks like the white house would go along with pretty much anything to keep that vital part of the government functioning. >> michelle stand by. gloria borger is here with me in "the situation room." gloria why wouldn't the speaker of the house do what the majority leader in the senate mitch mcconnell did and allow the funding to go forward throughout the rest of this fiscal year until the end of september, since all that immigration stuff is on hold anyhow because a texas judge, a federal judge in texas says it's unconstitutional. the president didn't have the authority to do it it's not being implemented right now. why wouldn't the speaker go ahead and do what the republican leadership in the senate did? >> because he doesn't have control over his caucus. >> he's the speaker of the house. >> it doesn't matter anymore, wolf. it's not like the days of newt gingrich when he brought in the majority of the house -- >> i'm going to bring dana into this conversation. dana hypothetically, if john boehner would have agreed with mitch mcconnell and allowed the senate version to pass keeping the funding going through the end of september, the end of the fiscal year all the democrats in the house would have voted for it and a whole bunch of republicans would have voted for it as well. here's the question. would they have reached the magic number of 218? >> reporter: yes. likely. >> maybe. >> reporter: likely they would have. they could have been in the same position they're in right now. there is as much pressure -- they're gaveling. excuse me for one sec. let's listen. >> [ inaudible ]. >> on this vote the yeas are 203. the nays are 224. the joint resolution is not passed. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does -- >> reporter: wow. >> dana you heard the official announcement it failed. 224-203. here's the question. where do we go from here? >> reporter: we don't know. we just heard kevin mccarthy, the house majority leader just say on the house floor that they are going to wait for other votes. what democrats are hoping in having this mass protest and voting against this is that they are going to force republicans to take up the fully funded bill. they are going to force republicans to take up the bill that the senate passed. they are playing hardball or as a democrat who is on the house floor who just texted me saying we are playing a high stakes game of chicken. they are admitting it. it is a high stakes game. i will tell you politically, the risk that democrats are about to run is that it is going to be a lot easier for republicans to point fingers at them and say you contributed to the shutdown of the department of homeland security that you said we shouldn't do because you voted against keeping it open. >> dana looks like members are leaving the floor, moving on to other business right now. i don't know what other business they have. what could be more important than funding the department of homeland security and protecting all americans right now. but clearly, they've got a major problem. they have to figure out what to do and the clock, six hours, 44 minutes, is ticking. i assume they are going to go behind closed doors. the speaker, the majority leader and they will come up with some sort of strategy what to do the next few hours, right? >> reporter: that's right. the speaker has already walked by me from the house floor back to his office. i expect other members of his leadership to walk there, too, as they try to figure out a plan b which as i said, they simply didn't have. the other thing i want to point out about the vote is that it wasn't just democrats opposing it. the republicans have such a huge majority that they could have passed this with no democrats. about 50 republicans, it looks like, also voted no. the reason why they voted no is because they won't even vote for a short term spending bill to keep the government or the department running, rather without also protesting the president's immigration plan. so you have the push and the pull that john boehner has been seeing and feeling on so many issues for so many years continuing even on an issue like this which everybody has been saying is about the staftafety of the american people. >> doesn't get much more important than this. if you could grab one of the republican leaders walking by you, go ahead and grab him. get a hand-held mic ready to go. i want to bring in gloria for a moment. gloria this is a huge huge embarrassment for the speaker of the house, john boehner. he puts forward a piece of legislation to keep it funded for three weeks, he fails. >> which he thought by the way, which he presented to his caucus last night which he thought was a compromise conservatives would buy on to. i think now both sides are playing a very very risky and dangerous game here. the american public believes the department of homeland security should be open. that's without debate. now, each side has backed into a corner. you saw democrats voting against this because they don't want a short term measure. but when you step back from it the american public is going to look at this and at this point, with a bunch of democrats voting no they have given the republicans the opportunity to say well you were responsible for shutting down the department of homeland security just as much as the democrats are now saying to the republicans. so the public while the majority of the public in our poll a week or so ago said they would have blamed the republicans over president obama, i think now the democrats have put themselves a little bit at risk here because so many of them voted against this to push the republicans in a corner. >> dana i understand you have congressman steve israel one of the democratic leaders in the house of representatives. ask him how he feels about the fact that the department of homeland security could be shut down at least partially at midnight tonight, in part because of almost all of the democrats voting at least to keep the funding going for another three weeks, the democrats voted against that. >> reporter: that's right. that's precisely why i asked the congressman to come over. thank you very much. this is what i have been saying to wolf that you run a risk as a democrat, and all of the democrats who voted against the short term bill as being blamed for shutting down the department of homeland security. i know that you are trying to make a point, but at a certain point, don't you also have to keep the department running? >> we are not trying to make a point. we are trying to get one full year of funding for the department of homeland security. we told the republicans every single democrat will vote for a one-year funding bill just bring it to the floor. it's not too late. they can bring that to the floor literally in the next few minutes. they will have every single democratic vote. the american people can know that we have a homeland security budget that's not political, that's clean, and that allows for planning for the next year. >> reporter: it's a high stakes game of chicken you are playing here. >> it is a game but it's a game the republicans have played. if it weren't for their obsession with the presidential executive order on immigration, this bill would have passed. this is the last bill that should be subject to partisanship. they have insisted on trying to nullify an executive order on immigration because they have a disagreement with the president on that. they are entitled to the disagreement. they are not entitled to play games with homeland security. i don't mind them being dumb. i mind them being dangerously dumb. >> reporter: thank you very much. i appreciate it. wolf as we finish talking, i will try to get a republican. i can tell you that republican staffers and others have been walking by here going to john boehner's office trying to figure out what their next move is. they don't have one yet. >> it's still nupup in the air. this is one of the reasons the american public when they are asked their attitudes about the united states congress they have got -- it's usually within the margin of error whether anyone likes the united states congress. >> i don't even think lots of members of the united states congress like the congress right now. it's down to singling digit approval rating. this is exactly why. dana was pointing out to steve israel the democrats have put themselves at some risk here. this is a game they are playing. they trying to push the republicans up against the wall and we understand that you know the republicans don't like the president's immigration plan -- executive order, they want to defund it they don't want to spend any money on it. everybody kind of understands that. but at a certain point, wolf, it's not a political game anymore. this is the department of homeland security. this is important. do they want to by the way, as a senior democrat said to me yesterday, do republicans want to close down the department of homeland security and now i think that question has to be asked to the democrats as well while the prime minister of israel is here who will be talking about iran sanctions, who will be talking about israel's security american security? how embarrassing would that be for the united states? that's a question i think that republicans are probably talking about right now, as are democrats. i would think the democrats have made their political point. they played their political game. maybe now they can convince a couple dozen members on both sides to do something to fund the department of homeland security. >> they have six hours and 38 minutes left before funding for the department of homeland security runs out. michelle kosinski are you still with us at the white house? >> reporter: yes. >> let's talk about, i don't know if the president is getting ready to make a statement, if he is going to come into the briefing room is he going to address this issue. jeh johnson, secretary of homeland security we invited him to join us to hear what he has to say, because the ramifications of no funding will be enormous. first of all, hundreds of thousands of employees potentially won't get paid many of them will have to work but are not going to get paid at least in the interim until they come up with some funding, but a whole bunch of others thousands of other employees, many of them in critically important issues they will be furloughed. they won't even go to work. they won't be paid if you will. what's the attitude over there at the white house? do you expect to hear from top officials, maybe even the president himself? >> reporter: we do. i'm surprised that we haven't heard at least from senior administration officials at this point reacting to what just happened. so surely we should get at least a statement. it's possible that the president will come out and speak. we don't know for sure that that will happen but i would say for the most part the white house has let the department of homeland security pretty much speak for itself on this issue. even in terms of the importance and the risk of a shutdown. for many days it was asked directly of the white house what are the effects really going to be especially since so many essential employees will still have to work what are the effects, what are the risks here. they would refer to dhs, outlining some of those. in the past couple days as this has really come down to thewire although we haven't heard directly from the president, we have seen the white house develop a tougher tone on this saying yes, there is a risk. >> stand by for a moment. steny hoyer is joining us, the democratic congressman from maryland, number two democrat in the house of representatives. mr. leader thanks for joining us. what do you think? what's going to happen now? >> well the majority leader just said that we are going to be having further votes which is good. my advice to the majority leader and to the republicans would be bring up a bipartisan bill. that's what the senate ultimately did, and funded the department of homeland security until the end of the fiscal year. that's what we ought to do. we can do that in a bipartisan fashion on behalf of the national security of this country. and i am hopeful that that's what will happen. >> have you and kevin mccarthy, the majority leader in the house of representatives, have you had a conversation since the failure of this three-week extension? >> no we have not at this point in time. i don't know whether he's going to call me but i would be glad to talk to him and we will give bipartisan support and democrats will vote overwhelmingly, almost unanimously, if not unanimously, for the senate bill which is hr 861 here. we have a house bill that mirrors the senate bill. that can pass and will pass easily. we ought to bring that to the floor. >> are you sure it would pass the senate version would pass? i know almost all of the democrats would vote for it but a lot of republicans won't. are you convinced you can get the 218 votes to pass what mitch mcconnell put forward in the senate? >> yes. absolutely. we had 12 republicans vote for the clean senate bill effectively earlier today. so that gets you to 200 and i'm convinced that we can get on the other side i think there are certainly 30 responsible republicans who have spoken out very strongly that the rational thing to do the common sense thing to do the right thing to do for the american people is to pass the senate bill. we have a house version of that so we passed the house version, senate to senate i am absolutely confident they would pass that by unanimous consent. >> let's say the speaker of the house and the majority leader john boehner, kevin mccarthy decide they are not going to want to put the senate passed legislation up for an up or down vote in the house of representatives. isn't it better to at least get a three-week extension of the funding rather than see the department of homeland security effectively shut down tonight? >> nobody wants to see the department of homeland security shut down. that is why senator mcconnell decided after four attempts to do what the republicans in the house of representatives tried to do today, senator mcconnell came to the common sense conclusion that was not going to work and the responsible thing to do was to fund in a bipartisan way homeland security for the balance of the year. i would hope that leader mccarthy would follow leader mcconnell's formula on getting us to where we need to be and then there's more than enough time to debate the grievances that the republicans have with what they think is an action by the president of the united states that was not consistent with law. they can introduce legislation, they control the senate and the house, they can pass legislation. the issue here is we ought not to go home tonight, let it be very clear, we ought not to go home tonight without funding the homeland security as the senate has done earlier this week. that shows the path and they ought to take it. >> let me just be precise, congressman. it's either the house passes or takes up the senate version of the funding for the department of homeland security or it's shut down. there is no in between, no additional compromises that may be on the table, something that you would be willing to extend maybe not for three weeks but maybe six weeks, nine weeks, something along those lines, so that maybe in the process, cooler heads might prevail? >> well in the process, what senator mcconnell was found was once they had the bills on the house floor that didn't pass senator mcconnell did what was the rational reasonable common sense thing to do. he went across the aisle and said look we have a disagreement we are not going to solve it let's fund the department of homeland security and 68 senators voted to do that. i'm sure that we would have a similar majority here to do the same thing. that's what we ought to do. that's what i'm hopeful we will do. that's what i certainly will support. >> one final point, though. we heard from our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. they said at the white house if the president had no other option but to sign into law the three week extension, he reluctantly would have gone ahead and signed that in order to avoid a shutdown of the department of homeland security. would he have been doing the right thing from your perspective? >> i think if the bill had gotten to him in that form i think signing it would have been proper for him to do. what is improper is to pretend that the situation's going to be different 21 days from now or you mentioned six weeks or two months, that the situation will be different. the situation's not going to change. harry reid has made that very very clear. so that we ought not to present the president with that option. what we ought to present the president with is the bill that the senate passed with over two-thirds majority than we can pass with a majority in this house. >> steny hoyer, the number two democrat in the house of representatives, we will stay in close touch with you. obviously the stakes here in the united states as far as homeland security are concerned, enormous right now. thanks very much for joining us. >> you bet. thank you, wolf. there's huge breaking news emerging right now from russia. want to show you some images coming in from russian television right now. russia state news agency announcing that a prominent russian opposition leader has been shot and killed by an unknown assailant. he was shot four times today in central moscow. he was russia's deputy prime 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apparently the shooting happened very close to the kremlin, very close to vladimir putin's office. it appears to have happened on a bridge that leads towards st. basil cathedral in the center of moscow. that's one of the things that makes this bizarre. that's an area where on a friday evening there will be a lot going on. there's a lot of traffic, there is also normally a lot of people walking around there as well. the latest that we have from the police is that apparently he was shot by an unknown assailant, they say, four times. we do know that one of his close friends and another opposition figure has been at the scene since then has seen and confirmed that the person who was killed is indeed boris nemtsov. at this point in time police say they are trying and looking for the assailant and at this point, what we have from them is they say there are several what they call operatives and investigators on the scene which seems to indicate they are trying to look and see who might be behind all this. but of course this is a huge event here in moscow and it also comes at a very pivotal time because it's only one day away from a very big opposition rally that was supposed to happen here of course criticizing vladimir putin, criticizing the economic crisis and of course also the foreign policy crisis that this country is in at the moment. so this is certainly going to stir a lot of questioning, if you will from the opposition here in this country. >> you know it's pretty shocking when you think about this one of the main opposition leaders, boris nemtsov, shot and killed in moscow. he gave an interview to cnn's anthony bourdain last year. i want to read a couple sentences what he told anthony bourdain speaking of russia right now, this is the former deputy prime minister of russia he said this. he said this is a country of corruption. and if you have business you are in a very unsafe situation. everybody can press you and destroy your business. that's it. this is the system. and he goes on to really, really criticize what's going on. i sensed i remember watching that interview and i have seen other interviews he's given. this is a guy who was worried about his own safety and obviously tonight, he has been shot and killed. tell us a little bit about boris nemtsov, fred. >> reporter: yes, certainly. certainly he was very worried about his safety and certainly he was one of the most outspoken critics of the system here and of vladimir putin