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First you are officials in afghanistan say a Security Threat forced the cancellation of todays joint. It came after two suicide bombings killed 19 people including a blast that set off outside that taliban officials claim was meant as a warning to hagel. Karzai is accusing the us of working with talibans. We are going to ask a member of congress about this latest development. Lets go to Politics Today to president obamas Charm Offensive as the sequester bleeds into the second week. Tom coburn of oklahoma is sharing details about the meeting with him and other republicans wednesday giving this assessment. Im welcoming with open arms, i think the president s tremendously sincere. I dont think its a political change in tactic. I think he would like to solve the problems of the country. It would be to his benefit if he did that. Itis time to start leading. The way to do that is quick poking your finger in peoples eyes and build a relationship. Hes got a chance to accomplish a deal. Democratic senator tim cain is shedding light on what may motivate both sides to agree on a compromise. We put our paychecks on the line if we dont pass it by mid april. We all stop getting paid. We could put the visions on the table. I agree with what tom said, at the end of the day, we have to find a balanced solution that involves talking revenues, expenses, entitlements, we have to do that. Meantime, president obama and other politicians took a night off to enjoy a night of humor. No cameras allowed inside. The president got in good natured jabs. He said if his jokes werent funny, its because the comedy writers were furloughed from the sequester. That was a good line. We have more meetings for the president. Will they yield True Solutions . You heard from tom coburn, he believes the president is sincere in this effort. We heard from the House Minority whip ken mccarthy saying its not clear, it remains to be seen. Theres scabs and sores. Its going to take awhile to heal. The Charm Offensive or schmooze is whats going to be in full effect. Theres going to be three days, tuesday, wednesday on two separate occasions on thursday the president makes the rare trip up to the hill to meet with both senate and House Republicans and democrats this week. Here was tom coburn a short time ago on meet the press acknowledging the big problems that exist here in washington. Washington is dysfunctional. Its dysfunctional in a dysfunctional way. Members of congress and the administration agree on spending money we dont have. We agree on not oversighting the programs that should be oversighted. We agree on spending money on programs that dont work. Basically, we agree on too much. We need to move back and start agreeing about whats the Long Term Plan and how do we oversight the government to get real value of the thing that is are legitimate roles of the government for the american people. Reporter after two years of disagreement on almost all things theres hopefully going to be some agreement. I had conversation earlier this week with the top Senior Adviser to the president who said hopefully now without the countdown clock, without a deadline well be able to make progress and have more thoughtful conversation. Wait and see. We will wait and see, with your help. Lets bring in adam schiff a democrat from california. Representative schiff good to see you, thank you. Great to see you. The president has a great chance for a big deal. Doesnt any deal have to be cut with rigid republicans in the house . Will breaking bread, the Charm Offensive all that with moderates in the gop change that . Well, look, i think the interactions are helpful. The president has a great deal of soft power. That is getting together with members of congress, going out to the districts. You can see the relationship he formed with Chris Christie and sharing the challenges the governor was facing. In the senate, a handful of votes can get you over 60 or not over 60. It can be critical. Its going to be tough in the house. The numbers are greater in the house. Another, we have a larger click of hard core Tea Party Members who really dont want to get together with the president or if they do, get together to rebuff him so they can go home and say basically, i put off the president. Its going to be a challenge. I think its worth doing. When george w. Bush was president , i was invited to the white house several times. It has an impact. Its harder to vilify someone when you have sat down and broken bread with them. I applaud what the president is doing but theres going to have to be a willingness to engage with the president and overtures on the house gop. Its yet to be determined. My mother said keep your friends close and your enemys closer. Theres something to that as well. You get to know the people. Senator coburn said the president talked of reforming medicare. How much resistance might he get from democrats . Some democrats dont want to touch medicare, right . Absolutely. There may be distance between the president and the democrats in the house when it comes to what he might propose on Social