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we could know the funeral plans are being put together right now. we're expecting the funeral will happen later this week, perhaps friday, perhaps saturday and whitney houston's body is going to be transported back to new jersey where funeral will be taking place, john. >> casey wian, thanks so much. we'll have much more on whitney houston's death later in the program, including a conversation with piers morgan, plus a reporter who was expecting to visit with her saturday night only to learn of her shocking death. now moving on to major international news and intrigue. it's being described as global sparring with potentially deadly consequences. that's a van carrying israeli embassy employees in new delhi, india. israel blames iran. iran says israel did this to itself to quote tarnish iran's image. chris, we remember not that long ago the mysterious death of the iranian nuclear scientist. is this being considered retaliation? >> i spoke with a senior defense official who had to note the similarities between these attacks on israeli diplomats and those attacks on officials working on iran's nuclear program. in india, in the delhi attacks, what you had was a man on a motorcycle riding up to a moving car and then attaching a sticky bomb to that car. in tbilisi, georgia there are reports that it was a similar attack planned but the bomb did not go off. those attacks that happened inside iran were reported to be someone on a motorcycle coming up to a car and attaching the bomb to the car. so iran has said that israel, or i should say israel has said iran is responsible for these latest attacks but iran has publicly accused israel of working with dissent groups within iran to try to attach those bombs and target its nuclear scientists. >> and as we try to sort all this out, chris, iran has mentioned from time to time the possibility of attacks against u.s. interests overseas. what is the united states learning, what's their take on today's bombing? >> right now, the white house is saying they're in talks with the israelis, but they don't have enough to publicly assign blame yet. some of our intelligence sources say they're looking at some of the usual suspects. the defense official that i spoke with said look, he knows and the u.s. knows that iran uses hezbollah to carry out attacks around the world. but he said we don't have enough yet to the assign blame for these particular cases. but it goes beyond just some of these soft targets. one of tsof the highest ranking officials came out over the weekend and said look, if iran is planning to do anything overtly in the gulf, the u.s. is ready to confront any sort of aggression head on. at the white house, president obama today delivered his 2013 budget, a $3.8 trillion plan that pumps new money into job creation programs, infrastructure and education and would raise taxes on the rich, no more bush era tax cuts for high earners. if you draw over $1 million, you would send at least 30% of that to uncle sam. brianna keilar has been looking through the budget. i'm sure you've read all 323 pages of it by now. republicans say it's more about the president's re-election campaign than the budget. where do we go? >> well, i think you can bet the house that obviously, it's not getting through congress. you're watching political theater play out here. the president unveiling this budget proposal that speaks very much to these populist priorities that he's been laying out for months now and with republicans hitting had i as not being serious about the fiscal situation of the nation. what you'll see play out in the coming weeks is that house republicans will unveil their budget and it's expected to have an overhaul of medicare and medicaid, big drivers in the debt. then you can cue cue democrats in the white house hammering republicans as trying to dismantle a safety net for the elderly and the poor. you're really seeing is, john, these two competing messages being laid out in an election year and essentially in november, which one really wins. >> and so the president wants to say here's my budget document to the american people. let's remind the american people, here's something he said in early 2009. >> today, i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> this up in budget, brianna gets us not even close to that. how does the white house explain that? >> not even close. you're right there. i asked jay carney about this today, was this a mistake for president obama to make this promise. he said it was a promise based on what the white house and economists knew at the time and that as it turned out, the economy was in much greater distress than they had expected. now, it is a promise that the president has repeated more recently, but i think what you really have to do is kind of look how this message of cutting spending has played out over the last year. president obama was much more i guess you could say, into this topic last year, certainly going through the debt ceiling negotiations with republicans but then that grand bargain that he was trying to work out with house speaker john boehner fell apart. the president spent a lot of political capital on it. at this point, the president's campaign and the white house think they have a better message by talking about tightening the built a little bit, and focusing on the economic recovery. >> brianna keilar at the white house tonight. thank you. coming up, more on the budget. one republican senator says it's tough to see this glass as half full when he looks at the president's budget. >> i certainly hope we can get something accomplished but it's getting harder and harder to be optimistic about this. >> we'll also have the latest on the whitney houston investigation and we'll talk to piers morgan how hollywood is reacting, that inning about 20 minutes. in the works package, we change the oil we change the filter... tire rotation, suspension, we make suspension checks... what we have here is the multi-point inspection. every time a vehicle comes into a ford dealership you'll be presented with one of these. we check the belts, hoses... brakes. tires and the pressures... battery, all your fluids... exhaust system, transmission... we inspect your air filter... it gets done,it gets done quickly and it gets done correctly. the works. oil change, tire rotation and more: $29.95 or less after rebate - at your ford dealer. you're a doctor... you're a car doctor. maybe a car doctor... today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? 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we can't do both. we can't afford it. >> on capitol hill, republicans declared themselves less than impressed. >> dead on an rival, it's dead on arrival. >> let's discuss the road ahead with freshmanen gop senator pat tomm ey of pennsylvania. republicans don't like the document. at the white house they say, can you blame us? anything we do in this environment would be overpoliticized. where is the circuit breaker? >> i would say where is the leadership. the president of the united states has an obligation to provide leadership. if you ask me, there are two primarily objectives that everyone in washington should be pursue. one is policies that maximize economic growth so we can get this fragile economy moving and the second is to put us on a sustainable fiscal path because we're not on that path now. we're on a disastrous track. this many budget fails on two counts. his complete unwillingness to address what he himself has acknowledged is the driver of our deficits long-term, the big entitlement programs, especially health care, this is a terrible abdication of leadership. >> let's not look back. i think we could assign blame to both parties how we got to this point. is there any way to get anything done between now and the election or are we just treading water till we find out the verdict of the american people in november. >> >> i hope we can get something accomplished. i was on the super committee. i made a proposal that was outside of my comfort zone to try to find a way to find the common ground to reduce these deficits to put us on a sustainable path. was not met with a receptive ear on the other side of the table. the president's abdicating his leadership here. what i worry is there will be some exxongenous event, a financial crisis, spooked bond marks or something really unpleasant that would force us. i hope we don't have the to wait for that. >> at this time of dwided government, what is the circuit breaker? if the president were to win re-election, i know you oppose the tax increases he calls for here. the white house wos say the rich should pay their fair share. is the polling shows the people are on their side. if the president wins re-election in january, would the republicans say you won fair and square, sir, we'll raise taxes on wealthy americans now? >> first of all, most americans don't think people should be paying 40% of their income in taxes which is what the president wants to take us to. i'm not going to support policies that are going to weaken our economy and prevent the kind of growth we need. you can do the math. any way you do it, you cannot solve this problem by raising taxes. the big health care entitlement programs are growing at three and four times the rate our economy is growing. they will consume the entire economy? time. so tax increases don't solve the problem. what will solve it is a structural reform of these programs, make them viable, make them viable for future generations. but you know, we can't continue pretending that this is going to go on forever. it's certainly not. >> in this public environment, can we keep sticking to an environment where both sides refuse to budge on big things in the president's case, he says give me higher taxes on wealthy americans and we'll talk about deeper cuts in medicare than my party would like. will there ever be a tradeoff? 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