as well. he criticized the system very frequently especially around the sochi olympics criticized what he called was corruption there. he had also been detained several times. he had been sentenced to jail several times. the last time that he was in prison was in 2011. all of them for criticizing the putin government. he was a prominent figure at the opposition rallies here in moscow and in other places criticizing the putin government. this is certainly someone who has had run-ins with the establishment here with the people he was criticizing and certainly someone who paid a very heavy price. he is also someone very prominent in russian politics in general. you mentioned he was deputy prime minister in the yeltsin administration in the late '90s and of course was someone who many people believed might become prime minister himself afterwards. but then when putin became president that didn't happen and he took on more of an opposition role. since 2007 he was arrested several times by authorities here all of it because of opposition activity. now, the other thing that he did, he also founded an opposition movement solidarity movement as he called it which frequently held rallies to frequently criticize vladimir putin and his government and generally the sort of power system here in russia. so this was certainly someone who has had his brushes here with the law, with the establishment here has paid a heavy price so far and was certainly someone as you said who feared for his safety who also of course feared for his freedom as well. and again, this comes at a very pivotal time right before that big opposition rally. it will be interesting to see what all of this is going to mean for the opposition movement here in russia especially at this very key time right now, especially as we are looking at this time right now with the ongoing crisis in ukraine, with the international sanctions against the putin government which in many ways putin himself hunkering down shooting against the west and of course at this time not -- or wants less to have internal criticism. newspapers have been shut down in russia there have been web sites that have been shut down here in russia in the past couple months. this certainly comes at a very very important time and is sure to stir a big reaction from the opposition. >> comes at a critically important time. boris nemtsov, former deputy prime minister of russia shot and killed assassinated tonight in moscow. jim sciutto is our chief national security correspondent. big picture right now, this is an awful time in u.s./russian relations, russian relations with the european union, with nato and all of a sudden this happens. given what's going on in ukraine right now, the u.s. the european fears that russia is moving to go ahead and formally annex huge chunks of ukraine, this is a very worrisome development. >> no question. this is a dangerous time between russia and its relations with the west no question. we see that playing out in ukraine. and a very dangerous time inside russia if you are in any way a member of the opposition or a critic of the government. this has been going on for a number of years. you see this with its treatment of a previous challenger to putin, put in prison for a number of years as you remember. i covered the case of alexander litvinienko who was a critic of the regime of the government there. he was poisoned with polonium. he latter dieder died. you have had a number of cases like this. it's interesting in nemtsov's case. you mentioned his interview with our own anthony bourdain a number of months ago. two weeks ago he gave an interview where he said he was afraid that vladimir putin would kill him. of course, we are many miles away from having any sort of evidence that he was behind this but that gives you a taste of what opposition figures feared the treatment would be. these are not unfounded fears based on the treatment of others who have risen to either challenge or criticize the leadership. other reactions coming in. we see senator john mccain just tweeting a few minutes ago, saying he is very saddened to hear of the death. he had a long relationship with nemtsov. also another prominent opposition figure in russia the former chess player as you remember gary kasparov who became a politician. i covered him during a campaign where he was challenging putin as president. he said that in russia he said quoting, in fact nemtsov, he said nemtsov told him in russia you have to live a long time see change. now he will never see change in russia. you are seeing a very emotional but also a very worried reaction from members of the opposition there because the worry is very real and it's real for a reason. >> it's a great patriot, opposition leader, very critical of the corruption that's going on in russia right now. very critical of putin himself in that interview with anthony bourdain he did offer some optimism. he said this. he said tony referring to anthony bourdain i was born here 54 years ago. this is my country. the russian people are a bit of a trouble. russian court doesn't work. russian education declines every year. i believe that russia has a chance to be free has a chance it's difficult, but we must do it. and now he is dead. >> think of all the millions of dollars that the u.s. invested in russia after the fall of the wall the fall of the soviet union, for the express purpose of building civil society in russia. and you had much progress over the years. the decades in the '90s. but we have seen that dismantled in the last decade under vladimir putin. in a number of ways through corruption no question through putting a clamp on any sort of independent media in russia. we certainly see that play out in the ukraine crisis. if you watch russian accounts of what's going on in ukraine, it is a different reality than the way that we cover it and ask questions about it here. we have seen that all dismantled over time. there is no credible political opposition there in terms of having a chance of actually unseating vladimir putin. this is something the u.s. tried to get involved with tried to make a difference and frankly invested a lot of diplomatic and financial capital and we are seeing that all fall apart. >> shocking development in moscow tonight. we will stay on top of it. we will go back to fred pleitgen and get much more. the russian opposition leader boris nemtsov has been shot and killed. he is a top opponent of the 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he made a trip that they suspected might have been really truly intended to take into somalia and join the group the al qaeda group there. in the years since then they questioned him, detained him a number of times. this over several years. there were reports that they tried to recruit him as an informant inside the islamic community to inform on other possible islamic extremist in the country. he said no he would not do that. clearly, they had something that worried him over the time and the question now, of course as he has been identified is how many signals were missed and why. >> this -- >> reporter: his face is always obscured. but new details show that mohammed emwazi jihadi john was a familiar face to british authorities for more than five years. the scrutiny began in 2009 when he was detained in tanzania on suspicion he intended to travel to somalia to join al shabab. both british and dutch investigators interviewed him, say friends and his then fiancee. there was a community of people in west london who got excited about the conflict happening in somalia. we saw a number of them going out there to fight. some rose up to senior positions within al shabab. he seems to have known some of the people. >> reporter: authorities detain him again in 2010 preventing him from returning to his birthday kuwait. i had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started, mohammed emwazi wrote in a june 2010 e-mail to cage. in 2011 british court documents obtained by the bbc claim that mohammed emwazi associated with members of an islamic extremist group that funnels money to somalia. he was never charged with a crime. today british prime minister david cameron defended britain's domestic intelligence service. >> in my almost five years experience of prime minister i think they are incredibly impressive hard working, dedicated, courageous and effective and protecting our country. all of the time they are having to make incredibly difficult judgments. >> reporter: they make those in the face of daunting numbers. britain has thousands of suspected jihadis and sympathize sympathizers sympathizers. a senior british diplomat says the profile of recruits has expanded to include rich and poor educate and uneducate and more and more men and women. mohammed emwazi's case has an alarming parallel to the attacks in paris. the gunman who stormed charlie hebdo had been known to french security services for years and put on then taken off surveillance only months before their deadly rampage. u.k. authorities lost track of mohammed emwazi in 2013 when after he changed his name he then attempted to return to his birthplace in kuwait. he left the country and it was determined in 2013 that he indeed had gone on to syria. of course, it was in august of last year when he first appeared in one of those beheading videos. >> it wouldn't have been that difficult for him to get from the united kingdom somewhere in europe, take a train to turkey and cross into syria? >> that's the thing. that's what we have seen so many other times, whether the british girls we have seen recently other people from france elsewhere in europe and people attempting from the u.s. now. >> i want to bring philip mudd our analyst in as well. were there major blunders that were made? the u.k. had this guy in the radar for four or five years. >> jim will owe me on this because my answer is no. the reason is very simple and straightforward. intelligence is not evidence. i can watch him on facebook. i can watch him talk to bad people overseas. i can watch him travel to bad areas. that is not the same. that sense of smell an intelligence officer has to say he's a bad guy, to bring in a court of law and prove it. intelligence isn't evidence. that's what you see in this case. >> that's a good point. >> reporter: no question. this is the challenge that intelligence authorities have here in the u.s. like they have had in europe. you can have snippets of information that give you suspicion. 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you are in "the situation room." breaking this hour crisis for homeland security here in the united states. the democrat's money runs out in a few hours. on capitol hill right now there's a desperate scramble to try to find a way out of this mess. an 11th hour attempt to extend funding for three weeks failed a little while ago. this as the terror threat from isis is front and center. u.s. and british officials are vowing to bring jihadi john to justice hours after the isis killer's real name was revealed to the world. i will talk about that with republican senator lindsey graham. he is a key member of the senate armed services committee, a leading voice within his party. he is standing by live. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. they are covering all the news breaking right now. first let's go dana bash. she's up on capitol hill. the breaking news dana less than six hours, the department of homeland security won't have enough money to keep all of america safe. what's going on? >> reporter: what's going on is that if you look down the hall behind me that is where the house speakers' office is. he and his fellow house republican leaders are trying to figure out what plan b is is there a plan b that they can put together to avoid the department of homeland security shutting down at midnight. what happened just about an hour ago is the vote that they thought was going to pass to do a short-term three-week bill keeping the department running failed failed in part because they had 50 republicans who rebelled and said they didn't want to vote for funding the department without stopping the immigration plan. you had all the democrats, practically all the democrats i should say vote in protest saying they are not going to vote on anything short-term because they are trying to force the republicans' hand force them to bring up what the senate passed earlier today which is a full funded bill from now all the way the end of the fiscal year. so now we're in a waiting game. i was told by a republican source that they are talking about maybe just doing a one week spending bill a one week bill to keep the department running so that they don't get in the situation where the department completely shuts down. unclear if they can have the votes for that either. again, they are huddling back there. we don't know exactly how this is going to end. >> there's no official word from the speaker of the house john boehner or the majority leader kevin mccarthy? they are in closed door meetings trying to come up with a strategy is that right? >> reporter: that's right. you saw it live on air. the chaos on the house floor and the scramble of the leaders and other members to come off the floor to go behind closed doors to try to figure out what their next move is. that's still going on. >> they have five hours 57 minutes to go. a lot is at stake. stand by. what will it mean for the united states of america when homeland security funding runs out at midnight? less than six hours from now. let's bring in pamela brown. she has this part of the story. >> reporter: dhs says this will have a significant impact. although vital functions will be performed. an official i spoke with said 30,000 employees would be furloughed including 5,500 tsa agents. essential employees will continue to work we're told. also the more immediate impact from this wolf according to this official the dhs run federal law enforcement academy which trains would have to send home trainees beginning this weekend. dls says this would prevent new hires from becoming operational. also many of the agencies includesing tsa and the u.s. coast guard will not get paychecks. dhs saying many employees rely on the paychecks. this will impact them as well. important to note essential employees for the time being will continue to work. >> pamela stand by. i want to go to the white house. our correspondent michelle kosinski is over there. what are you learning? >> reporter: the white house has been mum on this latest development. it looks like they will wait and see. the night is not over yet. we don't know where this is going to end or exactly how. not even a statement from the white house. the president just spoke at an event at the department of justice. he didn't mention this subject at all. it was a separate thing for him. we did hear from him this week though talking about republicans holding the department of homeland security hostage. as a result our national security. he surprised everybody on monday when he came right out and said that this will have a direct impact on national security. the white house has been hesitating to go that far up until the president said it. so since then they have been outlining the ways that this is harming our country and harming congress as well. they have taken no -- they have taken every opportunity throughout this to slam house republicans, especially really putting the responsibility fully on the shoulders of house speaker john boehner. the white house has called this an abject failure of republican leadership saying they were falling down on the job and that this is not even a partisan dispute anymore. they say it's now a party dispute, wolf. >> we will see if there's a statement from the president or the press secretary or someone at the white house. let us know right away the clock clearly is ticking. there's other breaking news we're following right now. very disturbing news coming in from russia. a prominent opponent of the russian president putin has been shot and killed on the streets of moscow. boris nemtsov was russia's deputy prime minister under boris yeltsin. he was outspoken about the corruption in russia. very critical of putin. he was always afraid including in recent weeks, for his own security. >> no question. the more the details come out, the more shocking. shot seven to eight times from a car. it looks like a gangland assassination. it's government security services or gangs that have guns. the impression among critics is something like this happens, that someone must have given the order. of course there's no evidence of that. there is real reason to have fear if you are a member of the opposition or a critic of the government because in the past many of these people have lost their lives. i covered the case of a man living in london but he was poisoned with radioactive materials on the streets of london. one of the people who was implicated in the murder ended up a member of the russian duma. you have this kind of past which creates the fear for members of the opposition. as you note wolf a couple of weeks before this killing, nemtsov himself said he feared for his life from putin. we don't have evidence that anybody from the regime is behind this. but he had that fear. he expressed that fear publically. he was a very prominent voice, a very outspoken voice against the government. he was one of the authors of a report on corruption last year which was a controversy leading up to that. this say powerful moment. it's a worrisome moment in the country. it's a sign of how far civil society has fallen in that country. as you mentioned a short time ago, wolf during a time when russia and the west are very much in a dangerous period over the situation in the ukraine. >> a tense situation in ukraine with the u.s. the europeans accusing russia of actually invading and taking over huge chunks of ukraine. nemtsov spoke with our own anthony bourdain last year. i want to play a little clip. listen to the man who was assassinated tonight. >> critics of the government critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. yes, unfortunately, it represent russia of 19th century. not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware. putin was accused of corruption and spent ten years in prison and labor camps. another accused state security services of organizing a cue to put put nn power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. the former ukraineian president poisoned and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russian bodies had anything do with it. but it's mighty suspicious. >> i don't think you need to be a conspiracy theorist to say whoever did this wanted everyone to know who done it. everybody understands. >> of course. >> and everybody is meant to understand. >> yeah. everybody understands. everybody understands everything in this country. >> very chilling. he clearly was outspoken, very courageous a patriotic russian. wasn'ted to see a better russia. he worried about list own safety. saw that clearly come through in the interview with anthony bourdain and other interviews as well. now he is dead. >> he worried about list own safety for good reason. yet he kept his voice up. this is a dangerous thing to do in russia. many other critics of the regime feel forced to leave the country. they leave for their own safety. did he not. he kept speaking out. most recently with the olympics, but in two days he was going to lead a mass protest march in the country. that timing very suspect. keep in mind in terms of the imagery here he was shot and killed just 200 yards or so from the kremlin. again, no connection there. but just the idea that he was so close to that body to the organization to the government he criticized when he was shot and killed seven or eight times from a car. really just a remarkable and sad moment in the country's history. >> we have no idea who the assailant was. we do know that boris nemtsov is dead. more on this breaking news. there's other breaking news we're following. including the growing terror threat in the united states and around the world. the united states and britain are vowing to hunt down the cold blooded isis killer known as jihadi john. the londoner who has brutally murdered western host anl sagehostages. mohammed emwazi was known to british security for many many years. brian todd is digging into this. what are you learning? >> reporter: this man is isis' best known killer a cold blooded brit. tonight we have new details about jihadi john who we believe say man named mohammed emwazi. new information on his alleged efforts to support the vicious al qaeda affiliate al shabab and how he went from being a privileged school boy to a murderer in the name of jihad. he may have beheaded hostages on camera himself. but jihadi john the man we now believe is 26-year-old mohammed emwazi was once a preppie british school boy from a middle class family. he graduated from a large well regarded university in london with a computer programming degree. how and why did a young man with his prospects join isis? a group for suspected radicals says it started when he went to tanzania in 20090 take a safari. he was subject to hostile questioning five times, mostly by british security services was once worked over by interrogators when he returned from kuwait. >> on one occasion he was roughed by the police. he was strangled by an officer. >> reporter: officials have no comment. analysts who know isis recruiting say this about the claim that harassment from authorities turned mohammed emwazi into jihadi john. >> it's an absurd claim. it was not the cause of his radicalization. the reason the intelligence services harassed him was because they suspected him of wanting to join al shabab in somalia. >> reporter: papers say he was part of a group of extremists called the north london boys who allegedly funneled money and recruits to al shabab. >> some raise up to senior positions. mohammed emwazi seems to have known some of the people. >> reporter: he went to syria in 2012. analysts say it's likely he joined another group first, then isis. he had at least one skill attractive to isis. >> to make your mark and to become important within the organization it's important to speak arabic. that would have made him stan out d out. >> reporter: another characteristic that would have moved him up a thirst for violence. every expect we spoke to said the idea that harassment from british authorities turned this man into a killer is absurd. martin luther king and malcolm x were harassed and they never beheaded anyone. >> let's get analysis. joining us lindsey graham of south carolina the leading member of the senate armed services committee and maybe a potential 2016 republican presidential candidate. