the foreign secretary, the british foreign secretary william haig said very clearly in a news conference the two men held a short time ago that the us plans to do more to help the syrian rebels over and beyond what they are doing on the humanitarian side. he added almost as a warning that policy of the west towards bashar al-assad cannot stay static as the weeks go by. many interpreted that as a nudge of secretary kerry to try and get him to get the president to persuade him to supply arms to the syrian rebels, jenna. jenna: a big week for secretary kerry, a big week in foreign affairs. it seems to be always week after week, james traveling with secretary kerry. james rosen, thank you. reporter: thank you. jon: the republican party could be in for a major make over as republican national committee chair reince priebus takes on a mission to mind out what went on
countdown to the sequester showdown. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. and i just floated this idea to our audience. you know the jaws music from the academy awards? every time we say sequester this week i m wondering if it should come up. jon: a little audio cue. jenna: both because it s a little ridiculous and also because everyone is making it so dramatic. jon: i m i m jon scott. four days until the cuts kick in. democrats holding a news conference now with the air travel association on how sequestration will affect air travelers, but they are not the only ones. the white house says the cuts will hurt education, plus spark furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers. some prominent republican blasting the president for these so-called scare tactics. my advice to the president is stop the campaigning, stop sending out your cabinet secretaries to scare the american people. roll of your shraoefps and d sleeves and do the hard work of governing. jon: do democrats s
captions by vitac www.vitac.com a new push to tackle one of the most contentious issues facing washington. just about 90 minutes or so ago, a bipartisan group of senators laid out a framework for an immigration reform bill. this comes as the white house is working on its own immigration bill and president obama will address the issue tomorrow in las vegas. the bipartisan senate plan includes a path to citizenship, but illegal immigrants will have to undergo a background check and pay a fine and back taxes before gaining legal status in the united states. all that is contingent on securing borders. the proposal provides for increased use of drones, more personnel and improved infrastructure and it would create an employment verification system and improve the process for admitting needed workers. cnn chief congressional correspondent dana bash and cnn chief white house correspondent jessica yellin are working the story. dana, the tone was pretty optimistic up on capitol
ed. at 8:00 a.m., jack will be calling into the show to talk about things. all of that coming up. on the lighter side of things, we ll be talking sports. in baseball, the playoffs last night. the a s beating the tigers 2-0. detroit now leads the series 2-1. the reds lost 2-1, but cincinnati still leads the series two games to one. we ll have more in squawk sports at 6:20 eastern. that s a good one i was watching. the next hour, we ll talk about golf. rhys jones is our guest host. he designs courses. andrew, good morning. thank you, becky. let s talk about earnings, starting with alco waalcoa. stronger demand for aluminum products, from airplanes and automobile producers. this offset weak aluminum prices and worries about china s slumping economy and that s probably the bigger and more important piece of all of this. the ceo cautioning that the company s noticed a slight slowdown in some regions and end markets, namely china, lowering those expectations by a percent across t
his first meeting with former prime minister tony blair. look at those chairs, they enveloped them. he s meeting with foreign secretary william haig before meeting with david cameron in two hours. tomorrow, mr. romney will head to the olympic games and later in the week, he ll meet with leaders in israel and in poe land. now to a fox news exclusive for you about this disturbing discovery in the movie theater massacre. law enforcement sources say that james holmes, the alleged gunman mailed a notebook to a psychiatrist that was full of details about how he was going to kill people. what we don t know is how specific it was to what actually happened but there are definitely gun holding stick figures shooting at other stick figures. well, sources tell fox news that this is the notebook being removed. investigators will look through it more now. the army psychiatrist charged with murdering 13 people at fort hood being told to shave his beard or someone will shave it for him.