Security or medicare. On Social Security, hes proposed changing the cost of living increases reducing how much they would go up each year. I think many house members would be much more open to raising the level of the payroll income that is taxed in order to support Social Security. Medicare, hes talked of reducing costs. Theres a lot of agreement among democrats, the way to approach medicare is reduce costs, not reduce benefits as the republicans would like. Yes, its going to be a tough sell within the democratic caucus. Do the new economic numbers give them leverage against the republicans . Taxes went up on the wealthiest in the beginning of the year. Does that take away a gop argument . Im not sure. That supposes the gop is subject to rational thought on this. Some of the moderate members are. True believers arent going to be moved by what happens to the economy. The frustrating part is we have great economic numbers. If the government would get out of the way and end the manufactured crises, we could have tremendous growth now. It looks very positive. Instead of 250,000 new jobs, we could have 300,000 or 400,000 jobs and be on pace to get the economy humming. If we could put an end to the artificial damper on the economy that sequestration is going to kill 150,000 jobs every month. Imagine the growth we might have. I dont expect all the gop members to view it that way. This Charm Offensive is going to be important, but a challenge in the house. I want to talk about national secretary. There was a story about chuck hagel who canceled his first meeting with president karzai. The u. S. Is pulling out in a year. This is unsettling, wouldnt you say . It is going to be a great challenge. Things are still precarious in afghanistan. The gains have been hard to hold on to. We have given the Afghan Government the time it needed, if it was serious about attacking the credibility problems it has, the corruption problems it has. We cant make the Afghan People standup for the government more than the government is deserving of that support. Boy, we have tried. I think its appropriate that we signaled to the afghan regime. They have so much time to get their act together. We will be there to support the troops with intelligence. At the end of the day, we cant fight the battle for them. We have had a lot of disagreements with the karzai regime. I dont think this is going to be an easy task. I think its necessary that we wind down our troop presence there and leave the afghan future, ultimately to the Afghan People. May i ask you about something statewide. The tsa. Is it more confident there are no terror they are allowing pocket knives. I dont think its the tsa is more confident there arent terrorist attacks planned. We have done a good job degrading the core of al qaeda. The franchises planning the one off attacks are multiplying. Its still a grave threat. The tsa reconsidered the gravest problems we face on airlines are not necessarily the way that the terrorists attacked on 9 11 with box cutters. There are other threats we need to focus our attention on. Explosives are a greater problem. They are take iing threats withe cockpit doors. If it means less of an effort to find thing that is truly are a threat. Thanks so much. Today is the second quiet sunday at st. Peters square with no pope appearing. As they await tuesdays conclave, cardinals gathered in rome from all over the world. On saturday, firefighters installed the chimney from which white smoke will rise and signal to the world the conclaves decision. Claudia is in vatican city for us. Another good day to you. We enjoyed speaking with you yesterday. Today, what is on the cardinals agenda for those not necessarily at churches . Reporter as you said, today is the first and only day to start the conclave on tuesday. You said it there. Many of them, the most popular timothy dolan, the cardinal of new york. In the church of rome, mass was packed with journalists and faithful alike. He answered questions and he felt there was an atmosphere of fraternity among the cardinals. Denying division or allegations of division among them. He replied to a question of who he believes will become pope. He said well, you know, you make gnocci with the dough you have. Theres no real frontrunner. He hinted at a date when we may see the next pope. He said good day to st. Josephs day, march 19th. It happens to be fathers day here in italy. What is a better day than fathers day to see for the first time the holy father. Well see if it comes to pass. Thank you very much. Another winter storm headed to the midwest. Clean up begins as the lathest storm hits the northeast. We are looking at plum islands in massachusetts. There it is. Wow, lots of homes destroyed there yesterday. How bad is it going to get . We have more details. Good morning to you, dylan. Its amazing how the storms have changed the northeast. We are talking about the storm in the midwest. Not a lot of snowfalling across nebraska. Its very, very windy. Blizzard warnings in effect that way because of the blowing snow and redugsed visibility. These extend up to iowa and wisconsin. Its an