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> a lot of americans are confused. we have a lot of terror threats facing this country and within less than six hours, money for the department of homeland security is going to run out? is this possible in the united states of america? >> i hope not. because the concerns being expressed by the president, who i don't agree with much at all, he is right. to shut down the homeland -- department the homeland security for one minute in this environment would be incredibly irresponsible and puts our nation more at risk. that's a non-starter for me. >> you passed legislation in the senate mitch mcconnell you supported it to go ahead and fund the department fully until the end of the current fiscal year the end of september. the speaker of the house doesn't want to bring that language up on the floor of the house of representatives because he knows a lot of the members don't like it. it has nothing to do with immigration, stuff like that. what would you say to the speaker right now? they failed to get a three-week extension. >> 80% of the republican party would vote for an extension. 99% of the democratic party voted against a three-week extension. my advice would be for the democrats, help speaker boehner with an extension. then i will put the blame on us. to my colleagues in house freswho are frustrated with the amnesty, i understand but shutting down homeland security is not the right way to vent the frustration. the case is in court. >> you are appealing the democrats change your mind. give the speaker a three-week extension. let the department be funded for three weeks and then what? over the next three weeks, what's going to happen? >> appealing to my republican colleagues, abandon this idea that we're going to de-fund the department of homeland security unless the executive order is repealed legislatively. we don't have the votes in the senate. to me the best thing to do for the republican and democratic party is let the courts work its will. one judge ruled the orders is unconstitutional. there's a stay on the president's action. that's the right path to take. do not shut down dhs today or in the future. >> the republicans in the house, they could do that tonight. they have almost six hours left. that's enough time to do what you want them to do over the next three weeks. >> it's hard for me to blame the republican party when 80% of my colleagues are ready to fund the department for three weeks and 99% of the democrats are refusing. eventually this desire by republicans in the house to use dhs funding to repeal the order is not the right 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militants. but now, a turn around in u.s. military thinking about when these iraqi troops will be ready to begin their largest combat operation, trying to retake mosul, iraq's second largest city from isis control. >> we haven't laid a date certain down here at the pentagon. >> reporter: days ago, a u.s. military official ordered to brief journalists said the battle could begin in april. insis insis tent there's no change from ash carter. >> there have been assessments literally all over the calendar. i get that. i'm not blaming the media on this. >> reporter: before any fight for motionsul begins the u.s. military needs to step up efforts. an official tells cnn, 5,000 iraqi troops will be trained by the u.s. in the next two weeks. battle for mosul needs more than 20,000. more overhead surveillance is essential to find precise locations of isis' growing defenses around the city and the location of civilians. the defense secretary may have to recommend a small number of u.s. ground forces to help target those isis positions. but the top u.s. intelligence officer expressing deep doubt about the iraqi military's abilities even after months of u.s. help. >> they have challenges clearly with command and control, with leadership logistics. so they have a whole range of issues there that need to be attended to. >> reporter: in fact they are now estimating that the iraqi military might need six to eight to nine months before that entire force would be ready for combat operations across the country. it makes one realize now while there -- why there's a good deal of doubt that they can move against mosul in the coming weeks. >> it's interesting. i wonder how isis will react to this. they clearly monitor what's going on here in the united states. barbara, thank you very much. let's get back to senator lindsey graham, a key member of the senate armed services committee. what's going on over here? they brief reporters, u.s. military central command last week get ready for an offensive starting in ing ining in april or may. not so fast. what happen snz. >> i welcome the reconsideration because i had doubts. the iraqi government and people are demanding that mosul be liberated. put yourself in the shoes of the defense minister in iraq who is a sunni from mosul. he wants his town liberated from isil isil. that's a need and a desire. but the capacity doesn't exist. this iraqi security force is basically a shia army. the army has been basically fractured. if you go into mosul ill prepared could you have a war between the iraqi security forces and sunni tribes in mosul, not just isil unless we're in the mix. the way to fix this is to have a larger american ground component to make sure the iraqi security forces have the capacity to win. >> have ii have limited confidence in the iraqi military. they laid down weapons and ran away. >> because the iraqi security forces became a shia army and the shia iraqi security forces were not going to die in sunni land mosul. so the army became sectarian. not only is it numbers you have to generate you have to get a functioning army that would be welcome by people in mosul. it has to be a more iraqi army less of a shia army. we're aways away from there. there's no substitute for a significant american support element to be successful. that's where i blame president obama. he is trying to do this on the cheap. >> this guy mohammed emwazi he was watched by british surveillance for years. he wound up working with isis in syria and beheading all these people on videotape. was there a major intelligence or national security blunder some place in the u.k. that allows this guy to slip out? >> i don't know if it's a blunder. all the people who did the paris attack were on watch list. we have had a lot of people resort to terrorism that we had on watch list. this was just one guy. here is what i worry about the most. the number of foreign fighters going to iraq and syria with western passports are overwhelming our ability to track them. we're losing control of this problem. the longer it tables tokes to degrade and destroy isil the larger we could get hit here. breaking news boris nemtsov shot and killed on streets of moscow. he was worried about his safety in recent interviews. the big scheme of things russia's relations with the u.s., europeans right now awful because of ukraine. >> this is putin's russia. every institution of democracy has been destroyed. opposition voices are silenced. in this case murdered. he is an autocratic dictator. he is getting away with dismembering his name at the ukraine. our response to putin has not created enough cost because he is not changing his behavior. this is a symptom of what happens in a police state. we have to understand who we're dealing with. he will continue to do these things until the cost gets too high. >> we don't know who killed boris nemtsov, but you are blaming putin. >> when you oppose the government bad things happen to you. so we know the environment for this to happen exists. it's not much of a stretch to understand that more of this is coming as long as putin runs his country this way. >> senator graham thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> very disturbing information all across the board. just ahead, the search for teenagers who fled canada to join isis. were they radicalized at their community college? 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>> good question. i think that we don't know if that's an extension of this worldwide effort to kill anybody that's not on the side of isis or if it's a different group behind this. we have used the phrase in this country, if you're not with us you are against us. they mean that. they say it and mean it. if you are not with us we will kill you. and they do. >> and there's the other very disturbing story, bob baer that we're following out of canada. authorities are looking for four teenagers who actually may have flown out of canada to turkey to cross into syria to join up with isis. there are reports some of the kids may have been radicalized by classes being taught at their local community college. obviously, that's a very disturbing development. give us your nal sis. when i heard that, i said could that be happening here in the united states as well? >> you have to look at it this way. these people are not -- the teachers and mosques aren't necessarily recruiting to go to syria. what they are doing is they are posing the problem that islam is under attack and that all true muslims will defend it. and interpret it as you will. for teenagers who don't understand the rest of it, for hem it them it means go fight for isis or attacks in the united states. so it makes it very difficult for law enforcement to pinpoint these recruiters because they are saying all good muslims will defend islam at this point. it's time for jihad. that in itself is not a criminal message of any sort. trying to police this up is really really hard. >> guys, i want you to stand by. awful, awful news across the board. to find out more about the escalating battle against isis specifically what you can do to help protect iraqi children affected by the violence visit cnn.com/impact. more breaking news ahead, including details of the british man identified as jihadi john. how did he join isis despite being watched by british authorities for more than five years? 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>> reporter: maybe surprisingly jeb bush did pretty well here considering that this isn't really his crowd. the right wing of the republican party not so much a fan as other contenders. the distinction that a lot will make is that while you have scott walker who is surging in the polls lately has been side stepping questions, jeb bush really seemed confident answering questions and he seemed to project a strength. even though this was at times a tough crowd. jeb bush's appearance began with a small group of people walking out as he took the stage, frustrated by the idea of a bush dynasty. but bush faced down one of his biggest vulnerabilities in a race for the republican nomination defending his stance on immigration. >> there's no plan to deport 11 million people. we should give them a path to legal status where they work where they don't receive government benefits where they don't break the law, where they learn english and where they make a contribution to our society. >> applause followed though some no doubt was from supporteredsupporter ed s bussed in. you won't find many moderates on the issue of immigration. >> this is objectively speaking a tough crowd. because it tends to be the more conservative part. >> reporter: bush rejected being labeled a centrist emphasizing same-sex marriage. >> i believe in traditional marriage. >> reporter: abortion. >> i'm pro-life. >> reporter: marijuana. >> states should have the right. >> reporter: he distanced himself from his family. >> if i get beyond that and i run for president, i have to show what's in my heart. i have to show that i care about people about their future. it can't be about the past. it can't be about my mom and dad or my brother. >> reporter: many here are looking for a new name. >> i think he's just another republican. part of the royal family. two royal families clinton and bush. rrl rrl >> reporter: earlier, they shows their disdain for the establishment pick. >> any supporters of jeb bush? >> reporter: bush urged skep dicks not to write him off. >> for those that made an ooo sound -- i'm marking them down as neutral. i want to be your second choice. >> reporter: i think it was boo. that was his interpretation. when jeb bush was asked what kind of conservative he is he said he is a practicing reform minded conservative. that was an answer that stood in contrast to what mitt romney says in 2012 when he said he was severely conservative. >> i remember that vividly. stay with us. i want to bring in gloryia borger and dana bash. which jeb bush gloria did we see today? >> reporter: we saw both. i think we saw a man who was a member of a dynasty and was speaking before a crowd of people who were rable rousers. what he had to say was, i'm not my family. i believe what i believe. i think he stood by his immigration stance. he didn't back off his stance on dreamers. he didn't back off his stance on a pathway to legal status as he was very very careful to say. nor did he back off on his support for common core educational standards. so they packed the room with a lot of their supporters. he wasn't booed off the stage as some of the folks there might have done otherwise, which was pretty clever on their part. he came across as saying take me or leave me. but saying make me your second choice was an indication he knows they love rand paul but maybe they could look at him. >> a favorite of a lot of the republican establishment, big money republicans. how did he do as far as winning over some of the hard liners? >> reporter: look i think that he came across as pal atable to the hard liners with the way that he talked about the kind of conservative he is. he talked about the fact that he was a practicing reformer a conservative and rejected the idea of being a moderate. he is not a moderate. in no way is he a moderate. the question is whether or not he can convince enough of those hard liners or whether he has to. he is playing the long game. he is definitely said it himself in no uncertain terms, he is trying to win the primary by winning -- win the general by winning the primary. it's not an easy thing to do. he certainly i think, took a big positive first step in doing that here today. >> almost all of those republican perspective candidates they are taking really strong swipes at hillary clinton. listen to this. >> i believe hillary clinton's about did idication of responsible, her refusal to provide an answer for benghazi -- >> hillary clinton yesterday. >> i will mention a few names. we have gotten interesting answers. hillary clinton. >> foreign fund-raising. >> that's the issue of the clinton foundation getting money from foreign governments. is that becoming a major -- that is becoming a major talking point for republicans. how is the clinton camp reacting? 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the press corps over president obama's claim barack obama had him wiretapped. >> where was your passion and concern when you all said there was no connection to russia? he stand by it. but you are mischaracterizing what happened what happened today. >> tonight we know the president of the united states has no facts. everybody in town except for possibly the president knows there wasn't a wiretap, that that is not true. >> head of the intelligence committee, the cia director, those of us in the media have been wrong about lots of things. howie: why is spicer accusing the media of a false narrative. he says many in the press don't want trump to succeed. is that true? