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To hold that job. johnson was a top pentagon lawyer and he replaces janet napolitano. the senate could approve a new budget by the end of the week. a test vote is set for today. the bill would restore about $63 billion in across-the-board cuts scheduled to take effect in the current budget year and the next one. the house approved a similar spending plan last week. the hunt continues this morning for two carjackers who targeted a couple at a new jersey mall in the height of the holiday season. the husband was shot and killed in front of his terrified wife. the suv was stolen and abandoned ...

From some fellow republicans in congress including and one might say potentially rivals for the 2016 presidential nomination. >> it raises it, but pays it over 10 years. you know how that works. they will forget it and keep borrowing more. >> what do you say? >> i would love to talk to him about it. marco is a good friend of mine. i disagree with him respectfully. we are making permanent law changes and those savings uh -- accrue and compound. not only are we doing auto pilot saving, we are paying for $63 billion of sequester relief. half going to defense. we are maintaining 92% of the sequest...

From some fellow republicans in congress including and one might say potentially rivals for the 2016 presidential nomination. >> it raises it, but pays it over 10 years. you know how that works. they will forget it and keep borrowing more. >> what do you say? >> i would love to talk to him about it. marco is a good friend of mine. i disagree with him respectfully. we are making permanent law changes and those savings uh -- accrue and compound. not only are we doing auto pilot saving, we are paying for $63 billion of sequester relief. half going to defense. we are maintaining 92% of the sequest...

It gets government working but it has $85 billion of savings from what we call mandatory spending, the auto pilot part that congress all too often ignores to pay for $63 billion of sequester relief, half of which goes to defense, which is a big concern among republicans. you don't get everything you want in divided government. >> when senator rubio says it's unamerican, is that just because he's running for president, do you think? >> i'm not going to go into what marco rubio's motivations are for that, but we got a budget that keeps from raising taxes and keeping a budget for 2014 is what we ...

Budget deal in washington as we hear growing calls for republicans to reject it. marc thiessen is a former speech writer for george bush and a fellow at the american enterprise institute. you have an interesting take suggesting that the republicans on capitol hill have a case of ptsd or post traumatic stress disorder. what do you mean? >> exactly. since barack obama took office the republicans have basically -- he's run the table over the republicans from this stimulus to obamacare to the fiscal cliff tax increases. the one victory republicans had, the one government reducing victory was the b...