area we will see more snowfall, up to six to 12 inches of snow, especially southwestern iowa steching into Central Wisconsin for the next 48 hours later today and tonight. We have heavy rain falling across missouri and into arkansas. Well see a line of severe storms possible today through eastern texas and into louisiana. That is going to produce perhaps two to three inches of rain, especially if we get stuck in the heavier downpours. Its going to spread eastwards. By tomorrow evening, well see some of that rain. The heaviest of the rain up and down the eastern sea board is on tuesday. Its all rain. No snow for new england in the forecast. Its too warm for it. The warmth is good. Thank you very much. West coast headlines are next with a critics dim view of dazzling lights. When will main street take a ride like wall street . [ lisa ] my names lisa, and chantix helped me quit. I honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didnt think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. It reduces the urge to smoke. It put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. If you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. 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I think theres a general sense that the tone in washington changed last week. I think theres a long way to go. The president , a few weeks ago is doing an outside campaign putting on public pressure talking about the effects of the sequester. I think the white house saw the poll numbers drop a bit. He was not talking to capitol hill. I think what you are going to see is will the white house stay committed to this . The president tried here and there over the past couple years and quickly went away from it. The white house is skeptical they can make this charm offense work. If they stick to it, maybe down the line you might see movement. Lets listen to paul ryan from this morning. Here it is. I think there are things we can do that dont offend either partys philosophy and doesnt require someone to surrender principles to get a good down payment on getting this debt and deficit under control. You talk about his lunch with the president. How positive was it . Could it change the fiscal talks . A tangible way . It could. Its what the white house is aiming to put out there and projecting with the outreach meetings. Whats important to say about paul ryan, this is someone who in washington was looked at as taking a serious approach to the long term fiscal change. Democrats hate his plan. They say it would harm seniors and make cuts to seniors. He actually supported that under george w. Bush. The president sent signals to fellow democrats as well. Look, im going to ask you to make tough choices when it comes to entitlement reform. The two of them talking is an interesting scenario when it comes to a long term solution. Its not just john boehner that needs to make the deal happen. David, with the better than expected jobs numbers out on friday, can the president use that as leverage . Hes trying to. With the stock market going up, hitting an all time high, the white house is saying hey, we are moving in the right direction. We dont want to stop it now. Over the next few months, if you see the sequester cuts slow the economy with people getting furloughed, its going to have more leverage, unfortunately, to get people to Pay Attention and make people come to the table again. I think the public starts to be frustrated by slow growth and people filling in their own pocketbooks. It has more of an effect than the president touting his numbers. The president suggested sequestration is not going to be solved soon. Could it stall the recovery . Its what they are putting the alarm out there. Any fragile gains could be that, fragile. A lot of people are facing, you know, government workers are facing lower pay, longer hours, furloughs, more work for less hours and having to do more of that work in shorter hours. You are also seeing people are still affected by the payroll tax cut expiring. Peoples paychecks went down at the beginning of the year. You are hearing a lot from the white house. In the end, a lot of the cuts are rolled out slowly. You are not going to feel them the way the white house is feeling them with tourists this weekend. Grand bargain being reached by july, yes, no or maybe . David . Theres a lot of skepticism. I think you will see the president keep talking about 600 billion in, you know, tax revenues. Thats the big sticking point. Im still skeptical about where we are going on this. Christina . Im with david with skepticism. This is washington, after all. Not a grand bargain but a small bargain. They have points to negotiate downward. I expect some compromise. How grand is the bigger question. A baby grand. Thank you so much. Goods to see you. Number five on the first of five stories. Snl reunion. Justin timberlake joined the five timers club. Among those, steve marr tin, dan aykroyd, alec bald win, martin shore, chevy chase, paul martin and candace. Our favorite was the dating game. You know the title i cant say on television . 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