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." rachel maddow could not have been more excited as she touted and teased president trump's tax return. then came the 20-minute monologue and she still didn't get to the news about the two pages from 2005 until after the first commercial break. >> this is the first time we believe federal tax returns have been obtained by anyone. but once you are president of the united states, the people of the united states need to know if you have got significant unexplained sources. what we have are these two pages, front and back from the same 1040 form you might have filled out when you file your taxes. howie: that's where we began when i sat down with white house press secretary sean spicer. when rachel maddow disclosed two pages of the president's tax returns. the president tweeted nbc, fake news. but even before she got out the news, the white house confirmed the returns were real. >> they talked to us before they aired it to let us know they were doing the segment. it showed it's illegal to publish tax returns. to leak them and publish them. there is an act that prohibits that on another citizen. the idea they would hype the idea they obtained an illegal document and hype it to show the president paid $38 million, an effective rate of 28% tax. the fact that he's a wealthy man and he does pay taxes. for nbc to continue from that point forward to start perpetuating a faults narrative about what the president did. that is unbelievably dishonest. it shows the lengths to which nbc will go to get raiding. howie: johnson said it was in his nail box. does anybody believe he went to his nail box and found my tax returns? >> this is a former reporter that is running a blog, and somehow someone believes he's the best way to get out key news. it's a little suspect. instead of them perpetuating at nbc this false narrative about how they got there, they should be asking this former reporter was let go from the new york times, how someone would want to pick someone like him. it seems suspect that somebody who is no longer employed by a major outlet becomes the prime target to get out. wait really disappointing, not only does nbc news cross the line in promoting and publishing it, but they perpetuated a false narrative where it came from. proof and sources, when they went on and created this false narrative, it shows again the length to which they will go to get ratings and pro note false narratives. howie: speaking of the briefing room, you had an extraordinarily con thcontentious briefing. you said the press is pushing a faults narrative on the wiretapping. >> when director -- chairman destrip nunes, senator tom cotton, director clapper, all these people briefed on the knack the 2016 election, said to their knowledge there is no proof that russia hacked the election. but they toind push the false narrative. it's amazing how the mainstream media continues to bring up a story that's been debunked by every intelligence official and member of congress who has been briefed by the f.b.i. yet the mainstream media continues to hold on to that narrative because they realize it clearly gets them some coverage or ratings. then when it comes to the other side of the aisle, they ignore the reporting done by the "new york times" and others. howie: the "new york times" didn't report that president obama ordered wiretapping. they reported some intercepts that the russians might have picked up, but the republican chairman of both house and senate intel committees have said so far they have seen no evidence to support the president's claim. you seem to want to deflect those question to the point -- the legitimate point of no evidence of collusion with russia. >> they said so far. the department justice asked for an additional week. i think when you start looking into all of these things that occurred in 2016. the question is, what did happen? who was being looked at. there was clearly something there. and i think it's incumbent point house and senate intelligence committee to look into these situations and find out what did go on. you take a situation like general flynn. he was uncovered in a wiretap of some sort it's against the law for any americans named to be exposed to be part of any surveillance like this. so how do these illegal leaks get out, what's happening. why isn't there equal concerns for how that got leaked? howie: one of the reasons it's become such a media fixation, is president trump accused president obama as mccarthyism and the media is saying they haven't seen evidence to support that. >> the house and senate intelligence committees have agreed to look at it. chairman devin nunes said he thinks there is something to look at. howie: after your briefing jake clapper said you can't defendant indefensible and you are arguing the earth is flat. >> i don't need to respond to jake. he's looking to get whatever attention he can at this point. howie: there have been a left to stories about back biting and chaos in the white house. >> i often talk to the reporters dealing with these stories. they say it's not necessarily people in the white house, it's people around the white house. a reporter called me and said there were signs in the white house how their phone calls were being monitored. i said yef it's on everi' government phone ever since i have been in the government, the department of defense and the white house, when you pick up the phone and log on to the computer it says? compliance with the agreements you signed don't engage in these illegal acts. these things have existed forward decades and all after sudden they become am story to perpetuate a narrative that's not there. howie: do you think the media do not want president trump to succeed? >> i think so. a good number of folks in the main-stream media aren't conservative. they are liberals. survey after survey shows the majority of reporters lean to the left. howie: even if that's true -- >> there are some that don't understand -- and some of it is intentional and some of it is not. what i mean is in some cases ideologically some people cannot understand why some of the agenda and the vision that the president is pursuing makes sense to them because they are so ideologically bent to the left. the way they view life, the prism they exist in and they view issues through doesn't allow the thoughts and ideas that come out of the right to make sense to them. howie: "the disappearing sean spicer." given the white hot nature of what you do -- >> the irony is in one week as you said from day one, not just day one, early january when i talked about this, i said we'll have some sort of briefing every day. some of it on camera, some of it off. we have had a briefing every single day. we have had two scheduled briefing that were off camera. howie: do you like being the start of a daytime show? >> i think it's an honor to have the privilege the president sphwee stowed on me and the team i get to work with. the next person that takes this job would have the same right and responsibility and honor to do this as well and get the same treatment. we are all honored the president asked to us do this. we serve at his bequest and will. but that's all it is. howie: in a recent briefing you made a "saturday night live" reference saying don't make me make the podium move. have you come to terms with melissa mccarthy. >> you have to have a light-hearted moment. somebody was asking a silly question. i thought it was a great way to point that out and add levity to an hour-plus long briefing. i am usually well asleep by the time that comes on. it's the one night i get a good sleep before going off to church the next morning. howie: when we come back our familiar weighs in on that spectacle involving rachel maddow. let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. -sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. i'm actually a deejay. -[ laughing ] no way! -that really is you? if they're not a cfp pro, you just don't know. cfp. work with the highest standard. howie: let's start with rachael ma dowels coverage of the leaked tax return. cheryl atkinson, author of "the smear." mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the medicallist." with all the mockery rachel maddow is getting, did she mishandle this story? >> i think so. i like her and her show is entertaining. but when you are not going to report the news you get in a fair way or realistic way. it hurts your credibility. howe. howie: rachel maddow is really smart, she got 4 million viewers for the show. but this was not handled as a straight news story. >> donald trump is the first presidential candidate in modern history not to release his tax returns. it turned out to be favorable news for donald trump. he makes a lot of money and pays a lot of money in taxes. but it's very news worthy that we have this and it's not illegal to publish these reports it's illegal to leak them. it's a felony up to five years in prison. but publishing is not leaking. howie: msnbc was putting aught a story that ended up being favorable to the president. >> after the break, after the break. howie: don't go away, stay tuned. coming up next. >> 23 minute before we found out donald trump paid his taxes in 2005. if "saturday night live" weren't in reruns last night i believe they would have done rachel maddow, however hard it would be to characterize since it was a parody that was unfolding. howie: the returns were obtained by david cay johnston. and he and i rachel maddow said maybe it was trump who sent it or one of his people. >> i don't have inside information on that. if trump were want to go get out good information about a task return. it would be risky to give to it a network that would be least likely to report it as good news. howie: even if you think they are behind it and i personally don't, i don't think they would pick this guy. >> it's a good reminder for the media in general when you are digging a grave for your enemy you don't want to fall into it yourself. people were so sure the tax returns would be horrible for donald trump, they forgot to think of the possibility they wouldn't be. howie: she said it doesn't mean it was da damning information. even liberals are saying you hyped it in a way that made it seem like a bigger deal than it turned out to be. >> this left-on-left tr violenc- she needs to look at how she did the and critique herself. we are not in an age of apology right now. how * the media in an uproar about the president refusing to back away from his claims about wiretapping. howie: trump ripped the press again while talking to tucker karl on. >> i was very good to nbc, and they are despicable in their coverage. cbs, abc. you take a look at what's going on. i call it the fake press, the fake media. it's disgrace what is happening. howie: what do you think about president obama using that kind of language against nbc. >> he feels he has a relationship with the media. he has an ego and he thinks his previous relationship with them should mean he gets better coverage. but i think about how cbs said it might not be good for america but trump is great for cbs news. they play off each other, the media and donald trump in a way that may not be healthy for the rest of the country. howie: president trump often criticizes jeff zucker and he says i got zucker his job. do you think he has a thing making this personal by what he seize as unfair coverage? >> the president makes a lot of things personal. the wiretap is personal and obama is a sick, bad guy. and zucker is a awful creature now. so the news is not a reality show. he also doesn't -- he hasn't switched to being a public figure governing. he was used to telling the tabloid -- dishing stuff to the tabloids in new york for years how require's a very good skill that served him well in the campaign. >> he did bully, particularly in his divorces. he was a great guy paying lots of money to his ex-wives. but he was john barron calling them up. howie: are we approaching the point where donald trump says fake news so often it's becoming almost background noise? >> yes, but that serves his purpose. fake news was a phrase put on the plate of the american public last september by liberals. president trump got on that train. they think they got the news covered and other angles. but this is how they could control information on the internet. trump co-opted that term so effectively people think fake news is his term. howie: he did it again on twitter after the meeting with angela merkel. despite what you hear from the fake news, i had a great meeting with angela merkel. despite the handshake. later, the white house and the press in a heated battle over wiretapping allega i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. 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things he does, sure. that's part of the job of the media is to report on that. the things i'm talking about, the contemptuousness, the snarkiness. i called a year and a half ago and jake tapper is now snarky and con teland con tell to t un. howie: we are pointing out there is tough words on both sides. >> you can fire back, no question. but the question is what's in their heads. i think they are still mad about the election. and really mad that they missed it. we all know they missed it. a lot of people said you guise got it wrong.k what's going on n some ways how he does not care. he talks about it, the criticism. he goes on his merry way anyway. he does not seek their approval. the funniest this town was was the day he announced he was going to a white house correspondent's dinner. we'll get back to the purpose of the dinner which is a scholarship. howie: it of the overshadowed by the celebrities. he's suppose to go and be insulted. i often wondered why presidents went to be insulted by a comedian. he said i don't have the time. good for him. howie: so you were the head of the national endowment for the humanities under ronald reagan. that agency is among those the trump budget would abolish. you are fine with getting rid of it? >> i was also in favor of getting rid of the department of education. ronald reagan said do we need this, and i said no. you can do this elsewhere. the particular case, the humanities, humanities professors have done more harm to the united states with the work -- howie: there is reporting on the human contact. >> the budget director said the meals on wheels doesn't show any results. i think mick mulvaney is smart and he argues this very well. if it's not done from washington, it can be done somewhere else. when i was secretary of education. i polled our recipients of money, what is the single most program? the answer was block grant. when we took the money and sent it back to them after take our 10% out. howie: even a bigger story is the passing of chuck berry at the age of 90. >> i'm going to write a little letter and send it to my local d.j. there is culture for you. he had more influence on rock 'n rollers. married for 68 years. there is a cultural message. howie: next on "mediabuzz," president trump is standing by his wiretapping claim. donna brazile finally acknowledging lying. i didn't know where i was from ethnically. so we sent that sample off to ancestry. my ancestry dna results are that i am 26% nigerian. i am just trying to learn as much as i can about my culture. i put the gele on my head and i looked into the mirror and i was trying not to cry. because it's a hat, but it's like the most important hat i've ever owned. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. howie: republican chairman of the house and senate intelligence panel says they see no evidence to substantiate trump's claim that president obama had him wiretapped. >> why not wait to tweet about it until you can back up your words. >> the "new york times" did write on january 20 using the word "wiretap." wiretap covers a lot of different things. howie: what's your take on the coverage of this presidential wiretap claim? some anchors going off saying the president of the united states is a liar. >> two good questions to be asked, should he have head the statement relying on the press he says he doesn't trust. but there is a legitimate question the media should be asking whether there was improper surveillance of the campaign. we know the track record of the obama administration, they conducted unprecedented surveillance of reporters and the congressional intelligence committee. i think those are legitimate media questions. howie: you are saying it's feasible that it happened. >> i have no for it happened but it's a question that needs to be purchase sued. howie: what do you think of sean spicer saying the media are ignoring crickets. wiretapping and surveillance are saying they have no evidence of any improper collusion between trump associates and vladimir putin's people. >> that's a good point. there has been no evidence provided there is a personal wiretap of donald trump's phones. and there has been no evidence provide for the unsubstantiated claims. when you have these people put on the record, you say people who are probably involved in this coordinated leak campaign to promote this narrative about russia. when they are on the record, they say they have no evidence of collusion. devin nunes had a big press conference where he pointed that out. and the news story was come cal. it's a narrative that's been carried by the media for months now. howie: i think it press is focusing on unanswered questions about russia. in the case of mike flynn, there are questions about whether he had been fair by the and disclosed it. >> i any both have been covered, and the collusion in the russian hacking is still ongoing and it gets covered as they come out and say what they know. but i think we are waiting for the results of that. and james comey is testifying next week. on the wiretapping. tucker did a good job on this. trump shifted the burden to everyone else to prove his claim. and it hasn't been proven. even attorney general sessions came out this week and said there was nosed. howie: he said he had given him no evidence. sean spicer brought up my colleague bret baier. what bret did was to ask paul ryan about reports about possible surveillance or wiretapping which stem from radio host mark levin. but this goats to your point of citing the mainstream media when it's convenient. >> i don't think it's a good practice to use media reports as your primary source. he sometimes takes what his understanding is of a report and carries it further. i know this from personal experience. he carries it further than the report says. he has gone first when he talked about me and my reporting sometimes he's correct in the statement he makes, then he fills in some amplification that is not necessarily -- howie: the mainstream meade yarnlings has been saying the president is wrong about this, he exaggerated and that and none of it is stopping him. here on the wiretapping, we think we have him and we won't let our foot off the pedal. >> and it blows up in their faces. there has been surveillance of the trump team. we have been reid big in the reports in the "washington post" and the "new york times." mike flynn -- >> it does not matter. >> we know the obama administration relaxed rules on the sharing of information in terms of names of people caught up in this. there has been so little interest on the part of the media to understand how is this happening, how is the information getting shared. it's a shame it takes the president to it out to for to us talk about it. howie: the press is loving this wiretap story. >> it was the most fantastic tweet of the many tweets of donald trump. when you accuse a former president of doing it and call in sick, it's news. but then you involve british intelligence and it becomes an international incident. hohowie: fox news became part of the debate when sean spicesser to napolitano, he said three unnamed sources told him president obama used the british intelligence agency to conduct surveillance of donald trump. >> i didn't make an opinion on it. it was made by a talented lawyer on fox. you shouldn't be talking to me, you should be talking to fox. >> fox news cannot confirm judge napolitano's commentary. fox news knows of no evidence of any kinds that the now president of the united states was sush veiled in any time in any way, full stop. howie: napolitano told me, i reported what the sources told me, i reported it accurately, and i believe the substance what they told me. the british intelligence agency called the allegation ridiculous. sean spicer said he was reading media accounts and has no regrets. thanks very much for stopping by this sunday. after the break, our colleague erin mcpike is the only howie: the press is very upset with secretary of state rex tillerson for not taking reporters on his plane on his trip to asia. and the story got personal when the one lead reporter erin mcpike. >> rex tillerson makes stag crucial trip to asia take only one reporter from a conservative website. why is he ditching the news media. howie: let me tell you what erin mcpike told me it's a reporter's job to push for exclusionives. i asked completely and they grante everyone is completely misreading the situation. no one * really knows rex tillerson. if matt lauer got an exclusive interview what they have the same complaint? did you change your mind and release the audio and her interview with the secretary signs was transcribed? >> i want to go back to the beginning of the decision. we received a fair share of criticism and i think that was warranted. we are a newer organization and this was a big exclusive for us. we have a situation in the administration where they are now circumvending the press and they dock that through social media and build their own distribution channels. how * you say the criticism was warrant. how? >> now that the interview is out there and people have had a chance to dig in. the interview, if you look at it. there are a lot of meety subjects covered. erin did a great job. she knocked it out of the park. we transcribed it through the night, put the audio out and re-allowed the press to relct the way they wanted to act. howie: miller on said, "i'm not a big media access person." did you decide because there is so much media interest and criticismlet's just put it out there? >> we wanted to get information out as quickly as possible. there was a lot of news being made throughout the trip. we did not want to try and replicate what the press pool which we supported the idea of the press pool being there. but we didn't want to try and create an alternative press pool and our own version of that. howie: several media outlets described you are organization as conservative. >> we have an audience that's an under served community. people who live outside the major city centers. we have an audience that is majority conservative. but we also have a large independent and democratic audience. we are not trying to introduce bias in our stories. this was an opportunity for the first time to have a secretary of state on the record to ask important questions that will impact 7 billion people. howie: they are published this week and retracted a story about barack obama going to hawaii and talked to the judge before he blocked the travel ban, and it seemed to. >> we retract it. it doesn't meet our standard, that's why it was taken down. we left the full post up. it's something -- we are a newer organization. we are four years old, and we are going to make our shaffer mistakes. the best thing we dock is own up to them, apologize and move forward. how * yohowie: you think some oe criticism is driven by jealousy? >> i don't think so. people are sceptical. they don't know a lot about our organization. we are newer. now that the interview is out there, hopefully they can see for themselves. howie: still to come. 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but let's time it's packed around munich city hall at merion plus. the guard lists of the season visitors from around the world come here to get a glimpse of the glockenspiel i'm here today to see what munich has to offer in the winter perhaps other visitors have tips for me to. where you from manchester what brings it to me just a holiday weekend away is a really great see these days beauties and museums so it's kind of fun what's your impression so far is so-called. real like here here is well i'm going to walk around this area and see what i can see and try to find some classic. german beers and brew. so there are some suggestions already. today i'll visit germany's most famous beer hall the hoff right house later i'll try my hand at curling and with the mountains so close i just can't pass up on the opportunity of a little fun in the snow in the alps. well so see no broke the very end palace. of your video tells us about a trip to the indian state of ratchet's time. and will head to guyana where we meet a local in her country's capital. first when take a stroll through munich's old town. we followed. let's toss out a commercial center in the middle ages and still today in the form of armani. bars our. dance clubs is characteristic of munich here you'll find the felt hat if it looks italian it's because it's nineteenth century design was inspired by florence as large a lancy and right next door as that the time church. this huge palace was home to the very end rulers for centuries. also and don't miss the whole forgotten and it's diana temple which also takes on an italian air whether architecture or landscaping or fine arts the varian rulers had a taste for finer things. went there is a great time to visit museums and munich has plenty on offer the dukes and kings of the house a fit of avid art collectors and the city is keeping that tradition alive but where to start don't worry we've got it covered. the multiple take is especially worth a visit to the first open this art museum in the one thousand nine hundred four the vittles collection the collection includes a self-portrait by oprah. the autopen could take is known to european masterpieces from the fourteenth to eighteenth century. were the rubens works are at the heart of the collection in particular his great last judgment. pin a critic is in the big leagues considered one of the world's most famous galleries dunc that's thanks to the collecting spirit of the biddles bach line with us. the collection at the noir pinnacle take also harks back to do dick the first he wanted to present works from his time. there are landscape works by karl. and friedrich over backseat tahlia and. the new take was another of blue figs major contributions to munich's cultural history. with the in the museum and creating the collection was for him an important aspect of his rule. collecting promoted culture and this museum of course contributed to education turning bavaria into a kingdom of culture. some of. us is one of the but very in capitals most important museums the former villa of munich painter franz funland was extended and reopened in twenty thirteen. the museum focuses on artwork from the twentieth and twenty first centuries with frequent temporary exhibits making it one of the unix most popular art museums. in. the city's newest museum is the brand horst museum its connection is thanks to seven hundred works from the late annette up on toast and her husband fritz harmon they've continued munich's art collection tradition. of course munich is about more than just art history which is why no trip is complete without a visit to the b.m.w. museum opened in one thousand nine hundred ninety three not far from the city center a museum features ninety years of the bavarian company's classics and prototypes. i know you're really don't need a special reason to come here but in winter when it's cold outside it's all the nicer to come to the original hall fright house and your next old town. is still space to sit at lunch time during the week your storage main hall has space for one thousand three hundred people. and spare guy is the famous beer halls manager and shows me around the up stairs banquet hall is regularly used for events for example a weekly dance night but home for house isn't just for tourists. or. why is the muni call for a house so famous they have you because we have a great beer that's the main reason that's what everyone claims this is the house we're in the point house has always been here since fifteen eighty nine so that's a long time and it reopened as a restaurant the way you see it now in eighteen ninety seven and i was just before that it was a brewery and it won this before and why is it so famous. on because it's always been here it has always played a big part in people's lives and the mention in movie that or next week that's gets them by their real locals here as regular customers yeah sure we have a file with everyone registered. or nearly everyone with a few latest there are thirty five hundred people and they're organized into one hundred twenty five regular meet ups that's runs perceive this dumb to understand the regulars have a special privilege here they can store their own beer mugs yeah i'm sure you know you're right the beer mug treasure chest was a once in a time when the one nine hundred seventy two olympics where here we used glasses to clearly show how much beer. was being poured into the evidence but our regulars said they wanted to hold on to their beer mugs will go into this time get them sick number so they put them into their own drawers which is now the beer mug treasure chest here you know so i mean stein who can i mean fast and just be at this somehow it's the must at least want to get tied mostly to get one of these group you have to use it. this is mr gates not just a status symbol so this is you have to use it so it's cost you pay three euro's a year and we always know who our regulars are going to stick it's less so when you know that's out sick for a while he gets a call from off brand house you know that's right and if we'll call and ask how he's doing and wish him well it's not really good but it's. fun and i was never not in the mood for beer. me this is. you think again you know i like drinking beer this disunion because what's nice about beer is you're sitting at a big table chatting with people maybe you've never seen before or meats or people you already know these are in kenya and i'm standing here brings people closer together the dimensions of. what sect there was didn't mention when lenin was in munich and it's when his partner cooks guy ohio in the beer garden. on the set the best thing about the beer at all four houses best is that it gets people together on the first room. after. the show next. let's see how things go for me with the regulars. i'm sure you have a place for your own money to some cities that you hope number twenty five so that tells you a bit about how long i've been here if you did afghans off but how many can a regular like yourself drink just for shoes without the pens but to sign up for me our rights and then you're still upright are stumbling out of here or it's right or to oh no then i'll fall over. yet though. well. known. as you know we love to visit you in your own town and you buy those around this time we went to the capitol to meet up with friends and t.v. series out in the traveler so she knew that we weren't you know. my name is princess. princess and welcome to my city across across the capital of ghana now today i'm taking you on a tour to various places in the city. a crime scene busy city where people are kind and friendly and would help. with the place. we're currently on but independence square in the now but independence square is the second largest square in the world. now currently this place is empty but doing independence day celebrations the place is packed this so many people dress to celebrate independence which we got from the british. in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven. zero restaurant in. the best place to visit. me and they have a why. they have been quit for good to me. to seize the. spices we use a lot of. the waits for. me. even just the. four million people acquire the economy. got off. the air in the muck while the markets lock in the market of the second largest markets in west africa this is where i come to buy all my operating groups out of the busy bustling plays a bloody place to come but if you want to get any souvenir muckler market the place to come now problem for me. to want to. fight. for my. group. now these colorful gun the elf operates this is the kente fabric which we wear for various occasions and there are also some cloth where we wear for a few rolls and name is ceremonies ok i hope you enjoyed my tall for crop i look forward to seeing you in the crowd going out very soon from our. winter time in munich is also the time for a very encouraging come across the board and most beer gardens here i'm here with the owner of the album who's going to show me how it's done. and with it was just a. dozen so it's not made completely of would be. every right it's made of wood except for the iron ring here keeping it together it's classic just like you find it too grandfather's house to give you maybe the underside of his was flatter depends on your taste and skill but thanks to the weight it slides really well if you give it some momentum. or as heavy as over i know this is the one for kids. because what's that supposed to mean the swing is the most important thing in curling that's what i think ok i'm ok show me. if that's good. what's the game's objective what is it about time for goal is to teams play each other and the one that gets closest to the house gets two points and closest to the stone one point of them is how the house is the one block yes it's a wooden block or it's called a bottom you play around it and whoever has the most points when was the one there were. a disappears the road goes over to start the ball in the circle to. the combat so we. get about three hours freestyle but it's a right to go. well but very encouraging is not so easy but it sure is fun. coming up next a very special tip for a trip to munich them from work palace it's considered to be one of europe's most impressive castles for a long time it served as a summer residence of the vittles but dynasty and today it's one of the city's favorite tourist destinations. back in the seventeenth century the site of one of europe's largest palaces was just farmland. veteran and maria elector of the very i wanted to give his wife henrietta adelaide boy a very special gift. she had given to him a long sought after heir. maximillian emmanuel. construction of the palace began in sixteen sixty four. the first building pleasure palace known from bog was finished in sixteen seventy nine. and it was relatively modest preselector maximillian a man your weather would go on to expand the site to its current size. for the park he took land from farmers and had a canal dug for the courtly gone to the trips. his subjects had to stay outside. today it's different of course the palace has been in public hands for a century. it was partially renovated for its three hundred fifty year anniversary including maximillian emanuel's room. but it looks different today. that's not how it was here in flint bork was the beloved summer home all of the various rulers it was used regularly lived in and therefore it changed the size so we can go from a rock to late the rock style and onto the classical rooms of the bavarian rulers. still true to the original is the room where the big this second was born in eighteen forty five. he's known as the fairy tale king. from the parking lot visitors today can take a gondola to the palace just like the various royalty from centuries past. now let's get out of munich as promised away from the city and into the countryside . to langley's because they want to get to the mountains it's just sixty kilometers away. and easily reachable by train. and just an hour i'm at the alpine foothills. and now time to have a look at your travel experience as the videos you send are really great thanks for sharing them with us. this week's me mail comes from a newish rising you traveled around the indian state of raw just on and send us amazing footage of fire eaters temples and dancers a cultural explosion as you told us and we're excited to be able to share it with you and. langley's is at the entrance to the alps historically home to raftsmen and farmers other than farming it's tourism that brings in the money here the area is full of old farmhouses and classic and. the baroque saying jacobs church stands at the center. and really pretty here but more than anything i want to hit the slopes this time not to skiing but to sled. number tell me how it works in the. my sled. ok nothing was ever you don't know won't believe you live from above not from below yeah that's important it's. real otherwise you'll get tangled and pulled up is a good way to lift my feet up. and yes lift your feet up on the sled so you don't get hurt that is you know when you want to get off just let go it'll go by itself. and i'm ready to go i think but you'll help me write it because you know nobody of course. those kind of. things. if you also get ready at set. go. this lump is eight hundred metres long and quite steep so you can really pick up some speed and things of that lift i definitely have to go up. and down again. and. took out some of our favorite travel pics on instagram follow us on do you know where you travel. my trip through wintery bavaria is coming to an end but not before i get some time on length races highest mountain. for the cable car it takes me to the one thousand five hundred fifty five metre peak of colonic. and here's a tip if you want to great views without the crowds come during the week. there are twenty one lifts for thirty four kilometers of slopes to choose from. the restaurant at the top has panorama views it's one of sixteen mountain guest houses and huts in this area comfort and wellbeing this is mumbai area after all. winter sports work up a hunger nothing a hearty dumpling soup and of beer can handle. around munich you'll find everything the heart can possibly desire of a little winter getaway a huge selection of museums fun physical activities the obligatory beer and this winter wonderland just around the corner the perfect combination. liber lin film festival. three portraits of three talented women. actress again emory of in month from norway. filmmaker dunder end up from zimbabwe. and photographer labor from germany. focus on women at the beverly nona. coming up on w. what keeps us in shape what makes us think and how do we stay healthy. my name is dr costly could i talk to me the commish let's. watch them at work. and then discuss 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the president flies home here's his big takeaway from his visit to the united kingdom. >> the meeting with the queen was incredible. i really got to know her because i sat with her many times. we are automatic chemistry. you have that feeling, good feeling. there are those that say they have never seen the queen have a better time, a more animated time. >> we begin the hour with a new and dramatic warning from the president from the american economy he hopes to ride to re-election. the government says just 75,000 jobs were created last month, way below expectations. it's the latest sign the economy is slowing, and it comes as the president is just hours away from a big step that could slow it more, announcing new tariffs on all mexican imports to the united states. now tariffs are normally a weapon in trade wars. as we see in the high-stakes white house confrontation with china, but in the case of mexico they are a presidential bludgeon in an immigration dispute. talks continued today, and there is a chance that the president pulls the plug before monday if mexico meet his border demands. today job numbers give him reason to think twice about injecting more uncertainty on an economy showing serious symptoms of stress. cnn's christine romans walks us through the sluggish numbers. >> reporter: john, this is a rare stumble in what's been a very slow job market. when you look at march and april, the government actually subject tracted 75,000 from those two months and shows us a soft page. february was only 56,000. what's different there? this was weather. this is concern about tariffs. a lot of companies are starting to say they don't know what their supply chains are going to look like and what their costs are going to look like and they are concerned about the multiple prongs of the president's tariff war. the good news the unemployment rate stayed at 3.6%, basically steady. 176,000 people coming into the labor market in the sectors. broad-based kind of growth slowdown here. business was positive and healthcare was positive but not as robust as we've seen. last month it was 30,000 and manufacturing only added a few thousand so there's something going on here so why isn't the stock market concerned about this? because the world is upside down on wall street. this is bad news and it is good news. wall street thinks that the fed, the federal reserve will be forced to come in and undo the damage from the president's trade war with rate cuts, maybe by the end of the summer. >> christine romans breaking down the numbers. with me to share their reporting and insights our guests from "the wall street journal" and "the washington times." is this a slow month and things will be fine or is this another sign that the economy is slowing in a significant way and with the threat of mexican tariffs around the corner on monday a risk for the president to keep going? >> it's a sign the economy is slowing. 75,000 is actually roughly how many jobs we can expect the u.s. economy to create over the long run given that ours is an aging population with low population growth so i think the likeliest interpretation of today's data combined with other information, for example on the number of people filing for uninsurance claims, the economy growing at a very fast rate is the slowing around to a 2% rate. >> the slowing to a 2% rate which is what the president, again, we're having an economic conversation with political ramifications for him because he's talked about%% or 4% or more. the questions is -- you can find a lot of data that says it's okay and this is why the president can do these things. there are some warning seibs, retail sales were off recently. factory orders fell. china tariffs are on the horizon, mexico tariffs and the international growth rate has slowed. sort of where are we? >> i think that part you just emphasized is perhaps the most important thing that you said. the international picture has gotten a lot worse over the last couple of months and quarters, and i think taken in context the slowing in the u.s. economy is really something to be concerned about. you have to take this in trend. the three month moving average on job gains is 151,000 so, you know, that's not terrible compared to what we should be expecting but taken again the backdrop of slowing growth this will make the federal reserve worried. >> let's just show the dow right now. normally 75,000 sluggish job growth. you think the markets might take a hit, but the markets are actually up, 250 something points that you can see there. how much is that that they think the president is going to blink and not impose the tariffs and how much, and i suspect this is more, jerome powell on the record this week saying we're watching all of this, and if necessary even though a couple of months ago this was not their policy now he's saying if necessary, and let's listen to the president who wants this, we'll cut interest rates. >> i built an economy that's incredible. we're up $14 trillion in value. look what's going on in the stock market. who thought he was going to raise interest rates and if we didn't have all of that we'd be at 5.2 and the stock market would be up 10,000 points more. we can talk to particulars there and go into the fact check machine. i don't think he built the economy. he's gotten better while president. the idea is, is the president going to get what he wants here out of this? the interest rate cut? >> i think the fed is looking at two things. first of all, the trade war is one of those kind of exogenous events that the fed has no control over and doesn't know how it's going to play out and there's a very important summit meeting between president trump and other world leaders at the end of this month at which point the -- we'll know a lot more about whether this is just a threat or whether it will really hit the economy. that might be a reason not to deliver the rate cut right away. on the other hand, there are signs underneath the data even if you set azize the trade warning. construction employment was athemics, not because of the trade war. that's the thing that has to get the fed worried. >> you have a slowdown. an america first president and the president says these tariffs will help american manufacturing and convince companies to come on. maybe in the longer term we can think about that. in may 3,000 manufacturing jobs in may and 30,000 added in 2019. still going up, but not at the rate we saw right after the tax cuts and the like. some of that stimulus out of the economy. for some of the people watching out of the country, when had you look at the jobs data. what do you think they should be looking at about this economy out in america? 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>> yes. >> why does it seem like mexico is bearing the brunt? >> it's their fault also because they are letting millions of people walk up through their country. >> elian johnson with politico and cnn's phil mattingly and jackie kucinich with the daily beat are here to share their insights. to a degree he has a point. these migrants are coming through central mexico and to hear the president of the united states say tariffs is a beautiful thing. a confounding couple of days. sure, it clashes with the republican party ideologically and clashes with economic history as it regards tariffs and one of the things i've been struck by with tariffs, long running conversations since these issues since he's tried to use the tool many times, the question what if it actually works in these negotiations? they know that on the table are potential asylum changes that the administration has been speaking for a long time and haven't been agreed upon yet and two slots to it. what if it works and he believes now that this is absolutely something he should be doing on a regular basis from here on out which goes to the core about how he feels about tariffs for a long time and the second, even if they works, even if they pull off. you guys had a great conversation about the economy in the last block. the u.s. economy and how allies view us in the future. i think those two questions remain unanswered. >> you can hear that from the president. he thinks the bludgeon of tariffs, used in a trade war and in this case in an immigration dispute, he thinks it work with a big trading partner like mexico, it just might. will mexico do enough. the last 24 hours we've heard progress and not enough and mexico comes back and says we'll deploy national guard troops and mexico comes back and says we'll do more at border with guatemala. can we reach a deal with people being held north in guatemala or being held in mexico. listen to mark short. used to be the president's liaison to capitol hill so he gets the objections in congress. >> it's a legal notification that goes away today with the ban to implement tariffs on monday and i think there is the ability if the president is going to turn them off. it has to be noticed today so you shouldn't anticipate that happening. >> we have from day one of the presidency that mike pence says this on capitol hill and now we have a day when the deadline to file the executive order is there. secretary pompeo, the lawyers and the peel people involved, he has to sign off on anything they do, and his inclination so far is to say not enough, i want more. >> right. it does seem as if these mexican officials are in there negotiating the subsequent increase from 5% to 10% rather than to fend off the increase to 5% that would take place on monday. you know, tariffs are the president's preferred negotiating tool. we've seen him deploy them and not just with respect to mexico and all over the world on -- on medal, aluminum tariffs that he put in last year. the president is insistent that tariffs hurt the country they are imposed on and doesn't seem i think fully cognizant of the fact that they hurt american consumers. he's resisted -- we's resisted the advice and caution of his economic advisers when they tell him that these are -- these tariffs are going to hurt the american economy, and it's not republican members of congress who are going to be hurt when the president imposed tariffs. it's voters in their district. >> another thing that's going on there is congress is kind of enabling this because they passed legislation to put a band-aid on what's going on with farmers, that farmers are receiving more subsidies right now because of what's going on with china, and -- and that -- you can't, you know, give a band-aid to the entire state of texas, for example, so the point is what's congress' breaking point and fill has been interfewing all of these senators this week ringing their hands from from this and they rightly so want to talk to the president themselves. they know at this point that they have been so many timed that they have to go to the guy. >> to that point, the question is would the president say to them in that meeting, if they got that meeting, john cornyn called this a tax and said it's horrible, would the president say to their face what he said to fox news which is essentially members of congress just don't get it? >> i have senators and others and pelosi coming out saying how horrible. what they are doing is they are hurting a deal. they should be saying we're with the president. we'll to whatever he wants to do, and mexico would fold like an umbrella. now i have these people, and i'm saying there are some republicans, too. i think they should be ashamed of themselves. we have schumer and all these people. they come out and they talk about tariffs are there. you know, they hurt my negotiation. >> they should be ashamed of themselves for oppose him. >> grahlaura ingram actually as the president why he's not shifting the onus on this to congress and not as mexico and he's fixated more on mexico and not as much on congress. >> would the president be willing to say that, they want him to come in and make this presentation. would i flip that. republicans need to want to come to the president face to face. history would say they are not. it's a lot easier to talk about and kind of bang your fist on things when the president is in another country and he's not available to treat it to you or attack it to you. and i'd be very interested to see how the dynamics shift when he comes home. >> if this takes affect on monday and whether they are willing to put paper and an effort to stop them behind their harsh sglords a giant joe bidfl for joe biden on abortion. will it help or hurt? 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how he's on the same page with his democratic rivals? when he's on the debate stage in a couple of weeks he won't have to deal with at least the substance of this, but is david axelrod right? for those of us, i covered the 1977 and '88 campaign and joe biden ran again. he's a candidate whose own instincts have been doubted at times and when his own instincts are in question he's always had had the question of was his campaign ready for primetime and in this case they weren't? >> that's action lieuly right in. and of itself this may not be a big deal but in terms of a window in terms of how biden is prepared for issues,ing it suggests they are really not. the first window into this was the way he handled accusations from women that he made them uncomfortable, and he took five or six days to come out and talk to the press. with this he had cedric richmond, his campaign chairman, came out and gave one position. biden came out and gave another position. it was a campaign that was not ready for primetime and the trump campaign's theory about all of this is biden is not going to be able to survive a primary because he'll be pulled to the left. this suggests that their theory is right. biden took a lot of criticism from the left on this, and in the end he -- he buckled, and it does suggest that that -- if that's a recurring theme, it suggests that he will go into the general election if he does survive the primary as a different candidate than he entered the race. >> or he learns from it or the field is not strong enough to take him out, and then we do get the question answered when he's in the general election campaign, but to see this played out. this is how lisa lehrer of the "new york times" puppet it the in a tweet in march. biden's staff told me they had no comment on hyde beyond his decades long support. this week his campaign says he misunderstood the question and did support it and now he's against it. head-spinning. this is not just an issue that just popped up. this has been an issue back to the ronald reagan era, a bigger issue now in democratic party candidates because of the rise of women candidates and leaders and issues and what's hang in the states on abortion rights this. cannot be a surprise where we got to page 77 of the healthcare plan and said oh, we have a problem. >> and over in the house there's a pro or an anti-abortion rights democratic member who is a dccc, initially going to fund raise for and now they are not. if you're a democrat that believes in abortion restrictions, you've got a problem right now in this party because of everything that you just laid out, and joe biden coming into this race should have known that. this looks politically expedient and i think you're going to really hear him being attacked on the debate stage over this. can you trust joe biden on abortion because look at his long record. he's going to have to answer that question on what changed his mind and it can't be because oh, everything has changed in the last 24 hours. >> so you have that question. can you trust joe biden on abortion? you used the term political expediency. i want to go back a decade or so in a moment. can you trust him on abortion which is an issue for democratic primary voters, at least a majority in these states will be women voters, should matter to men as well and then the bigger question, his calling card is i can beat trump. if you start to seem a campaign that doesn't seem ready for primetime, can't execute a flip-flop, all politicians change their mind, bernie sanders and kirsten gillibrand, a different position on guns now and it's how you do it that matters a lot. political expediency, joe biden back in 2007, like cedric richmond was trying to do, planting the flag of conviction saying we know people disagree with us on this issue, but we're going to stand by it. i'm sorry, i'm stuck -- i'm stuck to my middle of the road position on abortion for more than 30 years. i still vote against partial-birth abortion and federal funding and would like to make it easier for scared young mothers to choose not to have an abortion. i've made life difficult for myself by putting intellectual consistency and personal principle above expediency. the next version of the book might take that out. >> well, this is clearly going to be a problem for joe biden. i mean, it's not just political expediency argument. it is, as you mentioned, not just an issue for years but clearly in the last two weeks on, you know, front and center, and this is something that the campaign should clearly have been prepared for. i think it will be interesting to see how much democratic campaigns are willing to attack him by name at this point, whether it's for the political expediency argument or for his position himself. >> it's tough to work for a campaign at one of these moments when you have to go out and try to explain things. senior biden adviser saying no big deal, nothing to worry about. >> there's nothing to reconcile. >> made a very logical decision. >> if the vice president was bending to the whims of a number of my democratic friends he would have came out for medicare for all tonight. >> yeah. >> symone is doing her job. >> there's a reason why joe biden has been there and why hyde is in every appropriations bill that moves through congress for all the nerds in congress. it's no longer the safe harbor that you can say on this issue that's my out on this. that's how i'm going to address this. the party demands you have a better answer and you have a more fulsome answer and kind of a different view on the issue itself and address it more thoroughly. what other issues are there on that, and how many times is he going to get caught on this? 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>> reporter: a number of republican donors and operative, pro-trump republican donors and operatives, are telling cnn that they are concerned about the direction of america first which started in 2017. some of these numbers, these spending numbers are one point that these people are concerned about. let's go through them. $33,000 for a single event with vice president mike pence at a steakhouse here in washington. $120,000 delivered to two firms connected to former milwaukee cher f-david clarke associated with america first until the end of last year and more than $460,000 spend at trump-owned properties, primarily the trump international hotel for events and meals. america first says this is all the cost of raising money on behalf of the president's re-election campaign, but some of these critics of america first say the fund raising numbers have been underwhelming as well. $39,000 -- $39 million raised in the laced cycle. $75 million combined between america first and its sister organization. that's a lot of money but fell well bloat $100 million goal that america first had set for itself. republicans are looking at the new leadership at america first, linda mcmahon, the former small business administration chief who has taken over the group. they say they hope that she can help with these fund-raising problems. >> interesting to keep an eye on this as the campaign cycle continues. let's bring into the room, this is not new, superpacks have existed before this president but this is not the first time in recent weeks a pac led by people who say they are helping the president, david bosse, for example, have been questioned about, well, what is this about? is this about raising money and spending it to help the president and republicans or about raising money to pay some salaries and have really nice event at steakhouses and the like? >> over the past 10, 15 years we've seen come pascam pacs proliferate, particularly on the right and they are very, very difficult to regulate because they technically operate within the bounds of the law. america first is not a scam pac but it does raise the question of america first as a superpac can ask for unlimited contributions from donors and it -- a piece like this will certainly get these donors thinking about how their money is being used i think when they see a number like $33,000 for a dinner at a steakhouse and how -- how effectively that money is being used, particularly when one fact that jumped out at me from the cnn reporting is that the rnc, which does have contribution limits on it out-raised the superpac which has no limits on what a donor can contribute. >> interesting point. >> problems with america first have just been building. in the 2018 election i had donors and republican operatives tell me they were frustrated because america first at the time was sitting on millions of dollars and not spending it to help republicans. they did end up, you know, spending a little bit of money closer to the election, but these problems have only gotten worse since tommy hicks who was helping the superpac raise money left for the rnc and now everyone is looking at linda mcmahon to see if she can step up and fill the role. >> the question will be how the president reacts because david bosse was cast into siberia. >> the issue when it gets the president's attention, what does he do about it. great point. >> house divided. new details about the democrats' internal battle over whether to pursue impeachment. l'oreal carin three ways: the pre-color treatment, legendary color crème, nourishing conditioner. grays 100% covered. so much care in one little box. excellence crème from l'oreal paris. ♪ corey is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+ / her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become pregnant. common side effects include low red blood cell and low platelet counts, infections, tiredness, nausea, sore mouth, abnormalities in liver blood tests, diarrhea, hair thinning or loss, vomiting, rash, and loss of appetite. corey calls it her new normal because a lot has changed, but a lot hasn't. ask your doctor about ibrance. the #1 prescribed fda-approved oral combination treatment for hr+/her2- mbc. some new tweets from the president as he flies home aiming at nancy pelosi, and we're learning now details about one house democratic chairman's push to open an impeachment inquiry into the president. speaker pelosi remains steadfastly opposed, but new cnn reporting details efforts by the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to change her mind and to win other democrats over to his point of view, but nadler's way could take some of the investigative thunder from the other committee chairmen and centralize it into judiciary . d what is he up to here? you have just today the chairman of the oversight committee saying i'm going to go forward with contempt probably against the commerce secretary, the attorney general over a census issue. jerry nadler wants it all? >> a couple of things to point out. first and foremost, he's reflect being the members of his committee right now, the judiciary committee. more democrats on the committee -- there are a sizable number of senior democrats on that committee that are at this place right now, and often that's what moves the chairman or the leader towards the position, but the other is there's real turf battles going on behind the scenes. when you have multiple committees launching multiple investigations each trying for the headlines and each trying for the administration's attention and each trying to kind of prove their own case, i think there's been a lot of frustration not just from chairman nadler and the house overwight committee and the house financial services committee that perhaps some of their thunder has been stolen and perhaps some of their bandwidth and ability to complete the investigations has been moved out of the limelight or blocked to some degree and that's why you see the idea if we centralize all these in my committee we will be able to actually move forward in a more fulsome manner. this is a reality on capitol hill. i think we saw this before they took the majority that there were already turf wars breaking out and i think it's bolstered or it's exacerbated by the fact that there's rank and file members who are at that place, turf aside, and he can utilize now to try to make the case. >> outside of the capital building where it sounds like egos are at play, shocked at that in politics. speaker pelosi is trying to manage this and it's a difficult thing to manage. nbc and pbs news hour, marist polling, just among democrats. what should we do on the impeachment? start proceedings, 36%, continue investigation, short of impeaching, 37, krens you're the president 6 and investigations 15, so that's the democratic country. you've got a divided democratic party. that's what she's trying to manage. as she's trying to markings as i mentioned, the president is tweeting on the way home. i'll get to those in a second. while he was in europe, sitting for an interview in the sacred american war cemetery, nancy pelosi, a frequent target. >> people like nancy pelosi that honestly, they don't know what the lell they are talking about. i think she's a disgrace. she's incapable of doing deals, a nasty, vindictive horrible person. agery, people like nancy pelosi who don't have what it takes. they don't know what's going on. they get angry. she's a terrible person, and i'll tell you. the name, it's nervous nancy, because she's a nervous wreck. >> now, they disagree a lot to begin with, but what offended the president, politico reporting this first behind closed doors, i don't want to see the president impeached, i want to see him in prison and we can put the tweets up on the screen. in the president's twitter feed. nervous nancy is a disgrace to herself and her family for having made such a disgusting statement since i was with foreign leaders overseas. >> yeah. the irony is rich, you know. >> really concerned about appearances. >> yeah. >> so the president obviously still over international waters when he's tweeting this and called nancy, said all of those things about speaker pelosi while he was overseas and, you know, on ground very sacred for americans. he said that right before the ceremony to commemorate d-day, and speaker pelosi's comments were technically private. she didn't go out and say those things publicly about the president, so -- but this is an interesting moment i think because president trump has been relatively reserved in his criticism of pelosi, and i think this does mark something of a turning point where these two are going to go at each other pretty aggressively, and i think it's because he sees that we're at something of an infliction point about impeachment, and if she does decide to go forward with investigations, this is going to be a nasty brawl. >> nasty, and i guess his nickname, finally, we'll see if this one sticks. how crowded is the 2020 campaign trail? 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>> i mean, you're in atlanta. there should be -- we should have a lot of black people in this room, right? that's -- >> buttigieg acknowledged the issue and says his challenge is to build trust at, quote, lightning speed. here's one up orthodox way to try. it aired last night on showtime, two comedians from the bronx want to show the real side of the 2020 candidates. >> you're hood certified. >> they say in new york you're not allowed to have a thing called open containers, but apparently if you put an alcoholic beverage inside a brown bag, the cops don't see it and it's good. >> a fog of war. >> i need to come here more often. >> when in rome. >> all right. >> keep it lower. >> a little bit off, sort of. >> look, having watched the whole thing, i was a little worried when they came to the end that the guy wearing the suit without the jacket maybe wasn't quite prepared for what he was getting himself into, but i thought it worked. his face was priceless. >> whenever you can laugh as yourself as a candidate, i feel that that's a plus in your favor, particularly when you have such a wide variety of candidates. to be able to put that on yourself and laugh at it. >> also something that the president doesn't do. >> right. >> he is funny, but he's not funny in a self-deprecating man, and he is certainly not somebody that you can see laughing at it the. >> one of the longer shots in the democratic field, marian williamson, spiritual adviser to oprah winfrey, is moving to iowa. chris dodd did it back in the 2008 cycle. her campaign share says she has moved to des moines and she's fully committed to the iowa process including the other states including new hampshire and after the caucuses we'll plaque on moving to weeksy. >> i like the smiley face at the end of that statement. but, yeah, i mean, a lot of candidates are practically going to be moving there and she's going all the way. >> a few days left. three democrats have yet to qualify for the debates, governor bullock and mayor massen and bennett. >> there are is some frustration among the lower tier candidates as to the polling. you'll see a lot of hot fire at the dnc the last couple of days. we'll see if they make it. they might. >> thanks for joining us for "inside politics." get up early sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. don't go away. busy news day. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. >> i'm briana keilar live from cnn washington headquarters. under way right now. the president's significant weapon, his signature. will he use it to make good on his tariff threats despite all the warnings he's getting from his own party. confrontations growing between the u.s. and russia including a new near collision caught on camera. plus the front-runner backtracks on a major abortion policy. we'll talk to a top aide to joe biden, and the plot on gotham. why a man allegedly wanted to attack the
president obama's so-called lie of the year. >> all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. all right, that passes unanimously. heather: a win for america, the unanimous vote to honor the stars and stripes. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ never would come to me. ♪ working on a mystery. ♪ going wherever it leads. ♪ running down a dream. heather: hopefully you had some good dreams last night and you're waking up to "fox & friends first" this morning, one of my first concerts, tom petty, love to start the day with him. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning. i'm heather childress. thank you for starting your day with us. we have new rules to tell you about, cracking down on asylum seek ergs coming to the u.s. they will come into effect today and they're sparking outrage from democrats. >> we fight for the right of other countries to have a strong, powerful border so nobody could come in. but our border was liking a leaking sive. heather: ray bogen is live in washington with the legal battles ahead. good morning, ray. >> reporter: good morning. asylum seekers from far away countries will not be allowed to apply for protection in the u.s. if they pass through another country on their way to america. attorney general will barr explained in a statement saying, quote, this rule is a lawful exercise of authority provided by congress to restrict eligibility for asylum. the united states is a generous country but is being complete overwwell medoverwhelmed by thef hundreds of thousands of aliens along the southern border. the trump administration says this will reduce the number of fraudulent asylum claims. >> two of the loopholes we are trying the to close, to keep families together and dealing with children being trafficked are the flores family rule and it's called the tvpra, but it's the human trafficking bill. >> reporter: there are three exceptions, this includes immigrants who applied and were denied asylum in another country, they can still apply. there's also victims of, quote, severe forms of trafficking of persons. many democrats spoke out against the rule. nancy pelosi said this cruel new asylum rule perfectly showcases the administration's utter disdane and disregard for immigrant communities and communities of color. it will almost certainly be challenged in court. the aclu said in a statement it is patently unlawful and they will sue swiftly. heather, back to you. heather: ray, thank you for joining us this morning. great to have you with us. some other stories we're following. the man killed in an attack on an i.c.e. jail sent a manifesto to friends one day before the confrontation. in it, he calls the washington state detention center, a quote, abomb nation, adding i am antif a a. ben swanson seen here in a 2018 protest was armed with an assault rifle and explosives when police arrived on saturday. in the ma manifesto he claimed immigration roundups prompted him to attack. chilling new details in the savannah spurlock case. the detective revealing the gruesome details as the suspect appeared in court. the missing kentucky mother found buried 19 innecessary the ground on david spark's property. her body was wrapped in several garbage bags with her feet bound together. a key piece of evidence is a rug that was buried with her as police say sparks was caught on surveillance buying a similar one. sparks has pleaded not guilty. the weather situation, several communities are under flash flood warnings as tropical rainstorm barry moves north. officials bracing for up to a half of foot of rain in illinois where certain places are already flooded from rain water. barry is expected to fuel downpours into tomorrow. this as louisiana officials are warning residents to be mindful of bears, snakes and other wildlife temporarily displaced by rising waters. today house democrats are set to vote on a resolution to condemn the twitter rift between president trump around freshmen progressives. as lauren blanchard tells us, the president he refuses to back down, calling again for any member of congress who doesn't love america to leave. >> reporter: the four congresswoman dubbed the squad speaking out about president trump after he tweeted the women, all of color, should go back to their, quote, broken and crime infested countries. >> our squad is big. >> he does not know how to defend his policies. so what he does is attack us personally. >> this is the agenda of white nationalists whether it is happening in chat rooms or it's happening on national tv and now it's reached the white house garden. so it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. >> reporter: congresswomen singled out by the president and despite outrage from many who are calling the president's language racist, president trump is showing no sign of backing away from the tweets. >> if you're not happy here, then you can leave. as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. and that's what i say all the time. that's what i said in a tweet which i guess some people think is controversial. a lot of people love it, by the way. >> reporter: the congresswomen say the tweets are meant to be a distraction from the ongoing situation at the border. >> this is a disruption and a distraction from the chaotic and corrupt culture of this administration, all the way down. we remain focused on holding him accountable for the laws of this land and accountable to the american people. >.>> it doesn't concern me. many people agree with me. >> reporter: they reuped their calls for impeachment, something the democratic house leadership has so far stayed away from. lauren blanchard, fox news. heather: just days ago you may remember house speaker nancy pelosi was the target of the four freshmen congresswomen and now she's defending them. newt gingrich says this shows just how divided democrats really are. >> i think nancy has a huge problem. partially generational. she's a grandparent. this new group are people who look at her as two generations older. they think she's the problem, not the solution. they think were elected to clean out the congress, not to become part of the congress. so i think it's going to get worse and worse and of course what president trump did, is he forced pelosi to defend the people that she spent all last week attacking. and so if you watch it, it's almost crazy. last week guess who the racist was? it was nancy pelosi. this week, it's donald trump. because the only battle cry the hard left has is to call bad names. heather: president trump describing the democrats' new-found community in part of the dems were trying to distance themselves from the four progressives but now they're forced to embrace them. happening today, the census will take center stage on capitol hill. the senate and homeland security committee hearing coming just one day before the house votes on holding attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt for ignoring subpoenas related to the 2020 census. democrats demanding to know why the administration wanted to add the citizenship question. and do you remember when former president obama made this promise? >> if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. heather: now joe biden is repeating that same pledge. once dubbed the lie of the year. >> i would give people the option, if you like your health care plan and your employer based plan, you can keep it. you get your choice. youyou can staywith your employr you can move on. it's the quickest, most reasonable, rational and best way to get universal coverage. heather: the democratic frontrunner unveiling his $750 billion health care plan. it would add a public option, similar to medicare, and be partly paid for by rolling back tax cuts on the wealthy. well, the time now is about 10 minutes after the top of the hour and the media blasting the trump administration's new rules cracking down on asylum seekers. >> the president sees advantage in playing on fears and prejudice. >> this 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shipping. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com. the new asylum rule that the administration's coming up with, the president sees advantage in playing on fears and prejudice. >> this president's most radical effort to change laws along racial lines since the muslim ban. >> what they're trying to do is restrict people from coming to the united states and auto flying for asylum -- applying for asylum. heather: the mainstream media slamming president trump's latest move to end the crisis on the southern border. the trump administration announcing a new policy that any migrant seeking asylum would have to first be denied in a neighboring country before applying in the united states. joining me now is retired i.c.e. director, tom homan. thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. i know you were on fox late last night so thank you. >> you're welcome. heather: in terms of the new asylum rules, what do you think about them and what do you think about the pushback coming from democrats? >> well, the sound bite -- the president isn't changing any law. he's using the existing law and he should. the congress isn't going to fix it. the courts aren't going to fix it. then the president and i.c.e. and border patrol need to do everything they can within the existing framework to try to slow it down. what they failed to talk about is 90% of central americans who come to our border don't get relief for asylum from a judge because they don't qualify. what the president is doing -- the rules of asylum are clear. you're escaping your government because of fear of persecution, race, ethnicity, member of a certain social group, so if they're leaving el salvador and they go to guatemala, well, they've escaped that government, the same of people who escape from guatemala and go to mexico, so is it really about escaping fear and persecution from your homeland or about getting to the united states? i pick the latter. heather: as we've discussed, there is no such thing as the economic asylum and a lot of them try to claim that here. let's take a look at the asylum applications filed for the u.s. by year, 90% of these are not approved. then my other question to you, tom, is do these other countries have to agree to this? >> well, that's happening now. i mean, the negotiations are going on with the other countriecountries. they understand international law too. this is the way the system is set up. several months ago mexico actually offered asylum to a couple thousand of that largest caravan. mexico's already done it. it works. heather let's say mexico says no, we're not giving asylum, then they can apply for asylum in the united states. there's still a possibility. but prove that you're really escaping fear and prosecution in your homeland, simply not coming to the united states to reunite with family members or get a better job than you had in your homeland. heather: there's certain exceptions for victims of human trafficking, things like that. days a after the explosive hearing about the crisis on the border from last friday that you were a part of, freshmen congresswould mean accused president trump of violating human rights at the border. listen to this and tell me what they're getting wrong. >> i am not surprised the that he uses the rhetoric that he does, when he violates international human rights. >> the president is committing human rights abuses at the border, keeping children in cages and having human beings drinking out of toilets. heather: still claiming they're drinking out of toilets. we know this has proven to not be true. what do you have to say about what they said yesterday. >> they're making up human rights abuse. explain what human rights abuse is. they're enforcing the immigration laws. people are detained. they say we should shut down detention. 72% of everybody in i.c.e. detention, 72% are there because it's congressionally mandated they be detained per the law. if they don't like what's going on, they're legislators, change it. you can't point your fingers at the men and women of border patrol who are trying to fit too many people into the facilities. they ask congress for help. those women up on the stage, had they voted no for supplemental package that gave money to the border p patrol to move children to facilities that were built to get them out of the border patrol jails. they still voted no even though the supplemental package went forward. it's ridiculous. heather: thank you so much for joining. we certainly appreciate it. we'll see what the democratic candidates have to say. thank you. >> thank you. heather: the time now, 20 minutes after the top of the hour. and amusement park horror, watch this. two people killed when a ride snapped in half. the new criminal charges just filed. >> all those in favor, signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. that passes unanimously. heather: a city council overturns the decision to ban the pledge of allegiance. we have the 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unanimously voting to reinstate the pledge of allegiance during city council meetings. >> all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. that passes unanimously. heather: and carley's here to talk more about that. >> sure am, take talk about the weather and all things related to this story as well. if you saw that, that was a crowded city council meeting. about 100 people showed up to protest the decision to stop saying the pledge of allegiance and they were all very happy when the city council unanimously voted to overturn that decision so they will be saying the pledge before city council meetings now. this gains national attention when the president tweeted about it and the city was inundated with calls and e-mails, so a lot of people calling this a big win including this twitter user who says america wants -- they say that's one way to get people to go to a city council meeting. jv says good for them, americans need to stand up. wake up, america. this is how the system works. if people don't like it, they can speak out. the elected officials listened and decided to do what they wanted. heather: some people were questioning why it came up to begin with, saying it shouldn't have. biden campaigning on something that is very familiar to us. we heard it from president obama and it was actually dubbed the lie of the year. >> it sure was. yeah. so he was at a campaign stop in iowa. he was talking about health care. and like you said, he made that very same promise that president obama made in 2009. watches this. >> if you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. >> i if you like your doctor, yu will be able to keep your doctor. >> if you like your health care plan and like your emplo employr based plan, you can keep it. if you have private insurance, you can keep it. >> a lot of people noticing the similarities there. one instagram user said you fool me once, shame on you. you fool me twice, shame on me. biden's plan would expand upon the affordable care act which is different than bernie sanders and a lot of people describing what medicare for all would be. another twitter says this sets him aside from the rest. good move we want to get to this. a single dad asking for fashion advice from his daughter. >> a single dad stealing the hearts of thousands of people on social media for asking fashion advice from his 19-year-old daughter before a first date. the 19-year-old shared these images on twitter. this is a text exchange, sent another one with a shirt that it can be tucked in so i can see it and then she said yes, that's good. so those photos have gone viral. they've been liked about 168,000 times. sadly, he was stood up on his date. heather: what? >> yes. but since the pictures have gone viral, he says that he has been asked on many more dates. so the story really having a very happy ending. heather: absolutely. i'm going to have to start following them so i can see what the ending is. that's awesome. thank you, carly. the time now, 28 minutes after the top of the hour. the trump campaign launching a new coalition, focusing on female voters. how crucial will that be in 2020. one coalition member says women will help trump win a second term, and she joins us live. ♪ not thinking about tomorrow. ♪ singing sweet home alabama all summer long. ♪ - [voiceover] this is an urgent message from the international fellowship of christians and jews. there is an emergency food crisis for elderly holocaust survivors in the former soviet union. - this is a fight against time. what we're dealing with is coming out, meeting someone who's 85, 90 years old, can't get around, has no food, has no water, and just wants to give up and die. and that's where we come in. we are called to comfort these people, to be a blessing to their lives. - [voiceover] for just $25, we'll rush an emergency survival package to help one desperate elderly person for a month. call right now. - [eckstein] 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country on their way to america. the white house officials say the change is meant to address immigration loopholes. government officials are set to testify on the hill about the 2020 census. the senate homeland security committee holding a hearing dubbed 2020 census, conducting a secure and accurate count. the supreme court ruling the citizenship question could not be added to next year's census following a legal battle between democrats and the trump administration. and a memorial service for ross perot will be held today in texas. the businessman and two-time presidential candidate passed away last week at the age of 89. the private service will be streamed online. an emotional day in court for the friends and family of mckenzie lueck. her alleged killer faced a judge via video. >> we just immediately lost our breath. i think we were holding hands and just -- i refuse to say the person's name. this is probably the last time i'll give him any sort of attention. heather: he did not speak or enter a plea. to virginia now. a virginia judge sentencing a neo-nazi to a second life term, plus 419 years behind bars for the deadly charlottesville car attack. james alex field junior admitting to deliberately ramming his car into counter pro protesters at the unite the right rally, killing heather hair and injuring dozens in 2017. last month, fields was sentenced to a separate life sentence after pleading guilty to federal hate crime charges. what about this? house democrats are threatening to hold kellyanne conway in contempt after she skipped a congressional hearing. conway defied to testify over accusations that she violated the hatch act, a law banning government officialin officialsm political speech. >> i helped the president who got elected all by himself and i'm here, talking about his policies. i would like to testify. i've done nothing wrong. there's a bipartisan precedent that applies to administrations of both parties and what would really happen if the hatch act were applied retroactively to other members of their administrations. have you seen things they've said and done that never got this kind of treatment. heather: that's a good point. house democrats are giving conway until the end of the month to testify. today marks 20 years since jfk junior died in a tragic plane crash. the 35th president's son killed when a plane he was flying nose-dived into the at lain particular ocean. -- atlantic ocean. he was traveling to march that's vineyard for -- martha's vineyard for a wedding. jfk junior was 38 years old when he died. and this famous photo shows him saluting his father's casket on his third birthday. no doubt you've seen that. after the as a assassination in dallas in 1963. in just hours from now, the women for trump coalition will be launched in pennsylvania. it will focus on turning out the female vote in 2020. just how crucial will the women's' vote be? an advisory board member for the women's coalition for trump will be at the event later today and she joins us live. good morning, naomi. thank you for joining us. you're going to have a long day. >> yes. it's just starting. great to be here. heather: tell us a little bit about this coalition that's being put together and why it is so important for the trump campaign moving forward. >> everyone's vote is important but the women's vote is extremely important and the goal of the coalition is to mobilize women to go back to their communities and talk to other women about issues that they care about. we have this fox poll that i'll bring up for you to respond to. and this was the president's approval rating among women and this was taken in june, this fox news poll. it shows 40% approved, 58% disapproved. so when you talk about talking to women about the issues that concern them the most, how do you plan to change those numbers? >> right. yeah. so one lesson we learned in 2016 was not to pay attention to the polls too much. heather: that's true. >> i think there's a lot of -- right. and there's been so many initiatives and so many things that the trump administration has done for women and the goal is to just get that message out and we have less than 4% unemployment for women in the last 12 months. 56% of jobs that -- out of the 5.6 million that were created in the last year have gone s to women. there's so many great things that are happening and we need to articulate that. heather: yesterday the president was talking about american owned businesses. there's been an increase in businesses owned by women as well. >> yeah, that's definitely true. and as a woman in tech, i've been working in various startups in the new york city area and it's incredible to see this hyper growth that's allowed by our economic climate today and the trump administration and ivanka trump have put forth initiatives, they're allocating over $200 million directed towards technology programs to encourage women to work in stem, encourage women like myself. so it's really been amazing. heather: what about ethnic and minority women, how do you plan to reach out to them? >> this time around in 2018 there is such a concerted effort to reach every kind of woman and minority. we have spanish speaking programs, just the makeup of the coalition shows that we're really focusing our efforts on that and, yeah, i want to say that as a woman and as a daughter of immigrants from the soviet union, one thing we can all get behind is that it's scary, the socialist agenda being put forth by the democrats, right, and this is going to affect everyone and i'm just so grateful that we have a president who took it upon himself to push back against that and to fight for that. so we really have to support him and my message is that president trump, he's one of the good guys. heather: all right. naomi, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it and we will be watching today for sure. good luck. >> thank you so much. heather: the time now, 20 minutes until the top of the hour. more than a million people signed up to storm area 51. the air force issued a warning not to trespass. so what exactly is the top secret site? our next guest says whatever was there is likely long gone but he joins us to explain why it's still so popular. ♪ erscan get $54,000 dollars or more to consolidate high rate credit card debt and lower their payments by $600 every month. >&c"ajry ♪ heather: 50 years ago today, millions of people around the world watched as america launched apollo 11 and the saturn 5 rocket blasted off into space, sending them on a mission to the moon. four days later, armstrong and aldrin would become the very first people to set foot on the moon. after more than eight days in space, the crew safely returned to earth. neil armstrong's son will join us live at 8:45 on "fox & friends," so certainly tune in for that, putting that american flag on the moon, so iconic. this next story is out of this world as well. more than 1 million people signing up to storm the top secret military facility known as area 51, hoping to find aliens. the air force is warning against trespassing. here to weigh in is ufo expert, nick hope. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. heather: so this event started on facebook. and it was satirical, wasn't supposed to be taken seriously but we have all of these people signing up, saying they're going to storm area 51 on september 20t 20th 20th is the . what will they find there? what exactly is at area 51 now? >> well, what they are hoping to find of course is ufos and maybe aliens. what they will actually find is probably just next generation aircraft and drones. but, i mean, this thing is getting somewhat out of hand. i think when i last checked, a million plus people were saying that they were going to go. now, they won't of course. i think it's much easier to click going on facebook than it is to actually go. but i think this just shows the huge level of interest in this subject. heather: yeah. the air force we can actually pull this up for people, i want to make sure i clarify, the air force warning people not to do this, saying the area 51 is open training range for the u.s. air force. we bodies courage anyone -- we woulddiscourage anyone from trying to come to the area. hopefully people heed that warning. do you think at some point there were ufos there? >> i don't know. i used to investigate ufos for the british government at the ministry of defense. and i'm afraid if the u.s. government did find aliens, they didn't tell us brits. so i don't know. i've heard the rumors, of course, but they are i think just rumors. and the other point is that if there really was anything there, at any point, now we are at a time where area 51 has been name checked in sci-fi movies and tv shows. anything that was there i think will be long gone. but you know, i absolutely agree with the air force. i'm all for people's right for a lawful, peaceful protest. but storming area 51, that's a federal offense. trespass on a military installation is a federal offense and it's dangerous. it's irresponsible and dangerous. heather: you kind of skirted and this answer. you may not know if there were any ufos in area 51 here in this country, but what about where you dealt with ufos in great britain? great britain? >> well, we certainly had some unexplained cases. we had sights fro sightings fro. fos tracked on radar. that's going on right now here in the u.s. we have the u.s. navy encounter. we have congressional briefings. senators have said they've gotten classified briefings on this in the last couple weeks. the president has just addressed this subject briefly. so interest in this is at an all-time high. yeah, we found some interesting cases but we didn't, sad to say, find an actual smoking gun, so no actual aliens but we didn't rule it out either. heather: okay. not ruling it out either. you know, there are a lot of documentaries on netflix right now so that's of course sparking everybody's interest. as you said, people should heed these warnings and do not try to storm area 51. nick, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. this was a fun segment. >> thank you. heather: have a good day. after weeks of testimony in a landmark opioid case, it all comes down to this. >> they took the money and they ran and they left us here, holding the body bags. heather: the monda monumental decision about johnson & johnson now in the hands of a judge. and he may be the nb a's mvp but the star known as the greek freak leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to baseball. his hilarious first attempt at america's past time. ♪ glory days, glory days. ♪ we're the slowskys. we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. snail mail! we were invited to a y2k party... uh, didn't that happen, like, 20 years ago? oh, look, karolyn, we've got a mathematician on our hands! check it out! now you can schedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. today's xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i'd rather not. heather: welcome back. you're watching "fox & friends first." a judge will now decide whether johnson & johnson is to blame for the opioid crisis. the trial coming to an end after seven weeks. the state attorney general's office slamming the drug company as a king pin and cartel, accusing it of down playing the addictiveness of their drug. >> don't buy that this was a good company. in the context of this case, it is not a good company. this company cut and ran. they took the money and they ran and they left us here, holding the body bags. heather: oklahoma is seeking more than $17 billion in damages from johnson san johnson & johnh denied any wrong-doing. here's some good news. a potential breakthrough for alzheimer's. scientists say they're getting closer to a drug test that would screen people for possible signs of the disease and dementia. they reported significant progress including one test having up to 88% accuracy at spotting the disease. a blood test could make routine alzheimer's exams quicker and cheaper. now might be the perfect time to book your dream vacation. tracee carrasco from fox business here with the discounts. tracee, we always like to hear about discounts. >> if you're looking to travel this fall, right now would be the perfect time to book that trip, according to p hopper, that is the air fare prediction app, forecasting that domestic air nar fare in july dropping b. another 5.5% drop, that's expected in august. a smaller drop expected to follow in september. prices will stay about the same in october. once we hit november, that's when you're going to see prices starting to go up by about 2%. of course, you're edin heading e holiday season. right now is a good time to book. heather: i may have to look into that. if you don't want fly and you want and you want to take a cruise, where is the best place to do that. >> disney cruise line, voted the number one best mega ship ocean cruise line by travel and leisure readers for the first time ever. it jumped from the number two spot last year into the number one spot. travel and leisure readers they highlighted some of the things that disney cruises feature. of course, the dining options, entertainment, adult only pools, social spaces, those are the main things. these are the top five cruise lines voted also in the list, so there's another option for you, if you don't want to fly, you can take a cruise. heather: sounds like fun. thank you so much, tracee. well, the time now is almost the top of the hour. but not quite yet. does your face start like this? >> things are creeking and cracking and the red light is burning my brain. >> you look a little stressed. >> oh, i'm stressed. heather: where you live, that can make all the difference. the most stressed out cities, just revealed. ♪ when the mamas sang us to sleep. ♪ now we're stressed out. ♪ if we could turn back time. your home's value. r f thank you, admiral. so if you need money for your family, call newday usa. heather: time now for the good, the bad and ugly. up first, the good. the coast guard crew responsible for this incredible drug bust at sea returns to land. >> it was a great move, those guys are great athletes and they've been working towards this type of take-down their whole careers. heather: that was amazing. their captain praising a job well done. loved ones met up with the crew in california. lots of hugs. deservingly so. next, the bad. for the second year in a row, detroit is named the most stressed out city in america. >> you don't know what it's like in there. all night long things ar thingse creaking and cracking. >> you look stressed. >> i'm stressed. heather: wallet hub looking at things like the average number of work hours, debt load and divorce rates. rounding out the bottom five, cleveland, newark, baltimore and philly. and finally, the ugly. one of the nba's best players athletic skills failed big-time in the batting cage. take a look at this. basketball 2019 most valuable player known as the greek freak swinging and missing miserably. he said he never picked up a baseball before visiting yankee stadium on monday night. no doubt he's going to be practicing that. well, that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first." thank you so much for joining us. have a great day. "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye-bye. it is tuesday, july 16th. a first look inside the deranged manifesto of a self proclaimed radical who tried to fire bomb. >> the rhetoric from our own elected leaders undoubtedly fueling this. if you don't go after the law -- >> go after congress. >> the call for calm coming from both sides of the aisle. >> if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor. >> if you like your health care plan and your employer based plan, you can keep it. gillian: sound familiar? the candidate is giving voters double vision. rob: reaction